Transform and accelerate business. Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations is a complete business management solution for large organisations.

Finance and Operations App overview

  

Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations capabilities

Modern platform

• Identify issues proactively and streamline business processes with real-time analysis of system performance and usage, advanced telemetry and diagnostics.


• Utilise all business logic any time, any place, on any device, through a clean, modern and intuitive browser-based UI that is a pleasure to use and easy to learn.


• Avoid cost and risk, and minimise deployment time, by modelling and testing the system in the Azure-based Lifecycle Services portal providing end-to-end application management.

Connected operations

• Support processes across the supply chain by combining best-fit manufacturing processes into a unified solution.


• Accelerate delivery of finished products with advanced warehouse and logistics management.


• Take advantage of real-time and predictive analytics to identify issues and improve production processes.

Streamlined processes

• Minimise costs by synchronising logistics across sites, warehouses, and transportation modes.


• Automate procure-to-pay and order-to-cash to streamline processes from purchasing to delivery.


• Reduce operational costs across business geographies with financial process automation, encumbrance, budget planning, budget control, and three-way matching.

Adaptable platform

• Adapt the application to changing needs with no-code visual editors and flexible tools for building web and mobile apps.


• Reduce the cost and complexity of operating a global infrastructure with the trusted Microsoft cloud platform providing state-of-the-art security and compliance.


• Benefit from enterprise grade Service Level Agreements, round-the-clock tech support and built-in disaster recovery to protect data and workloads without the additional costs of a data centre.

Finance and Operations deployment options

• Focus on business—rather than on learning new applications—with a solution that looks and feels like a familiar Microsoft user experience.


• Work effectively with an intuitive, RoleTailored user interface and Role Centers that help employees organize, prioritize, and access tasks and information.


• Expand decision-making with business intelligence and reporting tools that help people analyze data through dashboard KPIs, Microsoft® Office Excel®, Business Analytics in Microsoft Dynamics AX, and Microsoft Office PerformancePoint^TM Server.


• Build strong connections with employees, customers, and partners using integrated, unified communication and collaboration tools.

• Grow with confidence with a service-oriented architecture, tight integration with Microsoft technologies, and Web services that enable you to easily add users, support new business models, and scale your solution for large, distributed enterprises.


• Automate supply chain collaboration and document exchange with Microsoft BizTalk® Server and the Microsoft Office system.


• Build and quickly modify ad-hoc work streams to adapt quickly to changing industry and customer demands.


• Meet highly specialized needs with Microsoft Dynamics AX industry solutions or key industry and partner add-ons.


• Choose the solution package you need today, and then add capabilities as your business grows by taking advantage of current investments in Microsoft technology and services.


• Help simplify deployments with Microsoft Dynamics Sure Step, a standardized, global implementation methodology and suite of tools.

• Expand easily across borders with country-specific functionality, including capabilities for multiple languages and currencies. Help support compliance with local financial requirements for more than 36 countries.


• Unify standards and help ensure quality by centralizing processes, sharing best practices, and extending supply chain management across multiple sites and divisions.


• Manage and monitor performance across your organization with sophisticated reporting and analysis tools.


• Combine your solution with Microsoft Business Intelligence applications to enhance the analytic capabilities critical to managing a complex business environment.


• Give people access to real-time key performance indicators (KPIs), scorecards, and data through Enterprise Portal in Microsoft Dynamics AX.


• Enable key decision-makers to work with critical information using PerformancePoint Server or Microsoft Office SharePoint® Server without logging into Microsoft Dynamics AX.

• Save time and effort with workflows that enforce and enhance controls based on specific risk and compliance scenarios.


• Help ensure consistency with standardized, repeatable processes that can reliably aggregate compliance data and monitor internal changes.


• Support customer initiatives—including “green” and RFID supply chain strategies—with capabilities that reduce manufacturing waste and promote environmental sustainability.


• Centralize and share corporate governance and compliance activities through the Compliance Center, a built-in tool for managing policies, process documents, audit trails, reports, and key risk indicators.


• Reduce the cost and uncertainty of protecting corporate compliance data by taking advantage of the powerful security features built into Microsoft Dynamics AX and other Microsoft products in your IT infrastructure.