M8421: Navision 4.0 Commerce Portal

The one-day Microsoft Business Solutions-Navision Commerce Portal 4.0 course describes and explains the most important features of Commerce Portal. This course shows you how to set up Commerce Portal so that you can connect your customers and vendors to your business management system by way of the Internet. The topics covered include setting up and creating Web pages, creating an electronic catalogue, setting up customers and vendors, and handling sales quotes, sales orders, and reverse auctions in Commerce Portal.

A thorough understanding of these topics allows you to use Commerce Portal to improve your responsiveness to vendor and customer demands. Your vendors and partners can use a personalized, convenient Web portal to do business with you. You learn how to maintain all your Web pages from within Navision, avoiding the need for extra Internet resources. Commerce Portal can help reduce costs by automating your commerce interactions and optimizing your supply chain. You can also create and complete reverse auctions, allowing your vendors to bid on an item via your Web portal, so you always get the best possible price the market can offer.

This course is intended for customers wanting to learn about the features of Commerce Portal and for those who want to develop a working knowledge of the procedures required to effectively use the product. It is intended for customers familiar with the accounting and business management application in Navision and for people that already have a general knowledge of business management and of Windows® 2000, Microsoft® SQL 2000 Server®, and Microsoft® Commerce Server.

The class is targeted toward IT professionals, information workers, office managers, CEOs, and consultants who need to understand the technical aspects of Commerce Portal and gain foundational knowledge of the application functionality.

Please note: This course concentrates on the software features and functionality of Microsoft Navision related to Commerce Portal. It is not intended to teach consultancy of Business Processes or the planning and decision making steps required during an industry deployment of Microsoft Navision