Catapult Shows Off Metro-based Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 Prototype at Microsoft’s WPC

Earlier this year Microsoft asked Dynamics NAV consultancy Catapult ERP to create a custom branded demo to show off NAV 2013 with SharePoint use cases and the Metro UI, and the company developed some buzz around their resulting demonstration at the Directions EMEA event in Rome.

At the time, Catapult execs were excited about the new prototype that would show the best of both worlds - the rigor, business logic and structure of the transactions-based ERP model combined with SharePoint's ability to extract, present, and blend data and documents into a user-friendly application. But they were unable to share any details of the solution because of a Microsoft NDA.

Now, however, with an updated demo to WPC 2012 audiences, the NDA has been lifted and Lars Agger, Vice-President, Professional Services for Catapult ERP, is happy to show it off.

"The whole blending of a SharePoint environment with an ERP system, we've talked about it for a long time - how do we blend the structured data of an ERP system with the unstructured data of SharePoint and with SharePoint's ability to apply more of a user-friendly layout to it?" Agger asked.

"[S]uddenly the ERP transactional data becomes the back end of the plumbing - it's more the ability to expose the data and present the data in a manner that gives the value to the end user like the CFO who doesn't want to go into a system and go four menus down and apply some filters that he doesn't really remember," he said. "Now we can take the data out of the ERP system, define it, and update it on the fly, and present it on the fly, together with whatever other information ...