At the Convergence 2006 EMEA,(Europe,
Middle East and Africa) in Munich last week, Satya Nadella, corporate vice president of Microsoft Business Solutions at Microsoft Corp, highlighted how Concern the international humanitarian
organisation is using Microsoft Dynamics and its roles-based approach to achieve maximum impact. Nadella cited Concern Worldwide as a customer running its operations on Microsoft
Dynamics technologies.
With 4,000 employees working in 30 countries throughout Africa, Asia and the Caribbean, Concern provides emergency relief and long-term assistance to the poorest people,
focusing on education, credit and savings, health and HIV/AIDS.
It previously used disparate technology systems in different countries, but through the deployment of Microsoft Dynamics GP
across the organisation, Concern has benefited from significant productivity improvements in key areas such as finance, programme and budget planning, and supply chain management.
In essence,
Microsoft Dynamics GP is enabling Concern to more efficiently and effectively track and monitor the use of donations and goods around the world to ensure that the staff is delivering programmes and
services to the poorest people as effectively as possible. Tom Arnold, Chief Executive of Concern is at the Convergence in Munich, he said, "Our core mission is to impact the lives of the
poor in practical ways, Microsoft Dynamics GP has been a powerfully effective tool in helping us to plan, monitor and manage the information in our global operations more effectively and, a result,
maximise the amount of money going directly into our emergency relief and development programmes to create a significant impact on poverty.
