• Help your staff work faster and smarter. Streamline access to critical information and processes across Function Centers that help staff to organize and manage their individual work better. A user-friendly and intuitive interface helps staff to navigate, communicate and complete tasks.
  
• Manage growth and change. Enhance collaboration across the organization and supply chain. Establish profitable relationships with partners and respond quickly to change by integrating processes and sharing information and documents.
  
• Manage the complexity of a global organization and get a comprehensive overview of several locations. Centralize and standardize processes, to collaborate in an effective way to organize and manage your business in multiple geographic locations.
  
• Help meet the rules and initiatives of the clients. Help reduce the risk, debt and the costs associated with corporate management, administrative duties and customer initiatives, including financial and legal initiatives.

Work more intelligently with Function Centers  - effective Business Intelligence

Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 can help improve staff productivity by providing, by default, customized access for different functions, information, tasks and business processes. Get a quick overview of critical data throughout the organization with key performance indicators based on predefined data cubes and flexible analytical tools, including integration with Microsoft ® SQL Server ® Reporting Services.

Maximize new business opportunities and accelerate growth

The service-oriented architecture (SOA) is flexible, and promotes an easy exchange of business documents and Web services to facilitate and accelerate the adaptation of Microsoft Dynamics AX to new business models and relationships with major customers.

An effective workflow engine to help respond quickly to customer demands and changing conditions by creating ad-hoc business processes.

Streamline business processes between different locations and countries

Provide support with shared service centers to achieve greater uniformity in your organization and take advantage of economies of scale to reduce operating and redundant costs. The cost management and integrated web-based support helps ensure that staff follow the recommended practices of the company. In addition, new capabilities from multiple locations allow the growth of your organization to plan and allocate effectively resources and materials between facilities. Sellers can provide domestic delivery dates with the exact functionality of net uncommitted (ATP) and capable of compromising (CTP).

The Compliance Center provides a central repository for managing compliance activities.

Define internal controls and improve transparency

Create workflows to specify events based on key performance scenarios, including routes, approvals and delegations. The integrated Center for Compliance helps improve transparency in corporate management and compliance with a single repository of guidelines, procedures, documents and reports. 

Upgrade to maximize your IT investment

With Microsoft Dynamics AX, subscribers to the Business Ready Enhancement Plan can obtain improvements based on your specific plan. In addition, Microsoft Dynamics Sure Step, a set of tools, methodologies and services, simplifies and standardizes the process of upgrading, if you upgrade to Microsoft Dynamics AX, Microsoft Dynamics AX 3.0 or 4.0, to help you maximize your current IT investment.