1.Unlock the potential of all your employees.
Accelerate productivity across your business by providing employees with immediate access to business applications and to updated, accurate information so they can make better decisions faster.
2. Take the hassle (and expense) out of common tasks.
Timesheets, expense reports, requisitions, and other tasks can be delivered through the user's Web browser, reducing the time it takes to manage these processes and eliminating related paperwork and data re-entry. By opening the flow of useful business information to your employees, you'll reduce the endless stream of requests for custom reports and the countless calls for simple business facts. Free your IT, accounting and support resources to drive your business forward.
3. Give executives at-a-glance access to key business metrics.
Enable executives and business decision makers to assess the current health of your business and respond quickly when conditions change with Key Performance Indicators.
- Multiple views and alert ranges: Using graphs, tables, and green/yellow/red conditional alerts, companies can create Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that draw attention to the most important aspects of each information view. Decision makers can then drill down quickly to discover underlying causes of changing conditions.
- Easy to define: Once you've built the underlying queries, it's a simple process to define and deploy the KPIs most important to your business success, making it easy for decision makers to identify hot spots and act quickly to drive your business forward.
- Role-based Access: Individual KPIs can be created for each executive, depending on their areas of responsibility. Role-based access enables you to align the right information with each individual.
4. Share business information with customers and suppliers.
Work more effectively with customers, suppliers, and other business partners by granting secure access to business information such as order status, inventory levels and payment data. Provide access to information stored in other systems and deliver it via the Web to the right people at the right time to keep your business moving forward and your customers happy.
5. Give your organisation a framework for collaboration.
Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services (WSS), enables you to deploy one portal site to deliver access to business applications, information and processes across the organisation. You can extend powerful information-sharing and collaboration tools that foster teamwork and improve performance with Windows SharePoint Services and Microsoft Office System 2007.
- Share and collaborate on documents: A SharePoint site, enabling you to store, share, and edit Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and other documents by adding Document Libraries to portal pages.
- Create new pages: SharePoint Web parts, with drag-and-drop page design that saves time and lets you create pages that work the way you want them to.
- Add sites for projects and meetings: Create pages with all the resources team members need—including Calendars, Participant Lists, Announcements, Document Libraries and other Web parts—to record activities, share and edit documents, track meeting notes and provide links to other relevant sites.
- Connect to external data sources: Expand the reach of business information by exposing not only Microsoft Great Plains data, but other sources of business information to your Business Portal site.
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