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Microsoft Navision Overview
 
Overview
510 kb PDF file
   
Balance your short and long term goals with
your financial resources.  Learn about a
business management solution that matches
your needs as well as your budget.
  Microsoft Integration
296 kb PDF file
    Help your employees work more efficiently in
the programs they are already familiar with,
such as Microsoft Office Outlook and
Microsoft Office Excel, without having to
switch between systems, re-enter information,
or copy and paste from one program to
another.
  Multiple Language
286 kb PDF file
    Your employees, customers and supplier can
take advantage of their native language to
perform operations with Microsoft
Dynamics
®-NAV.  Think of the productivity
gains.
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Manufacturing
 
Manufacturing Overview
324 kb PDF file
   
Respond quickly to rapidly changing customer
demands.  Promise your customers a reliable
delivery date immediately, modify and track
orders, and identify processes that could be
more efficient and easily change them.
 
Manufacturing Foundation
285 kb PDF file
   
Help your company stand out from the
competition by responding quickly to your
customers' changing demands.  Learn about
the core production planning capabilities that
were inspired by the day-to-day needs of
small and mid-size manufacturing
organizations.
 
Maintenance (CMMS/EAMS)
285 kb PDF file
   
For companies with a business need to
maintain, inspect and/or manage repairs of
assets, the CMMS solutions help streamline
your operations.
 
Distribution
 
Distribution (General)
328 kb PD file

Distribution (Wholesale)
308 kb PDF file
   
Streamline operations to benefit both you and
your customers.  Reducing operational costs
saves time and money for your entire
organization and allows you to offer more
competitive prices.  Cost reduction is a
worthwhile business goal in itself, but it's also
another way to strengthen your relationships
with customers.
 
Returns Management
314 kb PDF file
   
Transform customer frustration into customer
satisfaction.  Streamline and simplify the
tasks you perform, improving your efficiency
and responsiveness to your customers'
queries and requests.  When a customer
inquires about the status of a return in
process, you can easily see what actions have
been take.
  Business Notification
369 kb PDF file
    Generate automatic e-mail messages to your
employees, suppliers, partners, and
customers informing and alerting them of
critical business conditions.
  Automated Data Collection
(ADCS)
317 kb PDF file
    Reduce costs by streamlining your inventory
management processes.  Collect and use
accurate inventory data in real time, improve
warehouse efficiency with access to real-time
inventory data, and increase the visibility of
accurate inventory data throughout your
business.
  Warehouse Management
366 kb PDF file
    Save time and money through efficient
warehouse processes.  Maximize the
efficiency of your receipt and shipment of
goods, optimize warehouse space utilization,
and know at all times exactly where your
goods are stored.
 
Sales and Marketing
 
Sales and Marketing
300 kb PDF file
   
Get the most out of your relationships with
complete and accurate information. Identify
key accounts, gain an overview of past and
future activities and automate routine tasks,
and personalize your approach to contacts.
 
Financial Management
 
Overview
320 kb PDF
   
Discover opportunities and motivate
employees to do more and to learn more.  
You can access the financial information you
need to spot trends and gain insight into your
business activities.  You can capitalize on your
knowledge of how your business works by
discovering opportunities, which otherwise
might have been difficult to spot.
  Receivables and Payables
326 kb PDF
    Take complete control of your money by
maintaining comprehensive transaction
records in receivables and payables as well
as the general ledger and inventory
application areas. The integrated structure
transforms ordinary payables and receivables
into account management tailored for
maximum efficiency.
  General Ledger
331 kb PDF file
    Centralize your company's accounting
information, posting specifications and other
core data efficiently.  Work efficiently in a
multiple-user environment, explore the most
up-to-date financial data and work according
to your needs.  For example, by choosing
whether an amount is shown per day, week,
month, quarter, year or accounting period.
  Cash Management
297 kb PDF
    Track monetary accounts at financial
institutions more efficiently.  You can control
your bank accounts directly from Microsoft
Navision, keep them updated and automate
and control the entire check-writing process.
  Fixed Assets
302 kb PDF file
    Gain a real-time overview that helps you save
time, money and effort organizing, managing,
and accounting for your company's fixed
assets and handling your insurance policies
effectively.
  Intercompany Postings
360 kb PDF file
    Create all the necessary documents
(including sales and purchase documents
and general ledger entries) for the entire work
flow of inter-company transactions between
any two companies within a group controlled
by the same legal entity.
  Multiple Currency
291 kb PDF file
    Make the most of other currencies, including
the Euro.  You can keep your local currency
and still invoice, order, report, make and
accept payments in an alternative currency.
  Extensible Business
Reporting Language (XBRL)
288 kb PDF file
    Take advantage of common standards and
the Internet to streamline the exchange of
financial data. Extensible Business Reporting
Language (XBRL) uses accepted financial
reporting standards and practices to export
financial reports across all software and
technologies, including the Internet.
 
Project Management
 
Jobs
288 kb PDF file
   
Account and plan for all costs and billings for
a project or job.  Automated billing prevents
costs from going u-billed.  Integration with
other application areas ensures costs are
posted to the relevant application areas and
reduces the amount of detail you must
maintain in the General Ledger.
  Resources
296 kb PDF file
    Manage personnel and equipment more
efficiently. Track resource costs and usage,
plan capacity and predict availability and
assign alternative prices and costs.
 
Service
 
Service Management
300 kb PDF file
   
Make it delivering superior customer service a
profitable enterprise.  Increase the productivity
of your service operations and sharpen your
competitive edge because you can place
tighter controls on costs, organize your
resources more efficiently and profit from
existing customers by providing better service
levels.
         
  Property Management
290 kb PDF file
    Get in control by recording your first property
sale then streamline your downstream
management processes.  You have the ability
to create budgets and financial statements.  
There is no end to the information you can
record, maintain, view and report.
         
 
HR Management
 
Advanced HR
256 kb PDF file
   
Make better use of employee data.  Find the
right fit for jobs and projects and keep track of
absence trends, benefits and company items
such as keys, credit cards, computers and
cars.
  Human Resources
286 kb PDF file
    Make better use of employee data.  Find the
right fit for jobs and projects and keep track of
absence trends, benefits and company items
such as keys, credit cards, computers and
cars.
  Payroll
299 kb PDF file
    Ease of use, accuracy and full integration with
the business management system make this
a powerful solution that can improve labor
productivity and labor efficiencies, as well as
help you control labor related costs – all of
which directly contribute to your company’s
bottom line.
  Communications
229 kb PDF file
    Electronically manage outgoing or incoming
communications for Employees, Applicants or
References.  Outgoing documents using
Microsoft Word can be sent via email, hard
copy or fax.
 
Analytics
 
Overview
370 kb PDF file
   
Organize all of your business data into
information units called cubes.  Easy-to-use
analytical tools allow you to carry out targeted
analysis that's tailored by you, for you.  Present
information on your desktop using a familiar
Microsoft Office Outlook-style interface.
  Dimensions
309 kb PDF file
    Attribute characteristics to the information you
record and use in your daily work in order to
be able to ask searching questions about your
business and act upon the answers.  You can
also use dimensions on posted and budget
entries to monitor and compare how
individual units are performing.  For example,
a responsible department or region.
 
E-commerce and Other Portals
 
Commerce Gateway
297 kb PDF file
   
Reduce costs with an automated system that
makes it easier to map to different data and
set up and administrate agreements.  
Commerce Gateway is a business to business
(B2B) solution that opens up Microsoft
Dynamics
®-NAV for electronic exchange of
trading documents with other systems.
  Commerce Portal
564 kb PDF file
    Use the Internet to streamline your
interactions with business partners and
customers.  Your supply chain partners
interact with you through a personalized Web
portal that matches the needs of their
particular roles.  Every partner has their own
personalized base through which they can do
business with you.
 
Foundation
 
Microsoft SQL Server
286 kb PDF file
   
Run your business on Microsoft's latest,
industry leading database technology, while
still benefiting from Microsoft Dynamics
®-NAV
Integrated Development Environment.
  Technology Framework
390 kb PDF file
    Take advantage of an open, but secure
technology framework that makes it trusted by
thousands of customers who rely upon it for
efficient day-to-day work, collaboration and
future growth.
  User Experience
301 kb PDF file
    Help employees and systems administrators
work more efficiently with less effort.  The user
interface includes a new main menu that has
the familiar look and feel of Microsoft Office
Outlook, with content structured around
departmental areas to reflect employees'
roles and tasks.
  XML Document Exchange
328 kb PDF file
    Streamline the import and export of XML
data.  Learn how the new XMLport objects
allow you to easily exchange documents with
your business partners and improve the
overall performance of the solution when
handling XML document exchange.
  Developers Toolkit
362 kb PDF file
    Because it has been designed exclusively for
the solution, it supports and understands the
unique, object-based structure of Microsoft
Dynamics
®-NAV.  Thanks to its well designed
graphical user interface and the analytical
tools provided in the toolkit, developers have a
better understanding of the architecture of the
application and all existing code and are
therefore more productive.
 
Microsoft CRM
 
Customer Service
510 kb PDF file
   
Learn how Microsoft CRM offers you superior
customer services capability while increasing
your  capacity to handle requests, without
adding employees.
  Sales Support
296 kb PDF file
    Accessible from Microsoft Outlook and the
Web, Microsoft CRM Sales help sales people
manage leads and opportunities, measure
and forecast sales activity, efficiently track
customer communications and automate
stages in the sales process.  All helping to
ensure a shorter cycle, higher close rate and
improved customer retention.
  CRM Mobility
900 kb PDF file
    Microsoft CRM Mobile 1.2 allows users to
quickly manage account information, add and
organize business contacts, schedule
important meetings and track existing sales
opportunities all while working from a Pocket
PC or Pocket PC Phone Edition with Windows
Mobile 2003 software.
  Integration
286 kb PDF file
    See how Microsoft CRM helps you ensure
consistency of data across teams and
departments, streamline process and
empower employees with a complete,
accurate view of customer information.
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