APPLICATION PACKAGES: Business Productivity Suite

Software Magazine, August, 2001

Microsoft Great Plains Business Solutions releases Microsoft Great Plains Solomon IV 4.50, a suite of business management and e-business applications for mid-market companies. Applications include integrated financials, supply chain management, project management, and field service management.

Project management enhancements to Solomon IV Release 4.50 provide project managers in the construction, engineering, and other service-related fields with the ability to track project detail. New project management modules enhance review and approval of time sheets and expenses as well as detailed analysis of employee utilization. This offers customers an improved interface between projects and chargeable-time employees, all via the Internet. With the addition of the Solomon IV advanced payroll module, general and specialty contractors with union payroll needs also will be able to utilize Solomon IV for project management.

The Solomon supply chain management series sees the addition of two new modules, bill of materials and work order, combined with the enhancements to Solomon IV's order management, inventory, and purchasing modules.

New to the Field Service Management module is a graphical dispatch board that allows organizations with mobile field technicians to dispatch technicians through a GUI, with access to each technician's job schedule and location.

Pricing for starts at $4,500 for a single-user edition.