Microsoft Dynamics NAV Experts Appeal for Changes in ISV Software Strategy with Partner Ready Software Initiative

Are Microsoft Dynamics NAV ISVs ready for the future?  We know that Microsoft is hustling to help NAV ISVs prepare Azure-ready versions of their software to correspond with the impending launch of the Azure-ready NAV 7 release. Some Dynamics NAV experts see significant changes coming in the way Microsoft manages its ERP business as it edges toward the cloud. And with other changes and challenges like Microsoft's channel verticalization strategy and .NET interoperability, some of the top NAV solution developers see an opportunity now to engage in efforts to change the way they sell, deliver, and support NAV add-on software.

Partner Ready Software (PRS) is a new, loosely organized group of Dynamics NAV ISVs led by veteran NAV software developers Eric Wauters (iFacto), Mark Brummel (BrummelDS), and Gary Winter (Agiles), who hope to change both the business of ISV solutions as well as the future direction of the Dynamics NAV technical architecture. 

"We want to establish a professional industrial production process to turn your NAV [vertical solutions] into volume-deal enabled software (something that Microsoft sure wants to see happen)", wrote Eric Wauters on the Dynamics Community site.  "We would like to bring fresh ideas and concepts to the NAV architecture and coding... We would like to establish re-engineering strategies to make NAV verticals and the core product more app-like and we would like to show ways of establishing coherence and consistency in ...