What is DCO?????

You may have heard Microsoft or your Dynamics GP partner talking about "DCO", but you have no clue what they are talking about. We all know Microsoft is known for their acronyms and "DCO" is another one of them. "DCO" is Microsoft Dynamics Client for Office. It is a light user for most employees in a customer's Dynamics implementation. It contains a right to access the Dynamics database directly, and a variety of product specific capabilities that make it useful to most employees in a customer organization.
With the recent announcement of pricing changes for Dynamics GP 2010, they also announced new capabilities for "DCO". "DCO" will include:

• Business Portal Employee and Customer Users
• Analysis Cubes
• Analysis Cubes Library
• Management Reporter Viewer
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  BI Components
  • Executive Centers & Dashboards
  • Excel Reports
  • SRS Reports
• Order Management
• Requisition Management
• Project T&E
• Field Service Suite
• Human Resources Management Self Service Suite
• Database Access License

"DCO" is available for both Business Ready Licensing Editions, Advanced Management and Business Essentials. Availability for BE is new as of Dynamics GP 2010. "DCO" is not available on Module Based Licensing, Professional or Standard Editions.
If you would like more information on "DCO" please contact your Microsoft Dynamics partner.