[AccessD] OT: Microsofts new product NAVISION.

Excellent reply. I'll be curious what others have to say.
Thanks!
John


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From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Brett Barabash
Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 11:15 AM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: RE: [AccessD] OT: Microsofts new product NAVISION.


Our company evaluated Navision Attain, along with Great Plains eEnterprise
and Solomon IV (all MS acquisitions!) in selecting an ERP package.  In the
end, we went with Solomon largely based on the Vendor's strong presentation.

Navision didn't strike me as being more powerful than any of the other MS
alternatives.  Here were some interesting differences that set it apart.

- It uses its own proprietary database engine that is "supposedly" more
efficient than SQL Server.  The vendor told me that they also had the option
for a SQL Server backend, although most of their clients didn't use it (I
would assume cost and maintenance being the reasons for that).

- It stores no rollup totals or derived data.  Everything is calculated on
the fly (contrast that with Solomon, which contains tons of redundancy
throughout several tables.  Fixing a bad transaction on the data side is a
nightmare for us!)

- Navision, being a European company (German, I believe), is highly
internationalized and contains inherent support for multi-currency
transactions.

My (educated) guess is that Microsoft is not about to make this into their
flagship product.  They are currently developing their own best of breed
solution that contains elements from all three products.  They will then
offer migration paths to companies running their 3 packages, and continue to
support the 3 with limited upgrades for a period of time.

If you know of companies that require Navision development, it can be quite
lucrative, but don't bank on it becoming mainstream.  I think it will remain
a powerful niche product for the rest of its lifecycle.


-----Original Message-----
From: John Skolits [mailto:Support at corporatedatadesign.com] 
Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 9:57 AM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: [AccessD] OT: Microsofts new product NAVISION.


I have a company that wanted some temporary Access work form me but the
final goal was the company was migrating all their ERP and databse stuff to
Navision.

Anyone have any experince with this. I'm curious if it's a good MS product.
I think it's supposed to be MS's answwer to SAP?  Maybe it something worth
learning.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,

John Skolits
 

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