Microsoft Axapta

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Microsoft Axapta

• Functionality slides for BDM sales presentation

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Microsoft Axapta Base Package

• The base package provides a foundation of
• One user
• Three company accounts
• Three dimensions
• Unlimited virtual companies
• One language
• Security and user management capabilities
• Menu and form designer with IntelliMorph
  technology
• One Microsoft Axapta Application Object Server
  (AOS)

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Microsoft Axapta Base PackageLanguages
Base Package provides one language free. 30
others may be licensed

• Danish
• Dutch (standard)
• Dutch (Belgium)
• English (US)
• English (UK)
• English (Australia)
• English (Ireland)
• English (South Africa)
• Finnish
• French (standard)
• French (Belgium)
• French (Switzerland)
• German (standard)
• German (Austria)
• Icelandic

• Italian (standard)
• Italian (Switzerland)
• Norwegian (Bokman)
• Portuguese (standard)
• Spanish (Spain-modern)
• Swedish
• Thai
• Czech
• Estonian
• Hungarian
• Latvian
• Lithuanian
• Polish
• Russian
• Turkish

More languages than these may be available from
VARs or Microsoft Certified Business Solutions
Partners.
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Microsoft Axapta Database

• All business information is stored in a single
  database
• Simple, all-in-one architecture
• Easier maintenance and upgrades
• Leads to lower TCO
• No database synchronization means lower risk of
  data corruption
• Supported databases
• Microsoft SQL Server 2000
• Oracle 9i

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Financial Management

• Financials
• Electronic Banking
• Fixed Assets

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Financial ManagementFinancials

• Helps you increase your business without
  introducing constraints
• Improves the efficiency of your financial
  operations enabling strategic planning
  activities.
• Manage your cash flow effectively
• Helps ensure regulatory compliance
• Provides greater insight of your finances and
  thereby improves your ability to make the right
  decisions
• General Ledger
• Manage accounting periods and use a reliable
  year-end procedure including a closing sheet
• Multiple configurable journals with approval
  capability
• Extensive posting control system
• Bank Management
• Bank account reconciliation, including bank
  account statement electronic import (for selected
  countries )
• Accounts Receivable
• Monitor credit checks
• Flexible terms of payment, including advanced
  payment schedules and cash discounts
• Accounts Payable
• Flexible terms of payment, including advanced
  payment schedules and cash discounts
• Payment journal with payment proposal features
• Multi-currency handling and exchange rate
  adjustment

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Financial ManagementElectronic Banking and Fixed
Assets

• Electronic Banking
• Supports the import and export of payment files
  to financial institutions in several countries
• Functionality is spread across accounts
  receivable, accounts payable and bank management
• Fixed Assets Management
• Fixed assets budgeting
• Multiple depreciation models
• Integrated to purchasing and inventory
  functionality
• Bar code handling

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Supply Chain Management

• Trade
• Intercompany
• Logistics
• Product Builder
• Production
• Master Planning
• Shop Floor Control
• Warehouse Management

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Supply Chain ManagementTrade

• Deliver better customer service with more
  efficient sales processes
• Reduce costs by optimizing your purchasing
  processes
• Improve relationships with your customers and
  suppliers using trade agreements
• Trade seamlessly with your subsidiaries with the
  ability to manage intercompany orders within one
  system.
• Achieve better cost control with greater
  visibility into cost prices and accurate
  inventory valuation

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Supply Chain ManagementLogistics

• Optimize inventory levels by better matching
  supply with customer demand.
• Improve your inventory management with detailed
  insight into your inventory and item tracking.
• Improve your materials requirements planning with
  flexible options for managing bills of material.
• Create bills of material quickly and easily using
  the graphical BOM designer.

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Supply Chain ManagementProduct Builder

• Your customers, vendors and employees can easily
  configure customized products
• With Enterprise Portal, your product catalog can
  be posted on the Web, letting customers configure
  and order products
• Deliver customized products faster and more
  cost-effectively by reducing the manual work
  involved in designing, planning and producing
  them
• An easy to use system that adapts to the needs of
  your customers and employees

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Supply Chain ManagementProduction

• Minimize lead times and satisfy customer demand
  with flexible scheduling options
• Control the utilization of your manufacturing
  resources for optimum performance
• Use a Gantt chart to track production progress
  and easily make changes to increase production
  efficiency and reduce costs

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Supply Chain ManagementMaster Planning

• Minimize lead times and maximize on-time
  deliveries to customers
• Respond quickly to changes in demand for
  materials and capacity
• Reduce inventory levels through improved
  production planning and forecast scheduling

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Supply Chain ManagementShop Floor Control

• Improve the efficiency of your shop floor
  operations with fast registration of accurate
  and real time production information
• Reduce manual data entry with automated
  collection of employee time and attendance
• Save administration time with fast and flexible
  generation of shop floor payroll

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Supply Chain ManagementWarehouse Management

• Optimize your warehouse layout to increase
  efficiency
• Obtain a complete overview of inventory to help
  improve customer service
• Streamline your warehouse processes to reduce
  costs

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Project Accounting

• Improve oversight of your operations to maintain
  tighter control of project accounting and drive
  efficiencies.
• Improve cash flow management
• Improve productivity
• Obtain strategic business insight

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Customer Relationship Management

• Sales Force Automation
• Sales Management
• Marketing Automation
• Telemarketing

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Customer Relationship ManagementSales Force
Automation

• Increase sales force productivity and
  effectiveness
• Easily identify and seize sales opportunities
• Company-wide overview of all customer and
  prospect-related activities

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Customer Relationship ManagementSales Management

• Define sales targets for individuals and teams
• Manage and monitor sales activities
• Easy pipeline management

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Customer Relationship ManagementMarketing
Automation

• Increase the effectiveness of marketing
  activities
• Easily gather and use customer feedback
• Measure profitability of campaigns

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Customer Relationship ManagementTelemarketing

• Improved lead generation and qualification
• Execute guided calls efficiently with call center
  functionality
• Use data from telemarketing activities directly
  in the sales process

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Human Resource Management

• Adapt the HRM framework to fit the specific needs
  of your business
• Employees can pull out exactly the data and
  information they need.
• Create organizational charts for full, matrix,
  and project overviews
• Learn from the experiences of previous
  recruitment campaigns
• Pinpoint the most effective media and methods for
  sharper, more effective recruiting messages.
• Let your employees define challenging and
  compelling career goals that reflect the
  companys business strategy.
• Employees, managers, and the HR department can
  view agreements and evaluate progress in a
  continuous dialogue.

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Other Microsoft Axapta Functionality

• Balanced Scorecard
• Business Process Management
• Questionnaire I
• Questionnaire II
• Business Analysis
• E-Business Enterprise Portal
• E-Business Commerce Gateway
• Microsoft Axapta Development Tools

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Balanced Scorecard

• Evaluate your overall business performance,
  according to your strategic plan
• Track performance and measure fulfillment of
  business goals
• Get real-time overviews of Key Performance
  Indicators (KPIs), so you can take immediate
  action

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Business Process Management

• Get a holistic view of your business processes
• Help ensure that employees follow the correct
  sequence of actions in a business process
• Track the status of all actions and check that
  they are followed up appropriately

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Questionnaire

• Easy design and execution of questionnaires
• Deploy questionnaires over corporate intranets
  and websites
• Turn raw data into useful information through
  analysis

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Business Analysis

• Get the insight needed to better control your
  business
• No need for external reporting tools or data
  replication
• Turn raw data into useful business knowledge

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Enterprise Portal

• Connects you with customers, vendors and other
  partners
• Quick and affordable information access to all
  employees and others in your business community
• Customized Web browser for business application
  information and functionality
• Increases the speed of doing business while
  driving down costs
• More profitable business decisions
• Increase return on investment for your entire
  solution by increasing efficiency and extending
  the reach of the solution.
• Reach out to new customers easily and
  efficiently, on their terms

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Commerce Gateway

• Streamline Business-to-Business (B2B)
  communications
• Reduce communications costs
• Communicate with any of your business partners,
  no matter what ERP system they use
• Increase the speed of your supply chain

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Development ToolsMorphX Development Suite

• MorphX for Microsoft Windows clients
• User-friendly development environment for
  partners and customers
• Speed up the development process during
  implementation
• Lower implementation costs
• Decrease the time and costs associated with
  upgrades and customization
• Safer customization projects
• MorphX for Web clients
• Expands the reach of your solution by extending
  it over the Web
• Employees, customers and business partners can
  access your company business data anywhere
• Normal Web browser
• Mobile and handheld devices
• Easy Web development

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Development ToolsX Source Code

• Customize Microsoft Axapta to meet your exact
  business needs
• Reduce the time and costs involved with making
  system modifications, customizations and upgrades
• X Editor enforces best practice development
• Better code, fewer errors and lower TCO

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