InspireSmart Microsoft Dynamics Nav - Navision

A reliable platform for growth

An open, but secure platform. Navision’s object-oriented development environment and compact source code make it straightforward to customize, maintain, and connect to other systems.

A reliable database. Whether you choose Microsoft SQL Server or Attain Database Server, you can count on a reliable way to store data. The security system not only controls who can access what, but also ensures that you never have inconsistencies, even if your machine loses power in the middle of a posting process. The transactions recorded will not be out of bal­ance.

Easy to learn. The consistent and intuitive interface makes training employees and new users fast. In the general ledger, for example, the screen will always look the same whether you are looking for a balance, creating a new account, or posting a journal entry to an existing account. You’ll find navigation familiar because the interface is based on Microsoft Windows Stan­dards. There is extensive online Help to which you can even add your own tips.

Wherever the job takes you. With User Portal employees use the Web to access data in Navision wherever they’re working. Remote users, such as traveling sales representatives, can log on to their personal homepage, which is customized to help them perform their particular role. All they need is Internet access.

Using Microsoft Dynamics NAV Manufacturing and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software is a robust yet cost-effective solution for growing small and mid-size businesses (SMBs) that can support customization and add-on software to meet industry-specific needs and more. In addition, it is flexible enough to adapt to the needs of growing businesses that need increased power and functionality.

Product Features:

Financial Management
Using Microsoft Dynamics NAV, you can record and store financial records in a central general ledger that offers charts of accounts, balances, VAT reporting and more.

• Define your preferred currency.
• Establish accounting periods based on your fiscal and business cycle.
• Manage bank accounts and cash.
• Automate processes, including check-writing, bank statement reconciliation.
• Configure and sort charts of accounts the way your employees need to use it.

Manufacturing
With Microsoft Dynamics NAV, manufacturers can react quickly to customer demands and improve manufacturing performance by automating and improving processes, including:

• Production-order management.
• Supply and capacity planning.
• Visibility into shop floor operations.
• Graphics-based production schedules.

Business Intelligence
Use Microsoft Dynamics NAV to transform your raw data into meaningful information that enables you to understand how your business is operating:

• Select from basic or advanced analytics functionality.
• Provide decision makers with a complete view of performance.
• Create graphical reports and displays, using an interface similar to Microsoft Outlook 2003.
• Access data easily and quickly when you need it using the familiar Outlook-style interface.

Sales & Marketing
Place customer information at the fingertips of managers and employees to help your employees build stronger customer relationships.

• Organize and maintain contact information.
• Create sales campaigns.
• Identify sales opportunities.
• Automate sales activities
• .Configure automatic reminders.
• Approve documents.
• Respond to customers efficiently.

Distribution
Solve distribution obstacles using Microsoft Dynamics NAV, a highly flexible manufacturing solution for resolving distribution issues and concerns. Keep your employees informed of inventory levels and order status.

• Track and manage inventory, including in multiple locations.
• Obtain current information about in-stock quantities.
• Get real-time data regarding inventory and shipments.
• Implement improved warehouse management, including customized pick orders and stock replenishment by predetermined thresholds.

Purchase and Payables
Use the flexibility of Microsoft Dynamics NAV and the company-specific setup features to successfully manage payables.

• Apply payment to an unlimited number of invoices and credit memos. For increased control, choose how to apply customer or vendor transactions by specifying the amounts to apply to individual documents. This is particularly helpful when customers make partial payments. When you choose the “Apply-to-Oldest” method, the system can automatically apply receipts to the oldest invoices for specific customers.
• View complete information about the amounts that will be posted to the general ledger prior to posting, including payment discounts and rounding amounts.
• Unapply, or reverse, all postings and changes related to an application of customer and vendor transactions so they can be applied correctly.
• Set a tolerance level in local or other currency on an invoice in order to apply and fully close the invoice and payment entries, even if the payment amount is different than the invoice. Tolerance can be automatically allowed or decided on a case-by-case basis.
• Establish a tolerance level of several days to apply and close an invoice and payment, even if you receive the discounted payment later than the discount date specified by the payment terms. Discount tolerance can be automatically allowed or decided on a case-by-case basis.

Integration with your existing systems.
Microsoft Dynamics NAV was created to integrate smoothly with other Microsoft products, such as Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and Microsoft Windows Vista and XP.

• Documents created in Microsoft Word can take data from the Microsoft Dynamics NAV database and incorporate that it into a customer letter.
• Workers can use Microsoft Excel to create reports with current figures imported from Microsoft Dynamics NAV.
• Commerce portal capabilities enable company to create a website in order to work more effectively with customers and partners.
• Integrate with a broad range of other software products - even if a small business already has significant IT infrastructure, it can integrate with Microsoft Dynamics NAV so that a business makes the most of its IT investment.

Microsoft Dynamics NAV facts and stats:

• More than 65,000 companies around the globe use Microsoft Dynamics NAV
• There are almost 300,000 Microsoft Dynamics customers globally and growing.
• More than 2,700 Microsoft Dynamics NAV certified partners have built more than 1,500 add-on solutions
• There are more than 40 localized versions and Microsoft Dynamics NAV is sold in more than 150 countries
• More than 1 million licensed users of Microsoft Dynamics NAV
• With robust R&D and the compatibility with Microsoft Office, Microsoft is investing in the Dynamics product lines and focusing on the convergence of its solutions into the next generation’s solution.

Microsoft Dynamics NAV is Microsoft’s fastest growing ERP and accounting solution.  These facts show that Microsoft Dynamics NAV provides true business value to high-growth and mid-sized businesses around the world, such as the fast growing service providers and product resellers to the Federal Government.  InspireSmart Solutions in Denver, Colorado can integrate Microsoft Dynamics NAV into your company’s computer systems to give you the best and most widely supported ERP solution available.  Contact InspireSmart Solutions today at 303.757.2800 or info@inspiresmart.com for a free business consultation at your site.

Microsoft Dynamics NAV (formerly Microsoft Navision) helps you respond profitably to your supply chain partners and customers. It helps you plan and reorganize production to meet new and changing market demands, tighten distribution processes, manage your inventory and warehouses according to your unique requirements, and improve the efficiency of your business relationships with personalized portals and automated business transactions. 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.

Microsoft Dynamics NAV is an integrated business management solution designed for growing mid-market companies that want the freedom to focus on their business. Microsoft Dynamics NAV integrates crucial financial, manufacturing, distribution, customer relationship management and e-commerce data into a streamlined, comprehensive solution for growing businesses. Fully customizable, Microsoft Dynamics NAV helps you maximize productivity and respond effectively to market changes without disrupting operations, giving you the freedom to focus on business delivering integrated functionality for :

  Financial Management
  Supply Chain Management
  Manufacturing
  Distribution
  Customer Relationship Management
  Sales & Marketing
  Service Management
  Project Management and Jobs
  E-Business
  Business Analytics
  Multiple Currencies, Multiple Languages
  Human Resources
  Portals

InspireSmart Solutions is experienced in Microsoft Dynamics NAV integration, development, and implementation. InspireSmart Solutions in Denver, Colorado takes care of the technology so you can take care of your business. With over 40,000 Microsoft Dynamics NAV installations worldwide, lets you replace your existing system with a single fully integrated solution with greater simplicity, deeper insight into business information, increased financial control, and operational improvements.

Navision Shorcut Keys

Microsoft Navision Professional is the full featured version of Microsoft Navision, extending the features of Microsoft Navision Standard and allowing 100+ users. Some of the extended feature that comes with professinal version include: business notification, service management, warehouse management, agile manufaturing, supply planning, capacity planning, demand analytics, and ecommerce gateway.

Microsoft Navision Professional can be your first version of Navision. Or if upgrading from Navision Standard, you can easily make the transition to Navision Professional without the pain of a lengthy migration process or training employees on a new application. All that is required is a change in license configuration, and your new features are immediately available. Inspiresmart Solution can quickly get the license for you, and upgrade your standard Navision to Professional Navision.

Microsoft Dynamics NAV (Navision) Software is widely considered to be one of the top five accounting systems or ERP solutions in the world for the mid-range and high-end markets. Some industry experts rank Microsoft Dynamics NAV (Navision) as the top accounting system overall.

In 2002 Microsoft acquired Navision, now called Microsoft Dynamics NAV, for $1.4 billion – the largest acquisition ever made by Microsoft. (This was a very high acquisition price considering that ACCPAC International was acquired the following year by Best Software for just $120 million; even though ACCPAC had more products and far more customers (41,000 to 1.2 million) than did Navision.) Today Navision has been the fastest growing accounting system solution offered by Microsoft. Consider that in 2001, Microsoft Dynamics NAV’s growth rate was an impiressive 32%, even though the rest of the accounting software industry had been on the downward spiral from the impact of the Y2K bug. Since then, the Microsoft Dynamics NAV (Navision) software product line has grown steadily and today has approximately 50,000 customers worldwide, and more than 500,000 individual users. The Microsoft Dynamics NAV product’s future outlook has never looked to be so strong and the features and support so robust.

For other services and IT solutions that the Microsoft Partner InspireSmart Solutions and Microsoft Dynamics NAV support provider in Denver, Colorado offers, please visit the company’s website at www.InspireSmart.com

A key component of the new Microsoft Business Solutions-Navision 4.0 service pack release is the new Microsoft Navision Employee Portal, a cost-efficient intranet solution that makes it easy for a company’s employees to work with critical business information on the company intranet. Employees use Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server to access real-time business information directly from Microsoft Business Solutions-Navision 4.0 Service Pack 1 (SP1). This is integrated innovation at its best, and another great example of how Navision 4.0 SP1 works together with Microsoft products and technologies to help customers and partners around the globe realize full potential.

ERP systems like Microsoft Dynamics NAV (Navision) are used to handle business critical data – financial records, warehouse inventory, CRM and so on, which are the foundations of your business. Can you envision what having access to this business-critical data “anywhere, anytime” in a highly secure manner would do for your business agility? Using InspireSmart Solutions in Denver, Colorado to make these functions available from any location increases the value of your Microsoft Dynamics NAV solution by:

• Enabling employees to work from customer sites, thereby streamlining business processes by making data move faster and more efficiently.
• Making it easier, faster and less expensive to give external accountants and payroll agencies “self-service” access to Dynamics.
• Allowing supply chain collaboration by giving suppliers access to manufacturers’ databases so they can meet their Just in Time (JIT) agreements by managing the inventory themselves i.e. Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI). Increasing work flexibility by making it less expensive for employees access Navision when working from home.

Training

While Microsoft Dynamics NAV is one of the easiest systems to learn and use, InspireSmart Solutions in Denver, Colorado provides specific instruction on how to get the most out of the system. InspireSmart’s Microsoft Certified Trainers have hundreds of hours of experience training our clients and other business partners on efficient and effective use of their new business management tool. With each training class, students receive a training manual specific to that class to support the training process and use as a reference when training is complete. InspireSmart offers a training room in its’ Denver, Colorado office where numerous employees can simultaneously benefit. If your vendor does not provide training, InspireSmart will be happy to work with that vendor and provide the service for you.