Entrepreneur Offers Entry-Level Accounting

A new entry-level business management package could help small European companies track finances and manage vendors and customers. Dynamics Entrepreneur Solution is Microsoft’s latest foray into financial software for small businesses, and it is based on Dynamics NAV, one of the company’s four enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications. Entrepreneur Solution will initially be available in Europe, putting it on a collision course with products from Sage, a leading vendor of business management applications in Europe. Eventually, the product will be available in other regions and could compete with similar Microsoft products, such as Accounting Professional and Small Business Financials.

What Is Entrepreneur Solution?

Dynamics Entrepreneur Solution is a business management application that will target companies with fewer than 50 employees and will support up to five users. The product is based on the Dynamics NAV (formerly Navision) ERP application, one of four ERP applications marketed under the Dynamics brand by Microsoft Business Solutions (MBS). NAV is aimed at midsize businesses, is sold globally, and has a strong customer base among distributors and manufacturers in Europe. As of early 2007, the product had more than 50,000 customers.