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March 2008 Newsletter	Inside this Issue: Product Spotlight: Quality Management Tip of the Month: SmartList GoTo Windows Convergence 2008 Orlando Recap Protecting Corporate Assets with GP Microsoft Current Customer Offers

Product Spotlight: Quality Management Suite Gain a true competitive advantage by continuously raising the bar on quality! Advanced Lot Management expands your ability to operate efficiently while controlling restricted materials within Microsoft Dynamics™ GP. Increase operating control, track all lot information completely, and automatically maintain compliance with FDA requirements. Advanced Serial Management increases your ability to operate efficiently while controlling restricted materials within Microsoft Dynamics™ GP. Track serialized information completely and maintain compliance automatically. Enterprise Quality Management (EQM) is for organizations who desire to compete on quality. Merit EQM provides the ability to track test results throughout the life cycle of a process and to activate controls based on test results. Visit our Quality Management Suite online for more information. For on online demo of these applications, click here.

Tip and Trick of the Month: Changing SmartList Default GoTo Window When a record on a SmartList is double-clicked, a window associated with that record is opened. This window can be a drill down inquiry window, a transaction processing window, or a maintenance window, allowing the record to be edited. The default window on all of the standard SmartLists can be changed to better meet your firm's needs. With the SmartList window open, click on Extras->SmartList->Options. The SmartList Options window opens. Select the SmartList Category (Accounts, Customers, Vendors, et cetera) and then select the Default Go To window from the list of available windows in the pull down list. While you are here, you can also mark the fields to be displayed when the default view is selected and the order of those fields! This Tip and Trick of the Month came from: Accolade Publications

Convergence 2008 Orlando Recap Convergence 2008 Orlando was a big success - and we would like to thank all of our customers and partners who attended. Hopefully, you made good contacts, gained knowledge, and developed skills that can benefit your business throughout the upcoming year. We encourage all Convergence attendees to provide feedback on Convergence so we can continue to improve the event every year. After you submit your evaluation, you can gain access to streaming media presentation files of all general and concurrent sessions, as well as full video files of all Keynote Sessions. Sessions will be available online or via the Convergence 2008 Orlando DVD, which will be mailed to you soon. Go to www.msconvergence.com today to submit your evaluation. And don't forget about the Microsoft Existing Customer Convergence Attendee offer! From March 11, 2008 through May 22, 2008, existing Microsoft Dynamics GP, Microsoft Dynamics SL, Microsoft Dynamics NAV, and Microsoft Dynamics AX customers who attend Convergence 2008 are eligible to receive a special promotional discount when acquiring additional users, acquiring additional modules of their current Microsoft Dynamics solution, or migrating from the Standard Edition to the Professional Edition of aforementioned product lines. Eligible customers may also apply this offer towards the transition fee to move from Module Based Licensing to Business Ready Licensing. Click here to learn more about this offer.

Protecting Corporate Assets with Dynamics GP Risk Management is an increasingly important topic for many Microsoft Dynamics GP customers. Bill Burke, President / CEO - Merit Solutions, Inc., and Kari Peterson, Senior Technical Product Manager - Microsoft Dynamics, presented a session at Convergence 2008 Orlando entitled "Protecting Corporate Assets with Microsoft Dynamics GP". The session focused on leveraging Microsoft Dynamics GP to support organizational needs around protecting corporate assets, ensuring accurate reporting, and reducing corporate fraud. If you were unable to view this session at Convergence, here is some of what you missed: "The concept of risk management is centrally about protecting corporate assets, and increasing the success of big bets that organizations make by actively managing (or ‘derisking’) those bets through a structured and deliberate process. So the concept of protecting corporate assets centers on managing risks, or establishing a ‘risk intelligence’ set of processes, systems and people accountabilities within your organization. These risks will center around protecting existing assets, or domain risks, and increasing the success of big bets your organization by managing reward type risks. Smart/successful organizations today are getting structured differently around managing risks because they recognize the potential interdependencies that risks can have, and the inherent flaws of managing risk in functional silos when they tend to follow along business process lines, which are cross functional by nature. As a result, companies are moving to establish clear accountability for managing risks, and use strong systems to enforce controls and reporting, as well as surface and analyze information into an actionable format for these accountable executives. Using Dynamics GP Audit Trails and Electronic Signatures, organizations are able to implement preventative controls, record changes, and enforce security measures in order to manage risks and protect assets. Ultimately, it is about protecting the value of the organization, which includes assets such as cash, facilities, inventory and intellectual property; but also the less tangible assets of reputation, customer relationships, and expectations for future earnings." If you are interested in viewing this presentation / slide show, please email us for your downloadable PowerPoint.

Microsoft Current Customer Offers Microsoft Dynamics GP Existing Customer Business Intelligence Offer Receive special promotional pricing on the Business Intelligence modules for Microsoft Dynamics GP. Buy two BI modules (as follows) and receive the third at no additional cost. Business Intelligence Layer , Analysis Cubes Library, Advanced Analysis Cubes Library, Smartlist Builder , Analytical Accounting, Dynamics GP Extender, FRx Professional Upgrade, FRx Webport, FRx Report Server, FRx Currency Translation, FRx Drill Down Viewer, FRx Report Launcher, FRx Report Manager, Microsoft Forecaster. Purchase After: 10/1/2007 Purchase By: 3/21/2008 Redeem By: 3/21/2008

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