As we analyze what our customers want, we see these strong trends:

We see Microsoft Dynamics extremely well suited to deliver on all three of these areas. Getting data out of your ERP means that you need tools which end users can deploy easily. Using Excel as a reporting tool to information is one example of Microsoft talking leadership. Not only can you set up data access privileges for excel users,you can use excel reporting services with your Moss Web portals to create real time refreshable excel spreadsheets. The key is getting the reporting of data in a format to proactively better manage your company.The second trend is employee productivity. Here again Microsoft pulls ahead of the competition. Our ERP systems are extensively tested and developed to work smoothly with the latest operating systems, such as Windows Vista. The Microsoft approach is having real-time data being delivered via web portal web sites. With each new product version upgrade we are seeing more integration to the Microsoft Office Products, like excel,word and access. The use of the Microsoft Office products greatly simplifies the learning curve and a natural increase of employee productivity occurs when people use tools which they already know and use.A third trend with the Microsoft ERP product is the expanded use of work flow capabilities. Whether a time card is being routed for approval or a purchase requisition is being routed, the natural flow of data to the logical next work flow step leads to improved productivity for your company.

Having strong software development teams, and robust development budgets is a key reason we see Microsoft being a big winner for our customers. Our ERP products get to benefit from the strong development efforts in the Microsoft stack of technology.In our mind, our ERP products have a natural benefit of the enhancements for technology products like:Microsoft Share Point Services, Microsoft SQL databases, Microsoft SQL Reporting Services, and Exchange Services, We expect to see continued tighter integration of multiple technologies within the Microsoft stack of products.