Microsoft Solomon

Ideal for project-centric and distribution-focused organizations, Microsoft Business Solutions–Solomon includes applications for financial management, project accounting and management, distribution, field service, e-business, and more.

Review this overview brochure to see how available components can add up to one powerful, customized system to meet your unique business needs. Then see the fact sheets below to get details about individual applications.

Allocator

Gain precise control over project finances by creating flexible, multiple tiered hierarchies to reflect the spectrum of labor rates and billing structures you need. Then automatically allocate charges and revenues, account for work-in-process, transfer or consolidate transactions, and record accurate data for billing and posting to general ledger accounts. Download Allocator Brochure.

Analyzer

Enhance business decision-making with efficient access to comprehensive data about project performance and profitability. Quickly collect and summarize data for key metrics, selectively pinpoint details for analysis, and present results in intuitive and practical formats. Download Analyzer Brochure.

Budgeting

Take control of your project finances with powerful budgeting tools that allow you to significantly increase your project's profitability. By tracking your budgeting process throughout the life of your project, you can view the impact of budget changes on profitability and manage the information you need to make your project successful. Download Budgeting Brochure.

Communicator

Help enhance control of project progress and profitability by increasing awareness of changes in key indicators or documents awaiting action. Automated alerts keep you informed of pending deadlines, required approvals, escalating costs, and eroding margins, making it easy to intervene so projects and profits stay on track. Download Communicator Brochure.

Contract Management

Streamline time-consuming contract management tasks and help increase the productivity of subcontractor interactions for even the most complex projects. By improving control over change orders, document tracking, and subcontractor disbursements, you can help ensure timely completion, enhance cash flow, and boost project profitability. Download Contract Management Brochure.

Controller

Improve your project profitability by providing project managers with the accurate, meaningful information needed to gain control over project revenue and expenses—enough control to help make even low-margin projects profitable. Download Controller Brochure.

Employee Utilization

Get the information necessary to improve the profitability of service professionals and other human resources. Track personnel availability, billable time, revenues, and the realization of established utilization goals. View timecard line-item detail, or speed up analysis by customizing and summarizing data in a variety of groupings and time periods. Download Employee Utilization Brochure.

Flexible Billing

Shorten billing cycles and improve cash flow by taking control of unbilled receivables and converting them more quickly to revenues. Streamline invoicing with automatic generation, formatting, and submission of drafts for approval, then easily note needed corrections, finalize invoices, and post receivables. Download Flexible Billing Brochure.

Time and Expense

Take control of your labor, project, and travel-related expenses. Accurate, timely cost information gives you the precise information you need to increase your productivity and make better, more effective business decisions. Download Time and Expense Brochure.

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Advanced Shipping Manager

Automatically create shipping labels, build shipment detail, charge shipments and do much more with Microsoft Solomon Advanced Shipment Management. Add precise and efficient shipment functionality to Microsoft Solomon Order Management and e-Commerce Gateway–EDI Edition. Download Advanced Shipping Manager Brochure.

Bill of Materials

Define, analyze, and manage your company's products with Microsoft Solomon Bill of Materials. Comprehensive features in three important manufacturing categories—bill of materials, production routings, and product costing—provide support for costing and production of manufactured and assembled goods. Download Bill of Materials Brochure.

Inventory

Ensure your customers get what they want, when they want it—and maximize return on your inventory investment. Microsoft Solomon Inventory helps you deal with the full range of inventory issues, including outgoing orders, incoming stock, returns, backorders, surplus inventory, and dead stock. Download Inventory Brochure

Inventory Replenishment

Replace inventory more accurately and help improve customer satisfaction. Microsoft Solomon Inventory Replenishment provides integrated tools that optimize inventory stocking levels and automate purchasing to maintain favorable customer service levels and inventory balances. Download Inventory Replenishment Brochure.

Landed Cost

Capture actual shipping, handling, and import fees (landed costs) and easily roll them into the total cost of goods. With Microsoft Solomon Landed Cost, distributors and manufacturers can calculate accurate inventory valuation by including additional charges beyond item purchase costs, such as miscellaneous origin and destination fees. Download Landed Cost Brochure.

Order Management

Improve customer satisfaction by keeping order management employees on task and on top of the entire sales order process—under any circumstances—with Microsoft Solomon Order Management. This core distribution module provides comprehensive capabilities for a range of industries, such as distribution, service, and manufacturing, to help improve efficiency and customer service now and as your business grows. Download Order Management Brocuhre.

Order to Purchase

Accurately promise customers the goods they want, when they want them. Microsoft Solomon Order to Purchase helps balance inventory carrying costs with customer service levels so your representatives can fulfill customers' request for goods, even when stock is short. Download Order to Purchase Brochure.

Purchasing

Boost productivity and reduce transaction costs with increased purchasing accuracy, speed processing, streamlined receiving, and efficient invoice matching and vouchering. Microsoft Solomon Purchasing provides buyers with accurate, up-to-date vendor and pricing information to help them make consistent, cost-effective buying decisions. Download Purchasing Brochure.

Work Order

Streamline the planning and handling of your work orders, so you can control costs and maximize profits. Easy-to-implement and easy-to-use, Microsoft Solomon Work Order helps plan and track product item costs and keep general ledger accounts and inventory quantities seamlessly integrated and in balance. Download Work Order Brochure.

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Accounts Payable

Keep accurate information about money owed, due dates, and available discounts at your fingertips with a focused and flexible way to carefully track and take advantage of terms and discounts, predict cash requirements, and monitor payments so they are made only once. Download Accounts Payable Brochure.

Accounts Receivable

Actively manage your customer accounts and identify problems before they occur. Flexible, integrated functions provide you with detailed information and reporting to monitor receivables and do what you need to enhance your cash flow and bottom line. Download Accounts Receivable Brochure.

Advanced Payroll

Take the guesswork out of complex labor and time collection. Microsoft Solomon Advanced Payroll helps you calculate true labor costs, meet time-sensitive government reporting requirements, provide flexible deductions and benefits, and most importantly, pay your employees accurately and on time. Download Advanced Payroll Brochure.

Cash Management

Take the guesswork out of cash accounting, gain instant access to your current cash balance, and automate bank reconciliation. Powerful and integrated, Microsoft Solomon Cash Manager is automatically updated when batches are released by other Microsoft Solomon modules. Download Cash Management Brochure.

Currency Manager

Conduct global business easily, whether your company uses a single currency with plans to expand or already operates with multiple currencies. Integrate transaction processing across Microsoft Solomon to track exchange rate fluctuations, determine possible gains and losses when making payments in another currency, and maximize multinational business profits. Download Currency Manager Brochure.

Financial Statement Translation

Isolate, evaluate, and eliminate the impact of currency fluctuations on your business operations with Microsoft Solomon Financial Statement Translation. This flexible and integrated module helps you dramatically improve month-end close processes by performing necessary currency translations and automatically calculating gains/losses due to rate fluctuations. Download Financial Statement Translation Brochure.

General Ledger

Capture and analyze the financial information you need to make better business decisions with flexible, integrated capabilities that let you harness your accounting processes to meet the way you do business. Download General Ledger Brochure.

Multiple Company

Monitor, analyze, and report on multiple companies or functional divisions within your organization. Focused and flexible capabilities help you set up multiple companies in one or more databases, run processes, close books, and report results by company or in a consolidated company. Download Multiple Company Brochure.

Payroll and Direct Deposit

Make payroll and benefits administration a smooth, predictable, and timely process with powerful and flexible capabilities that help you to operate faster, smarter, and more profitably. Download Payroll and Direct Deposit Brochure.

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Microsoft Forecaster

Take control of the future of your organization with Microsoft Business Solutions for Analytics–Forecaster. Meet business objectives and gain competitive advantage with budgeting and planning capabilities that allow you to plan more effectively and respond quickly to changing business needs. Download Microsoft Business Solutions for Analytics Forecaster Brochure.

Microsoft FRx Professional

Master your financial reporting process with Microsoft Business Solutions for Analytics–FRx Professional. High-performance capabilities give you comprehensive, highly customizable financial and management reports that are easy to create, distribute, and use. Download Microsoft FRx Professional Brochure.

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Business Portal

Unlock business potential and enhance productivity by providing user-specific access to information and processes from a single Web-based portal. Built on Microsoft .NET technologies, Microsoft Business Solutions Business Portal integrates seamlessly with Microsoft Solomon to deliver applications, information, and processes to employees, customers, and partners across your organization. Download Business Portal Brochure.

Key Performance Indicators

With Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for Microsoft Business Portal, companies can define and help deliver instant access to personalized views of key business information via a Web-based portal. Download Key Performance Indicators Brochure.

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Equipment Maintenance

Track and control every aspect of routine and unscheduled equipment maintenance. Microsoft Solomon Equipment Maintenance automates the work order process, allowing your maintenance department to generate work orders more quickly and accurately, track work orders with user-defined criteria (making time stamps obsolete), perform detailed accounting procedures with ease, and execute all of your maintenance/repair procedures with maximum efficiency. Download Equipment Maintenance Brochure.

Flat Rate Pricing

Take full control over every flat rate in your organization and inspire more customer confidence in your organization. The flat rate pricing process, the standard in more service industries every day, is now easier than ever. With Microsoft Solomon Flat Rate Pricing, you can stop purchasing expensive flat rate books from an outside publisher and enable your technicians to give on-the-spot printed price quotes on specific services from your pricing catalog. Download Flat Rate Pricing Brochure.

Service Contracts

Manage your service agreements more effectively and maximize revenue for every contract with Microsoft Solomon Service Contracts. If your business has service agreements, you know managing them can be difficult. But with proper management, service agreements can be a major source of revenue for service companies. With Service Contracts, before a technician is dispatched to a site, the customer service representative will be alerted to any active contracts that exist. Download Service Contracts Brochure.

Service Dispatch

Track and manage every detail of your service organization with Microsoft Solomon Service Dispatch. Flexible capabilities help you manage field technicians efficiently, clarify information about technicians' profitability, and accurately track customer information, including account status and equipment and service history. Download Service Dispatch Brochure.

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Customization Manager

Adapt your system to the specific requirements of your organization with Microsoft Solomon Customization Manager. Quickly and easily modify any screen in any Microsoft Solomon module without changing the underlying source code, and update screens as often as necessary to match the pace of your business growth. Download Customization Manager Brocuhre.

Tools for Visual Basic

Build complete line-of-business applications with the flexible development foundation of Microsoft Solomon Tools for Visual Basic. By enabling developers to work with familiar and widely used tools, you can minimize the amount of programming effort required to develop applications that communicate with Microsoft Solomon and Microsoft SQL Server 2000. Review the VB Tools Brochure.

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Web Order

Empower your customers and employees with the flexibility and convenience of accessing and acting on key enterprise information anytime via the Web. Microsoft Solomon Web Order gives staff and customers the ability to enter orders over the Internet; check order status any time, day or night; and inquire into current inventory availability and pricing. Download Web Order Brochure.

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Crystal Reports

Modify any existing report or create an unlimited number of custom reports to suit your needs with Crystal Reports Professional, an industry-leading report writer included with Microsoft Solomon System Manager. Crystal Reports provides powerful reporting and query capabilities for both novice and experienced users. Use it to select, analyze, summarize, and present data in almost any way imaginable. Download Crystal Reports Brochure.

Application Server

Application Server allows you to off-load the execution of Microsoft Solomon CPU-intensive tasks—such as the printing of reports and execution of processes—to other machines on your network. This enables you to control where Microsoft Solomon processes execute, whether centralized on the database server, on separate application servers distributed throughout the network, over a WAN, or over the Internet. Download Application Server Brochure.

System Manager and System Integrator

Meet your specialized business requirements with a solution that adapts to the way your business works. Microsoft Solomon System Manager and Shared Information offers flexible control and capabilities to help you import and integrate information and optimize system performance across your organization. Download System Manager and System Integration Brochure.

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For additional information on Microsoft Solomon Products please visit the web site at www.Microsoft.com.

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