Role center in Microsoft Dynamics NAV

What is a role center?

Role center is a home page, for users in Microsoft Dynamics NAV. It is a personal place for each employee, providing quick access to tasks and based on his/her specific role. Besides giving users clear overview of upcoming tasks, Role center hides most of features you do not commonly need to see based on extensive research into how people really work.

Role Centers for every role in your organisation

Working with role center

With various key elements like Activities, My Lists, My Notifications, Graphs and Charts, Microsoft Dynamics NAV accommodates wide range of needs of users with simplicity. Employees can even easily personalize their own role center without the help of any IT professionals. Here are several examples of benefits users can get from Microsoft Dynamics NAV’s elements:

-          Get overview of work and monitor performance visually with graphs and charts.

-          Get better connection to other colleagues with direct integration with Microsoft Outlook and receive notifications about urgent issues from My Notifications.

-          Find necessary information with ease using My Lists.

Benefits

Role center of Microsoft Dynamics NAV bring considerable benefits to not only the organization but also each individual employee using it:

-          Employees can achieve higher productivity with greater job satisfaction as role center is of great simplicity, promoting high degree of focus on current task, to quickly get the job done.

-          Familiar and easy to personalize interface of Microsoft Dynamics NAV makes it easy to use, with minimal training and help from IT department, lowering the cost for your organization.

-          Managers can configure with ease level of access of different employees to various kind of information, bring greater security for the company.

Microsoft Dynamics NAV – ERP solution for small and medium sized business

For companies seeking to replace outdated business management solution, Microsoft Dynamics NAV is a perfect solution with low cost of ownership and short implementation time. This software can also fulfill the need of subsidiaries for replacements for parent companies’ solutions that are too much resource consuming.

Functionalities

Microsoft Dynamics NAV is a comprehensive solution for most of your company’s needs, with extensive modules (Business Intelligence and Reporting, Financial Management, Human Resource Management, Manufacturing, Multi-site and international, Project Management, Sales and Marketing, Service Management, Supply Chain Management).

Besides those core tools, there is a wide range of add-on applications to further meet the specialized needs of your industry. Unique requirements of your company can also be addressed with ease using integrated development environment to make changes. Rapid and cost-effective customization is now possible with the access to source code, and there will be no obstacle to upgrade later as Microsoft Dynamics NAV comes with an outstanding technology to manage customized features.

Interface to get work done

With familiar user interface with Outlook, Microsoft Dynamics NAV requires users less time to learn, minimizing the cost of training and the time before your employees can take full advantage of the software. New revolutionary role-based graphical user interface – called Role Center – further enhances that by allowing users to easily personalize their “homepage” according to their needs. Microsoft Dynamics NAV also makes it easy for managers to control how much information your employees can access.

Role Centers for every role in your organisation

Integration with Microsoft’s leading technologies

Strong integration of Microsoft Dynamics NAV with other industry-standard Microsoft technologies means that you can make full use of other applications like Microsoft Office or Microsoft SharePoint. Microsoft Dynamics NAV also provides Web services, which not only has rich e-commerce capabilities and but also make it possible to access data from the internet. Built on 3-tier architecture, with powerful Microsoft .NET foundation, Microsoft Dynamics NAV makes it easier than ever to integrate with other applications, as well as develop extended functionality. Server Tier of Dynamics NAV houses all business logic, ensuring the integration with other applications smooth, fast and cost-effective. In the core of Dynamics NAV is Microsoft SQL Server 2008, one of the most robust and reliable database platforms on the market, keeping valuable data of your organization safe and improving the performance.

Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 architecture

·         For more information on Microsoft Dynamics NAV: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics/products/nav-overview.aspx

·         Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 Overview brochure: http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/8/8/5888391D-B2F9-4F38-87AB-377CD195ECE0/NAV2009_overviewbrochure.xps

·         Features of Microsoft Dynamics NAV: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics/products/nav-capabilities.aspx

·         Microsoft Dynamics NAV for your industry: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics/products/nav-industries.aspx

·         How Microsoft Dynamics NAV can reduce the cost: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics/products/nav-reduce-it-costs.aspx

·         Compare Microsoft Dynamics NAV with other solutions: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics/compare.aspx

Financial Management capability of Microsoft Dynamics NAV

Microsoft Dynamics NAV provides a complete accounting and financial solution that not only helps you to track and analyze your business with real-time information, but also support the business to grow globally. For details on how Microsoft Dynamics NAV for financial management can enhance organizational performance, access Financial Management white paper.

Integrated solution for the whole organization

With wide range of modules, Microsoft Dynamics NAV addresses most of the needs of business. That is, business processes and information are gathered only once in a central database and are shared across the business, ensuring the accuracy and integrity of data. It also means that your employees no longer need to waste their time on pulling information from numerous sources. Additionally, such integration enables the connection between people within the organizations with customers, suppliers, and trading partners including across the Internet and from intranet collaboration portals.

Better decision making

Microsoft Dynamics NAV goes with powerful business intelligence tools to help you make informed and data-based decisions. Managers now can analyze real-time data, monitor performance and producing up-to-minute report on the fly, gaining a comprehensive perspective of overall financial performance. Such features ideally enhance decision-makers in strategic planning as well as in providing reliable financial forecasts.

Boosting productivity

Finance professionals are now greatly supported by Microsoft Dynamics NAV as this solution streamlines routine practices and automated financial processes, reducing their time spending on accounting tasks. Their productivity is also enhanced with familiar, easy-to-use interface specifically focusing on the role of users, providing them quick access to relevant information and common tasks they need. They are now able to work faster, smarter to produce result that is far more desirable.

Business growth

Microsoft Dynamics NAV greatly accommodates future grow of the business with flexibility. Besides a wealth of existing reports and forms addressing different regulations and standards, Microsoft Dynamics NAV makes it easy for users to customize forms and reports to match how your organization does business and to comply easily with international accounting standards. Additionally, with multicurrency support, business can expand into international markets with confidence and handle foreign currencies with ease. That is, Microsoft Dynamics NAV helps reduce the complexity of global transactions, enabling your business to work without barriers across a global market.

For more in-depth information on Microsoft Dynamics NAV for financial management:

-          Fact sheet: General Ledger

-          Fact sheet: Fixed Assets

-          Fact sheet: Payables

-         Fact sheet: Receivables