Connect Your Local Entities to Headquarters with Microsoft Dynamics for Your Two-Tier ERP Solution

Last Modified 5/4/2010
Posted 4/5/2010

Large organizations find that some headquarter ERP solutions are too complex to adapt to the unique requirements of their smaller, local entities. Microsoft Dynamics ERP provides a viable alternative for these companies to easily customize their solution to meet specific requirements, implement vertical functionality, and to manage change easily and cost-effectively.

Companies using Microsoft Dynamics as their two-tier ERP solution gain transparency and deep insight into their organization's entities helping them manage their business more effectively enabling them to drive business success across the enterprise and enabling their entities to optimize their solutions to meet local needs and adhere to their headquarter requirements.

Use the resources on this page to learn about Microsoft Dynamics as a two-tier ERP solution

Customer Quote

"As the preferred desktop and laptop provider of enterprises across the U.S. and Europe, we needed a proven global business software solution that would help us respond to the changing market with increased speed and agility to meet our customers' requirements. Microsoft Dynamics AX met our ERP global business requirements allowing us to reduce our IT and manufacturing costs and overall total cost of ownership."

- John Biegel, Senior IT Strategist, Dell Corporation

Analysts

• Microsoft Dynamics AX positioned as a leader in Magic Quadrant for Midmarket and Tier-2-oriented ERP for Product-Centric Companies
  Despite mergers and acquisitions, there are many ERP offerings for midmarket companies and firms deploying Tier 2 ERP systems*. This Magic Quadrant evaluates products that have a global presence and are specifically tailored for product-centric midmarket companies with roughly 100 to 1,000 employees.
  *Gartner Inc. "Magic Quadrant for Midmarket and Tier-2 Oriented ERP for Product-Centric Companies" by C. Hestermann, R. Anderson, and C. Pang, June 4, 2009
  
• Microsoft Joins M&A Resurgence in Enterprise Applications Market
  Albert Pang, September 25, 2009
  IDC analyst Albert Pang reviews the Microsoft acquisitions of industry solutions from Fullscope Inc., Computer Generated Solutions Inc., LS Retail EHF and To-Increase Denmark A/S (wholly owned subsidiaries of Columbus IT Partner A/S) across manufacturing, professional services and retail industries. Pang states, "In addition to strengthening vertical industry expertise, the Microsoft buying spree is designed to help customers run their quasi-independent subsidiaries or divisions of large companies more effectively by creating a two-tier ERP structure."
  

"The Microsoft Dynamics ERP product lines, especially the highly scalable Microsoft Dynamics AX, have become the de facto ERP standard within certain subsidiaries and business units of large entities such as Boeing, Ingersoll Rand and Sara Lee, even though the headquarters may be using a different system."