Provides Manufacturers with Integrated, End-to-End Automation for EDI Transactions

WESTBOROUGH, Mass., – April 23, 2010 – RedTail Solutions, Inc., which delivers managed services for electronic data interchange (EDI) and global data synchronization (GDS) to manufacturers and distributors, today released RedTail EDI managed services for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009, a popular enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution for mid-sized organizations from Microsoft Corporation.

RedTail EDI handles all order-to-cash transactions between suppliers and their trading partners. Complex EDI transactions are seamlessly processed, including sales and purchase orders, advanced ship notices (ASNs) and invoices. RedTail EDI is ideal for mid-sized companies selling to large trading partners like Wal-Mart and The Home Depot, particularly because they need to process large volumes of EDI transactions with the highest levels of automation and integration. RedTail, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner for ISV/Software Solutions, also offers RedTail EDI integrated with the most current version of Microsoft Dynamics GP.

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Microsoft Dynamics NAV helps you win customer loyalty, increase responsiveness and increase productivity. Read the rest of this entry »

In its recent Statement of Direction (SOD) document for Microsoft Dynamics NAV, the company lays out its plans for the product over the next few years.  Their strategy involves focusing on creating relevant core business functionality and by further developing the application to support current and emerging regulatory requirements. As Microsoft continues to add new functionality to Dynamics NAV, they will focus on five basic values:

• Simplicity
• Productivity
• Continuously take advantage of Microsoft Technology
• User Experience Leadership
• Rapid Time-to-Value

Microsoft continues to invest over $1 billion dollars annually in R&D to further advance Dynamics NAV and the entire family of Microsoft products.  This illustrates Microsoft’s commitment to its products and technologies.  Companies considering technology investments, should consider this factor when allocating capital resources and protection of investment. Read the rest of this entry »

One thing Microsoft wanted to make clear at Convergence 2008 is their commitment to continue all existing Dynamics products, including Dynamics NAV. They announced they are investing millions of dollars of R&D in the various product offerings and they committed to releasing a Statement of Direction for each product and keep it updated. One of the first Statements of Direction released by Microsoft was for their Dynamics NAV product.

Highlights from the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Statement of Direction include:

• Microsoft Dynamics NAV 5.0 SP1 to be released in Q2 of 2008
• Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009, featuring a role tailored client to be released during 2008
• Project Code name Malta targeted for 2009, to include a Web -based client.
• Project Code name Mallorca targeted for 2010

Other information in the statement of direction:

• Integration between Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 and Microsoft Dynamics CRM to be released in early 2010.
• Mobile based applications API for Microsoft Dynamics NAV to be released in 2008
• Group Policy Enhancements for the Role Tailored Client.

Databases can fail for a myriad of reasons. Power outages can cause a hardware failure. Server misconfiguration can lead to data corruption or a crashed system. You get the idea.

It’s for reasons like this that you back up your data. Assuming you stay on top of your backup plan, you should have enough data to bring your system back to a state at or near the time of failure. Sometimes, however, those recent backups have either failed or are no good for some other reason. What then?

Outlined below is a procedure that may bring your data back. It’s certainly not a sure-fire method, though. There are a lot of IF’s in this scenario, and a lot of reasons why it may not work. That said, it may be worth a try before resorting to attempting to recover data from a database in emergency mode.

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Microsoft Dynamics™ NAV version 5.0, the latest version in the NAV line, was recently made available to partners from Microsoft. Erik P. Ernst over at DynamicsUser.net has kindly made the worldwide version available to download on the Dynamics User Group website. As Erik notes, you can use the demo license that comes bundled with the client to try it out for free.

If you haven’t stopped by already, give the Dynamics User Group a look. They offer a wealth of information along with some useful tools in their downloads section. You can also learn a lot from their active community forum.

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