Microsoft has launched the latest generation of its business software in SA, saying that it signals a new chapter in enterprise resource planning (ERP) user productivity by providing an easy-to-use interface and information tailored to specific roles within a company.
Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 was released locally this week. Jumana Helal, who heads up the Dynamics business at Microsoft SA, says AX 2009 aims to help businesses thrive in a competitive global marketplace by controlling costs, managing risk and increasing employee productivity.
"Our vision of ERP is that it will actually start to prompt its users to take certain actions, instead of merely being a reactive tool that people use to pull weekly reports from," says Helal.
"Employees using traditional ERP systems have had to wade through inefficient, time-intensive steps - enter transactional data, run reports, analyse reports - before they can do their jobs effectively. Through Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009’s Role Centre, employees from the executive suite to the warehouse have access to role-relevant business intelligence to help them make decisions more efficiently."
Adcorp CIO, Kobus Pienaar, says the group has a clear road map for rolling out AX technology to all 15 of its subsidiaries. Adcorp has 1700 full-time employees, and administers 70 000 full and part-time staff for its clients at any given time, paying R2,2bn a year in salaries, and processing 70 000 timesheets and 60 000 payslips per week.
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