Microsoft Dynamics™ SL (formerly Solomon software) is designed to help project-driven organizations automate their transactions while empowering their people to work more effectively together to fuel business productivity.  With a familiar user experience that works like and with other Microsoft technology, project-, service-, and distribution-driven organizations can quickly and easily take advantage of Microsoft Dynamics SL’s integrated, adaptable functionality that includes reporting and analysis, financial management, payroll, project management and project accounting, distribution management, field service, and comprehensive customization tools.

Enable your users to easily retrieve the comprehensive business information they need, the way they need it by natively supporting e-business functionality that securely extends critical information to any user, anywhere, anytime.

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 that they are made only once.

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.

Bank Reconciliation
Make reconciliation of your bank accounts easier and faster by automating your bank reconciliation process.

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

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 Dynamics SL to track exchange rate fluctuations, determine possible gains and losses when making payments in another currency, and maximize multi-national business profits.

Gain insight with improved business analysis with accurate forecasting and real-time status reports for individual projects or customers.

Crystal Reports
Modify any existing report or create an unlimited number of custom reports to suit your needs with Crystal Reports Professional 8.5, the industry-leading report writer included with Microsoft Dynamics SL 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.

Landed Cost
Capture actual shipping, handling, and import fees (landed costs) and easily roll them into the total cost of goods. With Microsoft Dynamics SL 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.

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

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 Dynamics SL 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.

Requisitions
The Requisition module in Microsoft Dynamics SL provides the flexibility to address your company’s procurement needs – from the relatively simple to the complex.

Bring together both accounting and project information into one seamless system that supports accurate budgeting and cost forecasting, time and expense entry, complex allocations, unlimited billing formats, change order control, contract administration, local and Web-based project analysis, employee utilization/realization and proactive alerts, and workflow.

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.

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.

Project 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 make even low-margin projects profitable.

eCommerce Gateway
Take advantage of the benefits of conducting business electronically to solidify your position in the value chain. eCommerce Gateway–EDI Edition works with Microsoft Dynamics SL Order Management to help integrate and automate business transactions with customers, vendors, and remote warehouses.

Tools for Visual Basic
Build complete line-of-business applications with the flexible development foundation of Microsoft Dynamics SL 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 Dynamics SL and Microsoft SQL Server 2000.

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 Dynamics SL Work Order helps plan and track product item costs and keep general ledger accounts and inventory quantities seamlessly integrated and in balance.

Bill of Materials
Define, analyze, and manage your company’s products with Microsoft Dynamics SL 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.

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 Dynamics SL Flat Rate Pricing, you can enable your technicians to give on-the-spot printed price quotes on specific services from your pricing catalog.