FARGO, N.D., July 21, 2003 — To offer small, growing businesses the ability to effectively manage assets, streamline fulfillment, and choose from a wide array of options for sophisticated data analysis, Microsoft Business Solutions today launched an enhanced release of its business application developed specifically for today’s small businesses.
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Business Solutions Small Business Manager 7.5 includes features that help small companies improve efficiencies in how they manage orders, inventory, assets, payroll and deduction. Small Business Manager 7.5 also includes powerful reporting tools, increased flexibility and enhanced integration capabilities.
“Microsoft Business Solutions is committed to delivering compelling products and services to small businesses,”
said Karen Engel, group product manager with Microsoft Business Solutions.
“Small Business Manager 7.5 is geared toward customers that are outgrowing packaged software. It offers a greater breadth of functionality and control in a single package that’s affordable and easy to use. And it’s available through a network of dedicated, local partners that have a proven track record when it comes to fully customizing technology and helping small businesses get up to speed quickly.”
Specific features and benefits that small companies can realize using Small Business Manager 7.5 include these:
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Order and inventory management. Small businesses benefit from the capabilities Small Business Manager 7.5 offers to arrange direct shipment from the vendor to customers, simplify invoice matching, invoice for partial kit quantities, print historical documents, process orders and invoices more quickly, manage and forecast assembly components, prevent stock outages with inventory reminders, and receive notification for nonexistent item numbers.
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Fixed assets management. The Fixed Assets Suite in Small Business Manager 7.5 lets companies easily create asset records, customize asset records for their needs, calculate and recalculate for depreciation, choose the best methods for their situation, track multiple depreciation methods, and automatically update general ledger accounts.
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Powerful reporting tools. Additional custom financial reporting tools from FRx®
Software Corp., a Microsoft Business Solutions company, and Crystal Reports enable small businesses to build custom reports, consolidate financial reporting, save time with reusable templates, and maintain control of sensitive information. Streamlined report creation features offer increased speed with formatting shortcuts, easy creation of compelling presentations, and seamless integration for easy import and export capabilities. -
Payroll and deduction management. The payroll and deduction features let small businesses efficiently manage work-force records, respond quickly and accurately to employee withholding requests, and meet obligations for payroll-related reporting requirements. Businesses also will be able to track workers’ compensation, connect automatically with ADP Payroll Service and choose from 24 new payroll reports.
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Increased flexibility and integration capabilities. Small Business Manager 7.5 enables small businesses to handle a variety of tasks more efficiently, have access for up to 10 concurrent users, streamline contact list management, manage fixed allocations, print posting journals on demand, pinpoint and evaluate critical data, and find help more quickly.
Availability and Pricing
Microsoft Business Solutions Small Business Manager 7.5 is available immediately through Microsoft Business Solutions reseller partners and consultant partners. Pricing begins at $995 (U.S.) for single users. Users (up to 10) can be added for $400 per concurrent user. A U.S. payroll add-on suite is available for $500, and additional options for fixed asset management and reporting tools are available. In addition, an award-winning foundation services plan, providing training, support, access to CustomerSource and product upgrades, is available for 18 percent of the suggested list price (reseller prices may vary). Small Business Manager is backed by the award-winning support and training of Microsoft Business Solutions.
About Microsoft Business Solutions
Microsoft Business Solutions, a business group of Microsoft, offers a wide range of integrated, end-to-end business applications and services designed to help small, midmarket and corporate businesses become more connected with customers, employees, partners and suppliers. Microsoft Business Solutions’ applications optimize strategic business processes across financial management, analytics, human resources management, project management, customer relationship management, field service management, supply chain management, e-commerce, manufacturing and retail management. The applications are designed to provide insight to help customers achieve business success. More information about Microsoft Business Solutions can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/businesssolutions/ .
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