Navision today released Commerce Gateway, a business-to-business solution that opens up Navision Financials to electronic exchange of trading documents. As the first global solution based on Microsoft BizTalk 2000, Commerce Gateway helps mid-sized companies that want to take early advantage of new opportunities for business-to-business collaboration. With immediate effect Navision has released Commerce Gateway to 25 local Navision companies around the world for localization and sale.
Commerce Gateway builds on the strengths of Microsoft BizTalk Server 2000, that uses XML (Extensive arkup Language) as a universal translator to allow virtually any two systems to exchange documents. The exchange of information in Commerce Gateway is handled in a graphical user interface, which makes it very easy to administrate the system.
"Commerce Gateway shows how we solve real challenges for our customers in a straightforward and cost-effective way. Commerce Gateway makes it easy for our mid-market customers to participate in the supply chains of much larger companies," says Niels Bo Theilgaard, executive vice president, Product Organization for Navision a/s. "We have just released Commerce Gateway which already is solving business challenge for our early adopters."
One example is Wegusta D"usseldorf Gesellschaft f"ur Arbeitsschutz und Schweisstechnik GmbH, a Germany supplier of products for the pharmaceutical industry that uses Commerce Gateway to do business with a key customer via a secure online marketplace.
Microsoft BizTalk Server 2000 is the foundation for standards-based business process orchestration within and between organizations. Navision believes both mid-sized companies and their larger trading partners will deploy Microsoft BizTalk Server widely.
"Navision shares Microsoft`s commitment to provide companies with simple, reliable and cost-effective business solutions. Commerce Gateway is the first globally released product that takes advantage of BizTalk Server 2000 to specifically meet the business-to-business integration needs of mid-sized companies," says Bill Dunlap, Group Product Manager, Microsoft Corporation.
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Navision is a leading global provider of cost-effective and adaptable integrated business solutions that help companies in their quest to grow. The company has 120,000 customers worldwide, an international sales network of 2,000 business partners and almost 1,100 employees in 25 countries. The Navision product line consists of Navision Axapta, Navision Financials and Navision XAL. Navision a/s was created through the merger of Navision Software a/s and Damgaard A/S in December 2000. Its shares are listed on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange (CSE: NAVI). The company`s headquarters are in Vedbaek, Denmark.
You can learn more about Navision on the Internet at www.navision.com.
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