

In 2013 Dynamics NAV 2013 was released and the use of the RTC or Role Tailored Client became mandatory as the Classic Client was no longer an option. Users had the option of running the ‘Classic Client’ or Role Tailored Client (RTC). In 2008, Dynamics NAV introduced its new ‘Role Tailored Client’ to make the solution have a similar User Interface to other Microsoft Office products. In 2005, Microsoft rebranded Navision to Microsoft Dynamics NAV. In 2002, Microsoft purchased Navision A/S soon after purchasing Great Plains and it became part of a new division called Microsoft Business Solutions.
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In 2000 Navision Software and Damgaard merged and the new company became Navision A/S. Some of the founding members of Navision left the company to begin Damgaard A/S and created a solution called Axapta. In 1997 Navision began selling in the United States and one of first partners for it was the members of what is now known as Clients First Business Solutions. In 1995 the first Windows version of Navision was released. The advent of Client/Server design allowed for far less ‘raw’ data to traverse the LAN and greatly increased performance and scalability. LAN capacity at the time (typically at 1mb/s to 10mb/s would ‘clog’ very quickly causing software slowdowns and possible database corruption. This would often result in poor performance when multiple users ran demanding requests like reports.
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Most software before then ran the full application on evey workstation and pulled the data over the Local Area Network or LAN. Client/Server allowed an active program always running on the server to broker requests from users workstations. In 1987 the first version of Navision was released as a DOS application and was designed for multiple users using the latest in technology at the time, client/server computing. Today it’s known as Microsoft Dynamics NAV and more recently, a cloud version is Dynamics 365 for Financials. Amazingly, now more than 30 years later, millions of people log into the solution and its owned by the worlds largest software company, Microsoft. Back in 1984, 3 college students in Denmark created a simple accounting system called PC Plus.
