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Overview |
Microsoft Solomon Overview
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Ideal for project-centric and distribution-focused
organizations, Microsoft Business Solutions–Solomon includes
applications for financial management, project accounting and
management, distribution, field service, e-business, and more. Review
this overview brochure to see how available components can add up to one
powerful, customized system to meet your unique business needs. Then see
the fact sheets below to get details about individual applications. |
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Analytics |
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Take control of the future of your organization with
Microsoft Business Solutions for Analytics–Forecaster. Meet business
objectives and gain competitive advantage with budgeting and planning
capabilities that allow you to plan more effectively and respond quickly
to changing business needs. |
Microsoft FRx Professional
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Master your financial reporting process with Microsoft
Business Solutions for Analytics–FRx Professional. High-performance
capabilities give you comprehensive, highly customizable financial and
management reports that are easy to create, distribute, and use. |
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Business Portal |
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Unlock business potential and enhance productivity by
providing user-specific access to information and processes from a
single Web-based portal. Built on Microsoft .NET technologies, Microsoft
Business Solutions Business Portal integrates seamlessly with Microsoft
Solomon to deliver applications, information, and processes to
employees, customers, and partners across your organization. |
Key Performance Indicators
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With Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for Microsoft
Business Portal, companies can define and help deliver instant access to
personalized views of key business information via a Web-based portal. |
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Customization |
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Adapt your system to the specific requirements of your
organization with Microsoft Solomon Customization Manager. Quickly and
easily modify any screen in any Microsoft Solomon module without
changing the underlying source code, and update screens as often as
necessary to match the pace of your business growth. |
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Build complete line-of-business applications with the
flexible development foundation of Microsoft Solomon Tools for Visual
Basic. By enabling developers to work with familiar and widely used
tools, you can minimize the amount of programming effort required to
develop applications that communicate with Microsoft Solomon and
Microsoft SQL Server 2000. |
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Distribution |
Advanced Shipping Manager
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Automatically create shipping labels, build shipment
detail, charge shipments and do much more with Microsoft Solomon
Advanced Shipment Management. Add precise and efficient shipment
functionality to Microsoft Solomon Order Management and e-Commerce
Gateway–EDI Edition. |
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Define, analyze, and manage your company's products with
Microsoft Solomon Bill of Materials. Comprehensive features in three
important manufacturing categories—bill of materials, production
routings, and product costing—provide support for costing and production
of manufactured and assembled goods. |
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Ensure your customers get what they want, when they want
it—and maximize return on your inventory investment. Microsoft Solomon
Inventory helps you deal with the full range of inventory issues,
including outgoing orders, incoming stock, returns, backorders, surplus
inventory, and dead stock. |
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Replace inventory more accurately and help improve
customer satisfaction. Microsoft Solomon Inventory Replenishment
provides integrated tools that optimize inventory stocking levels and
automate purchasing to maintain favorable customer service levels and
inventory balances. |
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Capture actual shipping, handling, and import fees
(landed costs) and easily roll them into the total cost of goods. With
Microsoft Solomon Landed Cost, distributors and manufacturers can
calculate accurate inventory valuation by including additional charges
beyond item purchase costs, such as miscellaneous origin and destination
fees. |
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Improve customer satisfaction by keeping order management
employees on task and on top of the entire sales order process—under any
circumstances—with Microsoft Solomon Order Management. This core
distribution module provides comprehensive capabilities for a range of
industries, such as distribution, service, and manufacturing, to help
improve efficiency and customer service now and as your business grows. |
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Accurately promise customers the goods they want, when
they want them. Microsoft Solomon Order to Purchase helps balance
inventory carrying costs with customer service levels so your
representatives can fulfill customers' request for goods, even when
stock is short. |
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Boost productivity and reduce transaction costs with
increased purchasing accuracy, speed processing, streamlined receiving,
and efficient invoice matching and vouchering. Microsoft Solomon
Purchasing provides buyers with accurate, up-to-date vendor and pricing
information to help them make consistent, cost-effective buying
decisions. |
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Streamline the planning and handling of your work orders,
so you can control costs and maximize profits. Easy-to-implement and
easy-to-use, Microsoft Solomon Work Order helps plan and track product
item costs and keep general ledger accounts and inventory quantities
seamlessly integrated and in balance. |
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E-commerce |
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Empower your customers and employees with the flexibility
and convenience of accessing and acting on key enterprise information
anytime via the Web. Microsoft Solomon Web Order gives staff and
customers the ability to enter orders over the Internet; check order
status any time, day or night; and inquire into current inventory
availability and pricing. |
eCommerce Gateway–EDI Edition
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With Microsoft Solomon, you can take advantage of the
benefits of conducting business electronically to solidify your position
in the value chain. Microsoft Solomon eCommerce Gateway–EDI Edition
works with Microsoft Solomon Order Management to help integrate and
automate business transactions with customers, vendors, and remote
warehouses. |
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Field Service |
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Track and control every aspect of routine and unscheduled
equipment maintenance. Microsoft Solomon Equipment Maintenance automates
the work order process, allowing your maintenance department to generate
work orders more quickly and accurately, track work orders with
user-defined criteria (making time stamps obsolete), perform detailed
accounting procedures with ease, and execute all of your
maintenance/repair procedures with maximum efficiency. |
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Take full control over every flat rate in your
organization and inspire more customer confidence in your organization.
The flat rate pricing process, the standard in more service industries
every day, is now easier than ever. With Microsoft Solomon Flat Rate
Pricing, you can stop purchasing expensive flat rate books from an
outside publisher and enable your technicians to give on-the-spot
printed price quotes on specific services from your pricing catalog. |
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Manage your service agreements more effectively and
maximize revenue for every contract with Microsoft Solomon Service
Contracts. If your business has service agreements, you know managing
them can be difficult. But with proper management, service agreements
can be a major source of revenue for service companies. With Service
Contracts, before a technician is dispatched to a site, the customer
service representative will be alerted to any active contracts that
exist. |
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Track and manage every detail of your service
organization with Microsoft Solomon Service Dispatch. Flexible
capabilities help you manage field technicians efficiently, clarify
information about technicians' profitability, and accurately track
customer information, including account status and equipment and service
history. |
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Financial Management |
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Keep accurate information about money owed, due dates,
and available discounts at your fingertips with a focused and flexible
way to carefully track and take advantage of terms and discounts,
predict cash requirements, and monitor payments so they are made only
once. |
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Actively manage your customer accounts and identify
problems before they occur. Flexible, integrated functions provide you
with detailed information and reporting to monitor receivables and do
what you need to enhance your cash flow and bottom line. |
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Take the guesswork out of complex labor and time
collection. Microsoft Solomon Advanced Payroll helps you calculate true
labor costs, meet time-sensitive government reporting requirements,
provide flexible deductions and benefits, and most importantly, pay your
employees accurately and on time. |
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Take the guesswork out of cash accounting, gain instant
access to your current cash balance, and automate bank reconciliation.
Powerful and integrated, Microsoft Solomon Cash Manager is automatically
updated when batches are released by other Microsoft Solomon modules. |
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Conduct global business easily, whether your company uses
a single currency with plans to expand or already operates with multiple
currencies. Integrate transaction processing across Microsoft Solomon to
track exchange rate fluctuations, determine possible gains and losses
when making payments in another currency, and maximize multinational
business profits. |
Financial Statement Translation
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Isolate, evaluate, and eliminate the impact of currency
fluctuations on your business operations with Microsoft Solomon
Financial Statement Translation. This flexible and integrated module
helps you dramatically improve month-end close processes by performing
necessary currency translations and automatically calculating
gains/losses due to rate fluctuations. |
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Capture and analyze the financial information you need to
make better business decisions with flexible, integrated capabilities
that let you harness your accounting processes to meet the way you do
business. |
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Monitor, analyze, and report on multiple companies or
functional divisions within your organization. Focused and flexible
capabilities help you set up multiple companies in one or more
databases, run processes, close books, and report results by company or
in a consolidated company. |
Payroll and Direct Deposit
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Make payroll and benefits administration a smooth,
predictable, and timely process with powerful and flexible capabilities
that help you to operate faster, smarter, and more profitably. |
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Foundation |
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Modify any existing report or create an unlimited number
of custom reports to suit your needs with Crystal Reports Professional,
an industry-leading report writer included with Microsoft Solomon System
Manager. Crystal Reports provides powerful reporting and query
capabilities for both novice and experienced users. Use it to select,
analyze, summarize, and present data in almost any way imaginable. |
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Application Server allows you to off-load the execution
of Microsoft Solomon CPU-intensive tasks—such as the printing of reports
and execution of processes—to other machines on your network. This
enables you to control where Microsoft Solomon processes execute,
whether centralized on the database server, on separate application
servers distributed throughout the network, over a WAN, or over the
Internet. |
System Manager and System Integrator
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Meet your specialized business requirements with a
solution that adapts to the way your business works. Microsoft Solomon
System Manager and Shared Information offers flexible control and
capabilities to help you import and integrate information and optimize
system performance across your organization. |
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Project Management |
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Gain precise control over project finances by creating
flexible, multiple tiered hierarchies to reflect the spectrum of labor
rates and billing structures you need. Then automatically allocate
charges and revenues, account for work-in-process, transfer or
consolidate transactions, and record accurate data for billing and
posting to general ledger accounts. |
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Enhance business decision-making with efficient access to
comprehensive data about project performance and profitability. Quickly
collect and summarize data for key metrics, selectively pinpoint details
for analysis, and present results in intuitive and practical formats. |
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Take control of your project finances with powerful
budgeting tools that allow you to significantly increase your project's
profitability. By tracking your budgeting process throughout the life of
your project, you can view the impact of budget changes on profitability
and manage the information you need to make your project successful. |
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Help enhance control of project progress and
profitability by increasing awareness of changes in key indicators or
documents awaiting action. Automated alerts keep you informed of pending
deadlines, required approvals, escalating costs, and eroding margins,
making it easy to intervene so projects and profits stay on track. |
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Streamline time-consuming contract management tasks and
help increase the productivity of subcontractor interactions for even
the most complex projects. By improving control over change orders,
document tracking, and subcontractor disbursements, you can help ensure
timely completion, enhance cash flow, and boost project profitability. |
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Improve your project profitability by providing project
managers with the accurate, meaningful information needed to gain
control over project revenue and expenses—enough control to help make
even low-margin projects profitable. |
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Get the information necessary to improve the
profitability of service professionals and other human resources. Track
personnel availability, billable time, revenues, and the realization of
established utilization goals. View timecard line-item detail, or speed
up analysis by customizing and summarizing data in a variety of
groupings and time periods. |
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Shorten billing cycles and improve cash flow by taking
control of unbilled receivables and converting them more quickly to
revenues. Streamline invoicing with automatic generation, formatting,
and submission of drafts for approval, then easily note needed
corrections, finalize invoices, and post receivables. |
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Take control of your labor, project, and travel-related
expenses. Accurate, timely cost information gives you the precise
information you need to increase your productivity and make better, more
effective business decisions. |
