-Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 delivers value-added technical advancements with enhanced end-user productivity-

Dubai, UAE, January 28th, 2009 - Microsoft Gulf today announced the availability of Microsoft Dynamics Navision (NAV) 2009 in the Gulf highlighting the company's commitment to innovation across its enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM) products. With the introduction of Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009, Microsoft Dynamics continues to focus on improving user productivity, by providing mid-sized companies with a role specific, user-friendly ERP solution. In addition, it delivers value-added technical advancements and out-of-the-box integration with other Microsoft technologies, thereby improving total cost of ownership.

Commenting on the launch of NAV 2009, Tamer Elhamy, Business Solutions Manager, Microsoft Gulf said, "Our customers and partners are facing complex issues today. Customers need to streamline operations and find ways to use resources more efficiently while partners are looking for strong opportunities to create and maintain vertical solutions. Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 allows us to squarely address the needs of midsize businesses in today's economic climate and to support our partners' investments. By using the role-specific user friendly ERP solution, both groups can boost productivity and work smarter, maximizing their effectiveness in driving business impact."

Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 will introduce several new capabilities designed to increase usage of ERP and fuel individual and organization-wide productivity, including the following:

Personalised Role Centers corresponding to 21 key job functions providing individual employees with tools, alerts and efficiency capabilities attuned to the needs of their particular role from within a single location

Sophisticated business intelligence (BI) capabilities based on the new Microsoft SQL Server database layer introduced in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009, enable employees to drill into data, identify trends, generate business insights, and monitor how they're tracking against key performance indicators (KPIs)

NET Web Services allows partners and customers to integrate data and business logic from Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 with other applications to support a wide range of scenarios.

"Aswaaq was looking for a comprehensive IT infrastructure that could manage all aspects of our automated processes"said Jassim Sajwani, Director of IT and Administration, Aswaaq. "Microsoft Dynamics NAV offers a comprehensive, cost-effective, and standardized solution that fulfils all our business needs. The ease of setup and tight integration with the Microsoft products we already use allowed us to get up and running quickly and smoothly, and we are already seeing increased productivity, reduced costs and timely decision-making. With using Dynamics NAV, we have enhanced the shopping experience for customers."

Microsoft Dynamics is also continuing to protect partner investments, by maintaining a familiar, open development environment that allows partners to create and maintain vertical specific solutions. Not only does this assist partners with their development efforts, it helps to ensure that customers have vertical specific solutions to choose from quickly.  More information can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/gulf/dynamics/nav

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About Microsoft Dynamics
Microsoft Dynamics is a line of financial, customer relationship and supply chain management solutions that help businesses work more effectively. Delivered through a network of channel partners providing specialised services, these integrated, adaptable business management solutions work like and with familiar Microsoft software to streamline processes across an entire business.

About Microsoft Gulf
Founded in 1975, Microsoft (NASDAQ:'MSFT') is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential. Microsoft Gulf opened its Dubai-based headquarters in 1991. Microsoft Gulf today oversees Microsoft activities in Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, the UAE and Yemen. Microsoft Corporation's address on the World Wide Web is: www.microsoft.com Microsoft Middle East's Web site is: www.microsoft.com/middle east

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