In addition to the base product, Add-ons are sold by ISV‘s. Because the base program has to focus on generic versions of business cases, software products supplementing/modifying NAV functionality are required, sold and distributed as NAV Add-ons, to improve functionality of NAV system or make it applicable in some business spheres.
There are vertical and horizontal add-on solutions. Horizontal add-on solutions supplement one of the NAV functions or add new function (e.g. financial management, human resources management etc.). Vertical (or industry-specific oriented) add-ons expand NAV functionality to support some industry (e.g. health care, brewery, financial services etc.) The majority of add-on solutions are multilingual with most supporting English.
Utilities are another form of add-on for Microsoft Dynamics NAV that make the resellers’ jobs simpler. Utilities are small software modules used by Microsoft Dynamics NAV programmers and database administrators, to make their jobs more convenient and effective. Also it makes program development and implementation processes faster and the cost lower for the resellers.
NAV CfMD (Certified for Microsoft Dynamics)
With NAV 2013, producing and maintaining Add-on solutions for NAV has become more expensive, since acquiring an exclusive NAV object number range is expensive, unless the solution gets certified. Solutions will have to be certified with every non-minor release of NAV, which happens once a year from NAV 2013 and onwards.
NAV CfMD is an exhaustive quality check of the entire software solution. This helps ensures the quality of the NAV Add-on solutions.