Microsoft Dynamics NAV
News & Tips
June 2008
Get the Most Value from Your Dynamics NAV Solution at Our Advanced Solutions Showcase
Businesses often realize substantial gains when an integrated business system such as Dynamics NAV is first implemented. As your business grows and your needs change, opportunities for gaining additional value abound.
To help you get the most value from your solution, beginning in July, ICS will be hosting a monthly seminar on advanced solutions for your business. The events will be a mixture of in-person and web-based seminars designed to address current, real-world business challenges, provide you with access to functional experts who can answer your questions, and when appropriate, give you hands-on experience. Find out more.
May 2008
Use a Downturn to Prepare for Growth
A downturn in the economy can become an ideal time to look at your internal infrastructure and systems to ensure that you are poised for the next growth phase. Microsoft Financing offers some very flexible terms. Call Mike Packard at 425-820-6120 to discuss how to take advantage of the incentives and plan for the IT solutions that will work best for your needs.
Make Smarter Decisions with Business Intelligence
With business intelligence software offerings you can gainvaluable insighst into your business, make smart decisions, and improve business performance. Now, with Microsoft Dynamics NAV, small and mid-sized companies can take advantage of tools and capabilities that are usually only available to large companies. FInd out more with this white paper (PDF).
Automatic Alerts Can Save the Day with Timely Warnings
Are there business situations you would like Dynamics NAV to automatically alert you to? Microsoft Dynamics NAV's Business Notification feature comes with six out-of-the-box event templates which you can customize for alerts to be sent to your team and/or business partners. Learn more.
5.0 Service Pack Brings Enhancements Across the Board
Microsoft Dynamics NAV 5.0 Service Pack 1 was released on March 28th. Timed with the release of Dynamics Mobile, the Dynamics NAV team has made over 300 improvements and further optimized NAV for Microsoft SQL - which resulted in a dramatic 40% increase in performance (on certain types of transactions).
Areas of improvement include NAV sales and purchase document approvals, customer prepayments, intercompany purchase cost distribution, service management, general ledger, inventory costing and item tracking, manufacturing planning engine, and jobs. The new release reinforces NAV’s core values of simplicity, rich end-to-end functionality, adaptability and customization, international scope, and ease of use, implementation, and maintenance.
To assist in your own IT strategy and planning, download the Microsoft Dynamics NAV product roadmap (PDF).
Introducing Dynamics Mobile - Put Microsoft Dynamics into the Hands of the People Who Need it Most
Did you know that only 15 percent of a company’s employees actually use the business management system? And those 15% are the people furthest from the action. With Microsoft Dynamics Mobile you can plug your customer’s employees into your Microsoft Dynamics NAV solution. Give them what they need, at their fingertips, when they need it. Let them check product availability, update key figures, and process orders – fast and error-free. Microsoft Dynamics Mobile software powers advanced, easy-to-use Windows Mobile-based devices that help organizations with field sales, mobile professionals, mobile service technicians or support staff to drive increased productivity, open new business opportunities and to reduce costs.
The release also contains Mobile Sales, which is the first mobile application for Microsoft Dynamics NAV from Microsoft Dynamics Mobile. Mobile Sales is role-tailored and task-oriented and an ideal solution for field sales representatives and other mobile employees who need to work in remote locations. The field sales representatives can plan visits, review relevant sales information, and create orders. Microsoft Dynamics Mobile will be localized for Microsoft Dynamics NAV in 29 countries. Learn more (PDF).
April 2008
Five Year Mainstream Support Declared at Convergence 2008
Convergence 2008 took place March 11-14 in Orlando, Florida with over 9,500 attendees. Keynotes from Steve Ballmer, CEO, Kirill Tatarinov, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Business Solutions, and Kevin Shofield, General Manager, Microsoft Research gave insight as to the future of Dynamics ERP and technology in general. Learn more.
Microsoft Connect Lets Customers Vote on Product Features
Microsoft Connect was also announced at Convergence 2008. This is a program that effectively allows you to provide requests and features directly to Microsoft Dynamics R&D team through CustomerSource. It also allows you to vote on features that other customers and other partners may have reported, thus giving us a better view on what you feel is important to you, and what’s important to the community at large.
Access to Microsoft Connect does require a current software enhancement agreement with Microsoft. CustomerSource, the Microsoft Dynamics user portal, contains downloads and updates, documentation, discussion boards, unlimited online training, a knowledgebase, news and event announcements.
For more information about Microsoft Connect, goto https://connect.microsoft.com/site/sitehome.aspx?SiteID=104.
