Business Analytics

Strategic new combinations: Microsoft Great Plains Professional Edition Foundation Layer has been extended to include new Business Intelligence components*.

Microsoft Great Plains Analysis Cubes for Excel, the newest component of the Microsoft Great Plains Professional Business Intelligence (BI) Foundation Layer, will significantly improve the ability to easily analyze data from multiple angles.

Microsoft Great Plains Analysis Cubes Library and Advanced Analysis Cubes Library introduced as add-ons to the new Microsoft Great Plains Professional BI Foundation Layer to give you even greater competitive advantage.

SmartList Builder offers virtually unlimited flexibility in defining SmartLists, so you can query all areas of Microsoft Great Plains as well as third-party applications.

The Microsoft SQL Server™ 2000 Reporting Services Report Pack for Microsoft Great Plains includes eight templates.

Increased Industry Fit

The new Grant Management module for not-for-profit and public-sector organizations helps track expenditures against specific grants.
An enhanced Analytical Accounting module with new budgeting features and integration with Grant Management and MBS for Analytics–FRx®.
Enhanced Flexibility

New Microsoft Great Plains Extender enhances your ability to add new windows to any Microsoft Great Plains form, add new fields to windows and much more—without writing a single line of code.

Extended Reach

Microsoft Business Portal includes customer secure data access policies. International date, time, and number formats are available for multiple countries.

Timecard Status has been added to the MS Business Portal HRM Self Service Suite. Also, MS Business Portal HRM Self Service Suite for Canada features integration to MS Great Plains Canadian Human Resources.

Microsoft Great Plains Professional–CRM Suite helps extend the capabilities of your solution by adding Microsoft CRM to Microsoft Great Plains Professional at significantly reduced costs (North America only).