Microsoft Highlights SharePoint, Metro Possibilities of Dynamics NAV 2013

With the build up to Dynamics NAV 2013, Microsoft has made it clear that interfacing and integrating with its other business solutions, especially SharePoint and Office, will play a key role in the product's value proposition and market identity. 

While the importance of SharePoint may be debated within the Dynamics NAV community, Microsoft used the recent Directions EMEA event to both highlight the (planned) capabilities of the NAV 2013 NAV Portal Framework (NPF) for SharePoint, and to tease at the more expansive possibilities of integrating to SharePoint and building custom solutions with with a Metro UI theme (Metro was also demonstrated with NAV at Convergence 2012 in Houston).

Microsoft asked NAV consultancy Catapult ERP to create a custom branded demo that shows off both SharePoint use cases and the Metro UI, which they delivered in Rome.  While the details remain largely under wraps due to a Microsoft's NDA, Catapult officials tell us they are pretty stoked about it and they'd love to shout it from the rooftops-but they can't at the moment.  They added that there is also an updated version of the demo in the works for upcoming NAV 2013 readiness events.

The few details we do know focus on a vision for the next generation CFO home page experience - a Metro-based interface that blends SharePoint and ERP data with graphs and data visualization. Features of the solution ...