Whether you’re exploring your options for new business platforms, or ready to get started, we are trusted business partners for some of the world’s most well-known brands. With over 25 years of experience with the Microsoft stack, we can help you understand all the capabilities Microsoft has to offer.
Our focus is on your actual go live, not selling software.
Culturally, getting customers live is at the center of everything that we do and talk about. Our focus is on great implementations.
Completing more than 220 successful go lives is a fantastic accomplishment.
We’ve spent many years translating these experiences into intellectual property called Sunrise 365 Quick Start that accelerates the implementation and increases quality. It’s a combination of software, templates, and project management tools that adds a lot of value for clients and it’s something you really can’t find anywhere else.
The tool and the quantitative dashboards help project teams stay on track and give executives the insights they need to keep projects on time and on budget.
Learn more about how we ensure successful Dynamics 365 deployments.
Whether you’re exploring your options for new business platforms, or ready to get started, we are trusted business partners for some of the world’s most well-known brands. With over 25 years of experience with the Microsoft stack, we can help you understand all the capabilities Microsoft has to offer.
We exist to implement great ideas. We invite you to learn more about why we are a great fit to partner with your organization and watch more videos from our founder and President, John Pence. Also, be sure to explore how to have a successful Dynamics 365 implementation with our exclusive Quick Start methodology and cloud-based project management tool.
Whether you’re exploring your options for new business platforms, or ready to get started, we are trusted business partners for some of the world’s most well-known brands. With over 25 years of experience with the Microsoft stack, we can help you understand all the capabilities Microsoft has to offer.
We partnered with Microsoft to solve your business problems.
We partnered with Microsoft in 2004 when they first entered the ERP space, with the acquisition of Axapta.
Microsoft brought a unique combination of tools that had the ability to completely solve our clients’ business problems. From ERP to CRM, to all the day-to-day infrastructure, Microsoft really allowed us to bring a deep domain expertise of implementing complex business processes, with a huge and powerful platform, at the lowest cost possible.
Learn more about getting a tremendous value by partnering with Sunrise.
Whether you’re exploring your options for new business platforms, or ready to get started, we are trusted business partners for some of the world’s most well-known brands. With over 25 years of experience with the Microsoft stack, we can help you understand all the capabilities Microsoft has to offer.
Successful CFOs monitor financials in real time, with big-picture and detailed accuracy
Whether you’re exploring your options for new business platforms, or ready to get started, we are trusted business partners for some of the world’s most well-known brands. With over 25 years of experience with the Microsoft stack, we can help you understand all the capabilities Microsoft has to offer.
Picking the right implementation partner can be make or break for a project. Here are four things to ask yourself as you go through the selection process.
While digital transformation may be the buzzword du jour, the benefits an organization can realize by implementing a holistic, cloud-based solution are very real. And with the rapid advancement of cloud business applications, it’s easy to imagine that implementing a new solution may be as easy as downloading an app and tweaking a few settings. However, for most businesses, it’s a littlllllle bit more complicated than that. For example, the Enterprise edition of Dynamics 365 is based and built on Dynamics AX and Dynamics CRM — both Tier 1 solutions. While the cloud allows for more frequent updates, more flexible licensing, the ability to drill down on actionable intelligence, and many other perks, implementations are still complex projects.
That’s why now, maybe more than ever before, it is so important to pick the right partner for your solution, industry, and vision. With over 20 years of experience being in the partner selection hot seat, we’ve noticed that organizations that ultimately end up having a successful implementation generally ask some of the same questions. Here are four of the top questions we’re asked by a client who is serious about transforming their business:
Digital transformation – despite its buzzword status – is a game changer that isn’t going away anytime soon. And like any game changing advancement, there will be some organizations that take on the challenge and succeed and others who fail. Picking the right partner who has a deep understanding of the solution, your industry, and your vision for what you want to become all tip the scales in your favor to end up in the “Success” column.
Whether you’re exploring your options for new business platforms, or ready to get started, we are trusted business partners for some of the world’s most well-known brands. With over 25 years of experience with the Microsoft stack, we can help you understand all the capabilities Microsoft has to offer.
Whether you’re exploring your options for new business platforms, or ready to get started, we are trusted business partners for some of the world’s most well-known brands. With over 25 years of experience with the Microsoft stack, we can help you understand all the capabilities Microsoft has to offer.
Dynamics 365 is the game changer you’ve been waiting for
When we saw Sunrise founder, John Pence, quoted on a Microsoft blog post aimed at getting partners excited about Dynamics 365, we were inspired to share why we were excited for folks in apparel, footwear, home furnishings, consumer goods, retail, manufacturing, and distribution to see what was new in Dynamics 365.
First, it’s worth pointing out that if you hitched your wagon to Microsoft Dynamics AX and wonder what happened to it and why it’s now called Dynamics 365 – you’re not alone. The good news is there isn’t anything to worry about! The product you love hasn’t gone anywhere. In fact, it is the foundation behind the next generation of cloud business apps. You can read more about that transition here.
Now, on to the eight reasons you should be excited about Microsoft’s game-changing intelligent cloud platform.
“The powerful ability to combine the business process data from Dynamics 365 with Power BI, PowerApps, Flow, and Office 365 and deliver a creative solution that really delights the customer gets us all very excited. That’s what it is all about, creating something new that is truly better than anything our customers have ever experienced before!”
– John Pence, President and Founder of Sunrise Technologies, Inc.
1) Seamless Integrations with a Unified Platform
While many organizations are already excited about moving to the cloud, they forget that using multiple cloud solutions can lead to many of the same problems as traditional systems. Only Microsoft has all the pieces for an intelligent cloud, giving you access to a plethora of business applications and analytics tools to deliver you an affordable, value-driven, end-to-end solution on a single platform. You can run your business and make better decisions at cloud speed, and since it is all built on a common data model it’s easier to integrate, deploy, and manage for the long term.
2) Industry and Role Specific Extensions in AppSource
Microsoft AppSource is a new place to research, discover, and try apps built for Dynamics 365 at your own speed. You’ll find solutions like Sunrise’s Supply Chain 365 solution which was built to help improve forecast netting, apply industry best practices, provide advanced analytics, and streamline operations execution. This fast-growing marketplace was launched in July 2016 and there are currently more than 100 solutions available to support your journey to the cloud.
3) Added Value from Cloud Solution Providers (CSP)
Every customer wants one throat to choke and simplified billing. Working with a single vendor is just easier! And it’s possible to achieve this if you work with a Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider (CSP). As a Tier 1 CSP (in the top 3% of all partners), Sunrise can be your one-stop-shop for all Microsoft Cloud Solutions, Global Support, and billing. That means you have one vendor to call when you need something and you get one bill for all Microsoft and Sunrise add-on services. Plus, like any cloud platform, you have the flexibility to scale users up and down as needed.
4) Productivity Where You Need It
Dynamics 365 brings together the power of Microsoft’s productivity tools (Office 365, Yammer, Skype for Business, OneNote, etc.) with structured process and transaction driven applications like ERP and CRM. By marrying collaboration and productivity with business processes, users can see context where old siloed systems stopped short. For example, sales teams can easily see available-to-promise inventory on hand, while planners can forecast more easily based on open opportunities in the pipeline. What’s even more exciting is that Outlook is smart enough to recognize the context of email threads, automatically linking to referenced sales orders and highlighting KPIs right in the interface (no add-ons required!)
5) Start with What You Need
The new cloud model lets you start with the edition and applications you need so you don’t have to deploy a mammoth ERP and CRM project with a timeline that would make Methuselah feel faint. You can start with the financials-only capabilities of the Business Edition, and as you grow, you can move to the Enterprise edition to gain more power over managing an integrated supply chain, warehouse, ecommerce, and retail operations. The fact of the matter is you have a unified platform that has all the productivity, business process, and analytical tools at your disposal to turn on and off as needed.
6) Built-In Intelligence and Advanced Analytics
Dynamics 365 brings advanced analytics to your fingertips with Power BI, Cortana Intelligence, Azure Machine Learning, and IoT offerings. No other system provides more access to easy-to-use intelligence tools. As we like to say, “the more you know the faster you grow.” These tools make it possible to make smarter decisions faster by embedding intelligence into everyday work (Finally! One version of the truth for everyone.) At all levels of the organization, employees will have real time visibility into accurate data they can trust to help them do their job better.
7) Mobilize Any Business Process or Data
With the power of the common data model, Flow, Power BI, and PowerApps, you can create and extend any business process or data set on the go. Power BI dashboards and reports, and even the full Dynamics 365 interface, are available on any device and browser, making working from anywhere a breeze (and the perfect excuse to get out of awkward family dinners.) Even better is that when you combine the universal workflow engine of Microsoft Flow and the mobile app builder found in PowerApps, you’ve got the power to make some real magic. Make a tool for the shop floor, warehouse, retail floor, or field sales to simplify any task and mobilize processes.
8) Power to Differentiate Your Business
The cloud-based Dynamics 365 offering from Microsoft gives you the power to enable digital transformation faster than ever. Think of it this way: the difference between using Dynamics 365 and a more traditional system is like the difference between driving a sports car and a tank. The unified systems of intelligence found in Dynamics 365 let you easily pivot the business as new information or trends emerge. It’s easy to pick up so users feel empowered to perform to the best of their ability. It’s fast, flexible, and beautiful. You just won’t get the same responsiveness with a mammoth system and bolt-on ‘solutions’ that don’t talk to each other and take a fleet of people to maintain. With Dynamics 365 you can easily speed past your competition while they continue to plod along.
Dynamics 365 is light years ahead of any other Tier-1 solution and sets a high bar for any future of business applications that try to catch up. When Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella shared his vision for Dynamics 365, we couldn’t have been more excited about the opportunities it created – and we hope you’re just as excited too.
Whether you’re exploring your options for new business platforms, or ready to get started, we are trusted business partners for some of the world’s most well-known brands. With over 25 years of experience with the Microsoft stack, we can help you understand all the capabilities Microsoft has to offer.
Globalization has obviously had a tremendous impact on the way we live, as well as the way we do business. The world is steadily becoming smaller and more interconnected, and this transformation has not been missed by the Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) industry. In fact, it has probably been one of the most impacted industries given consumers’ never-ending appetite for the latest and greatest gadgets, apparel, footwear, cosmetics, and housewares.
With high volumes, low margins, evolving distribution networks, and high product turnover, CPG companies are realizing that there’s little room for error and all areas of their businesses need to be optimized and operating at the most efficient level possible. These challenges have forced CPG companies to adapt and change the way they do and manage their business, especially when it comes to enterprise technology solutions, like ERP and CRM. Many companies are realizing they can no longer operate successfully with disparate technology solutions and siloed data across eCommerce, Retail, Wholesale, Catalog, and Call Centers–and maybe even across global regions and legal entities with different currency and local regulation requirements.
CPG companies looking to compete on a global scale are standardizing business applications across the enterprise and doing so through a more robust unified cloud platform for ERP and CRM with built-in analytics like Microsoft Dynamics 365 that’s tailored for global manufacturing, retail, and distribution businesses. One huge advantage of the solution is that it can support global business processes and requirements from a single instance of the software. This means multiple currencies, time zones, languages, and compliance with multiple banking and reporting standards can all be managed from one solution, helping to provide consistency and standardization across various business entities around the world.
There is a lot to consider when evaluating solutions and not everyone requires a global ERP, but here are some compelling benefits for choosing a single instance ERP solution:
Are you interested in learning more about what a global single-instance ERP solution can do for your business? Check out these additional resources:
Whether you’re exploring your options for new business platforms, or ready to get started, we are trusted business partners for some of the world’s most well-known brands. With over 25 years of experience with the Microsoft stack, we can help you understand all the capabilities Microsoft has to offer.
First look at how erp and crm are now on one beautiful platform in the cloud
Prior to the 2016 Worldwide Partner Conference, Microsoft surprised everyone with the announcement that Dynamics AX, Dynamics CRM, and Project Madeira would be rebranded under one new title: Dynamics 365.
While the announcement was a surprise, it wasn’t exactly a shock. The cloud version of Microsoft Dynamics AX (code name AX7) was released in March 2016, with Project Madeira, a cloud-based financial solution for the SMB sector, introduced as a beta program shortly thereafter. Dynamics 365 is simply the latest step in Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s long-term plan to change the face of business.
When Dynamics 365 launches later this fall there will be two versions for organizations to pick from — Enterprise and Business. Dynamics 365: Enterprise is a combination of Microsoft Dynamics AX and Dynamics CRM/OL, while the Business edition draws from the new features of Project Madeira, and a lite version of CRM Sales and Marketing. Microsoft is making a clear distinction that the Business edition is “optimized for 10-250 employees” and actually maxes out at 300 seats. The Enterprise edition on the other hand, is “optimized for 250+ employees” and with Dynamics AX as its operational and financial backbone, it is clearly better suited for more complex business models.
Currently, both editions are set to debut during the Dynamics Summit this October and go on sale starting November 1st. However, it is worth noting that while Dynamics 365: Enterprise will be a full release, only the financial portion of the Business Edition will be live at that time. The additional sales and marketing functionality for Dynamics 365: Business is slated for release in the Spring of 2017.
Dynamics 365 brings together Microsoft’s CRM and ERP cloud offerings into one cohesive service with specific, purpose-built apps for business functions like Finance, Sales, Customer Service, and Supply Chain Operations — with built-in insights, intelligence, and workflows. The apps are designed so they can be easily and independently deployed, which means you can start with the business area you need and scale as the business demands. All Dynamics 365 apps, plus the larger portfolio of cloud solutions like Office 365, will ultimately share a common data model so it will be a breeze to adopt additional capabilities.
While this is an innovative approach to business applications the best news is that Dynamics 365 is simply taking products we already know and love (Dynamics AX and Dynamics CRM) and reconfiguring them into something even better. Additionally, modules in Dynamics 365 will continue to be available for individual purchase and implementation. For more information, you can also check out our FAQ.
Microsoft’s vision for Dynamics 365 is revolutionary, and we’re on board with all the changes. In fact, as one of the earliest partners Gold Certified as a Cloud Services Provider, we’ve been hard at work over the past year ensuring that our solutions and our consultants were ready for the next evolution in Microsoft’s offerings.
Whether you’re exploring your options for new business platforms, or ready to get started, we are trusted business partners for some of the world’s most well-known brands. With over 25 years of experience with the Microsoft stack, we can help you understand all the capabilities Microsoft has to offer.
