Microsoft Dynamics NAV
Simple. Smart. Innovative.
Updated: November 16, 2008
Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 is a comprehensive business management solution that helps people work quickly and efficiently and gives your business the flexibility to adapt to new opportunities and growth. Ideal for small and midsized organizations, it offers a breakthrough user experience and technology innovations that can simplify access to information, improve organizational agility, streamline integration with a wide range of applications, and enhance reporting capabilities, even for the most highly specialized industries and organizations. With Microsoft Dynamics NAV, your people can be effective and contribute to your business success.
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Focus on achieving business goals
Microsoft Dynamics NAV can help you automate and simplify processes across your business to boost productivity, performance, and business growth. With integrated financial, supply chain, and customer relationship management information from across your organization stored in a centralized database, your people can work quickly and effectively, which contributes to your business forward.
Learn more about Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 editions and features.
Help people excel at their individual jobs
Based on research into the way people work, Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 delivers an intuitive work environment that looks and feels like familiar Microsoft products. A breakthrough user experience includes access to RoleTailored views and business processes through Role Centers that give employees the information and tools they need for their specific jobs.
| • | Out of the box, Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 delivers 21 Role Centers that are optimized for various important employee functions so people can organize and prioritize tasks to increase productivity and effectiveness. |
| • | Give employees a solution that meets individual needs with a comprehensive overview of their work and tasks and the ability to personalize menus to reflect their own work styles. |
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Without leaving their Role Centers or juggling applications, people can use their favorite Microsoft Office programs-including Microsoft Office Outlook, Microsoft Office Excel, Microsoft Office Word, and more.
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| • | Minimize training costs and accelerate productivity from the start with software that looks like and works with other familiar Microsoft products and technologies. |
| • | Easily customize Role Centers to provide access to role-specific tasks that are unique to your business or industry. |
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Screen illustration: Role Centers in Microsoft Dynamics NAV give employees a comprehensive overview of the information and tasks that are most relevant to their jobs.
The Role Center you see here gives accounting managers a single view of the tasks, information, and reports they need, including:
| • | Charts of accounts, budget information, bank accounts lists, and VAT statements. |
| • | Customer, vendor, and item lists. |
| • | Sales and purchase orders, approved and pending. |
| • | Overdue sales invoices and sales credit memos. |
| • | Purchase invoices due and finance charge memos. |
| • | Cash receipt and payments journals. |
| • | Posted documents lists. |
Analyze, communicate, and collaborate
Equip your organization to work as a team and make fast, smart decisions by connecting people, information, and processes.
| • | Easily access and analyze real-time data about every aspect of your operations, including individual transactions, customized key performance indicators, trends, and growth opportunities. |
| • | Give people self-service reporting and business intelligence capabilities that reduce ad-hoc requests to the IT department for reports and information. |
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Automatically generate custom reports by using Report Designer, an ad-hoc query tool and component of Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services or export to Excel or other familiar programs for further analysis and graphical presentation.
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Accelerate business insight and expand the value of business data even further by combining Microsoft Dynamics NAV with SQL Server Reporting Services and SQL Server Analysis Services.
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Unleash the power to communicate and collaborate effectively and optimize your technology investments through integration with the Microsoft Office system, including Excel, Windows SharePoint Services, and Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server.
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| • | Deliver online access to real-time data, reports, and collaboration tools with Employee Portal in Microsoft Dynamics NAV, a Web-based interface that is built on Windows SharePoint Services, without having to set up users and train them to use Microsoft Dynamics NAV. |
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Screen illustration: Tight integration with Microsoft Office programs makes it easy to export Microsoft Dynamics NAV data to Excel for analysis and reporting purposes.
Fuel business agility and growth
Meet changing business needs without disrupting your operations or your IT budget and make the most of your current IT investments.
| • | A powerful Microsoft .NET foundation, three-tier architecture, and Web services make it easier than ever to integrate Microsoft Dynamics NAV with existing systems, share data across other applications, and develop extended functionality. |
| • | Extend your business across international borders with confidence when you can set up and maintain multiple currencies and accommodate more than 30 languages. |
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Automate supply chain collaboration and document exchange with partners with Microsoft BizTalk Server and the Microsoft Office system.
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Choose the solution package you need today with flexible business licensing options, and then add capabilities, quickly and cost-effectively, as your business grows.
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Take advantage of expert support from your Microsoft Certified Partner, who can help you implement your solution efficiently and cost-effectively, and help your company benefit from a rich ecosystem of finely tailored, industry-specific offerings and add-on solutions.
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Help ensure efficient, consistent deployments with the Rapid Implementation Methodology, part of Microsoft Dynamics Sure Step, a standardized, global methodology and suite of tools that simplifies implementation and upgrade processes.
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Screen illustration: Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 architecutre.
More about state-of-the-art architecture:
| • | The Microsoft Dynamics NAV Client Tier includes built-in RoleTailored access to data and processes.
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| • | The Microsoft Dynamics NAV Server Tier houses all business logic and includes Web services for fast, cost-effective integrations with other applications.
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| • | The Microsoft Dynamics NAV Database Tier is built on SQL Server, one of the most robust and reliable database platforms on the market.
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