Today’s world demands a new way to do business. Organisations continue to wrestle with complexity in a difficult business environment. They face the dual challenge of reducing operating costs while responding to greater customer needs and ultimately increasing profitability. Microsoft Dynamics® NAV 2009 R2 strengthens the ability of people and organisations to face these ongoing challenges, so that their businesses can remain competitive and grow.

This latest release of Microsoft Dynamics® NAV R2 extends the reach of insight, productivity, and collaboration across the entire business, helping to ensure that people – an organisation’s most powerful asset – and the different ways they work continue to drive business success. New capabilities allow for remote and roaming users to take advantage of the richness of the RoleTailored interface over the internet. Built-in integration with Microsoft Dynamics® CRM, support for online payment services and cool business data visualisation capabilities provides better productivity and opens for a new way to do business. click here for more:

Microsoft Unveils New Functionality for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 R2, in a press release today:

“We’re delivering this release in response to customer and partner feedback,” said Crispin Read, general manager of Microsoft Dynamics ERP at Microsoft. “Microsoft is committed to continuously bringing forth innovation in our ERP solutions, including the integration with cloud services. These latest enhancements to Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 are an important step in delivering solutions that drive real business productivity.”

Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 R2 Should be available in the fourth quarter of 2010.

So what does this mean for our clients? Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 R2 clients will benefit from the following:

• Microsoft Dynamics CRM integration. Today’s fast-paced business environment demands instant access to customers and vendors. Microsoft is providing built-in integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Benefits of customer relationship management (CRM) integration include eliminating redundant data entries, keeping information up to date in both ERP and CRM solutions, and providing salespeople with the ability to quickly access detailed business information about contracts, pricing and product availability. Customers can choose between integration to on-premises Microsoft Dynamics CRM or Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online with the option to migrate to either option over time.  
• Online Payment Service for Microsoft Dynamics NAV. This enables customers to process payment transactions from the Microsoft Dynamics NAV interface across multiple channels, including e-commerce, point of sale and call center transactions. The Payment Service works with leading payment processing services and all major credit cards.  
• RoleTailored interface access for remote or roaming users. Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 R2 supports direct access from the Microsoft Dynamics RoleTailored experience over the Internet. This allows for remote or roaming users to take advantage of the richness and Microsoft Office integration of the RoleTailored interface and the many integration features connected to local resources, such as the operating system and Microsoft Office. This reduces the complexity and overhead compared with using other applications such as Citrix Systems and Terminal Services, especially for hosting partners offering cloud-based Microsoft Dynamics NAV deployments. 
• Microsoft Application Virtualization support. The Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 R2 RoleTailored interface can be deployed using Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) technology, which is relevant for both on-premise and hosted solutions. This provides a better experience for the end user as all integration with local applications is done on the desktop. It also cuts IT costs by centrally managing Microsoft Dynamics NAV client installations with automatic deployment to the desktop after an update. 
• Windows 7 user experience improvements. Through Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 R2, jumplists can be used to open recently accessed customers and vendors for increased business productivity and efficiency, and the icon overlay functionality provides information on system events and status streamlined with the Windows 7 user experience. 
• Treemap visualization. Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 R2 showcases the possibilities around business data visualizations abilities in Microsoft Dynamics NAV through rich ad hoc data visualization. It provides treemap analysis that enables the comparison of any two values, for example sales and profits, which increases business productivity and business insight. The innovative client extensibility framework used allows partners to extend the user experience of Microsoft Dynamics NAV to integrate visualizations into any end-user scenario.

About Microsoft Dynamics

Microsoft Dynamics is a line of easy-to-use, integrated and adaptable ERP and CRM applications that enable business decision-makers to quickly respond to market shifts, take advantage of new trends, increase their competitive edge and drive business success. Microsoft Dynamics NAV is delivered by Evolution Business Systems providing specialised services and additional innovation to help customers excel in their industries.

To find out more about Microsoft Dynamics NAV and how EBS can help you get on with your business:

Call Paul Woods on 1300 303 973

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You can read the full press release here:

This Arrow financials release will include support for Windows 7 and also an update to Quickforms to make it compatible with both Vista and Windows 7. Further news with this release brings support for SQL 2008 with the Arrow software, which will require a driver update; news we’re sure you are happy to hear as clients upgrading hardware generally look to purchase SQL 2008.

The software component of the upgrade is free for clients with up-to-date ESP, to schedule your upgrade to the latest version please contact our office on 1300 303 973 or email support at support@ebsys.com.au 

Arrow Research Corporation (ARC) was established in Australia in 1989. Their 21 year commitment to developing cost-effective, reliable and integrated business solutions has won acclaim from leading business associations and publications around the globe, Arrow financials.

Arrow financials suite ‘Arrow Software’ of accounting products have been successfully implemented in a wide range of industries across Australia, the United Kingdom and New Zealand. The installed user base includes more than 50,000 registered users.

Arrow Research Corporation’s dedication to product development, innovation and adaptability to technological advances, has gained them the reputation of delivering, dependable, progressive and robust products to the mid-size business market and is what has given Arrow financials the success it has today.

Visit our Arrow financials website to find out more information on Arrow software here

The Purchase Order release candidate ‘W2 RC2′ incorporates new order entry transaction types, and includes new features such as; Purchase Order shipment tracking, where a shipment is used to acknowledge a shipment of stock allocated against a particular Purchase Order. New pop up order entry screens are also available, such as the Purchase Order history screen, which will help to make order entry simpler and more streamlined. The inclusion of a return authority function will also enhance the Purchase Order feature as the return authority will be used to acknowledge the return of stock partial or complete against a creditors invoice, when the return is refunded the return authority can be converted into a suppliers credit note. These new functions, as well as many others will augment the overall user experience.

Evolution Business Systems are continuing to work with Tencia, we continue to put it through its paces to ensure it is a solid solution for our clients to upgrade from Visual Arrow to the new platform. At EBS we like to ensure our clients are getting good solutions so as is the EBS way, unless it passes our testing it will not be deployed in a live enviroment.