DynamicsADvantage for Media, Publishing, and Broadcast companies improves productivity and gives executives the ability to make informed business decisions. With a solid performance record in the media and entertainment industry Microsoft Dynamics GP (Great Plains) and DynamicsADvantage has helped some of the nation’s leading media and publishing companies reduce operational costs and meet their projected profit goals by providing a comprehensive solution that addresses the unique billing needs of the media industry including revenue recognition, insertion orders, subscription orders, conference event billing and contract management.

Combined with Microsoft Dynamics GP (Great Plains) DynamicsADvantage offers publishers and media executives the ability to consolidate disparate systems, leverage the power of Microsoft Technology and integrate with their eCommerce, Ad server and CRM solutions into one system.

Complex Revenue Recognition
Media businesses need to be able to project the income from all their revenue sources with certainty, track and recognize the revenue at the proper time, and analyze and improve the performance of their revenue streams. DynamicsADvantage provides the flexibility to trace billing and revenue back to the original transaction, even though the schedules for each do not align.

Tracking the Relationships between Advertisers and Agencies
Most ERP solutions support the selling of widgets to one customer or billing record. DynamicsADvantage allows you to track the relationships and transactions between advertisers and advertising agencies enabling you to have full transparency of the business transactions performed by an agency on behalf of several advertisers or by an advertiser using varying agencies to apply cash and credits, and track key performance indicators (KPIs) with a high level of flexibility.

Online Media (Events, Content, Licensing)
During recent years, in an effort to create a competitive distinction, reach new audiences, and operate more profitably, many media companies have been expanding online/digital media by offering events, content and e-licensing. These offerings include web seminars, pod casts, and online meetings, as well as actual trade shows or conferences. DynamicsADvantage gives you the ability to support all billing and revenue recognition of your eMedia business.

Bundling
DynamicADvantage provides media companies with the ability to contract with customers for products and services across multiple business units and revenue models. For instance, a customer may contract with a media company for a magazine campaign, an online campaign, and a series of events. All these activities may be associated with the launch of a new product or strategy. In this case, the customer may want to execute a contract with one person or department at the media company. DynamicsADvantage offers consolidated billing, status reporting, and analysis that customers require.

DynamicsADvantage offers media companies the capabilities to perform:

• Ad Billing
• Subscription Billing
• Enhanced Revenue and deferred revenue calculations
• Contract Management
• Work Order Management
• ShipTo/Bill To Customer Structuring
• Advertiser/Agency Relationship
• Web Advertising
• Event Billing
• Electronic Product Services and Billing
• Enhanced Transaction Tracking
• Publishers Enhanced Reporting Suite: Enhanced Aging, Revenue, Deferred, Revenue Return Reserves by Media, Media Type as well as Commissions Reporting

We serve:
Book Publishers
Magazine and Periodical Publishers
Broadcast media
Internet Publishers