Top 10 Reasons You Should Upgrade to Dynamics GP 2010

If you are current on your annual maintenance and have not yet upgraded to Dynamics GP 2010, it’s time to think about taking advantage of your maintenance benefits. While every company is unique and may have specific reasons for not upgrading, you may want to consider getting current. By staying current, upgrading to future versions will be simpler.

Why would you want to upgrade to GP 2010? There are several improvements and new features in GP 2010, even for those companies using GP 10. Here are 10 reasons you may want to consider upgrading to GP 2010, including:

1.    Deliver faster access to personalized insight – You no longer have to give users full access to GP for them to get information from the system. With role centers, you can give users personalized dashboards and KPIs with drill-back capabilities. You also can view GP data on a variety of devices and applications.

2.    Get more out of Excel integration – Imagine being able to open an Excel file and have up-to-date information from GP with charts and pivot tables automatically updated. GP 2010 delivers 220 refreshable Excel reports. You can use SmartList Builder to create new Excel refreshable reports.

3.    More options for analyzing information – Besides the Excel refreshable reports, you now have 90 SQL Server Reporting Services reports. Of course, new reports can be created with SQL Server Business Intelligence Development Studio.

4.    Better Microsoft Outlook & Word integration – Using new Word templates, you can automatically send invoices, purchase orders and other documents as PDF documents in Outlook.

5.    Enhanced personalized experience – Users can tailor dashboards and action panes with the lists they need to find information. You also can use the new Navigation List Builder to create custom lists.

6.    Create “mini-applications” using Extender – Without a single line of code, you can use Extender to create your own applications within GP to capture and share information with GP.

7.    Make unified communications a part of doing business – Instantly communicate with business partners using Microsoft Office Communicator.

8.    Connect to other business applications – Using more than 350 Web services, you can connect GP to other business applications to keep GP and the connected applications up to date.

9.    Use current Microsoft technology innovations – You can use GP 2010 on 64-bit environments and implement workflows using Windows SharePoint Services.

10.  Management Reporter – Take advantage of the new 64-bit environments with Management Reporter for enhanced financial reporting.