Solutions : About Dynamics NAV for Government Contractors

Microsoft Dynamics NAV for Government Contractors from PVBS has the capabilities required for growing businesses that sell to Federal Government agencies. Dynamics NAV incorporates a number of Microsoft .NET technologies into its architecture and is easily integrated with other Microsoft applications. This incredibly flexible solution features the following:

• Integrated financial management and project accounting
• Flexibility for high-growth firms
• Seamless integration with Microsoft Office applications
• Better management information and reporting
• Real-time access to data
• Built-in analytics

The PVBS solution has been created for government contractors specifically to ensure that your company is able to manage the following:

• Maintain DCAA controls for timekeeping.
• Allow reporting of costs by multiple objectives.
• Enable labor charging controls that are reconcilable to job cost, general ledger, and financial statement reports.
• Provide diligent control over expense and travel reporting.
• Have visibility into indirect cost pools and indirect rates and evaluate substitution of budget data with month-ending actual data.
• Consider a variety of contract types including fixed price, fixed unit price, cost type, time and material, and others.
• Enable users to maintain accounts that include both allowable and unallowable costs.
• Provides built-in automated support for compliance with DCAA, FAR and CAS.

Because Microsoft Dynamics NAV allows extensive customizations from within an integrated development environment, you can make immediate changes to respond more efficiently to customers and new business opportunities—without disrupting everyday operations. The solution also integrates with any business intelligence tool on the market for added reporting flexibility.

Business Analytics and Reporting

Business Analytics for Dynamics NAV from PVBS helps government contractors gain business insight, make faster, smarter decisions, and equip key employees, such as program managers, to contribute to your growth. By gaining sharper insight in your business and the status and performance of your contracts, you can sharpen your competitive edge with smarter and faster decision making. You will also give each employee the ability to help drive the success of your business.

Business Analytics turns your data into business-critical information quickly and simply. And it’s totally integrated into Dynamics NAV for Government Contractors from PVBS.  Users can access and analyze data—within a familiar Microsoft® Excel 2003 interface or another front-end solution—with easy-to-use tools that enable straightforward analysis and provide a quick overview of business conditions.  Or, in Advanced mode, using a graphical interface that is similar to Microsoft® Outlook® 2003, users can gain a 360-degree view of business performance and quickly set up and review graphical displays and reports. To arrive at a deeper understanding, users can perform targeted analysis of detailed information. With the Business Analytics Web Viewer, decision makers have quick access to critical Dynamics NAV data from any location with an Internet connection.

Instead of waiting for the busy IT department to generate a contract status report, you can generate your own report almost instantly. Rather than waiting for the end of the month to analyze the performance of your project management team, you can generate simple, effective analytical views at any time. You will be able to make sound strategic decisions in little time.

Technology Framework

The Technology Framework under Dynamics NAV is the sum of all the components working together to deliver the complete Dynamics NAV solution. As all the components are interconnected, they all help deliver common values to the user. These five common values are: adaptability, openness, efficiency, reliability, and collaboration.

Any level of customization is possible with Dynamics NAV and PVBS has taken advantage of this functionality by making the solution specifically valuable for government contractors. It can be customized to support the simplest workflows of individual employees—how they organize their data and the steps they go through to complete their tasks—as well as that of a whole department. With Dynamics NAV, you have one very common interface for all your employees to learn to use and one interface to link your business.

Dynamics NAV has a consistent interface throughout, which makes it easy for employees to learn and to switch from one application area to another.  Your business now has one solution for all information and departments. Your employees work in the same type of interface throughout all the application areas. Information is centralized, and more easily shared across departments, so people can work more efficiently. The workflow of individual employees and departments is supported, and everyone is connected via Dynamics NAV.

Efficiency

The Windows-based design of Dynamics NAV makes it easy for employees to work efficiently with the solution. Every application area contains online Help so employees can navigate their way through the solution. A personalized home page for every employee with all the information they need helps them stay focused on their work and complete tasks in better time.

Dynamics NAV incorporates the same Windows-based design elements as you get with the Microsoft Office Suite so the interface will be familiar to your employees. They can learn to work in Dynamics NAV quickly and navigate the application easily because its design is consistent throughout all application areas. So when you switch from General Ledger to Reporting, for example, the interface doesn’t change and you use the same drill-down routines to access information.

Dynamics NAV is one of the first business software management solutions to utilize the design opportunities that Windows XP offers. The application windows, for example, use the same modern color schema as Windows XP. The Dynamics NAV Navigation Pane looks and functions very much like the Navigation Pane in Microsoft Office Outlook 2003.

Collaboration

Dynamics NAV makes it extremely easy for your partners, customers and vendors to do business with you. It uses the Internet and XML to exchange and distribute information easily and cost-effectively. It helps you bring in new partners and customers, while reducing costs internally and helping employees to work more efficiently. The new XMLport objects allow you to easily exchange documents with your business partners. In addition, XMLports improve the overall performance of the solution when handling XML document exchanges and they enable easier customization of data exchange with Dynamics NAV.

 

.NET

Dynamics NAV incorporates a number of Microsoft .NET technologies into its architecture. Microsoft describes .NET as “a set of software technologies that enables an unprecedented level of software integration through the use of XML Web services.” Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft BizTalk Server, and Microsoft SQL Server are examples of .NET technology that Dynamics NAV utilizes. Incorporating .NET into its architecture is a natural progression for Dynamics NAV because it has always used the latest Microsoft technologies. By using these technologies, Dynamics NAV already delivers many of the opportunities .NET promises: collaboration across systems, seamless connectivity with a variety of business partners, and more. With .NET, Dynamics NAV is a solution built for the future and one with which your long-term investment is secure.

 

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