By upgrading to Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 you can get more value from your ERP solution. Breakthrough innovations can give your business the flexibility to adapt to new opportunities and growth and help you and your team address the challenges facing companies today: user productivity, change, globalization, and compliance.
Upgrading to Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 offers value to your customers, partners and business simultaneously .
Value to Partners - Customer Retention
Upgrading your customer to the latest release can enable your customer to grow and benefit from the business value this solution is offering.
- Customer satisfaction & retention
- Up-& cross-sell opportunity
- Cost of support
Value to Customers – Business Value
Upgrades are successful when adding business value and benefits to the organization.
- Lower-cost/risk platform
- Support more biz processes
- Adoption/productivity
- Risk: cost of not upgrading
- Return: realize BREP ROI
The time is right, to extend your existing ERP platform to support changing business requirements and position your organization for success. By deploying a modern technology platform, you can align your ERP solution with key business drivers such as efficiency, reduced costs, and strategic growth.
Steps in Upgrade
Following are the different versions available for Microsoft Dynamics NAV.
Upgrade Process
NAV upgrade is the process where we move a Customer from one release of Microsoft Dynamics NAV to the next. An upgrade involves a shift of a single release like an upgrade from Dynamics NAV 5.0 to Dynamics NAV 2009 or a jump from Version 3.6/3.7 to Dynamics NAV 2009.
We upgrade all versions and follow the Best Practices for Upgrade set by Microsoft. Our methodology is a stage-wise process which ensures quality and enables us to upgrade with minimum time & resources. The complete upgrade solution is tested thoroughly and everything is documented properly. This gives us the confidence to perform every project with 100% customer satisfaction which is reflected in all our prior customer citations.
Envisioning
It includes the following activities-
- Understanding the scope of customization
- Estimation
- Upgrade proposal
- Project assumptions
- Team
- Customer signoff
Planning
- Plan
- Customization needed
- Gap fit analysis
- Upgrade design
- Customer signoff
Engagement
- Purchase order
- NDA
- Access to database
- Frozen time zone
- Project on whizible
Development
- Data integrity test
- Merging
- Conflict resolution
- Transformation
- Data upgrade
Testing
- Testing by Alletec
- Testing by customer
- Feedback
- Bug fixing
Deployment
- Upgrade of Database at Client Location
- Migration to SQL Server (if required)
- Testing at Client Location
- Customer Signoff
Post upgrade process
- Follow-up
- Training
- Pending Items to be Closed
- Outstanding things to do
- Customer Satisfaction Level
- Support
Goals of Upgrade
- Better Usability
- New Features
- Provides customers with new and powerful tools which can help their business earn more.
- Customers can take advantage of faster processing, more robust system and dependable data which comes in the form of enhanced functionalities and improved clients.
- Implementation of Hot Fixes in One Go
- Features provided in expensive and time taking customizations can be covered by latest Service packs
- Applying Hot fixes and forthcoming upgrades becomes easier
- Tight Integration with Other Applications
- Familiar programs help people work faster
- Fits with your existing systems.
- Streamlined Communication, Data Analysis and Document Sharing
- Enhanced User Productivity
- Role Centers delivering real-time information and job-related tasks.
- Intuitive and user-friendly environment.
- New and more meaningful MIS reports which can help the management in taking important executive decisions.
- Increased Connectivity with Web Services
- Enhanced trading partner collaboration
- Incorporation of data from other line-of-business systems
- Allowing external applications to run business logic from Microsoft Dynamics Nav
The Process
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