For Microsoft Dynamics NAV Retail Partner, Azure Managed Service Offers Speed, Simplicity in Sophisticated Scenarios

NaviPartner's new retail solution, Dynamics-Retail.com, was designed to meet some key characteristics - to be cloud-based, to take advantage of Microsoft Dynamics NAV and the open source e-commerce platform Magento, and to allow for rapid setup.

The Copenhagen-based firm has chosen to host its new offering on Azure using the new Dynamics NAV Managed Service offering. Dynamics-Retail.com combines NaviPartner's POS solution, NP Retail, with NP Ecommerce, which integrates Magento and Microsoft Dynamics NAV.

Dynamics-Retail.com was designed as a unified platform that gives companies one solution for physical shop, web shop, bookkeeping, administration and warehouse management. One of its key value added features is the streamlined and automated setup of the full integrated solution.

"We [have packaged] it together so you have an ERP system, and in it you have a POS and you have Magento on top of that," says Mark Stewart Pedersen - owner/CEO NaviPartner. "So directly out of the box, you can [deploy] it in six seconds and you are then running with a web shop and a full ERP and a POS."

Pedersen said NaviPartner was able to get its POS running on the web browser-the first time that had been done.

"One of the biggest advantage of getting it into the browser is that now you're able to run it directly in Azure, so we're not replicating, we don't have anything locally. You're running it directly on the NAV client, running in the cloud," Pederson says, including on tablet devices like an iPad.

NaviPartner is also one of the early adopting partners for Microsoft Dynamics NAV