Microsoft Dynamics NAV Reviews & Product Details

Dynamics NAV is easy to use ad it generates reports which are easy for users to understand.the reports will always be accurate as long as the data is feed accurately.helps one generate reports on time.

dynamic navation limits the number of users using one database at the same time.its a cloud software hence it requires internet to use making it hard for users in areas with poor or no network.

Dynamic nav is very expensive hence no matter how good it is good for business ,small businesses cant afford it.its would be more favourable if its cost would be reduced,that way it will be affordable.

Financial reports generated on time. as long as i feed data in my system i can access accurate reports on time. these has brought about timely statements sent to creditors and proving openness and trust which is good thing in business.

Microsoft Dynamics comes with a lot of interesting features. It has been a long time I am a frequent user of It. I love to use searching function of this tool that is really helpful as an shortcut. For new use Microsoft Dynamics Nav is quite easy to use and install. I do like how It allows us to look at the invoices paid by different dealers. In the last I would say Microsoft Dynamics is the powerful ERP I have ever used.

It is being used by our company for inventory purposes. It becomes sometimes difficult to track the stock. Dynamic needs some improvements for that as well as to edit or bring changes in purchase orders becomes complicated.

Microsoft is excellent at developing its products and I am hopeful for the coming new features and functions, they will be figuring our issues out.

Highly recommended for the companies looking for powerful ERP.

Microsoft Dynamics is a effective tool for reporting, keeping the CS information and lots more. It is an useful tool with the ease of use.If i talk about the pricing of this product it is a cost saving product.

Its simple to use

It has all the major Features of an ERP (i.e Financial, Receivable, Payable, Sales order processing, Purchase order processing, HR, BAnk Management, etc)

It is easy to customised

It is easy to get support

The inbuilt reports feature is not fantastic.

It requires a good amount of training and a lot of support for the initial setup.

Data Security

Take more training to learn how to use the system. Repeat the training after 3 and 6 month - then the implementer suggests more efficient ways how to use the system and our users had experience and questions how they want to use the system.

I used NAV in the Retail and was part of the implementation process. It is easy to lean and has a very intuitive user interface that most people get familiar with very quickly. It is customizable and in the lower end of the price range for the features you get. However customization can get expensive if you need features that are not out of the box.

Honestly, I don't like many things about NAV. Our accounting department likes that it combines our multiple lines of business into one system, so we can send our customers one statement rather than several from different systems.

I wish that for my purposes it was possible to automate more things. There is a lot of manual entry involved. The system also freezes often, it seems like when someone is running a report or doing something it is constantly telling me it's frozen due to another user doing something, and it's incredibly frustrating given that whatever I've typed or done prior to that gets wiped out, so I end up doing a lot of double work.

For accounting purposes, it combines our multiple lines of business into one system, so we can send our customers one statement rather than several from different systems. This was a big issue previously for our customers. Now all of our invoices come from the same system.

Dynamics NAV is extremely flexible from a setup standpoint and can be customized to fit almost any situation. The interface is easy to use and familiar to Windows users.

The software is so customizable that it requires a significant amount of research to implement customizations, just to make sure all of the touchpoints are accounted for and posting is occurring in the manner intended.

When considering a conversion or implementation of NAV, be sure you consider every single possible system interaction and work with your partner to thoroughly test all aspects of the software prior to going live.

We use NAV for all of our general accounting, A/R, A/P, Fixed Assets, and Budgeting needs. The software makes things like periodic depreciation very easy and you can set up different depreciation books and use multiple books for a single asset if you need to. Permissions are set up at a user level, and are highly sensitive, so if you have specific people who only need certain levels of access vs others who need unrestricted access, it is simple to set those permissions up.

Has alot of built in features, reports details view, fields to put details to get reports on.

also has an ok search bar and can be self help a little on yourself

Report output is HORRIBLE. Most of us whna csv to use a useful report needs it in cvs.... everything is |formatted" which makes it visually ok but practically useless.

The use of the system requires detailed data inputting and cleaning i before can use properly so need to understand what you are doing being importing

try to get "real data" when implementing because you cannot tell if its good or not without it.

find a good team to help implement the ERP system.... theres a TON of errors to fix, units of measure and many details you never thought needed to be included

have your team test ii out with all departments

we needed an accounting and erp system

I like it to be highly customizable, on the cloud, with lots of options and i consider it to be easy to install. It can take bigger databases.

The user interface and user experience overall. It's not comfortable to use. Menus and views feel very laggy and the views lack of customization in terms of how you look at things.

I would rather consider other options before looking to NAV. Unless you really need the software integration with other Microsoft products. If you need to highly customize everything (Except for the views and customer interface) maybe this software is for you.

We are using it as a Main ERP and it runs all the tasks involved in the process of the company. We found that it can do things that our previous ERP couldn't like integrate with other Microsoft products. It can take bigger databases.

Was used for all accounting processes to generate invoices,customers databases and sales report in the organization I was working.

Was easy to run reports since all information you needed was in the software and it was easy to customize it.

It was quick to impliment and use these software with the power to support the growth ambitions of the business organisation.

Also enabled increased in profit,enhanced collabora behaviour and created experience for customers.

One thing that I desliked these software was that it required alot of training to fully manage it.

Also at some point it could run slowly if there were too many processes at once.

Would recommend them to Use Microsoft Dynamics Nav in all their accounting process because it will enhance the growth of their business.

Provided all features for the capabilities of sales and market tracking.

Was used for accounting processes to generate invoices,customers database and sales reports

Full Fledged ERP systems with Integration to Third-Party Payroll, Time Attendance, Sales, Finance and Operations Applications

Permission setup can get very complicated. Requirement of one permission leads to another and it doesn't show the Object ID of the missing permission.

Usually, when we apply one Permission it leads to another which is very time-consuming.

Invest a lot of time and resources while implementing this and ensure that you use a good reputable vendor for this implementation. We use BDO Solutions Canada despite their good reputation, the implementation of NAV was a nightmare and we are still reviving from the time lost initially.

We moved on to a different vendor and now recovering for all the losses.

Finance, Payroll, Time-Attendance, Sales and Operations Module to facilitate all departments operations. It is an Off-Shelf product and still be customised as per specific requirements.

Microsoft Dynamics NAV is an all encompassing source of data that is captured across the business. It allows various departments within the business to collaborate together at maximum efficiency by streamlining the flow of information and data.

The system poorly integrates with other tools that we use, and thus a lot of data needs to be entered and/ or corrected by manual efforts that are both time consuming and frustrating.

As a CRM system, it has it's shortcomings although from what I've been told the new versions of Microsoft Dynamics 365 integrate nicely with Microsoft Dynamics NAV. Our company so far has not yet decided to upgrade that part of our system.

As an enterprise resource planning system, it certainly ticks all the boxes and safely delivers.

The biggest challenge I see is poor user experience across different interfaces within Dynamics, that end up harming the overall usefulness of the platform.

The problem, as with any database, is that it's usefulness diminishes dramatically when users don't capture data correctly. As much as I would love to blame the user, I cannot deny that the clunky interface has been a contributing factor when it comes to users attempting to cut corners related to data entry or resisting other best practices when it comes to using Dynamics NAV.

TLC Marketing uses Microsoft Dynamics NAV as the primary Enterprise Resource Planning platform in our business.

It serves as our CRM system and client database. We also keep track of the sales team's and SDR rep's productivity via NAV and our revenue forecasting is based on data entered into the system.

Both the front end and the back-end of TLC Marketing rely on Microsoft Dynamics NAV to keep track of production flows and profitability.

Cloud storage which ensures access of information from anywhere in the world.

Reliable which ensures intergration of all departments together.

Very helpful platform although it requires a little training to work with efficiently.

Yes i would recommend microsoft dynamic nav which helps with realtime information thus efficient for making decision and operations within the company.

Efficient with financial and inventory management.

Efficient with financial and inventory management.

Realtime information which helps with making critical decisisions in the company.

Reliable with audit trial.

Navision is great for some accounting purposes, and viewing whether invoices have been paid from various vendors.

Overall, I have found Navision extremely difficult to navigate. Our team uses Navision for warehouse inventory purposes, and it is very challenging to track stock or item history. In addition, purchase orders can be difficult to edit or make changes to, and once an error is made, its very hard to fix it without creating an entirely new purchase order.

I think that Nav should be re-designed to have a better user interface that is more intuitive and easier to learn immediately. As it is, it is very hard to navigate.

We are solving issues with invoicing and purchase orders with Nav. The benefits of the program are that it has better connected our supply chain and accounting teams to work more closely when procuring supplies.

It is the best ERP software useful for mid scale enterprises as their business can be done smoothly within their company financial status.If you need one of these big, international, brand-name like Navision, SAP, Oracle, Baan and all that. Of these, the best

As we update from older version to latest version it becomes difficult because there will be a lot of stuff to be changed and coding techniques are also to be modified which is very laborious.

Although it may be beneficial for mid scale enterprises but it does not mean it is overall the best solution as there could be some nifty local package developed by a small local company who provide more flexibility, more of those features you need, and much cheaper hourly costs of customizaton, maybe even an architecture that allows customization without special training (like, business logic written in stored procedures, much more people can customize that than C/AL).

NA

We work on developing reports as per client requirements.It is beneficial as we use most of the sytem defined tables,reports and other stuff.

Intergrates all departments together into a single database ensuring realtime information.

The data can only be accessed by authorized personnel thus very secure.

Realtime information helps in making critical decision making within the company improving service delivery at Highland coffee company.

Requires internet connection to work with it.When the internet is down the work stops.

I would recommend any company with many departments within to adopt the system because it helps to intergrate all departments together into a single database.Realtime information helps in making critical decision within the company and helps to improve service delivery.

Service delivery have improved since every user can access data directly from the system instead of enquiring through email.

Financial statements are delivered to the clients on time since they come directly from the sytem.

First of all it is user friendly product. it's very easy to import/export any reports from program. i am financial analyst and i need many type of reports for calculating some ratios, also prepare budget and forecast future of of sales, purchase, operation expenses. It very helpful to prepare financial reports such as management report, cash flow, balance sheet and income statement. before i had been used 1C ERP and using this product i have understood that 1C is only helpful for retail it is not comparable to Microsoft Dynamics. it have many type of control, which gives more chance to reduce risk of mistakes.

While the Microsoft Dynamics marketplace contains many useful third party add-ons, it can be time consuming and difficult to distinguish the many add-ons from multiple partners due to similarities and overlap in feature sets and the challenge of assessing the quality of the partners and their products.

I am financial analyst and i need many type of reports for calculating some ratios, also prepare budget and forecast future of of sales, purchase, operation expenses. It very helpful to prepare financial reports such as management report, cash flow, balance sheet and income statement. before i had been used 1C ERP and using this product i have understood that 1C is only helpful for retail it is not comparable to Microsoft Dynamics. it have many type of control, which gives more chance to reduce risk of mistakes.

Customizable to the nth degree. Dynamic Nav allows customization in so many areas. We have added new modules, new table, new reports, etc...with the help of our Dynamics Vendor.

It requires a 3rd Party vendor to make changes. This is a programmable software that relies on coding so a programmer is needed and we do not have one in house as we are a small company. However we have a test database that the Vendor adds code to that allows us to test before moving the new code to production.

We went from MAS 200 to NAv 5.0 , we upgraded to NAV2103R2 and are now looking into Dynamics Web. While it requires a 3 party vendor to assist us, we have found a great one that we count on for assistance and customization

Reporting allows us to analyze what product is selling, what we need to order, etc...Financials also help know which direction we need to improve and where we are exceling.

The system stores so much information for your business. Easy to customize for any user and easy to use.

This software is harder to learn. It's probably best to go through training with a NAV expert and customize your portal to how you need it. The time to take to learn how to use this software is a huge investment for any company, but the quality of the product makes it well worth it.

This software is great for pulling reports, storing customer information, and anything else you could need it for. If you use all Windows products, this is a must have.

All of our orders are processed through NAV. This is a great tool for our small business because it sorts B2B and B2C. We can easily pull reports daily with this software.

Navision is one of the best applications I have worked with. Ease of use and great technical support make this a product that is simple to use.

Sometimes loading of the application is slow, but that is due to our environment more than anything else. In the future, we plan to build a more robust environment that will hopefully make the speed faster.

Great product and easy to usel

Cost savings & efficiency. As I already stated, the product is easy to use so getting new users comfortable with the product is a very simple task.

Dynamics NAV strength is its customizability. It provides you with a development environment as good as any real programming language but with easy access to the database and to the user interface.

Compared to some other ERP systems out there, it is also prices competively.

A lot of functionality may need extra software. For instance, payroll is not included in the standard setup.

Check out all the new changes happening to this product, Microsoft has started to heavily change its development tools, and also made it cloud ready under Dynamics 365 initiative.

It will keep track of everything you need, from the accouting, to the inventory, to the billing, it can even act as main system even for completely customized functionality. e.g. I've seen a cable tv company turn on-off channels for customers right from within the system, with many simultatnous customer care representatives working at the same time.

Applying this powerful Marketing tool you can define a business strategy focused on anticipating, knowing and satisfying the present and foreseeable needs and wishes of your customers, increasing the effectiveness of sales and service employees and building high-value customer-organization relationships that will help you in the loyalty process.

You can simplify the management of your business and increase profitability, thanks to the connection and integration of this management software with all your existing business applications.

Currently, more than 45,000 companies in 42 countries have opted for Microsoft Dynamics NAV, which is a quality guarantee for future customers who want to grow their business.

Microsoft Dynamics Navision has increased productivity, giving

employees the information easily and quickly. It has been possible to extract and

analyze the information at the time it was needed,

Microsoft Dynamics Navision is the integrated business management solution and

adaptable. It can adapt to the way of functioning of each business, integrate

with existing systems and expand to meet specific needs

of the company. Microsoft Dynamics Navision works with the rest of products

and Microsoft technology, which helps ensure a seamless implementation

mistakes, minimize the times to make the functionality more adaptable with

sight to a future.

This business software provides you with customer information, case management, service history and support knowledge in the desktops of customer service staff, offering them the tools to perform an efficient and consistent service that improves the profitability and loyalty of customers.

Navigation and user friendly GUI.

Rapid start migration system

The standard has nothing and you must pay for every single function or specific report you may need.

I strongly suggest to deeply analyze your business needs before to start throwing money in a never ending hole.

Start with a clear view of what you need.

Design your process for every single function (role)

Define a budget with your partner

The only benefits i solved is to have a main DB with all the main informations in it.

Presentation of finacial reports made easy.as long as you capture all the data in the company the finacials reports are very accurate.its very easy to use.its decigned in a way thats self explanatory for users.

Can only work in presence of internet making it unavailable when there is poor or no internet.its has limited life cycle.once the licence expires .it limits tge number of users at one go.

Internet should not hidder users from using .

Financial reports generation time.its easy and fast with microsoft dynamic nav.

My review comes from the perspective of an IT professional who works for a Microsoft Dynamics reseller, so I guess I have a certain amount of bias. That being said, I have been using Microsoft Dynamics NAV and here is what I like best:

Firstly, it is really easy for the developers to work on. They have access to all the source code of the system and a development environment is available out of the box. Additionally, there is an entire module of the system (RapidStart) devoted to helping the IT professionals migrate data into your system during your primary implementation. Additionally, from a developer's perspective, there are a lot of pre-packaged functions in development environment making it quick to do development that might take a bit longer in other programming languages.

Secondly, it is very easy to get data from the NAV system by creating queries/pages and oData feeds. These oData feeds will allow you to access your data from Excel PowerPivot, PowerBI, or other similar tools.

Thirdly, I like that the user interface is very easy to personalize (i.e. add and remove action buttons, fields, navigation buttons, etc. and create personal views of data to see later) and also your IT department can add and remove fields, pages, etc. from user interface for entire groups of users. Additionally, elements of user interface are automatically removed based on your license configuration and permissions of users.

Fourthly, in general the user interface is very attractive with large nice-looking icons, tiles to direct users to the tasks they need to do each day, etc.

Fifthly, as I understand it, NAV offers very good value compared to other systems. It is fast to implement and offers wide functionality.

Fifthly, Microsoft has a roadmap for this solution and is releasing updates every month and a major release every year (which is good). They have also done a lot to make the solution easy to upgrade.

Firstly, I think the charts feature in NAV is not as great as some other solutions I have used (but they make up for this by allowing you to embed a PowerBI dashboard into your system in latest version of NAV).

Secondly, the workflows feature is not as good as in Microsoft Dynamics CRM (then again it may be better than other ERP systems, plus it is possible to integrate CRM and NAV together which is nice).

Thirdly, sometimes it is challenging to understand the link between the various types of ledger entries in NAV, but this might simply be a challenge in any ERP system. It sometimes is challenging for example to reconcile the G/L with inventory ledger if you are using any of the features such as automatic cost posting to G/L, automatic cost adjustment, and expected cost posting. Additionally, in some versions it is not so easy to reverse invoices, but they have made up for this in latest version by allowing to cancel or adjust invoices (while still keeping a complete audit trail).

My employer resells this solution, but also uses it for our own accounting. The main problem is keeping track of accounts receivable and A/P, keeping track of expenses, etc.

What I like best is the ease of use to export tables and specific views into both Microsoft Word and Excel. The majority of the time I export the GL entries that I would need to review/reconcile into excel and all it take is update my table filters and hit "CTRL" + "E"

Dynamics NAV is highly customizable to the point where it can be overbearing and can actually cause functionality issues. Because it so customizable for your purposes you will need to find partners/vendors for the products/solutions that you are looking for that will come at an increased cost.

We now have a pretty reliable ERP/Accounting software solution that allows the company to have the tools and visibility to run our business as efficiently as possible. We will be upgrading the newest version of Dynamics NAV(2015) and this will bring a new host of solutions that we will need to learn how to use.

It is a powerful and fully featured ERP software that integrates well into other microsoft products.

NAV is expensive, difficult to master and it can be challenging to find a quality Microsoft Partner. Microsoft partners are expensive and bill the minimum for everything they do.

The most important thing is picking a great partner. Find one that is willing to understand your business and work within your time frame.

We needed a powerful and reliable ERP software that could grow with us.