Microsoft Announces Q2 2011 Availability of Microsoft Dynamics SL 2011

Microsoft today announced that Microsoft Dynamics SL 2011, its enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution designed for midsize project-driven organizations, will be generally available in the second quarter of 2011 in English in the United States, Canada, the Caribbean and Puerto Rico. Availability of a Spanish version for Latin America will be announced later.

The new solution, which is particularly well-suited for the construction, professional services, government contracting, architecture and engineering fields, features a broad range of new enhancements aimed at supporting increased productivity, business value and insight across an organization.

Microsoft Dynamics SL 2011 delivers a RoleTailored user experience for customers. This significant update features the familiar Microsoft Office look and feel and role-specific dashboards that give people a comprehensive view across their organizations. Other new productivity-enhancing features include Quick Query, which provides more than 50 predesigned search options to help non-technical users find information in Dynamics SL faster, and the ability to Quick Send documents, such as invoices and purchase orders from within Dynamics SL to customers and vendors.

According to Senior Technical Product Manager Jeff Suwyn, Microsoft included several other productivity enhancements into the new release.  "We are adding features in this release that customers have asked for," he said, including features like activity panes to manage tasks in the system, as well as tools to more easily navigate the system like a "History" list to easily return to recent screens and new search capabilities to allow users to type in the first few words of a screen name to narrow down the choices rather than navigating the menus.

Suwyn added that Quick Query provides more than just pre-built searches.  It provides new capabilities like the ability to drill back from a query result into specific SL entities like a document ...