With the increased reporting, productivity, and cost-cutting demands placed on organizations today, opportunities to enhance the Return on Investment of an ERP software implementation must always be examined. One opportunity to do just this is through development of additional functionality or customization to existing functionality.
Microsoft Dynamics NAV has a unique development environment that allows vendors to add new functionality, customize existing functionality, add additional data storages, modify and build new reports and quickly build integration functionality with other applications.
Zuna’s approach to development:
Zuna’s development team works directly with both the consultant and client to complete the development, but just as important as the actual development is the business impact of the requested development. How will the organization gain from this development, what is the impact to other users/departments, how does this affect upgrades to newer versions of the software application and what is the cost of the development request. In our experience, without answering all of these questions organizations place themselves at risk to auditing concerns, project cost overages, and version-locking among many other risks.
After the development request is appropriately defined and approved the actual development follows a custom methodology involving multiple internal Quality Assurance cycles and final end-user testing prior to release into production.
Additional functionality or customization through development is not without both short-term and long-term costs. For this reason, we place emphasis on understanding the value to be gained through the changes prior to the development being performed.
