Collaborative Workspace

Collaborative workspace in Microsoft Dynamics GP

Provide browser-based team collaboration capabilities

Many businesses set up portals to provide better access to collaborative functions, documents, and information to workers, who use their Web browsers to connect online to the portals. Microsoft Dynamics offers a portal solution that implements easily, has minimal continuing support requirements, and helps enhance productivity. Collaboration capabilities in Microsoft Dynamics GP are built on well-proven Microsoft SharePoint technology. It integrates smoothly with your business management solution, and can quickly demonstrate value within your technological infrastructure.

With Microsoft Dynamics GP, you can provide employees, managers, customers and partners with an effective framework for collaboration and information sharing. You can give them secure, Web-based access to Microsoft Dynamics GP functionality, information, applications, and processes for easy access to information they need—whenever and wherever they need it. With personalized gateways to Microsoft Dynamics GP based on business roles, people can work productively with your business management solution, no matter where they are.

Allow people and teams to be productive and in control
Help eliminate needless limitations to individual or team productivity. Let employees access information, documents, and business functions through their browser, any time and anywhere. With Microsoft technology, teams can set up collaboration sites using pre-defined Web parts, and pursue their goals with efficiency. And employee portals can save your human-resource staff time by providing employees with self-service to access specified records, and manage requisitions, time, and expenses online.

• Let employees manage information and streamline administrative tasks
• Simplify and control purchasing
• Reduce the costs and increase the effectiveness of project management

Keep managers informed and empowered
Executives and managers can use Executive Center in Microsoft Dynamics GP to promote success based on smart decisions. You can, through the Executive Center, publish data and reports from the business management solution to the people who need to steer the business course, or export queries to Microsoft Office Excel for further analysis. In addition, business portal in Microsoft Dynamics GP can play a vital role in performance and compliance management:

• Fast-track business performance management
• Reduce the cost and complexity of compliance

Become a preferred vendor and trading partner
Microsoft Dynamics GP helps you strengthen your key relationships with customers and suppliers by offering an uninterrupted online presence. You can create custom portals for customers and suppliers to give them access to key functions and information they need, and make it easy for them to do business with your organization. By running detailed queries on customers' and suppliers' dealings with your business, you can manage the vital relationships more closely and productively, spot emerging customer needs and plan to meet them, and derive better results from the key elements of your supply chain.

Increase customer satisfaction and sales results
Using Order Management in Microsoft Dynamics GP, customers can enter their orders online at their convenience, review order status, and enjoy prompt, responsive service from your company. Your sales associates can concentrate on supporting those customers who require hands-on assistance. For even better results, integrate business portal Order Management with your business management solution for most efficient, cost-effective processing of orders and sales.
Embrace Internet-based commerce with an integrated suite of applications that save you time and money and serve your customers better while opening your business to new global markets. Microsoft Dynamics GP for e-commerce offers seamless integration between your e-commerce solution and your business management system, eliminating rekeying of data, ensuring accuracy of information across all systems, helping you serve your customers better, and improving decision making at all levels.

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Create a collaborative workspace and with portal capabilities

Unlock business potential and enhance productivity with portal capabilities in Microsoft Dynamics GP.

Fact Sheets

Business Portal
Unlock business potential and enhance productivity by providing role-based access to information and processes from a single Web-based portal. Business portal in Microsoft Dynamics GP delivers applications, information, and processes to employees, customers, and partners across your organization, so they can make smart decisions and do their jobs more efficiently.

Project Time and Expense for Business Portal
Project Time and Expense empowers project team members and managers with a way to effectively capture, review and approve project time and expense data on the Web, enabling prompt, accurate customer invoicing and efficient reimbursement for out-of-pocket employee expenses.

Electronic Document Delivery for Business Portal
Organize and schedule the e-mail delivery of sales orders, invoices, credit memos, and other sales documents to your customers in a wide variety of file formats, including XML, HTML, Microsoft Office Excel, or PDF format, reducing administrative overhead and increasing customer responsiveness.

Human Resources Online
Empower managers and employees to control human resources (HR) information through a personalized, roles-tailored Web portal. Smooth integration with Human Resources and Payroll in Microsoft Dynamics GP makes employee-specific data available to each employee and direct manager. Access is controlled by requiring users to log on, so personal information remains secure.