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About Microsoft Dynamics
Microsoft Dynamics in New Zealand
Microsoft Dynamics' Products
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ABOUT MICROSOFT DYNAMICS
Microsoft Dynamics—formerly Microsoft Business Solutions—is a line of products that automate and help improve financial, customer relationship, and supply chain management. Delivered through a network of Microsoft partners, these integrated, adaptable solutions work like and with familiar Microsoft software to streamline processes across an entire business. Get an overview.

MICROSOFT DYNAMICS IN NEW ZEALAND
Microsoft Business Solutions has more than 450 customers in New Zealand across a diverse range of industry sectors in manufacturing, wholesaling, and services industries. There is a growing channel of 18 partners, ranging from large to small IT services companies through to specialist and vertical market solution providers. Click for information on Dynamics partners.

MICROSOFT DYNAMICS' PRODUCTS

 
Microsoft Dynamics-Axapta, an enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution created to help companies and divisions of large enterprises seize opportunity and gain a competitive advantage. Microsoft Axapta can be tailored to support unique business processes quickly and cost-effectively, and includes integrated finance, manufacturing, distribution (supply chain management), human resources, e-commerce, customer relationship management, balanced scorecard and knowledge management, business analytics, and multi-language and multicurrency functionality. Tell Me More>


Microsoft Dynamics-Navision, Microsoft Navision builds and expands on the strong foundation of Navision Financials, an established business management solution characterised by simplicity, ease of use and adaptability. Microsoft Navision is an integrated business management solution designed specifically for the unique needs of growing, small to mid-sized companies.  Microsoft Navision includes financial management, supply chain management (including manufacturing and distribution), customer relationship management (including relationship management and service management), human resources and e-commerce functionality.. Tell Me More>

 
Microsoft Dynamics-Great Plains, is an enterprise-wide, integrated solution, which provides functionality for Optimised for mid-sized companies and divisions of large enterprises, Microsoft Great Plains provides a broad-based, extensible and solid foundation to enable business growth through applications across financials, distribution, human resources and payroll, customer relationship management, project accounting, manufacturing and supply chain management. Tell Me More>


Microsoft Dynamics-Solomon, tools to help project-driven and distribution-centric businesses to maximise profitability and preserve processes though web access to a suite of powerful applications ensuring processes remain available over the Web. Tell Me More>

 
Microsoft Customer Relationship Management software accommodates the full range of sales and customer service functions allowing businesses to access key customer and sales information from Microsoft Outlook and the Web.
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Retail Management System offers a complete store automation solution for small and mid-sized retailers, streamlining point of sale (POS), customer service and store inventory management, and providing real-time visibility to key business metrics. Microsoft Retail Management System is a comprehensive solution for single to multistore retailers that empowers independent proprietors, store managers and cashiers through affordable and easy-to-use automation. Microsoft Retail Management System has the flexibility and scalability to grow with a retailer's business. It integrates with Microsoft Great Plains and other leading financial applications to provide end-to-end support from the cash register to the general ledgersoftware for small and mid-sized retailers which starts at the point of sale and goes all the way to the back office and the warehouse with inventory management and cash flow monitoring facilities. Tell Me More> 


For More information go to http://www.microsoft.co.nz/dynamics

CONTACT US
Anne Frith, Distribution and Audience Marketing
Microsoft New Zealand
Level 3, 7 - 9 Fanshawe Street
PO Box 8070, Symonds Street
Auckland
Ph: + 64 9 362 5865
Email: askdynnz@microsoft.com 


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Case Studies

Statistics New Zealand Cuts Costs and Ups Efficiency with Navision
Adopting Microsoft Business Solutions-Navision has cut the cost of maintaining Statistics New Zealand's financial system by approximately 70% READ MORE >

Dynamics AX is the platform for future growth at Chemcolour industries
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Dynamics AX in action at MTA
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Paykel cuts costs for customers with integrated supply chain
A New Zealand based engineering supplies company, Paykel identified an opportunity to gain a competitive advantage by making e-commerce an integral part of its supply chain... READ MORE >

Solomon driving South Island trucking
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Donaghys selects Axapta from Microsoft Business Solutions
Donaghys Industries, one of Australasia's largest manufacturers and suppliers of industrial textiles and agricultural products, has selected Axapta to improve the management of the company's strategic business processes... READ MORE >

Navision helps Antarctica NZ efficiently manage Scott Base expeditions
Antarctica New Zealand has adopted Microsoft Business Solutions-Navision to improve the management of its financials and year-round activities in Scott Base - New Zealand's permanent base in Antarctica... READ MORE >

Hansen's pipeline to the world
With distributorships in eight countries, Whangarei-based pipe fittings manufacturer Hansen Products recognised its disparate financial and manufacturing systems were hindering export growth – a new ERP system had the answers... READ MORE >

Right time, right technology
Case Study: Manual systems were costing Hubbard Foods both time and money - until the famed cereal manufacturers automated their core business processes with Dynamics AX... READ MORE >

Convex Plastics wraps with Microsoft's Axapta
Held back by ageing back-end systems and manual processes, Hamilton-based packaging company Convex Plastics needed an ERP overhaul to meet its growth objectives. An immediate 16% productivity jump was the result... READ MORE >

Bigsave goes for Microsoft's mid-market ERP
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District Council gears up with Navision
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Navision solution carving niche in meat industry
Case Study: A custom designed software system is improving business processes and increasing profits for Greenlea Premier Meats... READ MORE >

Hosted Microsoft ERP selected in distributor's re-think
Case Study: ERP - A 16 year old financials system at car products supplier STOCKS' has made way for Dynamics AX, outsourced to GDC Communications' iVasp hosting service… READ MORE >

Maui maker moves to Microsoft
CI Munro, New Zealand’s largest manufacturer of caravans and motor homes and a subsidiary of Tourism Holdings Limited, has chosen Microsoft’s business application Axapta to improve its financials, inventory control and supply chain management... READ MORE >

Fresh start with Dynamics AX
Control of costs and stock, coupled with a smooth operating supply chain are key elements to success in low-margin industries. Long-standing wholesale distributor and market trader Fresh Direct, has turned to Dynamics AX technology to give it the control to maximise its competitive advantage... READ MORE >

Counties Power partners with Microsoft Business Solutions-Navision to maximise business growth
Rapid customer growth and the end of support for an existing legacy system led to the adoption of Microsoft Business Solutions-Navision in partnership with Fujitsu. This has not only consolidated isolated customer information and financial systems, but has also introduced new levels of customer service and staff efficiency... READ MORE >

Pod signs on as biggest Microsoft Axapta user
When Designer Textiles, the company with the fabric behind brands such as Icebreaker, merged interests with three other Australasian fashion companies to form Pod, a key to the success was going to be the selection of an ERP system. Here's the thinking behind the decision... READ MORE >

Microsoft ERP fit for Les Mills
Les Mills, voted best gym of 2004 by Unlimited magazine, with over three million people participating in the Les Mills Group Fitness programmers worldwide every week, has chosen Dynamics AX business solution to manage its financial systems and information nationwide... READ MORE >

Navision to put Plunket in the picture
The Royal New Zealand Plunket Society has selected Microsoft’s Navision ERP package in a comprehensive upgrade of its financial information systems... READ MORE >

FMCG distributor counting on Microsoft ERP and BizTalk
An integrated suite of Microsoft ERP, BizTalk and mobile technology has been successfully put to work to automate the entire order, delivery, inventory management and financial process at 150-strong confectionery importer Brandlines… READ MORE >

Thin client and ERP a plus for flexibility
Mobile technology specialists Portables Plus are putting their money where their mouth is by ensuring they have maximum flexibility and mobility with an Dynamics AX ERP system delivered by thin-client nationally... READ MORE >

Navision gets the nod at Foreign Affairs
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) selected Microsoft Business Solutions' Navision to replace Oracle Financials for a project reaching 44 overseas diplomatic posts across 41 countries. Phil Goulin, MFAT director of finance explains why... READ MORE >

ERP proof’s in the pudding at Old Fashioned Foods
Microsoft Dynamics AX is helping a local manufacturer to become a global exporter... READ MORE >

Out-of-the-box fit for healthcare provider
When Spectrum Care needed a unified view of its finances, 700 FTE staff and assets distributed all over the North Island, it’s accountant’s recommendation was tough to ignore… READ MORE >

Heritage furniture firm launches into the 21st Century
Microsoft's Dynamics NAV provided luxury furniture retailer McKenzie & Willis with the 'big picture' of its operations from supply chain management through to the point of sale... READ MORE >

Solomon fixes branding company's position
Branding specialist Lexicon found itself straddled with a rigid manufacturing-based accounting system. Not good for a company specialising in rapid project deployment… READ MORE >

Millers Mechanical powers ahead with tailored Dynamics solution
By tweaking its new accounting software to meet its specific customer relationship functionality, the Dunedin-based engineering firm says it now has a solution relevant to everyone in the business… READ MORE >

Technology expertise helps businesses maximise the potential of Microsoft Dynamics investment
There are a number of ways clients can add value and get the most out of the software, says local Microsoft Dynamics services lead Colm Maloney... READ MORE >

Bailey Tanks laps up growth challenges
Faced with tremendous opportunities to grow, the Auckland-based specialist in the transport and storage of liquids needed an integrated IT system that was up to the task... READ MORE >

Old Fashioned Foods’ drive for total business visibility
For this expanding food manufacturing group, total visibility across all its businesses had become a primary business objective... READ MORE >

Green issues stamp footprint on ERP solutions
Vendors are rising to the challenge as organisations seek increasingly sophisticated ways to track their carbon footprints... READ MORE >

Financing flexibility helps stretch the IT budget
Microsoft Financing helps businesses leverage their IT budgets to get the software, services and hardware they need to stay competitive... READ MORE >

Duffill Watts masters information delivery with Microsoft Dynamics AX
The engineering consultancy called in integrator Enabling to deploy an ERP solution capable of keeping pace with its complex data handling requirements and demanding acquisition strategy... READ MORE >

Dynamics AX helps Dairy Goat Co-op safeguard precious kids
When fast-growing DGC needed to overhaul its disparate legacy systems, it called on Koorb Consulting to deploy Microsoft Dynamics AX... READ MORE >

Microsoft gets personal with Dynamics NAV 2009
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ABE'S Real Bagels bakes up a storm with ERP systems upgrade
The fast-growing bagel-maker is really cooking now and expanding into Australia in a big way thanks a new MS Dynamics AX ERP system and financing from Microsoft… READ MORE >

The Bell Tea and Coffee Company brews up a storm with Microsoft Dynamics AX ERP upgrade
The Bell Tea and Coffee Company had been dreading the upgrade of its ERP system, but it found moving up to Microsoft Dynamics AX2009 a sweet experience… READ MORE >

Opinion: Stewart Gibbs, Microsoft - As I see it... User friendly ERP
ERP industry veteran Stewart Gibbs, now Microsoft Dynamics business manager, talks about the changing ERP market and looking beyond Tier 1 to more user-friendly solutions... READ MORE >

Microsoft’s four ERP systems - what’s the story?
After a decade of ERP acquisitions, Microsoft has struggled to educate the New Zealand market on the differences between their Dynamics GP, NAV, SL and AX. We’ve dug up some history - and some speculation as to where they might be going in the future… READ MORE >
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