1. of our Partners and Customers
Microsoft Great Plains provides business applications that help small and mid-sized companies become more agile in today’s interconnected community
To Improve the Lives
and Business Success
of our Partners and Customers
Microsoft Great Plains has built a strong reputation on “improving the lives and business success of our partners and customers”. This is the mission that has guided Microsoft Great Plains’ strategy and continues to be the cornerstone of our foundation.
On April 5, 2001, Great Plains joined Microsoft as Microsoft Great Plains Business Solutions. As a division of Microsoft, we look forward to the additional opportunities and services we will be offering our Partners and Customers, which we believe maps to our ongoing mission. In addition, Microsoft has a great heritage of understanding small businesses and creating products to meet their needs. We are excited about the possibilities that this means in terms of the business solutions we have to offer small businesses like yours.

2. Business Management Applications for Small and Mid-Size Companies
Very Large
Enterprises
> 8,000
Medium Enterprise
,000 Employees
Complex Needs
eEnterprise
Extended Needs
Mid Market
Employees
Dynamics
Solomon
Standard Needs
Microsoft Great Plains has business solutions that extend over the entire spectrum, from standard needs all the way to complex needs through its suite of business solutions, each designed to meet different customer requirements.
Today we will focus more specifically on the needs of small, growing businesses just like yours. We’ll identify common business issues and talk about how Small Business Manager can help you solve these business issues.
As you consider your business needs, one more point to consider is that as your business grows, Microsoft Great Plains offers a full suite of solutions for different sizes of businesses so that, if necessary, you always have the option of upgrading to additional functionality that best fits the needs of your business. You can do this easily without worrying about migrating data or going through a steep learning curve. Plus every dollar you invest in Small Business Manager can be applied to other Microsoft Great Plains solutions.
Small Business
Manager
Small Businesses
Employees

3. Today’s Business Issues
I want to work smarter, not harder
I want tools that are easy for me and my employees to use
I need to serve my current customers better and reach out
to new ones
My business is growing and I need to delegate more to others
I have more customers and transactions to manage than I used to
I want all my key business data accessible from one place
I want to customize the way I view my business information
I need to set financial goals and track my performance
I need to closely monitor my business cash flow and profitability
What business issues keep you awake at night?
You may be experiencing some of these issues today, or thinking about some of them in the future, but in today’s changing business world, you need to have a solution that you know can handle the issues you face and work the way you work.
The Microsoft Great Plains Small Business Manager solution offers simple answers to each of these issues. Let’s take a closer look at the products and services Small Business Manager offers and how it can help meet your business needs.

4. Small Business Manager Products and Services
Financial Suite
Financials
Sales
Purchasing
Banking
Reporting
bCentral Services
For Retail Industries
For Service Industries
Foundation Services
Basic Plan
Premium Plan
Small Business Manager offers a variety of products and services to meet your business needs.
The Financial Suite is an affordable financial and business management solution that includes integrated financial, sales, purchasing, banking, and reporting capabilities. Small Business Manager also offers a fully integrated US Payroll Suite to help you quickly and easily manage your company’s payroll processing.
Small Business Manager also integrates directly with bCentral services for both retail and service companies. With bCentral services, you can easily sell products, conduct marketing campaigns, and even manage and schedule appointments on the Web. All these services integrate directly with Small Business Manager so you increase productivity by tracking your key business data in one location.
Small Business Manager also offers award winning training and support with its Foundation Services programs. You can choose from a basic or a premium plan and receive access to a secure, informative customer resource web site, support, training, and automatic upgrades.
US Payroll Suite

5. With Small Business Manager, You Can…
Manage your business more effectively
Use flexible software that adapts to
your needs
Integrate your accounting software
across multiple applications
Small Business Manager meets critical business needs and enables you to manage your business more effectively, use flexible software that adapts to your needs, and integrate your accounting software seamlessly across multiple applications. Let’s look at each of these in a bit more detail.

6. With Small Business Manager, You Can…
Manage your business more effectively
Process transactions efficiently
Access and analyze information
Improve business performance
Small Businesses want to work smarter, not harder, and to manage their businesses more effectively. Small Business Manager allows you to do this by helping you process daily transactions efficiently using intuitive data entry forms, process wizards, and alert and reminder tools. You can then access this information through a variety of reporting tools so as to make informed business decisions based on up-to-the-minute, integrated data. This analysis will help you to improve your business performance as you manage your cash flow, profitability, and other critical metrics.

7. With Small Business Manager, You Can…
Use flexible software that adapts to your needs
Set up and use easily
Customize to fit your business
Scale as your business grows
Growing businesses need software that that is flexible and adapts to their company’s unique needs. With Small Business Manager, we help you get up and running with quick setup, easy navigation, and tools to easily import master records from your current system. Then, you can personalize the software to meet the needs of each individual user, by setting up quick links to most frequently access windows and creating security access restrictions based on roles and responsibilities. Finally, as you add more and more users to the system and increase your transaction volume, Small Business Manager will scale and grow with you.

8. With Small Business Manager, You Can…
Integrate your accounting software
across multiple applications
Share data throughout the application
Extend functionality with Microsoft software
Integrate with industry-specific software
Finally, sharing information across multiple areas within and beyond Small Business Manager saves you time, increases accuracy of your data, and helps you to manage your business more effectively. For starters, within Small Business Manager, data entered once can be accessed anywhere due to integrated general ledger, sales, purchasing, banking and payroll tasks. Then you can put this data to use instantly within other Microsoft applications; for example, export reports and queries to Excel, create dunning letters in Word, find directions to a customer site using MapPoint and communicate instantly with all constituents using Windows Messenger. Finally, you can add on additional capabilities specific to your business and industry by using integrated software built by authorized Microsoft Solution Developers. Or, integrate your existing industry-specific software applications using our industry standard technology and tools.

9. An Integrated Solution
Microsoft Great Plains
Small Business Manager
Connect with Office
Extend to
the Web
In addition to working with Microsoft Office and Microsoft bCentral, Small Business Manager also runs on core Microsoft technologies. It comes with the Microsoft SQL Server Data Engine and also runs on Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Standard Edition. This technology provides you with the security, reliability, and scalability you need.
Get Ready to Grow

10. Accounting Software for Small, Growing Businesses
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Try out the 60-day free trial software
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Thank you for taking the time to learn about Small Business Manager and how it can help your business succeed and grow. For more information, visit our web site at greatplains.com / small business manager.