iBuild1. iBuild™
Empowering The Enterprise
Microsoft Dynamics NAV iBuild™
The Contracting & Property Development
Industry Business Solution
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2. Today’s Topics
Construction Industry Insights
Solution
Microsoft Dynamics NAV iBuild™
iBuild™ Deployment Options
Return on Investment
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4. Construction Industry Insights…
GLOBAL MEGA-TRENDS INDUSTRY CHALLENGES
Market Shifts Complex value chains and networks
Consolidation Material cost fluctuations that put
Governance margins at risk
Technology Change order management
Cyclical demand
Uneven cash flow and demand for
capital
Complex regulatory environment
Projects & services run rate
Automation of distribution workflow
and business processes
Multi-company accounting and
reporting
Economic downturn
Flexible
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5. Business Drivers - Address The Pressures Head-on
Invest in dependable technology that will help
increase productivity and connect your business
Internal Reality Today’s Demands
• Current business software • Need to increase
is outdated and inflexible employee productivity
– Does not provide clear • Need to streamline operations
view of finances and realize efficiencies
– Customer and suppliers
Anxiety
• Need better access to
requesting new systems Over
– Employees doing all they
information and reporting
Change • Need to consolidate multiple
can with existing systems
• Can’t disrupt business systems and connect
departments
• Is it the right decision?
• Have outgrown
• Is it reliable, dependable,
current system
and secure?
• Will it last for the long term?
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8. What is Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) !
What is a ERP?
An ERP is the heart of an organization helping people in every aspect of the business maximize
efficiency connectivity and efficacy
ERP provides executive management with the tools to have information live at their finger tips to
make effective and informed business decisions
An ERP implementation enables management to take control of every aspect of their business and
identify pain points and bottle necks in order to focus their resources
ERP
Reporting
Resource Sales and Operations &
Financials HR Warehouse Jobs & PM Administration Purchasing
Planning Marketing • Manufacturing Business
• Services Intelligence
• eBusiness
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9. Microsoft Dynamics NAV iBuild
iBuild™
Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009
is a business management role tailored
iBuild™
solution that rapidly adapts around the
way your organization does business,
enabling your people to be effective and
your business to be competitive.
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10. Microsoft Dynamics NAV
Why Dynamics NAV
Microsoft Dynamics NAV seamlessly
integrates all aspects of an organization’s
infrastructure to enhance productivity and
maximize returns while maintaining a familiar
and user friendly user interface. With the
global backing of Microsoft and thousands of
partners and solution providers providing
add-ons, NAV has quickly developed to be a
leading ERP for many verticals including
manufacturing, construction, distribution and
the professional services.
More than 80,000+ customers
More than 4,000 certified partners
More than 2,000 add-on solutions
More than 40 localized versions
More than 1.5M+ Licensed Users
Microsoft Dynamics NAV integrates the enterprise
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11. Microsoft Dynamics NAV
Winner of Mid-Market ERP solutions
Microsoft Dynamics NAV
Sage Office Line
SAP Business One
Source: Research One
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12. Microsoft Dynamics NAV iBuild™ - Familiarity
Microsoft Familiar User Interface Fits with your systems
Fuels your Enables confident
business productivity decision-making
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13. Microsoft Dynamics NAV iBuild™
Usability
ROLE CENTRES
Direct integration with
Outlook
Task queues
Clear navigation panel
Intuitive workflow
Short training cycles
Interface inline with other
familiar Microsoft products
Role Centers are highly and
easily customizable for every
role:
Marketing
Sales
Warehouse
Administration
Executive
Financial
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14. Dynamics NAV Add-On Solutions - Overview
What Are NAV Add-on Solutions?
NAV add-on solutions provide prepackaged plug and play solutions that sit within the
Dynamics NAV platform providing users with additional functionality.
Add-on providers leverage global channel partners to deliver and support their solution in their
respective regions
The benefits of the NAV add-on solutions are:
Vertical/Solution based modules based on industry expertise
Faster deployment time
Cost savings to the end client
Leverage global client base for enhancement and features
Benefit from the core NAV platform’s flexibility and stability while capitalizing on best
of breed add-on solutions from various global vendors
Upgrade paths managed by the add-on providers
Partner based local support Certified Partner
Provider B Provider C
Contractor & Developer Add-on 3 Add-on 4 +
Dynamics NAV
Client NAV Package
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15. Types of Dynamics NAV Add-On Solutions
Vertical Based Solutions Horizontal Based Solutions
Our Dynamics NAV Vertical based add- Our Dynamics NAV Horizontal based add-on
on solutions provide prepackaged plug solutions provide prepackaged plug and play
and play industry solutions provides the functionalities that can apply to any industry to
business and users with all the required enable our clients with faster time to market and a
functionalities out of the box and ready more cost effective ERP rollout with out the need
for roll out. for long and expensive product customizations.
VERTICAL Shipping & Maritime HORIZONTAL Analytics & Business Intelligence
SOLUTIONS Construction & Contracting SOLUTIONS Customer Relationship Mgt.
Property Development E-commerce
Beverage Manufacturing Field Services Management
Financial Services Manufacturing
Retail Management Portals
Government Project Management
Professional Services Document Management
Wholesale & Distribution Online Time Entry & Management
Oil, Gas & Energy Request for Quotes Management
… many others…. Vendor Evaluations
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16. iBuild™ Add-on Solution
iBuild™ is a “Ready For Roll-Out”
add-on solution to Microsoft Dynamics
NAV pre-configured & customized for Warehouse Financial
the Construction & Property Mgt. Mgt.
Development industry called “iBuild™”.
iBuild provides a foundation for Property
Developers extended to contractors
utilizing an integrated solution with
advanced business intelligence. Procurement & Sales &
RFQ Marketing
The benefits of iBuild include:
Automate and streamline operations
Minimize data entry
Minimize costs Supply Chain HR &
Reduce waste Mgt. Recruiting
Improve purchasing power
Improve percentage to Budget Estimating,
Maximize project wins Tendering &
Estimate more accurately and Project
efficiently Management
Track projects at live at all times
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17. iBuild™
Contractors
Financials Maintenance &
• Campaign Mgt. Management • Orders & Contracts Mgmt. Plant Mgmt.
• contcat Mgt. • Planning & Execution
• Interactions • Multi-Company • Goods Holding • Contracts Mgmt.
• Notifications Accounting • Inventory • Planning & Dispatching
• Sales Lifecyle Mgt. • GL/COA • History • Order Processing
• Receivables / Payables • History
• Fixed Assets
Sales & • Inventory Warehouse
Marketing Management
Resource Project
• Templates Management Management • Vendor Evaluation
• RFQ & Vender Eval
• Quotes • Incident
• Contracts • Order Processing • Jobs (Templates) Management
• Resources
• Resource/Groups • Inventory & Costing • Resources • Process Enablement
• Reports
& Capacity • Analysis & Reporting • Reports
• Reports • History • Time Registration
Estimating • History Purchasing • MS Project & Portals Quality Control
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18. iBuild™
Developers
Financials Vendor
• Campaign Mgt. Management • BOQ Data Load Management
• contcat Mgt. • Request For Quote &
• Interactions • Multi-Company Comparison Analysis
• Notifications Accounting • Trade Breakdown • Quotes Mgt.
• Sales Lifecyle Mgt. • GL/COA • Reports • Orders & Contracts Mgmt.
• Receivables / Payables • History • Vender Evaluation
• Fixed Assets • Reports & History
Sales & • Inventory BOQ
Marketing Estimation
Project Maintenance
• RFQ & Vender Evaluations
Management • Orders & Contracts Mgmt. & Services
• Planning & Execution
• Planning & Order Processing • Contracts Mgmt.
• Jobs Mgt. • Goods Holding
• Inventory & Costing • Planning & Dispatching
• Consumption & Certified • Inventory
• Analysis & Reporting • Order Processing
Work Mgt. • History
• History • History
• Budgets & Forecasts Mgt.
• Reports
Purchasing Warehouse
Management
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20. Estimations & Tendering
Accelerated estimates assembly, using pre-defined templates
Estimates traceability and integration with Project Management, and resource planning
Detailed view of bill-item breakdown
Customizable views to help companies leverage their existing best practices
Enhanced estimate accuracy
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21. Project and Resource Management
Fully integrated and automated Project Management minimizes efforts and data entry and maximizes
accuracy and success
Convert an Estimate to a Project with a click of a button
Track and compare project costs vs. estimates
Fully integrated with all other aspects of the business
Generate change orders for variations
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22. Financial Management, Payroll & Advanced HR
The fully integrated system enables executive management and financial controllers to have full real
time access into every aspect of the company and its ongoing projects
NAV also provides a lot of flexibility to financial controllers to effectively manage cash-flow across
single and multiple projects and companies
Employee Payroll and Portals
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23. Purchasing and Warehousing
Optimize planning & order processing
Manage inventory and track deliveries across various warehouses and construction sites
Fully connected with estimations and project management
Request for Quote (RFQ) - Multi vendor and item RFQ with One Click of a button to a multi-
language quote generator.
Quote comparison with hierarchical approvals for purchasing and requisitions
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24. Services and Contract Management
Link customer options and selections with contracts
Create, track, and update contracts easily
Audit ability of changes to the contract
Integrates with Project Controller, ensuring financial integrity & eliminating double-entry
Minimizes costly expenses that never get billed
Minimizes disputes between owners, architects and the contractor
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25. Quality Control
Vendor Evaluation
Incident Management (SharePoint)
Process Enablement
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26. Customer Service
Provide 24/7 service
Differentiate your business from the competition
Provide fast, informed answers to customer questions
Update stakeholders on project status with Web portals
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27. Collaboration & Mobile
Dynamics NAV 2009 Mobile & Internet
Collaboration Platform
Site managers access information in real time
Centralized Collaboration
Global Access - Internet & Mobile Platforms
Customizable & Integrated into Dynamics NAV 2009
Manage Diverse Content
Manage Information With Rights And Policies
Efficiently Manage Multiple Client & Vendor Portals
Streamline Business Process
Shared workspaces and document versioning
Wikis and blogs
Calendaring
RSS & email updates
& lots more – all in one software package
Technology - Microsoft SharePoint
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28. Business Intelligence, Analytics and Planning
Maximize executive insight and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) to respond quickly to
new opportunities
Achieve insight
Capture trends
Respond quickly to new opportunities or shifts in the market
Guide business growth
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29. Unique Architecture
Integrated Development Environment Database
GUI (Windows)
Employees
Commerce Microsoft Dynamics
Portal Database Server
Customers Application
and Business Server
Partners
Microsoft SQL
Server
Worldwide Generic Objects
Country-specific Objects
External
Customer-specific Objects
Applications
iBuild™ Solutions Objects
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30. iBuild™ Dynamics NAV ERP Deployment Options
On Premise On Demand
Customer Customer
User User
The Advanced capabilities of Microsoft
Dynamics NAV facilitates the options for
clients to install & run NAV at their own
facilities or have it hosted in a professional Software Services
data center in the USA or Europe (Cloud). Software &
Data Pay as Software
you go Services
We offer iBuild™ in two flavors: On-
Premise & On-Demand (Hosted) in our in
professional data centers in the USA or Software &
Europe (Cloud). Data
Software Licenses
and Operational Costs
Software
Vendor Xenatus
Global
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31. OUR ERP IN THE CLOUD
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32. What is an ERP in The Cloud?
On Premise On Demand
On Premise Means Servers and Customer Customer
Applications are Required Onsite User User
to:
Operate your ERP
Back-up and Maintain your data
Software Services
Secure your infrastructure Software &
Data Pay as Software
you go Services
On Demand (Cloud) Means Onsite
Servers for ERP are Not required: Software &
Data
Software Licenses
Your software vendor hosts your and Operational Costs
ERP
Your SW vendor secures the ERP Software
Vendor Xenatus
Your SW vendor backs-up your Global
data
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33. Facts on ERP in our Cloud?
Datacentres Based in US &
Europe
2 datacentres; more than 1500 SAS-70 is today the world
leading auditing standard for
servers Service Providers that found its
origin in supporting SOX
Overseeing over 50TB of compliancy in the US. SAS 70
critical customer data is an auditing standard
designed to enable an
Serving over 1 million end- independent auditor to evaluate
and issue an opinion on a
users in 55 countries service organization's controls.
With a SAS-70 type II
Dedicated Engineers certificate the provider
demonstrates that it has taken
supporting platform and measures to prevent adverse
effects on customers data
infrastructure caused by flawed processes
and IT systems.
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34. Advantages of ERP in Our Cloud?
Security Flexibility
SAS70 Type II Increase users overnight
Audits and Penetration tests Cease services within 30 day notice
Security Professionals Expand system capacity overnight
ISO27001 Global Accessibility
SOX compliant Time to Market
Back-up 48 Hours
Managed Back-ups Total Cost of Ownership
Rolling Image Back-ups Operational Costs vs. Capital
Reliable Up-Time Expenditure
99.95% Guaranteed Uptime Lower Cost of Entry
Maintenance No Hardware or HR Costs
Worry free upgrades, hardware,
Support
software, security and back-up Outsourced based on SLA
24/7
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36. iBuild™ – Return on Investment
Why is it important to think in terms of ROI?
Software is an Investment
Resources’ Time is Valuable
Important to identify inefficient Business Processes
Important to identify Margin Enhancement Opportunities
?
8
6
4
2
0
Initial 1 2 3 4 5
-2
Investment Year
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37. iBuild™
Benefits Across the Organization
Materials and Vendor Risk Mitigation & Revenue
Management Enhancement
Price Reduction via Vendor Purchasing More Accurate Estimation
Tracking and Evaluation Enhanced Sales
On-time Delivery, Less Downtime Less ‘Risk’ Inventory and Resources
Increased Bulk Buying Better Delivery
Increased Bulk Discounts
ROI
Operations Sales
Operational Efficiency Improvement
More Efficient Project Management
Less Problem Management
Increased Resource Billability
Increased Productivity of Expert Workforce
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38. 5 Year iBuild ROI Results
Results from Actual Client Implementation, Normalized for a Turnover of €50,000,000
Material & Vendor Management Operational Efficiency
Improvement
€ 350,000
€ 300,000 € 400,000
€ 250,000
€ 300,000
€ 200,000
€ 150,000 € 200,000
€ 100,000
€ 100,000
€ 50,000
€- €-
Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5
Risk Mitigation & Revenue Total ROI as % of Annual
Enhancement Turnover
€ 1,200,000 4.00%
€ 1,000,000
3.00%
€ 800,000
€ 600,000 2.00%
€ 400,000
€ 200,000 1.00%
€-
0.00%
Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5
Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5
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39. iBuild™ – NPV Chart
Net Present Value
Normalized Turnover €50,000,000
Normalized SW Implementation €75,000
Interest Rate 5%
Full Return in 13 months post go-live
Go Live Yr 1 Yr 2 Yr 3 Yr 4
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40. iBuild™ – Intangible Benefits
Materials and Vendor Management
Structured Work place
Easier to bring in New Employees and get them Productive
Centralized Information provides for Better Business Intelligence
More Focus on Profit Drivers
Management able to Focus on Revenue Drivers and Pre-empt Problems Before they Happen
Improved Delivery and Customer Satisfaction
Improved Management Morale and Control
Improved Employee Morale
Reduced Risk
Cash-flow
Inventory levels
Attrition
Reduced Human Errors
Constantly up to Date on global Best Practices
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41. iBuild™ – ROI Consultancy
We offer ROI Consultancy as a service to any company interested in iBuild™
We provide a detailed analysis on the company’s potential ROI
The service is complementary to iBuild™ clients
$5,000 for Potential iBuild™ clients – Amount deductible from their iBuild™ Implementation
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