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NAV 2009 Expected to Open Way to Smoother Interaction with Key Microsoft Applications

by Jason Gumpert
Editor, MSDynamicsWorld.com

What should users expect from Dynamics NAV 2009?

According to David Roys of Gaspode's Brain Dump, writing on the Intergen blog, NAV 2009 will be released late this year, and "is set to bring something quite extraordinary to the middle-tier business solutions market." 

He alludes to NAV team discussion about "a ground-breaking user interface, a state-of-the-art technology platform, and web-services enablement while remaining true to their core product values of simplicity, adaptability and ease-of-use."

He also expects "a ground-breaking three-tier architecture that opens the underlying business rules and data to the applications people do want to use, such as: Outlook, Word, InfoPath, SharePoint, web browsers, and mobile devices."

For those intimidated by ERP systems, with their huge number of menu options and data-entry screens with endless fields, he says NAV 2009 will include something called  "Dynamics Customer Model" and "Role-Tailored Client".

"In addition to mapping the application to the role the individual user performs, they have allowed information from other systems, such as Outlook, to be presented directly within the Dynamics client. This is great news for the end user as they will have an application that is based on the processes, activities and tasks that are specific to their role within the organization."

 

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About Jason Gumpert

As the editor of MSDynamicsWorld.com, Jason oversees all editorial content on the site and at our events, as well as providing site management and strategy. He can be reached at jgumpert@msdynamicsworld.com.

Prior to co-founding MSDynamicsWorld.com, Jason was a Principal Software Consultant at Parametric Technology Corporation (PTC), where he implemented solutions, trained customers, managed software development, and spent some time in the pre-sales engineering organization. He has also held consulting positions at CSC Consulting and Monitor Group.

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