Microsoft leads Cloud ERP for product-centric enterprises

Again, Gartner recognized Microsoft as a market leader in their 2023 Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud ERP for product-centric enterprises. This recognition is based on a thorough evaluation of Microsoft, assessing specific criteria to analyze its overall vision and execution capabilities. It marks the third consecutive year that Microsoft has been recognized as a leader.

Agile ERP system for modern business operations

Microsoft’s business model has undergone a fundamental transformation. New business models are disrupting how companies deliver their products and services, blurring traditional industry boundaries and transforming the customer experience. Enterprise Resource and Planning (ERP) systems must evolve from simple transactional platforms to intelligent systems that provide users with proactive recommendations to drive growth.

Microsoft Dynamics 365 has helped thousands of organizations optimize their financial processes and supply chains by integrating artificial intelligence into various ERP processes. With the addition of Dynamics 365 Copilot to their ERP portfolio, Microsoft is now empowering every individual within an organization to be more productive, collaborate better, and achieve outstanding results.

For example, Copilot allows organizations to increase the productivity of procurement professionals and debt collectors. Procurement professionals can effectively deal with changes in purchase orders at scale and assess the impact of these changes on production and distribution before making critical decisions. Copilot enables rapid collaboration with both internal and external stakeholders by bringing together relevant information in Outlook and Microsoft Teams and communicating in natural language to meet the needs of customers and partners.

Managers with access to credit and payment history can prioritize and personalize their communications with customers, increasing successful collections while maintaining their good reputation. With Copilot, project managers can create new project plans for new assignments, automate status reports, identify risks, and continuously propose risk management plans in minutes, resulting in significant time savings and preventing project delays and budget overruns.

Microsoft remains committed to revolutionizing the future of ERP systems by leveraging intelligent, adaptable technologies. Dynamics 365’s ERP portfolio, powered by generative AI, accelerates insightful information, intelligently automates processes, and boosts productivity, helping organizations stay competitive in an increasingly complex business environment.

Cloud-native ERP systems on a composable platform

One of Dynamics 365’s strengths is its extensibility. Microsoft’s ERP portfolio is built on a customizable platform. It can be expanded using the Microsoft Power Platform, including low-code tools like Microsoft Power Apps and Microsoft Power Automate.

Where ERP customizations used to be complicated and time-consuming, these tools now allow companies to customize their solutions and develop modern apps with an easy-to-use experience to meet their industry’s and end users’ specific needs. In addition, businesses and users can take advantage of out-of-the-box customizations and industry-specific solutions from Microsoft’s ISV partner network, further accelerating development.

Focus on the future today with Microsoft

Overall, using Dynamics 365 offers significant benefits to organizations, such as seamless integration, improved productivity, real-time analytics, and intelligent decision-making. Microsoft remains committed to helping customers take advantage of AI technology in every industry.

For organizations that still rely on on-premises applications, competing with competitors embracing these AI-based technologies in the cloud is becoming increasingly difficult. It is imperative that companies now migrate their critical business processes to the cloud. That’s why Microsoft introduced AIM (Accelerate, Innovate, Move). AIM provides organizations with a tailored path to move their critical processes to the cloud confidently. It includes qualified customer support, access to migration advice, expert reviews, investment opportunities, tools, and migration support.

Read more about the Magic Quadrant and the capabilities of generative AI in Dynamics 365 ERP systems on Microsoft’s website: Microsoft is recognized as a Leader in the 2023 Gartner Magic® Quadrant™ for Cloud ERP for Product-Centric Enterprises – Microsoft Dynamics 365 Blog.