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How IT can help businesses surviveeven
thrivein a down economy
What began as
seemingly isolated showers in business
markets has evolved to an economic storm
that some experts predict will bring on a
lengthy recession. In response, businesses
worldwide are tightening budgets, cutting
costs, and changing direction to weather the
storm.
But where should you
cut, and where should you invest to safely
pilot your company through these tumultuous
economic waters?
Don't
short change strategic IT investments
The crisis is
creating new challenges for corporate
officers and other business decision makers.
The kneejerk reaction to cut spending across
the board, however, can be
counter-productive when it comes to reducing
risks during economic slumps. Instead,
strategic investments in specific areas can
actually cut costs as they improve
operational efficiencies, personal
performance, and customer service.
In fact, according
to a recent McGraw-Hill study, companies
that continue strategic spending not only
outperformed non-spenders during a
recession, but also experienced revenue
growth of 275% during the first full year of
recovery.
Evaluate
ERP and CRM solutions
Business information
technologies are a perfect example of IT
investments that you can turn to for
resilience during economic hard times. With
careful selection and experienced
implementation, solutions for enterprise
resource planning (ERP) and customer
relationship management (CRM) can help a
company move ahead in economic hard times
by:
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Controlling
costs and reducing expenses |
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Improving
efficiency and performance |
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Strengthening customer service,
value, and loyalty |
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Monitoring
key performance indicators (KPIs)
to stay both on course and agile |
Here are several examples of how ERP and
CRM business solutions such as Microsoft
Dynamics can help you meet these goals:
Enterprise resource planning (ERP):
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Maintain
tight control of your finances
and manage them with a high
level of efficiency and
accuracy. |
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Make
complete, up-to-the-minute
financial information and
reports easily accessible to
anybody who needs them to
perform business planning and
achieve regulatory compliance. |
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Simplify
and automate routine and
repetitious functions, so your
employees can focus on more
critical tasks to drive your
business forward. |
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Increase
efficiencies in distribution to
improve customer satisfaction
and reduce the cost of doing
business. |
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Offer
sophisticated communicative,
collaborative, and self-service
capabilities to make it easy and
compelling for other companies
to do business with you. |
Customer relationship management (CRM):
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Maintain
close contact with your
customers and prospects to
strengthen satisfaction and
loyalty during downturns. |
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Retain and
win more customers and
marketshare even during
difficult economic times. |
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Centralize
customer information for easy,
reliable access to maximize your
people's time. |
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Help your
people recognize individual
customer preferences and overall
trends to seize more sales
opportunities. |
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Provide
automated and self-service
options to customers to reduce
costs and increase response
times. |
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Identify
your best customers so you can
target efforts to them. |
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Discover
emerging customer needs and
respond to them before the
competitors do. |
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Better
manage sales and marketing
initiatives and track their
results to optimize marketing
spending. |
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Automate
and streamline workflows to
increase agent productivity and
efficiency. |
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Improve
efficiency of field services
with online tools. |
Why choose
Microsoft Dynamics for ERP and CRM?
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It's
familiar to your people. It
looks the same and works the
same as other Microsoft products
including Microsoft Office, so
it's familiar to many people,
ensuring faster adoption,
reducing training time, and
accelerating ROI. |
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Its role
tailored user experience
enables your people to easily
perform tasks and access
information relevant to them. |
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It
offers workflows to
eliminate manual, inefficient
processes. |
Take advantage of low-cost financing to
stretch your budget
You
can lower the upfront costs of IT
investments and other long-term business
assets by taking advantage of low-cost
financing on purchase and licensing.
To
help companies preserve capital
resources while making important
strategic investments during the current
economic recession, Microsoft is
offering zero percent financing on new
purchases of Microsoft Dynamics
solutions for ERP and CRM.
"Microsoft Dynamics ERP and CRM
solutions are business assets that pay
off in the near term and over the long
haul by helping companies drive
productivity, maximize efficiency, and
adapt and grow their business in today's
fast-changing market," says Kirill
Tatarinov, corporate vice president of
Microsoft Business Solutions.
Leverage
service plans and partner expertise
A
faltering economy also calls for
optimizing your company's IT
functionality and use. But how do you
improve infrastructure, usage,
processes, and maintenance with
tighter-than-ever budgets? Now is the
time to build stronger relationships
with your technology providers and take
full advantage of the services and
expertise they have to offer.
Whether you are looking to invest in new
ERP or CRM solutions, or you already
have ERP and/or CRM systems in place,
make sure you're aware of services
available to you. If your company is
already using Microsoft Dynamics,
encourage employees to use
CustomerSource often and discuss your
current service plan with us to ensure
your people are optimizing your
Microsoft Dynamics solution.
You
can also talk to us about any advantages
you might gain by upgrading to a newer
release, purchasing additional user or
site licenses to address new business
requirements, or expanding the product's
footprint and/or replacing applications.
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