19 November 2008

Kirill Tatarinov expands on the Microsoft Dynamics strategy at Convergence

In his opening address at Convergence 2008 in Copenhagen, Kirill Tatarinov, corporate vice president of Microsoft Business Solutions at Microsoft, has announced the general availability of Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 as of 1 December.

"Our customers and partners are facing complex issues today. Customers need to streamline operations and find ways to use resources more efficiently while partners are looking for strong opportunities to create and maintain vertical solutions," Tatarinov said. "Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 allows us to squarely address the needs of midsize businesses in today's economic climate and to support our partners' investments. By using the role-specific user friendly ERP solution, both groups can boost productivity and work smarter, maximising their effectiveness in driving business impact."

Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 will introduce several new capabilities designed to increase usage of ERP and fuel individual and organisation-wide productivity, including personalised role centers, sophisticated business intelligence (BI) capabilities and .NET Web services.

Personalised role centers corresponding to 21 key job functions provide individual employees with tools, alerts and efficiency capabilities attuned to the needs of their particular role from within a single location, while other role tailored attributes make employees' jobs easier as their work takes them to other parts of the application.

Sophisticated BI capabilities, based on the new Microsoft SQL Server database layer introduced in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009, enable employees to drill into data, identify trends, generate business insights, and monitor how they’re tracking against key performance indicators (KPIs).

.NET Web services allow partners and customers to integrate data and business logic from Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 with other applications to support a wide range of scenarios. For example, businesses wanting to deploy credit check functionality to enable employees who normally do not have access to the ERP system to run credit checks on a new customer can easily create Web services that make the process simple and efficient in providing the employee with access to recent and accurate credit data.

"Our employees have enthusiastically embraced Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 because it fits their individual needs rather than force-fitting them into a one-size fits-all system," said Henrik Dam Jespersen, CEO of Hurup Furniture. "The ease of setup and tight integration with the Microsoft products we already use allowed us to get up and running quickly and smoothly, and we're already seeing increased productivity, reduced costs and smarter decision-making."

Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 will be made generally available in Australia, Canada (English and French), Denmark, France, Germany, India (English), Ireland, Italy, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, the UK and the US on 1 Dec. Availability in an additional 28 national markets will be announced nearer to the specific country release dates.

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