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NAV 2009 - Designed to handle today's issues, right out of the box.

February 25, 2009

Businesses are facing more complex issues today than ever before. Streamlining operations, leaning out processes and using resources more efficiently are paramount to profit and growth.  With great understanding of this, Microsoft undertook significant research and development to make NAV 2009 work the way businesses need, right out of the box.

One key new development is Personalized Role Center creation.  Based on 2,000 interviews of real users solving real problems in their daily work, Microsoft discovered that users’ needs are uniquely different based on their roles. And those roles vary even by specific job title.  This led to a unique user interface design function – Personalized Role Centers. Users can select from 21 key job functions with specifically tailored tools, alerts and workflows to build appropriate roles for users.  Having implemented NAV for over twelve years, I’ve seen companies attempt to create this through extensive customization of the software. Now, it’s available right out of the box. ROI is maximized by eliminating the time and expense of custom programming. Even more, upgrades are easier and less costly to implement.

Business intelligence is critical for timely and thoughtful decision making. NAV 2009 delivers in this area with sophisticated drill down analysis, trend analysis capabilities and the ability to establish and track key performance indicators.  It’s easy to create reports and perform analysis with cross-product integration and built-in reports and wizards. Companies are collecting massive amounts of data now, and with this built-in functionality, putting that data to work is not only possible, it’s efficient too.

Integration of applications with NAV has been at the top of our clients’ needs lists for quite some time.  With NAV 2009, sharing business logic with other applications can be as simple going to a setup table and exposing the functionality.  NAV 2009 is based on the Microsoft .NET Framework, so you can easily integrate with or build add-on .NET applications.

The best way to view the full capabilities of NAV 2009 is with a test drive. And we’ll even bring it to your place! Contact us at sales@leanbackoffice.com to schedule a look at NAV 2009. Microsoft clearly understands the business issues you face daily and designed NAV 2009 to work exactly how you need, today, right out of the box.