Mark Warner one of the most highly regarded independent travel companies in the UK is now profiting from a faster ERP system, with enhanced functionality from an upgrade to Microsoft Dynamics NAV 4.0. The familar Microsoft look and feel also makes it much easier to use and for new employees to adopt - read this Dynamics NAV story in full

Mogens Elsberg, General Manager of Microsoft Dynamics NAV has overseen the development and delivery of Microsoft Dynamics NAV 5.0 and in the interview below he outlines the more noteworthy feature advancements…

Elsberg: “Overall, the advancements in this release are in three core areas: we’ve strengthened the entire solution with new and enhanced application functionality, we’ve added new integration capabilities with Microsoft Office and other Microsoft software and technologies, and we’ve made improvements to the overall core technology that will help improve the developer experience and boost partner productivity.

Microsoft Dynamics NAV 5.0 includes several areas of new and enhanced application functionality that will serve to drive productivity by streamlining business processes. These include Sales and Purchase Document Approval, Prepayment, Intercompany Purchase Cost Distribution, Inventory Costing, Item Tracking, Jobs and Service Order Handling.

Additionally we have worked hard to maximize the benefits that Microsoft Dynamics NAV 5.0 users can gain through integration with other Microsoft products and technologies. For example, the solution has very deep integration with Microsoft Outlook that enables users to complete daily tasks within one program and have the data synchronized in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 5.0 and Microsoft Outlook.

Another key feature is Record Links. Companies often have a lot of relevant information they need to refer to in formats such as Microsoft Word or Microsoft Excel documents or on Web sites. In Microsoft Dynamics NAV 5.0, Record Links allows users to add links to any Web site or file stored on a document management system such as Microsoft SharePoint.

And thanks to integration to online maps such as Windows Live Local Search, users can click a button next to the relevant address in Microsoft Dynamics NAV, on the customer card, for example, see the address highlighted in the on-screen map, and follow the simple driving directions.

We have also made significant productivity improvements to our core technology and have integrated our Rapid Implementation Methodology (RIM) — which now forms part of Sure Step, a methodology that uses models of a company to make deployments and configurations much more predictable — directly into the solution. This provides our partners a clear implementation blueprint to work from, so they can more effectively plan their own resource requirements, and offer their customers a straightforward and well-defined implementation path, with no surprises along the way.” View the interview in full