Microsoft Business Network Altara

A secure, simple way to exchange documents such as invoices with trading partners and integrate document data using XML templates and a subscription service hosted by Microsoft.

With MBN, small- to mid-sized companies can improve business processes, increase efficiency and reduce costs by automating their methods of collaboration and connectivity with customers and vendors.

Enables you to:

• Build a trading community

• Move data easily within communities

• Integrate data into familiar applications

• More benefits...

Build a trading community

How closely does your business work with your suppliers and customers? With Microsoft Business Network, you can start building your own close-knit community of trading partners. Your systems and people can start to work more smoothly with those inside your customers' and suppliers' businesses. Everyone within the trading community saves time and money and works together more efficiently.

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Move data easily within communities

Microsoft Business Network Process Templates

Anyone who has ever used a word processor or a spreadsheet application is familiar with templates. Products like Microsoft Office include templates for resumes, newsletters, expense reports, budgets, and many other documents.

Microsoft Business Network features a new type of template—a process template—designed to streamline specific activities you do with your customers and suppliers.

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Integrate data into familiar applications

Microsoft Business Network Builds on Familiar Products

Microsoft Business Network is a new product that helps small and mid-sized businesses streamline the way they connect with customers, vendors, and other business partners. It also integrates easily with familiar products such as Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003 and Microsoft Business Solutions–Great Plains®.

Smaller trading companies can use Microsoft Business Network to turn Microsoft Outlook® 2003 and Microsoft Excel 2003 into mini business applications. And mid-size trading partners can use Microsoft Business Network to extend the functionality of Microsoft Great Plains, turning it into a fully integrated interface for exchanging business documentation with a global network of trading partners.

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