Progent's Application Experts

Progent has over two decades of experience providing consulting, integration and development expertise for business software from Microsoft and other major publishers. Areas supported by these platforms include financials, enterprise resource planning (ERP), manufacturing resource planning (MRP), project accounting, supply chain management, human resources, sales, marketing, shipping, retail, and distribution. Some of these products have a long history during which they have been extensively retooled and periodically rebranded. Progent can help you maintain legacy versions of popular business applications or upgrade efficiently to modern releases. Progent supports on-premises, cloud hosted, and hybrid environments and can help you integrate a deployment model best suited to your business.

Progent offers fast online or onsite access to experts who can provide support for:

• Microsoft Dynamics NAV/Dynamics 365 Business Central (formerly Dynamics Navision)
• Microsoft Dynamics AX/Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain (formerly Dynamics Axapta)
• Dynamics 365 Commerce (formerly Dynamics 365 Retail and Dynamics RMS)
• Microsoft Dynamics SL ERP Software (formerly Microsoft Solomon)
• Macola ERP
• Sage MAS 90 and MAS 200 ERP
• QuickBooks by Intuit
• Infor CloudSuite Industrial/SyteLine ERP

Microsoft Dynamics and D365 products include applications and services for retailers, manufacturers, wholesale distributors, and service companies doing business in the U.S. or in multiple countries. These mature solutions enable employees in every vital position in your company to contribute to the success of your business. Applications within the Microsoft Dynamics and D365 families can improve the efficiency of all lines of business in your company and deliver exceptional benefits in the critical areas of ERP, MRP, financial management, customer relationship management (CRM), and supply chain management.

Dynamics 365 Business Central, previously branded Microsoft Dynamics NAV and Navision, is an enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform powered by SQL Server and enhanced by tight integration with familiar Microsoft products including Word, Excel, Exchange, Power BI, Teams, Microsoft AI tools, and Azure Active Directory. The on-premises version of D365 Business Central can be run locally and the SaaS version can be run from the Azure cloud or deployed in a hybrid cloud/on-premises model.

The original Navision product was released in the 1980s as a multi-user, international enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. Progent's experts have worked with the Navision product line for decades and can help you manage legacy deployments or migrate efficiently to the latest on-premises, cloud-based, or hybrid solutions. Progent's developers offer Microsoft SQL Server consulting and Power BI reporting expertise to help you utilize Dynamics 365 Business Central/Dynamics NAV to create applications and reports that make it easier for your employees to access, extract, and analyze business data and information in a secure environment to improve business decisions. Progent's consultants can also help you incorporate the Excel add-in to view data and create transactions, and Progent can show you how to work with Visual Studio Code to develop specialized applications for D365 Business Central/Dynamics NAV. In addition, Progent can help you build and analyze data warehouses of any size so you can improve your understanding of your business, attract more customers, expand your marketing strategies, and form successful partnerships.

Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management (previously branded D365 for Finance and Operations, Microsoft Dynamics AX, and Microsoft Axapta) is an enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform that helps enterprises standardize processes across multiple locations and countries, manage product launches and mergers, track performance, and comply with local and international regulatory requirements. Dynamics AX provides a strong foundation for ERP solutions in manufacturing, distribution, retail, financial services, and the public sector.

Microsoft Dynamics AX looks and works similar to Microsoft Office. This familiar interface makes it simple to learn and operate. You can define links to favorite forms and applications for each user and provide easy access to them from individual screens. Comprehensive features help automate and streamline financial, customer relationship, business services, human resources management, and supply chain processes.

Progent's developers can show you how to use the MorphX development environment for Microsoft Dynamics AX to design, edit, and compile custom capabilities within a single screen. Progent can also help develop applications that operate both with web and Windows clients, which can dramatically cut development and support costs. Progent's consultants can also ensure tight integration and seamless connectivity between custom Microsoft Dynamics AX applications and products such as Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office programs including Word and Excel, and Microsoft SQL Server. Additionally, Progent can help you connect your Microsoft Dynamics AX applications with external data sources by using Web services such as Microsoft BizTalk Server, Component Object Model (COM) integration, Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ), Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), Microsoft .NET Framework, stored procedures, XBRL, and XML.

Progent's experts are familiar with the three-tier, object-oriented architecture of Microsoft Dynamics AX that integrates seamlessly with other Microsoft technologies and allows the creation of fast server-side applications that can scale as you grow. Because Microsoft Dynamics AX uses standard adapters based on SQL Server Reporting Services and the Microsoft Visual Studio .NET development system, Progent's developers can take advantage of these adapters to enable you to access a wide variety of industry-standard integration protocols to connect to the various management solutions of your business partners.

Dynamics 365 Commerce is based on Microsoft Dynamics Retail Management System (RMS) and is a rebranded version of Dynamics 365 Retail. The cloud-based platform offers small and mid-market sellers a unified retail solution that merges in-store and online sales, call center, plus back-office operations. The package provides centralized control for multi-store retailers and integrates with Microsoft Office applications and Power BI analytics. Microsoft's legacy Dynamics RMS system has been discontinued and superseded by Microsoft Dynamics 365 Commerce.

Dynamics 365 Commerce unifies inventory, purchasing management, transaction processing, marketing, order management, warehousing, and financials. Integration with Microsoft's Power Platform enables advanced business analytics and workflow orchestration. Cutting-edge AI technology supports personalization, fraud protection, and search. The platform allows cloud, edge, and hybrid deployment to accommodate virtually any deployment model. Integrated web tools allow your business to build smart virtual stores that you can manage seamlessly with your brick-and-mortar outlets. Integration with Microsoft D365 Marketing centralizes visibility and control over assets, marketing promotions, inventory, and pricing across all sales channels. You can offer give customers the ability to buy in store, pick up at designated locations, or get receive at-home delivery, and you can deploy ordering and fulfillment tools optimized for each scenario. Smart product and inventory search tools allow you to support consistent point-of-sale (POS) experiences on Windows computers, mobile devices, or web browsers. Integrated web development tools allow you to create compelling online catalogs and manage content, promotions, inventory, and pricing across all physical and virtual sales channels.

Progent's certified Azure integration experts can help you plan and configure a network infrastructure that combines cloud-based and physical IT resources to create a cohesive Dynamics 365 Commerce solution. Progent's certified cybersecurity experts can help you understand and deploy Microsoft's AI-powered Dynamics 365 Fraud Protection tools to defend against payment fraud and other e-commerce abuses including account takeover, abuse of free trials, phony product reviews, and fraud concerning product warranties, refunds, and fake resellers.

Microsoft Dynamics SL
Microsoft Dynamics SL, formerly Solomon Software, is a business management solution that combines accounting and project management features to help midsize organizations generate financials and business analytics, while helping increase efficiency, accuracy, and customer satisfaction. By enabling you to automate and streamline projects across company divisions and locations, Microsoft Dynamics SL helps you manage people, projects, and profitability. Microsoft Dynamics SL solutions for professional services, operations, field services, and construction management help you estimate projects correctly, complete them on time, and meet your customer's requirements.

Microsoft Dynamics SL extends the reach of business information with Microsoft SQL Server business intelligence technology to improve collaboration, reporting, and analysis. Easier integration and extensibility of information has also been enabled by the technology upgrade to Microsoft Visual Studio. Many other new features have been added to increase the efficiency, flexibility, and security of everyday business operations. Microsoft Dynamics SL consists of modules that integrate smoothly with one another. Each module delivers a different feature or application that is an essential component of the comprehensive business solution. Popular business functions supported by Microsoft Dynamics SL modules include customer relationship management, field service management, financial management, human resources management, manufacturing, project accounting, and supply chain management

Progent's ERP and eCommerce software development experts can utilize the versatile development platform of Microsoft Dynamics SL Tools for Visual Basic to build complete line-of-business applications that communicate with Microsoft Dynamics SL and Microsoft SQL Server. Progent's developers can create applications that access Microsoft SQL Server-based applications. Microsoft SQL Server database APIs to provide functions such as forward and backward record navigation, field validation, field value lookup, common event logging, multi-user contention, and automated transaction rollback. Progent can also show you how to customize and extend your applications using Microsoft Dynamics SL Customization Manager. In addition, Progent's SQL Server experts can show you how to maintain SQL table data, generate new SQL tables, place Visual Basic controls on Visual Basic forms with application properties already set, and add new reports from Crystal Reports, and design dictionary utilities to support the development process.

Macola ERP
Macola ERP is an enterprise resource planning solution designed for the mid-market with native Business Process Management (BPM) capabilities, including powerful exception management tools. Macola ERP includes modules that manage accounting, distribution and manufacturing activities as well as workflow, document management, human resources management, customer relationship management and project management. Progent's Macola experts can help you maintain your current Macola environment, migrate to other ERP products, or and provide you with integration services to expand the functionality of your Macola solution.

Sage MAS 90 ERP
Sage MAS 90 and 200 ERP offer a broad selection of feature-rich solutions including core accounting, business intelligence tools, customer relationship management, e-commerce, HR and payroll, manufacturing, and distribution. Progent's ERP experts can help you support and customize your Sage ERP MAS 90 or ERP MAS 200 application and can help you optimize you infrastructure to optimize the security, reliability, performance, and accessibility of your ERP system.

QuickBooks by Intuit
Intuit's QuickBooks product family dominates the market for small business accounting software and its various editions offer solutions for most business sectors. The latest enhancements to QuickBooks Pro include more powerful searching capabilities, batch invoicing, and streamlined collection functions. QuickBooks Premier adds advanced management reporting, and QuickBooks Enterprise offers sophisticated inventory features, improved security, and support for up to 30 concurrent users. Progent can help you integrate QuickBooks with your Microsoft applications, integrate mobile and off-site users, and provide custom online webinar training for individuals or groups to help you get up to speed fast on the latest capabilities of QuickBooks. Progent can also help you migrate from QuickBooks to more powerful management information solutions as your needs grow.

Infor CloudSuite Industrial/SyteLine ERP
Infor CloudSuite Industrial, previously known as SyteLine, is an enterprise-class ERP solution built on the Microsoft .NET framework that embodies more than a quarter century of background assisting manufacturing and service organizations to manage supply chains and improve the efficiency of critical processes to get products to market quickly and adhere to customer schedules consistently. Progent offers the skills of an ERP consultant with over 20 years of background working with the SyteLine/CloudSuite Industrial product family. Progent offers online or on-premises services that spans from as-needed guidance to solution planning and project management. Find out more about Progent's Infor CloudSuite Industrial/SyteLine ERP consulting services.

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