Hosted Microsoft Dynamics - Features and Benefits

Microsoft Dynamics solutions include applications and services for retailers, manufacturers, wholesale distributors, and service companies that do business locally or in multiple countries. Hosting partners can provide the tools you need to manage and enhance key lines of business in your organization and help give your people what they need to achieve success. Whether it's tracking finances, enhancing customer relations or connecting and increasing efficiencies in your supply chain, Hosted Microsoft Dynamics delivers.

Managing your own Microsoft Dynamics solutions can be expensive and time consuming. Upgrades, maintenance and constant emergencies divert valuable IT resources from other important business priorities. Hosting partners manage Dynamics for you, which enable your IT staff to focus on strategic initiatives that fuel business growth rather than tedious application management. Expect:

• Ongoing system upgrades
• Maintenance and support
• Backup and recovery

With Microsoft Dynamics there's no steep learning curve: It works like the Microsoft products your people are already familiar with. The system delivers an individualized task-based user experience that allows employees to customize according to their own work style. Because it responds to how people already work and capitalizes on familiar technology, Microsoft Dynamics requires less costly training and helps deliver faster return on investment.

Respond rapidly to the changing demands of your business by ensuring you have the information you need to help make timely business decisions with greater confidence. Hosted Microsoft Dynamics solutions enable you to offer your employees, customers and business partners a comprehensive way to work and communicate with one another, whether they're in adjoining offices or half way around the world.

With your day-to-day business operations running more smoothly and efficiently, you'll have time to focus on the big picture: growing your business and generating profits.

Ask yourself these questions:

Do your financial reports lack cohesion?
Is your supply chain predictable?
Does your accounting software allow you to see up-to-date payables and receivables?
Do you have trouble staying on top of customer needs?
Are your operation costs spiralling out of control?
Is your IT department overworked?
Do employees understand how to best use their software?
Are you having trouble fulfilling requests for information?
Are business partners, customers and employees frustrated with communications?

• There is a high likelihood the economic challenges of the coming years will offer much greater opportunity for supply chain technology adoption, according to AMR Research.
• More than half of small and midsize businesses (SMB) that lose data in a disaster go out of business within two years, according to a study from The University of Texas.
• Growth for Hosted Services or Software as a Service (SaaS) is expected to surge 40% in 2009, up from previous estimates of 36%, according to market researcher IDC.