Axapta v/s Navision

nrapendra

hi all,

one of my prospective client is hanging between axapta and navision.
he simply wants to know about the points for whome he should take decisions whether he should choose ax or nav.i have suggested him to choose nav but he wants to take the opinion of experts.
and as i think that all persons here are ax and nav experts.

pls suggest some points in which ax is richer than nav.
and some points where nav is richeer than ax

so that i may convince him


thanks.

janluuc

Hi nrapendra,

Maybe this statement will give you something:

The focus areas of both products are around Manufacturing, Distribution and Services. The main differences are with functionality and technology.

(In Axapta, all this functionality is standard. There is no standard Services functionality in Navision. Such functionality needs to be built by ISVs.)

Axapta is aimed more towards the top end Mid market to corporate customers with complex requirements, while Navision looks after the lower to middle mid market segment with less complex requirements.

(Lower meaning: about 10 concurrent users. Above 20 users: Axapta)

Technology within Axapta also allows it to be a much stronger, more stable, higher performing competitor in a 3-tier environment as this is built into the existing architecture. You can also run a lot more concurrent users on a Axapta system than on Navision.

(Axapta's AOS technology (Axapta Object Server) provides scalability. Axapta has been tested from 1 user up to 3500 concurrent users.)

You might want to read the rest of the discussion here: http://weblogs.asp.net/ahoffman/archive/2003/12/28/46171.aspx

David_Singleton

janluuc wrote:

Hi nrapendra,

Maybe this statement will give you something:

The focus areas of both products are around Manufacturing, Distribution and Services. The main differences are with functionality and technology.

(In Axapta, all this functionality is standard. There is no standard Services functionality in Navision. Such functionality needs to be built by ISVs.)

Axapta is aimed more towards the top end Mid market to corporate customers with complex requirements, while Navision looks after the lower to middle mid market segment with less complex requirements.

(Lower meaning: about 10 concurrent users. Above 20 users: Axapta)

Technology within Axapta also allows it to be a much stronger, more stable, higher performing competitor in a 3-tier environment as this is built into the existing architecture. You can also run a lot more concurrent users on a Axapta system than on Navision.

(Axapta's AOS technology (Axapta Object Server) provides scalability. Axapta has been tested from 1 user up to 3500 concurrent users.)

You might want to read the rest of the discussion here: http://weblogs.asp.net/ahoffman/archive/2003/12/28/46171.aspx

Complete and utter nonsense made up by some guy trying to sell Axapta. And its from 4 years ago.

You compare products ONLY when you know the needs of the customer and the details of their business, it has NOTHING to do with revenue or no of users or technology.

The reply by Oliver is the only rational comment that makes sense.

Any Partner that tells a customer five minutes after meeting them "Dynamics XYZ is the best product for you" without knowing the customer is obviously saying because that is the product they make money on.

p.willemse6

This is b*llsh*t indeed. Very old statement. Last month a statement was corrected by tami reller positioning NAV to at least 250 conc. users...

Waldo

I agree, but I would like to see that statement of Tami ... :-k .

janluuc

At least we got the discussion running ;-).

p.willemse6

there was an american conference this year, during which a reporter from I thought IDC who thought have concluded that NAV would not be sold anymore above 50 users. There were also some postings around here as I recall. Microsoft called this reporter and submitted a press release in which they stated that NAV can work up to 250 users...

we have sites with up to 1.200 concurrent users on NAV, so don't worry...

Alex_Chow

janluuc wrote:

At least we got the discussion running ;-).

I have to give you credit for being brave for posting that on a NAV-centric forum.

Waldo

p.willemse6 wrote:

we have sites with up to 1.200 concurrent users on NAV, so don't worry...

One database/server?

p.willemse6

yesss. But many read transactions....

Waldo

Beautiful ... and a challenge ... .
Can I see it ?