Focus on growth with Microsoft Dynamics NAV
Adapt to change without disrupting your business
Updated: August 21, 2006
Microsoft Dynamics NAV (formerly Microsoft Navision) provides you with the tools you need to focus on your business instead of your business software. With Microsoft Dynamics NAV, you can achieve your current goals, address the changing demands of your customers, and set high expectations for your future.
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Midsize organizations need a business software solution that is flexible enough to accommodate changing needs. They need an adaptable business solution that helps promote growth instead of creating obstacles to change and expansion.
Implement and customize your system easiliy
Microsoft Dynamics NAV helps you get started quickly and easily. Not only is it easy to implement, but it’s also easy to modify. So it works well with your existing software. What’s more, Microsoft Dynamics NAV grows with your business. It’s flexible enough to change in any direction that your growth takes you. Microsoft Dynamics NAV provides a network of local partners with experience in your industry. Backed by Microsoft, they can help you implement, customize, and adapt your business solution.
Painless setup process
| • | Select industry-specific templates to make it easier to tailor the solution to the needs of your business and market. |
| • | Choose industry-specific solutions and business-specific add-ons with the help of Microsoft Certified Business Solutions Partners and independent software vendors (ISVs). |
Easy to use
| • | Give your employees a product they already know how to use. For example, menus and navigation look and feel like Microsoft Outlook—widely familiar e-mail software—helping to ease the learning curb. |
Affordable training, support, and service
| • | Rely on the expert guidance of a Microsoft Certified Business Solutions Partner that has the global support of the Microsoft Corporation. |
| • | Make the transition to the new system easier with training from experienced instructors. |
| • | Rely on support and service that include local maintenance. |
| • | Receive updates with the latest technology, so you can upgrade or extend your solution at any time. |
Adapt to change without disrupting your business
Microsoft Dynamics NAV provides tight integration with Microsoft Office products, and it integrates with your existing systems and applications. So you gain the flexibility to add to your system without extensive downtime and painful learning curves.
Add to your reporting and analytics capabilities
| • | Support any business intelligence tool on the market, using the Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) driver. |
| • | Generate reports and explore data across all areas of your business using analytical tools with a familiar Microsoft Outlook-like interface. |
| • | Microsoft Dynamics NAV supports Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) services with interactive graphical views, so you can view your data from any angle and analyze key performance indicators, trends, patterns, and relationships. |
| • | Tight integration with Microsoft Office Excel provides OLAP functionality to those employees who are more comfortable with Excel. |
Keep pace with changing technologies and business growth
| • | Integrate with other applications and systems using Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004. |
| • | Integrate with SQL Server to support changes and growth in your database. |
| • | Synchronize contacts with Microsoft Outlook, so you don’t have to reenter any changes in customer details. |
Enable rapid, cost-effective customizations
| • | Allow developers to make changes to the solution with minimal disruption with the C/SIDE development environment. |
Grow confidently to meet your customer's needs
No matter what industry you’re in, the same foundational rule applies—customer satisfaction is your first priority. What differentiates you from your competition is your internal processes. They enable you to provide better customer service, innovative products and services, and faster time to market.
Start with what you need, add capacity and functionality as you grow
| • | Add to and customize the Dynamics NAV functionality you already own. |
| • | Add additional users, or new modules and customizations as you grow. The user-based pricing option allows smaller businesses to take advantage of the latest upgrades and versions to adapt their system. |
Rely on the latest upgrades and versions.
| • | Upgrade toolkits and support helps make moving to the latest version easier and more cost-effective. |
| • | Invest in a business solution that’s built on a single global code base. With Microsoft Dynamics NAV, as you grow, you can add to functionality without repurchasing it. |
Next steps
Get more information about what you can accomplish in your business with Microsoft Dynamics NAV:
