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Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009: Business Intelligence

The ever-growing need for access to essential business data and the insight it can provide has made business intelligence (BI) an important business management tool. With BI, people can use information to help them make well-informed decisions that ultimately improve performance and drive business success.

When it comes to acquiring business intelligence, many small to midsized companies are at a disadvantage. Compared to larger companies, they may lack the resources, appropriate systems, or BI tools needed to gain a deep understanding of business data. Or the systems and methods they use cannot keep pace with their company’s growth and changing needs, limiting their ability to use information to optimize performance and compete effectively.

Retailers transforms connected people into customer relationship agents

Information technology can help you accomplish this transformation by helping you connect your people to the tools, processes, and information they need to excel in customer interactions. And empowering a legion of customer relationship ambassadors can deliver transformative value to your business.

Retailers create connected customer relationships to differentiate their brands and build loyalty

Consumers increasingly are taking control of the retail environment. A major contributor to this development is today’s pervasive digital technology that makes it easy to gather information and shop anytime from anywhere. No longer can retailers count on product availability and attractive pricing to win and keep customers. Instead, digitally literate, time-starved, value-driven consumers insist on a complete shopping experience—a connected experience—convenient, personalized, available in the store, by telephone or online. And this experience must feel the same regardless of channel; service levels that vary by channel can leave a bad impression with shoppers.

Extending the Microsoft Dynamics ERP Solution

This paper highlights how Microsoft Dynamics NAV fuels the personal impact everyone in your organization can bring to the table in a connected and consistent manner diving into personal productivity, collaboration and enhanced information and how you can use the Microsoft Dynamics NAV business logic in other applications to extend the reach of your solution to more users.

Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009: Financial Management

This white paper is intended for Microsoft Dynamics NAV customers. It reviews how Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 financial management tools and the integrated capabilities in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 help organizations maximize the value of their financial data to empower finance staff, executives, analysts, and other decision-makers.

After reading this paper you will understand:

• The need for an integrated solution when deploying financial management applications.
• The value of expandability beyond core financial management functionality.
• How financial information is used throughout the organization.
• How to use Microsoft Dynamics NAV to overcome the challenges of financial management.
• The importance of reporting and analytics.

Retailers use connected insight to build customer-driven, proactive business processes

Business processes form the backbone of any retailer. Connected insight is all about creating an end-to-end view of your company that uncovers insights to help your people continuously adapt these processes to perform smoothly in changing conditions.

Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009: Supply Chain Management

This white paper is intended for small and midsized companies driven primarily by manufacturing or distribution operations and in need of solutions to help improve the integration, visibility, and efficiency of their supply chains. It reviews how Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 can connect trade partners, improve collaboration, and ease the flow of business information within and between organizations to help enhance the efficiency, speed, and profitability of the entire supply chain.

After reading this paper, you will understand:

• How increasingly complex supply networks are driving a need for better integration and synchronization of information and processes among supply chain partners.
• How technology can enhance the transparency and efficiency of supply chain processes both within an organization and throughout the supply chain.
• How Microsoft Dynamics NAV can help companies and their trade partners streamline interactions, improve collaboration, execute effectively, and enhance profitability for mutual success.

Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009: Wholesale Distribution

This white paper is intended for midsized companies specializing in wholesale distribution and whose primary operations involve the acquisition, storage, customization, repackaging, and shipment of goods to retailers. It reviews how Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009, an adaptable, end-to-end business management solution with built-in wholesale distribution functionality, can integrate business information from across the organization. This can help wholesale distributors increase efficiency, reduce costs and cycle times, and manage operations for improved profitability.

After reading this paper you will understand:

• How improved integration of business information can save time, effort, and money through process automation and optimization of inventories, warehouse layout, and workflows.
• The importance of integration for gaining insight into processes, product and operational performance, margins, and profitability.
• Why Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 is an ideal solution to help companies overcome challenges wholesale distributors face today.

Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009: Enhancements

From its origins in the 1980s, Microsoft Dynamics NAV, formerly Microsoft Business Solutions–Navision, has grown from a relatively simple financial management system into a comprehensive enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution on which more than 73,000 midsized organizations depend. Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 builds on years of incremental growth and technology innovation to deliver a superior business management solution that can streamline your specialized business processes and adapt to the unique way you do business. Easy to use, it helps your people work fast and smart so they can better contribute to your business success.

By upgrading to the latest version of Microsoft Dynamics NAV, you can give people the information and tools they need to help your business grow. Powerful new functionality and technology innovations include individual and organizational productivity enhancements; improved integration with Microsoft Office and other Microsoft products; easier customizations; and easier connectivity to other line-of-business systems.