Microsoft Business Solutions today announced the availability of Microsoft® Business Solutions Business Portal. The solution provides an organization's employees, suppliers and customers with easy access to information and processes that are critical to maximizing efficiency and profitability, all from a single, Web-based portal.

Microsoft Business Solutions developed Microsoft Business Portal to help businesses realize benefits in several key areas, including reduced information technology (IT) and support costs, increased availability of business information, and extended access to business applications.

"Microsoft Business Portal gives employees, customers and suppliers the power to serve themselves, which helps increase productivity, efficiency and, ultimately, profitability," said Mark Jensen, group product manager for new solutions at Microsoft Business Solutions.

By drawing on the strengths of the Microsoft .NET Framework, Microsoft Business Portal allows organizations to deploy a portal that is role-based and builds upon their network security schema. Full integration with the Microsoft Business Solutions–Great Plains® and Microsoft Business Solutions–Solomon business applications delivers out-of-the-box access to business information pages and standard reports, as well as ad hoc information queries. Microsoft Business Portal can be extended to external data sources and Web-delivered applications, creating a true single-source site for information and business processes.