Corporate Profile

Microsoft

Financial Management and Collaboration Solutions Tailored for Government

Microsoft provides technology solutions that help government officials better serve citizens—any time, any place and on any device. As the world’s leading software provider, Microsoft helps agencies leverage investments they’ve already made, allowing them to increase productivity and cost savings.

Our mission: to enable people and governments to reach their full potential and to improve the lives of the citizens we serve.

Microsoft® Dynamics

Agencies at every level of government are being asked to do more with less—and to provide detailed information about how each dollar is spent. Every day, Microsoft Dynamics is being used by local governments to help enhance services and ensure fiscal responsibility.

Our solutions work the way government works, streamlining administration functions such as core financials, fund management, utility billing, tax assessments and collections, payroll, encumbrance management, grant management, and permitting.

The benefits are quantifiable: Microsoft Dynamics uses the easy and familiar Microsoft Office interface which reduces training time. The comprehensive government intelligence and analytics tools provide greater visibility into data, plus the deep integration with other Microsoft software increases data sharing across our organization.

At the Village of Pinehurst, NC, the Finance Department is responsible for preparing financial plans such as budgets, capital improvement plans, and financial projections. With an Enterprise Resource Planning solution provided by Microsoft Dynamics and our partner IDS Scheer, Pinehurst’s Finance Department can now account for every dollar within a single, automated system. Pinehurst has dramatically enhanced its control over financial activities and its ability to report them with detail, accuracy and speed.

“With our old system, we had to constantly pull data from different spreadsheets and put it all together by hand. With Microsoft Great Plains, it’s intuitively easy to use.”
Natalie Dean, Assistant Village Manager

Microsoft® Solutions Sharing Network

Collaboration and innovative networking. These are the bases for Microsoft’s Solution Sharing Network (SSN). Interacting on a web-based portal allows for secure access, provides a forum to share information, and acts as a mechanism for searching, rating, and cataloguing solutions and projects.

Building a Solution Sharing Network is like building a community. It all centers on connecting people and ideas. When applied in government organizations, the community building is endless and the information shared is beyond limitations.

The Illinois Department of Central Management Services (CMS) manages the business of state government: supporting purchasing, information technology, personnel, as well as auditing and legal services. CMS joined Microsoft’s SSN and partner Kanalytics, Inc, to create an online portal that will—for the first time—centrally house all of the state’s core procurement information, leading to greater savings and improved processes.

“Ultimately, our goal is to share information in the hopes of establishing a nationwide procurement site that will help officials negotiate better deals for the State.”
Shelly Martin, CMS Chief Knowledge Officer

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