“i want the freedom to focus on my business.” · j. carlton collins, accounting software...
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Navision became part of Microsoft Business Solutions as of July 11, 2002.
“I want the freedom to focus on mybusiness.”
You’ve got it, with Microsoft® Navision Attain®
“Because the customization tools are so power-
ful, Attain can be adapted for virtually any
industry.”
J. Carlton Collins, Accounting Software Advisor (analyst)
“With Attain, we can process more orders,
improve turnaround times, and provide better
customer service. In this way, we will grow our
business.”
Lars Agger, Manager of Information System , Q-Media (customer)
I WANT THE FREEDOM TO FOCUS ON MY BUSINESS2
“I want a system that lets me run my businessthe way I want.”
Microsoft Navision Attain is an integrated business software
solution designed especially for mid-size companies. More
than 30,000 companies in over 50 countries rely on Attain
every day to help them run their operations smoothly.
Attain integrates information from every aspect of your
business. Choose the functions you need from applic-
ation areas for Financial Management, Manufacturing,
Distribution, customer Relationship Management and
E-Business. You pay only for the functionality you use.
Your certified Navision Solution Center will tailor your Attain
solution to meet your exact needs. Customize Attain to your
business even more with industry-specific solutions devel-
oped by certified Navision partners from around the world.
Microsoft Navision Attain offers:
Financial Management• General Ledger• Accounts Receivable• Accounts Payable• Cash Manager• Fixed Assets• Human Resources• Budgeting• Reporting• Consolidation• Project Management• Multiple Dimensions• Multiple Currencies
Distribution• Inventory Management• Warehouse Management• Order Processing• Returns Management• Automated Data Capture Systems (ADCS)• Pricing for Sales & Purchasing• Inventory Costing• Shipment & Delivery
Manufacturing• Production Orders• Bill of Materials• Supply Planning• Demand Forecasting• Capacity Requirements Planning• Manufacturing Costing
CRM – Marketing & Sales• Contact Management• Contact Classification• Campaign Management• Sales & Opportunity Management
• Task Management• Document Management • Interaction Log• Contact Search• E-Mail Logging for Microsoft Exchange• Outlook Client Integration
CRM – Service • Service Item Management• Service Price Management• Service Order Management• Service Contract Management• Planning and Dispatching• Job Scheduling
E-Business • Commerce Gateway
– Automatic Internet-based commercial transactions• Commerce Portal
– Internet browser-based access for customers, vendors and partners
• User Portal– Internet browser-based access for employees
Application Wide • Database Platforms:
– Navision Attain Database Server – Microsoft SQL Server – IBM iSeries
• Multiple Languages • Connectivity:
– C/ODBC– C/FRONT– Navision Attain Application Server
• Analytics (SIFT™)• Reports
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To get ahead in business today, you need a system that helps you identify and respond
to new revenue opportunities quickly. One that combines straightforward usability with
the flexibility that helps you reengineer processes rapidly. One that helps you get the
most out of your resources. One that you don’t have to think about because it gives you
the information you need when you need it.
Microsoft Navision Attain gives you the freedom to focus on
your business.
The rest is up to you.
Attain delivers what you need, when you need it.
A solution that builds on your strengths…
Start with core business and financial applications, such as
invoicing, cost control, bookkeeping and inventory. Add more
Financial, CRM, Manufacturing, Distribution and E-Business
applications as your business grows.
Attain’s open architecture allows your Navision Solution
Center (NSC) to transform these standard applications into a
solution customized to your way of doing business. We are
the only global mid-market software vendor that gives its part-
ners full access to the source code they require to meet your
specific needs.
…Delivered fast and cost-effectively
Your NSC works closely with you on your new Attain solution
using our proven implementation methodology and tools.
Together, you map out your business processes and identify
your competitive strengths. The NSC then uses this informa-
tion to design a system that meets your exact requirements.
Before implementation begins, you agree on the project
scope, budget and timeframe. Implementation is fast and effi-
cient, with no surprises and no downtime.
After implementation, Attain is exceptionally easy to maintain.
Your NSC provides ongoing technical support, including
excellent training and upgrade programs.
With one integrated solution, your information is always accu-
rate, and you no longer have to waste time reconciling num-
bers from disconnected systems.
“In the past, the actual accounting process
involved a number of reconciliations between the
different systems. Month-end reporting could
take up to three weeks. We’ve cut the process
down by about a third.”
John Holden, Financial Controller, Crown Leisure (customer)
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“I want a solution that delivers exactly what Ineed without disrupting my business.”
“We went through a very big implementation
process very quickly and it completely met our
objectives. We’re totally satisfied.”
Anders Nørskov, Managing Director, Danish Agency for Governmental Management (customer)
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A reliable platform for growth
An open, but secure, platform. Attain’s object-oriented devel-opment environment and compact source code make it straight-forward to customize, maintain and connect to other systems.
A reliable database. Whether you choose Microsoft SQL Serveror Attain Database Server, you can count on Attain’s reliability.The security system not only controls who can access what, butalso ensures that you never have inconsistencies. Even if yourmachine loses power in the middle of a posting process, thetransactions recorded will not be out of balance.
Easy to learn. The consistent and intuitive interface makestraining employees and new users fast. In the general ledger, forexample, the screen will always look the same whether you’relooking for a balance, creating a new account, or posting a jour-nal to an existing account. You’ll find navigation familiar becausethe interface is based on Microsoft Windows’ standards. There’sextensive online Help, to which you can even add your own tips.
Wherever the job takes you. With User Portal, employees usethe Web to access data in Attain, wherever they’re working.Remote users, such as traveling sales representatives, can logon to their personal homepage, which is customized to help themperform their particular role. All they need is Internet access.
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Attain helps you make smart business decisions without
wasting time.
A good overview and the ability to dig into details…
Attain gives you an instant overview of your business from top
to bottom. You stay in the know on everything from production
orders and inventory levels to customer status and marketing
campaigns. Business and financial information is always
up-to-date and fully integrated with information from all other
areas in the program.
Every time a transaction is posted in Attain, all customer, ven-
dor, account, and item totals are given in real time. You can
zero in on details by filtering information by date, account or
item number, for example, and always rely on the absolute
accuracy of the information.
…Gives you the answers you need
Let’s say you’re in the middle of an accounting period, and
you need to present a business overview at the managers
meeting that afternoon. Using Attain, filter your data to see
your balances from the beginning of the month to the present
day. Then create a report comparing budgets to actual profits
by region, product and date. Drill down to study the details of
the individual transactions. When you’re satisfied with your
answers, click on the Export button to create a Microsoft Excel
chart. Now you’re ready for the afternoon managers meeting.
“Attain gives us instant access to information
such as what’s profitable and what’s not. It took
days to get these figures from the previous sys-
tem, but with Attain, you can extract them by
yourself from the desktop.”
Graham Stirling, Financial Controller, Masterpet (customer)
Check your business status from many angles
Unlimited reporting criteria. Report and analyze informationbased on an unlimited number of criteria. Let's say you create adimension called "salesperson," and then add all your salespeo-ple as values within that dimension. You can then create reportsto analyze salesperson sales by region, department, date or anyother criteria.
Make complete and accurate budgets with a minimum ofhassle. Create and maintain budgets and sub-budgets in aneasily comprehensible matrix form. Save time and maintainaccuracy by copying budgets from one period or unit using anadjustment factor on either actual or budget entries. You caneven distribute your budgets across your organization inMicrosoft Excel format and import the adjustments back intoAttain.
Track all your fixed assets. Attain gives you an accurateaccount of fixed assets, from present book value to accumulat-ed depreciation. Your fixed asset management is totally inte-grated with the rest of Attain, which means less re-keying, lesseffort and greater accuracy.
Multiple languages. Offer your customers and vendors betterservice by giving them inventory descriptions, printed reportsand invoices in their own languages and currencies. You canswitch to any installed language on the fly.
“I need a solution that gives me answers aboutmy business – fast.”
Attain gives you fast answers. For example, you can analyze revenuefor a certain account using an unlimited number of criteria.
“Attain enables us to organize our warehouse
and logistics operations so that our customers
get better service. Plus, having a totally integrat-
ed system – from our international sales organi-
zation all the way back inside our production and
planning organization – means we can collabo-
rate fully with our customers and vendors.”
Jens Bach Larsen, IT Manager, Jamo (customer)
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“I need a solution that helps me get the most outof my customer relationships.”
Attain gives you a powerful way to satisfy customers.
All the right information…
Access to the right information helps you make the most of
every business interaction. Customer, product, inventory,
sales – all of this information is integrated in Attain. And so
are the tools to help you make the most of it.
You know which accounts need your immediate attention and
which accounts do not. You improve your sales and market-
ing campaigns with effective planning and by targeting your
audience more precisely.
…Helps you get the most out of relationships
Let’s say you’ve got some fresh leads from a tradeshow
where you introduced your new product – a racing bicycle.
You enter detailed information about each potential customer
into the system, including the fact that they attended the
tradeshow and may be interested in your new product.
Now, one of those leads calls and places an order. You quick-
ly find the customer contact card, and see that the last inter-
action was a sales letter for the racing bicycle. Happy to have
made a sale so quickly, you check inventory in real-time but
see that there are no racing bicycles in stock.
Using the Order Promising feature, you let the customer
know when he can expect it, based on production and lead
times for the product. While on the phone with the customer,
you sell system-recommended accessories for the bicycle.
You also sell a service contract specifying details such as
parts covered, preferred payment method and the duration of
coverage, and enter it into the system on the spot. Thanks to
your Attain system, you’ve increased the value of the sale
with virtually no effort.
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Sharpen your competitive edge
Better service through improved order handling. Handle non-stock orders just as you would any other sales order. The sys-tem processes them as normal orders, and the customer neverknows the difference. You can also specify that an order be han-dled as a cross-dock or drop shipment to save time on delivery.And you can handle inventory across multiple locations from a single database.
Deliver superior customer service. Categorize your customersbased on personal profiles and personalize the way you approachthem. For example, a personal profile can tell you how often a cus-tomer wants to be billed and whether they have preferred techni-cians and service times. And you can make sure that you satisfythem by making to-do lists in the system and assigning tasks tousers or teams of users.
Offer personalized Web access. Give customers, vendors andother partners 24x7x365 access to you through personalized Webportals. Allow them to search product catalogs, buy and sell items,and manage their accounts using the E-Business components ofAttain.
Attain can help you follow up on leads efficiently.
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Attain helps you master change.
Plan for change…
Attain helps you plan and reorganize production to meet new
and changing market demands. You can change and imple-
ment manufacturing methods and processes on-the-fly,
reduce lead times with Warehouse Management and Multiple
Location features, and use Supply and Capacity Require-
ments Planning to respond to unexpected changes at a
moment’s notice.
Visibility is transparent from the shop floor to the warehouse
to the back office, and even beyond the four walls of your
company. Vendors manage online catalogs, enter drop ship-
ment orders and maintain delivery dates through their per-
sonalized Web portals. Customers use their portals to browse
through your product catalog, order online and check avail-
ability of items all the way back to the vendor.
Greater visibility helps you identify processes that you can
perform more efficiently. Flexible Manufacturing and Distri-
bution functionality help you adapt to varying market demand.
…Respond to demand
Let’s say a customer calls to change her order. She now
wants disc wheels on her bicycle, but she still needs it on the
original delivery date. You check the status of the order and
find that it’s already released for production. You see that
most of the parts were automatically picked and transferred
from your other warehouses. The standard wheels were out of
stock, but an automatic order was already sent to the vendor
via the Internet.
Luckily in Attain, you can replan immediately from the sales
order and replace the standard wheels with disc wheels. You
speed up the order by redefining capacity, and you reduce
lead time by controlling material flow to the next operation.
The dispatch list tells you which customers will be affected if
you move the job.
“When we’re behind we can make the necessary
changes to meet the delivery requirement, and
when we’re ahead we can bring production of
other jobs forward.”
Joachim Baum, IT Manager, Herzog GmbH (customer)
“For manufacturers that want software that is
practical and relatively easy to use, Navision
Manufacturing is a very attractive product.”
From The CPA Software News 5-star rating of the manufacturing functionalityfound in Attain, November 2001
“I need a solution that helps me respond fast andeffectively to the market.”
Master change
Make exceptions and last-minute changes with multiple plan-ning options, tracking, and action messaging. Plan from thesales order, the production order, the purchase requisition, or bytraditional MPS/MRP planning methods. You can handle last-minute changes by replanning from any point in the deliverycycle. Costs, materials, and operations are simultaneously re-planned to reflect shop floor changes.
Choose the most profitable manufacturing process. Whenplanning production orders, for example, you can plan productfamily orders that share the same routing. This allows you tomake more efficient build schedules.
Improve warehouse organization and reduce labor costswith put-away and picking processes. Put-away notes and pick-ing notes can complement your company’s working methods.Serial numbering and lot tracking help you trace items at anytime during the sales, purchase or transfer process. You canhandle returned inventory, and account for additional costs suchas restocking charges.
Streamline interactions with key vendors and customers.Commerce Gateway, which is based on Microsoft BizTalkServer, opens up Attain for the electronic exchange of tradingdocuments with other systems. It reduces human error and theamount of time spent on entering data such as purchases andsales orders – without a complex EDI system.
Reduce purchasing costs. Use reverse auctions to find thevendor with the most attractive rates on selected items. Publishthe details of the bid request and open the auction for bids. Onceyou’ve reviewed the bids, you can convert the most favorableone to an order at a click of a button.
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Attain meets all your core business needs.
Attain helps you drive your business wherever you want it to
go – and however you want to get there. With Attain, you stay
in control with fast access to accurate information. You
respond quickly to customer demands and market changes,
and you take care of business in the most efficient way possi-
ble. Attain frees you to focus on your business.
For more information on Microsoft Navision Attain, or to be put
in touch with a Navision Solution Center in your area, visit
www.navision-us.com.
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Navision became part of Microsoft Business Solutions as of July 11, 2002.
“Based on our survey of 100 customers of
accounting systems, Attain stood out as a
rock solid system with the flexibility to adapt to specific
customer requirements.”
Michael Burns, President, CA, MBA 180 Systems (IT consultant)
“Navision is unique in that no respondent
has ever made a negative comment about
Navision software in any of the five surveys we have
conducted.”
Alan Salmon, Managing Director, Accounting Research Inc. (accounting software consultant)
“Attain is a lean, agile solution that is easy to implement and
without the overkill often associated with large ERP solutions
deployment.”
P.J. Jakovljevic, TechnologyEvaluation.com
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