Microsoft Technologies In Navision

Microsoft Technologies in Microsoft Dynamics-Navision

In every area of Microsoft Dynamics–Navision®, Microsoft technologies play a key role.

Overall Microsoft Navision

Microsoftâ Windowsâ 2000
Microsoftâ Windowsâ XP
Microsoftâ Windowsâ Server 2003
Windowsâ Installer and Active Directoryâ
Microsoftâ SQL Serverâ 2000
Microsoftâ Office Suite

Key Benefits:

Reliably manage Microsoft Navision with Windows Installer, an engine to manage, install, modify, or remove an application.
Efficiently share and manage information about your network resources and users with Active Directory.
Quickly provide your users with open access to the Microsoft Navision application areas that they’re entitled to with one-time authentication.
Easily maintain your personal settings if you need to work in Microsoft Navision from a different PC, making it easier to use.

Key Benefits Microsoft SQL Server 2000:

Support a large or growing database and a high number of concurrent users.
Integrate Microsoft Navision with any number of third-party products.
Facilitate reliable exchange of information with other applications and systems.
View your data in a number of ways using OLAP and data warehousing, so you have your finger on the pulse concerning your customers and products.

Key Benefits Microsoft Office Suite:

Microsoft Navision enables you to draw on the functionality of familiar programs, such as Microsoft Word and Excel, to organize business data for various uses, campaigns, and analyses. For example, from within Microsoft Word, you can build queries that will extract data directly from the Microsoft Navision database to create customer letters, such as notifying a customer that they have reached a certain bonus level where they have earned a rebate. More sophisticated queries can be made in programs, such as Microsoft Excel, producing reports and analyses of up-to-the-minute financial and other data. With Microsoft Excel, data from Microsoft Navision can be read directly into a spreadsheet to produce simple reports.

Commerce Portal

Microsoftâ Business Solutions–Navisionâ Commerce Portal is an Internet-based solution that is integrated with Microsoft Navision. It provides a company’s customers and business partners with an online Web portal containing relevant information and services that enable them to carry out commercial transactions with each other. Commerce Portal allows a company to create Web portal users with different roles and permissions as well as multiple Web sites.

Microsoft Windows 2000 +SP4 / 2003 Server
Microsoft Internet Information Server (Part of Microsoft Windows 2000/2003 Server)
Microsoftâ Message Queue (Part of Microsoft Windows 2000/2003 Server)
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 + SP3 (used by Commerce Server)
Microsoftâ Commerce Server 2000 + SP3 / 2002 + SP2 (Only Commerce Server 2002 on Windows 2003 Server)
Microsoftâ XML Parser 3.0 SP3
Microsoftâ Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1 or later

Key Benefits:

Improve your response time to your partners, customers, and vendors, who can all get role-based portals with updated product, pricing, catalog information, and more.
Enable information to flow freely between Microsoft Navision and the front-end portal, so users can submit and receive information directly to and from Microsoft Navision at their convenience.
Reduce costs by automating transactions. Microsoft technology reduces the bottleneck of manual order entry and lets customers see for themselves what the latest products look like, the latest price, and the most current description as soon as you update it in Microsoft Navision.
Save costs by setting up reverse online auctions to purchase products and services from vendors. A purchasing employee enters information on the desired item, quantity, and delivery time. Vendors respond to the auction by making bids on their Web portal, stating what quantity they have and when they can deliver, and you can choose the best offer.

In order to use Commerce Portal with Microsoft Navision 4.0, you must use the Commerce Portal Synchronization services and demo sites released with Microsoft Navision 3.70. Contact your Microsoft Certified Business Solutions Partner for additional information.

Commerce Gateway

Microsoftâ Business Solutions–Navisionâ Commerce Gateway facilitates the electronic exchange of business documents between business partners. Commerce Gateway tightly integrates with Microsoftâ BizTalkâ Server and is part of your Microsoft Navision solution, which means that information sent or received by Commerce Gateway is automatically updated in the Microsoft Navision back-office system.

Microsoft Windows 2003 Server
Microsoft Windows 2000 Server or Windows XP
Microsoft BizTalk Server (any version)
Microsoft SQL Server 2000

Key Benefits:

You can participate as a supply chain partner cost-effectively with Commerce Gateway, which uses Microsoftâ Business Solutions–Navisionâ Application Server, XML schemas and Microsoft BizTalk Server to map and trade business documents between Microsoft Navision and other systems.
You get the leverage to reach out to new trading partners, regardless of the system they use or the standards they require. Microsoft BizTalk Server is built on XML and can map data between virtually any two data formats, such as EDIFACT, X12 and flat files, using drag and drop technique.
You cut your response time to your trading partners; Microsoft BizTalk Server works with Navision Application Server to immediately handle sales orders.

Microsoft Dynamics-Navision Relationship Management and Microsoft Dynamics-Navision Service Management

§ Microsoft Word 2000/XP/2003

§ Microsoft Outlook ® 2000/XP/2003 with Collaboration Data Object (CDO) installed

§ Microsoftâ Exchange Server 5.5, SP4 or later,or Microsoft Exchange Server 2003

Key Benefits:

Access your up-to-date contacts, tasks and calendar information from Microsoft Outlook directly in Microsoft Navision.
Keep records of your e-mail correspondence, business contacts, meetings, tasks, appointments, and so on, in both Outlook and Microsoft Navision and to share selected records with your colleagues. For example: when you create an e-mail from Microsoft Navision, the e-mail is also registered in Outlook, and when you assign a task in Outlook, the task is also registered in Microsoft Navision.
Communicate better with your customers and colleagues with E-Mail Logging, which gives you a greater overview of your e-mails. You can integrate e-mails between Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Navision using Microsoft Exchange Server. You’ll be able to maintain current e-mail records in both systems and share and publish knowledge about external contacts.