MECOMS for Microsoft Dynamics Ax streamlines your business processes such as financial management, metering processes, billing processes and cash collection. Making use of our best practices business blueprint template model, integrated process modeling tool and extensive documentation, customers and implementation partners have the right tools for a successful implementation.

The following questions sketch the functionality of our product and highlight the key features:

• Can the system grow with my business ?
  MECOMS is a highly flexible solution. Because no two utility or energy companies are the same, MECOMS focuses on adaptable business processes and scalability to allow the implementation to grow with the changing needs and size of your company.

• How can MECOMS help increase my business productivity and decrease cost-to-serve?
  MECOMS focuses on industry-specific best practices. These best practices are integrated in our business blueprint template. Making use of this knowledge combined with process features, automation, efficient collaboration, empowerment of users and a role-based user experience approach, MECOMS can help your business achieve your targets.

• How does the user experience match up with nowadays systems such as VISTA , Office2007, … ?
  MECOMS For Microsoft Dynamics Ax makes use of the user friendly Microsoft Dynamics Ax platform. This platform provides a user interface that looks and works like systems that every user knows and operates efficiently. Navigation, favorites, integration with office tools, reporting possibilities, easy operation are just a few of the key features of the MECOMS For Microsoft dynamics Ax user experience.

• What about legacy systems and integration, what if I do not need all the functionality of MECOMS?
  MECOMS is a modular system that easily integrates with existing systems making use of a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). The modularity and integration features of the system allow you to choose the functionality of MECOMS that your business requires and allows e.g. to maintain your current financial system and link this with the MECOMS metering and billing functionality.

• Is the system a black-box? How can users with different roles retrieve the information they need?
  MECOMS for Microsoft Dynamics Ax has extensive reporting functionality. This includes reporting on all different layers. Operational and monitoring reporting, strategic reporting and business analysis functionality and of course score-carding and dash-boarding to enable a good view on corporate performance management using Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). The system does not only contain a lot of built-in reporting and scorecards, but also allows for flexible creation of reports and business analysis allowing the customer to further refine their specific business reporting needs.

• What has the system to offer with regards to role-based user experience, separation of duties, approval cycles and user security and control?
  The system integrates with active directory and links user with their role and permissions. This role-based user experience approach allows to clearly defining tasks and responsibilities. Tight integration with workflow allows clear approval cycles and collaboration. Important aspect of the role-based experience is that role-based information is presented to the user. Decreasing the complexity of the system and increasing the productivity of the user by giving him the functionality and the information that he needs enabling efficient decision making.

• Implementations are about my organization, my business processes or the way I run my business. How can MECOMS be compatible with my business?
  MECOMS is an industry specific solution. Years of experience have helped us built up best practices for the sector. This experience that is available in a reference model combined with the modularity and the flexibility of the system allows MECOMS to be compatible with your business and streamline your business processes and help them evolve as business needs change.

• Communication, interaction with my customers, suppliers and partners is essential for my business. How can MECOMS help me achieve this??
  The system tightly integrates with portal solutions allowing you to expose certain information to customer and suppliers. Besides sharing information, the portal solution also allows for collaboration and interaction with the customer for example by allowing a residential consumer to perform basis tasks such as updating his business information, logging requests, electronic bill presentment, registering index values or other tasks that help improve the efficiency of your organization by empowering the end consumer or supplier

Mail us at info@mecoms.com for more information.