Tectura Corporation, a vendor of business consulting services, has been chosen to be part of Microsoft's (News - Alert) Technical Adoption Program for the latest Microsoft Dynamics release - Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009.
TAP is designed to provide “a consistent experience for Microsoft partners to obtain real-world customer feedback on Microsoft pre-release products,” according to the Tecturians. The goal is to improve customer and partner experiences in evaluating and adopting Microsoft technologies.
Tectura is one of eight Microsoft Dynamics partners asked to join Microsoft's software experts in this initiative.
In June TMC reported that ImageTag, a developer of KwikTag, a document imaging product for Microsoft Dynamics, and Tectura announced integration between KwikTag document imaging software and ReQlogic procurement software.
This integration "brings together two pools of technical and industry expertise," Tectura officials said at the time, providing Microsoft Dynamics customers a product for managing paper and other electronic documents within their requisition and expense management systems.
The integration lets users "add and view documents from within ReQlogic requisitions and expense reports," Tectura officials noted, explaining that "when corresponding purchase orders and payables vouchers are created, attachments are available within the ERP system through the standard KwikTag interface."
One of the major goals of this TAP initiative, Tectura officials say, is to test the new Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 release along with one of Tectura's ISV products. Evidently, the way it worked was that each Microsoft Dynamics partner that was part of the TAP team ran an upgrade project with a selected customer. Andreas Voss, product manager for Tectura Germany, chose Tectura Process Manufacturing, a product used by more than 180 clients around the globe.
"Our client was already considering updating their ERP product. Plus, they wanted to improve the organizational processes within the company. Integration between their ERP and Microsoft Office was one of their goals. Upgrading to Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 provided an excellent opportunity to reach their objectives,” explains Voss.
A “major functionality component” of the Tectura product, company officials say, is personalized role centers.
"What we have done with the Technical Adoption Program will make next steps for other partners who must also update their products, much more streamlined," Voss says.
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