MICROSOFT DYNAMICS™ NAV WINS TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION AWARDS Published: November 2, 2005

Learn why solution providers judged Microsoft Dynamics™ NAV to be useful, cool, and innovative

Microsoft Dynamics™ NAV has been chosen by the industry publication VARBusiness to receive a VARBusiness Tech Innovator of the Year award for 2005. The awards are based on a broad survey of the IT industry, focusing on innovation and development.

According to VARBusiness, in the SMB software category, Microsoft Dynamics NAV 4.0 won for its fully customizable business-management solution that integrates critical financial, manufacturing, distribution, customer management, supply chain, analytics, and e-commerce data into one streamlined package. In particular, Microsoft Dynamics NAV was selected for its ability to integrate and its built-in tools that help partners and companies optimize solutions to business processes.

READ WHAT OTHERS SAY ABOUT NAVISION

Industry experts give Navision a fairly favorable rating as compared to similar software on the market. You can probably find many comments on the web using search engines, but don't miss the comments made by J. Carlton Collins, CPA from www.accountingsoftwareanswers.com . In his executive summary, Collins outlines his opinion by naming Navision as among many things, the best all around product in the world. Some of his highlights are:

• Excellent customization, easy "Access-like" tools to work with.
• Extremely fast.
• Best "drill-down, drill-around" on the planet.
• Very stable, very reliable.
• Very good resource management.
• Decent advanced distribution and manufacturing.
• Price point very good for this class of product, lite version available.
• Strong "dataport" feature easily imports outside data with validation.
• Strong supply chain features, including reverse auctions.
• Strong executive summaries for inventory, customers, vendors, etc.

You can view detailed strengths and weakness reports at www.accountingsoftwareadvisor.com