Leading Microsoft Dynamics NAV-based food management application to be enhanced with advanced analytics
London, United Kingdom – (December 2, 2009) – Anglia Business Solutions is integrating analytics into its multiple award winning LINKFresh® application for the food management industry using Zap’s Zap Business Intelligence for Microsoft Dynamics NAV.
LINKFresh is a vertical solution based on Microsoft Dynamics NAV® to meet the specific needs of the food supply chain sector, such as tracking, tracing, and costing products in real time throughout the entire supply chain.
“The fresh food industry faces real profitability challenges due to the very short, pressured supply chains associated with perishable products, and the highly competitive nature of the industry,” said Anglia’s Managing Director, David Hurley. “Suppliers get so caught up in the challenges of day-to-day activities that they can’t always see the big picture. Business intelligence exposes trends, opportunities, and issues that would otherwise be missed, enabling suppliers to maximize the value of their efforts. They can instantly see analytics such as customer, product and consignment profitability as well as grower yields which they can use to optimize their business potential. We chose Zap’s Business Analytics after evaluating vendors over the past two years. Zap provides very strong integration with NAV, particularly for vertical applications which is of utmost importance for our packaged NAV add-on. The company is also committed to innovation and can support us globally as we expand.”
Zap’s Zap Business Intelligence for Microsoft Dynamics NAV is an out-of-the-box solution that turns NAV transactions to insight, empowering employees to make a difference to performance. It puts dashboards, key performance indicators (KPIs), scorecards, reports, and analysis into the hands of business users. Even heavily customized vertical solutions such as LINKFresh are easily accommodated, with a wizard-driven application that brings through NAV customizations and security instantly.
“We are strongly committed to enhancing vertical solutions built on the Microsoft Dynamics platform with advanced analytics,” said Garth D. Laird, President of Zap. “Anglia is an excellent example of a strong industry offering that is attracting global attention. We are proud that Anglia has chosen Zap’s Business Analytics after extensive exploration of alternative vendors.”
“Zap’s collaboration with Anglia is proving very successful in a short space of time,” said Steve Zangari, Zap’s General Manager, United Kingdom. “With multiple Anglia customers already purchasing Zap's Business Analytics, we are looking forward to entering a more strategic phase of our partnership.”
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About Zap
Zap is a global software company that creates solutions to help enterprises improve corporate performance. As a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, Zap offers packaged solutions for Microsoft Dynamics that provide advanced analytics - dashboards, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), scorecards and reports – right out of the box. Zap was named 2009 Microsoft Worldwide ISV/Software Solutions, Innovation Partner of the Year for its Zap Business Intelligence for Microsoft Dynamics solutions.
About Anglia
Anglia Business Solutions is a 28-year-old software and IT consultancy organization with extensive supply chain expertise. The company is a Microsoft Certified Gold Partner, holding Microsoft Competencies in ISV Software Solutions, Mobility Solutions, Microsoft Business Solutions, Advanced Infrastructure Solutions and Information Worker Solutions. Anglia has won numerous awards over many years for the innovations incorporated into its solutions coupled with the returns on investment achieved by its clients.
In January 2005, the company set up a specialist independent software vendor (ISV) operation. This investment was designed to produce leading edge vertical application packages based on the Microsoft Dynamics NAV (formerly known as Navision) platform. Microsoft Dynamics NAV is the software giant’s flagship mid range enterprise resource planning (ERP) application suite. It is now used by over 85,000 companies worldwide and has a large base in the food industry.
LINKFresh is the first product of the ISV operation and is already establishing a reputation as a leading packaged business management system for the fresh food sector. LINKFresh is currently a Microsoft Dynamics certified add-on package. The application was developed in the worldwide version of the Microsoft Dynamics NAV platform and is currently deployed in Australia, Czech Republic and Portugal. LINKFresh has won the title of UK Vertical Solution of the Year in 2007, 2008 & 2009.
Anglia’s customers in the Fresh Food sector include: A V Produce, Branston ltd, Capespan, Fyffes, G’s Marketing, Lincolnshire Field Products, Isleham Fresh Produce, Noble Foods, 2 Sisters, Marshalls, RBO, Produce World Group, MMD, MMUK, Rustler, TIO, Valley Grown Salads Ltd, Winfresh Ltd
LINKFresh® and the LINKFresh logo are registered trademarks of Anglia Business Solutions
For further information on Anglia’s products and services visit www.angliabs.com.