Finding the right partnership to help you transition to Microsoft Dynamics can make the difference between a successful implementation and feeling like you made a big mistake.

Microsoft SharePoint wants to be the communications center for your business. Microsoft has created a powerful family of products designed to drive the small to mid-size business toward success in a competitive marketplace:

Dynamics GP Integration Manager is a handy little tool that was designed to allow you to load data into GP manually. You can add data from an XML, text file or database. It's an excellent add-on that helps reinforce data integrity. We like the Integration Manager because you don’t have to be a data scientist to use it—it’s a graphically enabled interface with some cool drag-and-drop features that allow even the “non-geeks” in an office to use it efficiently.

Managing operations is an increasingly challenging and complex process fraught with changing customer dynamics and increasing competition. One of the greatest benefits of the Microsoft suite is that they offer affordable software that streamlines all of the functions in your business. Adding ecommerce to Microsoft Dynamics GP integrates all business functions—from back-end inventory to front-end customer relationship management—in order to improve organizational efficiency and give you a competitive marketplace advantage.

Even the most conservative enterprises are partnering with Software as a Service (SaaS) providers for everything from enterprise resource planning (ERP) to customer relationship management (CRM). In fact, Gartner predicts the public cloud services market will grow from $175 billion in 2015 to $246.8 billion in 2017.

Microsoft acquired LinkedIn, the social media networking tool for business professionals, in December 2016. The $26 billion deal was received as good news; analysts say the move brought together the number one name in office software with the top professional networking site in the world. Most agree there were clear benefits for both companies.

 Let’s review some of the practical implications of the merger, including how Microsoft Dynamics ERP customers will likely benefit from the interoperability of these two industry icons.

 “…B2B companies still lag far behind their B2C brethren in terms of their level of digital maturity and the quality of the customer experience they offer.”
The Forrester Wave: B2B Commerce Suites, Q2 2015

Look out, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft is coming for you.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says a head-to-head comparison of Amazon vs. Azure will yield a clear victory for Azure. Azure is the Microsoft cloud-based computing platform and software infrastructure developed for IT professionals to build, implement, and manage applications.

Database marketing gives your business a competitive edge. A Customer Relationship Management (CRM) dashboard like Microsoft Dynamics can be used to leverage marketing techniques that drive sales. Too often there is a divide between operations, marketing, and sales teams. But a good CRM can pull these teams together with a singular focus—to target new clients, bring them on board, and retain them. Here’s how this can work.