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Great Lakes Power Reduces IT Budget by 57 Percent With Microsoft Business Solutions

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Overview Great Lakes Power, Ltd., a subsidiary of Brascan Power, is a power generation utility. Because of deregulation, the Generation Division of Great Lakes Power needed a new business management system for the reorganized company. Implementing Microsoft Business Solutions - Great Plains (now part of Microsoft Dynamics) has increased productivity, reduced training costs, and slashed Great Lakes Power's IT budget by 57 percent over several disparate financial solutions, including SAP.

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Publisher	Microsoft	File Format	WORD
Date Published	July 2003	Downloads	1
Format	Case Studies
Topics	ERP, Business Management, Finance

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