Microsoft Dynamics NAV
Microsoft Dynamics NAV Overview
Microsoft Dynamics NAV is an integrated business management solution designed for growing mid- market companies that want the freedom to focus on their business. It is ideal for companies looking for one solution they can implement rapidly, learn and use easily, and customize and maintain with minimal disruption to their business.
Dynamics NAV is a fully integrated and flexible business application provided by Microsoft Business Solutions. Microsoft Business Solutions has helped more than 260,000 businesses worldwide to improve and streamline their operations through the use of business application software. MBS offer a wide range of integrated, end-to-end business applications and services designed to help small, mid-market and corporate businesses become more connected with customers, employees, partners and suppliers.
Some of Microsoft Dynamics NAV features
- works like and with your familiar Microsoft software
- integrates and scales with your existing systems
- connects your processes, information and people
- transforms your data into confident decisions
- delivers ease of use that meets individual needs
Some of Microsoft Dynamics NAV modules
- Financial Management
- Fixed Assets Management
- Customer Relationship Management
- Project and Resource Management
- Service Management
- Inventory Management
- Warehouse Management
- Manufacturing Management
- Extensive analysis capabilities
- Rapid customization capabilities
Further information on some of the modules and features can be found on the modules page.
Microsoft Dynamics NAV Modules
Some of the main modules and features are described in this page.
Financial Management
As the backbone of your business management solution, Microsoft Dynamics NAV accounting and finance solutions help you track and analyze your business information. With end-to-end integration, you can efficiently manage your general ledger, payables, receivables, inventory, analytical accounting, fixed assets and cash flows as well as perform bank reconciliations and collections. You can also manage your financial processes across multiple currencies, locations or companies.
Business Intelligence and Reporting
Bring strategic insight into your business processes with sophisticated reporting, analysis and budgeting solutions that help you improve and propel critical decision-making throughout the organization. Direct access to real-time business-critical information and a wide range of analytical and reporting tools can help you manage budgets, create and consolidate reports and look for trends and relationships.
Customer Relationship Management
Customer relationship management enables automation of many day-to-day tasks for sales, customer services and marketing professionals. Manage customer records and sales histories, create and launch marketing campaigns and track customer activity. Make service operations more profitable by organizing your service resources for optimum efficiency, forecasting and tracking parts consumption, proactively managing contracts and service agreements and gaining tighter control over costs.
Project Management
Project management capabilities support long-term job- and project- related activities to help you budget project costs and automate billings, better manage your resources, track resource costs and usage, plan capacity and predict availability.
Supply Chain Management
Streamline your sales, purchasing and pick/pack/ship cycle. With Microsoft Dynamics NAV, you can tailor workflow processes to meet specific needs and keep pace with competitive markets and low margins. Help increase customer loyalty with better responsiveness, rapidly pursue new market opportunities and improve your profitability by working more efficiently with partners. Improve inventory management, manage single- or multi- site warehouses and handle order processing and demand planning.
Configuration and Development
Microsoft Dynamics NAV comes with built-in tools to adapt your business management solution to the way you do business. Designed to help you limit your requirement for highly qualified IT professionals, these tools enable system administrators and programmers to add new and modify existing functionality quickly and with limited coding.
Microsoft Dynamics NAV integration with Microsoft Office
Microsoft Dynamics NAV works like and with the Microsoft Office systems that your people use every day, which helps them work productively because they can access, use and share data and information without switching applications or reentering data. Even when they're working in Microsoft Dynamics NAV, they can easily produce a wide range of reports in Microsoft Office Excel, create customized communications in Microsoft Office Word and monitor customer relationships through Microsoft Office Outlook.
1 - Integrating with Microsoft Office Word
From within the Microsoft Dynamics NAV application you can create interactions such as letters to customers. Template letters can be defined and then the specified data fields are populated automatically in the Microsoft Office Word document. There you can edit the letter and it is then saved and linked to the contact within the Microsoft Dynamics NAV customer relationship module.
2 - Integrating with Microsoft Office Outlook
Microsoft Dynamics NAV helps your sales force manage activities linked to customers, prospects, opportunities and campaigns. An activity created within the application can automatically flow through to the salespersons' Microsoft Office Outlook as well as relevant contact information.
Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009
Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 is the latest version of the ever popular Dynamics NAV ERP system. This new version comes with a few new features that are bound to make this a very different system from the earlier versions. Some of these features will be discussed on this page.
The new Role-Based client or thin-client
This is not a web-client as you might have thought, like us, when you first heard about the thin-client that would be delivered with Dynamics NAV 2009. This new client is different from the classic client in a number of ways.
a) It is "thin". This means that the function such as posting are not performed on the client it self. This is done on the Application server, which is closer to the database, and can perform the functions much quicker.
b) It is "role-tailored". What this means, that for a given user the administrator can assign a role to user, this will then result in only the functions and information needed for that user will be available to the user. This results in a simpler interface for the users and in more productivity
Web services access
One of the new technologies introduced in Dynamics NAV 2009 is Web Services. To us at Rue de Net, this is nothing new, since we have had the NETConductor doing this very nicely for a number of years. So we congratulate Microsoft on having caught up with us! But on a serious note, this new technology in NAV 2009 underlines that our investment in know how and experience when it comes to Web services is been a good one, since this technology is one of our main expertise.
It is still the good-old Navision
Regardless of all the new features, if you already have your ERP system written in Dynamics NAV, you will be able to upgrade to this new version. This means that NAV 2009 is a platform for jumping onto the new technology bandwagon, without making your old system obsolete. This means that by upgrading to 2009, you can start using the new technology and stop using the old one gradually before later versions will make old parts outdated.