Microsoft Dynamics SL is one of the ERP products in the Dynamics family.
This product was acquired from Solomon 2000.
The product is typically used by SMBs, particularly in project-based businesses (e.g. construction). It has strong accounting and project management capabilities.
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Microsoft Dynamics SL
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Microsoft Dynamics SL
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Microsoft Dynamics SL
Payroll Management
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Microsoft Dynamics SL
8.5
Ratings
17% above category average
Pay calculation
9.60 Ratings
Direct deposit files
9.00 Ratings
Customization
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Microsoft Dynamics SL
6.0
Ratings
23% below category average
API for custom integration
6.00 Ratings
Plug-ins
6.00 Ratings
Security
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Microsoft Dynamics SL
7.3
Ratings
11% below category average
Single sign-on capability
7.40 Ratings
Role-based user permissions
7.30 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
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Microsoft Dynamics SL
6.8
Ratings
6% below category average
Dashboards
7.10 Ratings
Standard reports
7.10 Ratings
Custom reports
6.10 Ratings
General Ledger and Configurable Accounting
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Microsoft Dynamics SL
7.4
Ratings
4% below category average
Accounts payable
7.60 Ratings
Accounts receivable
6.00 Ratings
Global Financial Support
6.00 Ratings
Primary and Secondary Ledgers
6.60 Ratings
Journals and Reconciliations
7.40 Ratings
Configurable Accounting
7.00 Ratings
Standardized Processes
7.30 Ratings
Inventory Management
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Microsoft Dynamics SL
4.3
Ratings
59% below category average
Inventory tracking
6.00 Ratings
Location management
1.00 Ratings
Order Management
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Microsoft Dynamics SL
6.7
Ratings
16% below category average
Pricing
6.00 Ratings
Order entry
6.00 Ratings
Credit card processing
7.00 Ratings
Cost of goods sold
7.00 Ratings
Subledger and Financial Process
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Microsoft Dynamics SL
5.8
Ratings
25% below category average
Billing Management
6.00 Ratings
Cash and Asset Management
7.30 Ratings
Travel & Expense Management
5.00 Ratings
Budgetary Control & Encumbrance Accounting
6.30 Ratings
Period Close
7.40 Ratings
Project Financial Management
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Microsoft Dynamics SL
4.7
Ratings
47% below category average
Budgeting and Forecasting
7.30 Ratings
Project Costing
6.30 Ratings
Cost Capture
2.10 Ratings
Capital Project Management
8.00 Ratings
Project Revenue Recognition
2.00 Ratings
Grants Management
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Microsoft Dynamics SL
6.3
Ratings
17% below category average
Award Lifecycle Management
6.00 Ratings
Manufacturing
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Microsoft Dynamics SL
6.0
Ratings
21% below category average
Production Management
6.00 Ratings
Supply Chain
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In the service series, there is a weakness in applying revenue recognition concepts which are a strong point of the project series. It is difficult to get a period sensitive WIP that could be recreated at any time for a point in time (fiscal period).
Ability to add companies, and sub-accounts on the fly allows for the growth of the system without conversions, and flexible reporting allows for the quick utilization of the data.
Multi-Company allows for easy and automated data entry and reporting across multiple legal entities and business segments.
Multi-Company also allows for easy centralization of business processes (AP check writing and Fixed Assets for example), while spreading data entry across the enterprise.
Ability to Copy/Paste into Dynamics SL has always been a strength- especially from Excel. The additional power of being able to use Excel for a myriad of calculations, including complex allocations, and formatting the result into a JE to paste directly into the Journal Entry Screen has saved countless hours in data-entry, and made re-use of complex items very easy.
When we have a lot of invoices rather than just a few large invoices, we can be frustrated by how long it takes Flexible Billings to generate a lot of invoices
It would be nice if Dynamics SL had an easy integration to some of the nicer salestax tools such as Avalara and CCH.
It would be nice if the fixed assets module and electronic banking were not third party.
Unfortunately, Dynamics' lack of ability to smoothly integrate with our CRM system is causing us to look at other solutions. The efficiencies that we gain by using Dynamics for our day to day accounting are lost in the constant headaches of getting sales quotes to import properly into the system for invoicing. Another major issue for us has been budgeting and reporting. We currently do all of our budgeting and board reporting in Excel, which is too time consuming and inefficient, especially when a system as robust as Dynamics should easily be able to handle this relatively simple task.
SL itself is relatively easy to use and most of the Help Files documentation is well kept and outstanding in the amount of information that is given. Most end users pick up the functions quickly and are off and running after some limited training. There will always be questions and research to be done, but overall SL is relatively easy to follow for a seasoned user
We have had only one unplanned outage for 2 hours in the last 30 months. We shut down for 30 min to 1 hour once a month, but that is for Microsoft OS updates to the servers. Being a 24/7 world wide operation, the reliability is really important. We do get an 8 hour window on the weekend that we can be down for a short period to install Microsoft Dynamics SL updates, but we do not have many of those. On our last version upgrade, we shut the users out at 9:30 am and were fully operational in less than 6 hours. The upgrade was New SQL server, New SL server and 2 new Citrix servers.
Many times support will tell you that your issue is an identified bug and will be scheduled in the future to be fixed in a future release. The knowledgebase has gotten worse in recent years and much more difficult to use. many times you can't find the error during the search
Just to let it take its course. The implementation for me once I became a part of my former organization was pretty seamless. Just get to know the basics and call the support team to ask questions if you need help on an issue, should they arise. They are ready, willing, and able to help!
We started with QuickBooks Enterprise when our company was young. We quickly outgrew this program as it was not able to accommodate the financial reporting we needed to satisfy our investors. QuickBooks was also very limited in managing our revenue as we grew. We did try Great Plains and Peachtree (now Sage 50) and we discovered that they were rather complicated for our users. They were not as easy to maneuver and manipulate as SL and we felt that SL was much more "user friendly" and simplified, but still able to produce the same results.
