Users can access Microsoft Navision through a variety of methods, including the PC and the Internet. The solution supports Internet-based features such Microsoft® Business Solutions- Navision® Commerce Gateway and Microsoft® Business Solutions -Navision® Commerce Portal.

Commerce Gateway and Commerce Portal let you leverage the power of the Internet to streamline your commercial interactions with vendors and customers. Commerce Gateway opens up Microsoft Navision for the electronic exchange of trading documents with other systems. It reduces human error and the amount of time spent on entering data, such as purchases and sales orders -without a complex EDI system.

Commerce Portal is an Internet-based solution integrated with Microsoft Navision that provides a company's customers and business partners with an online Web portal containing relevant information and services needed to carry out commercial transactions with each other. In order to use Commerce Portal with Microsoft Navision 4.0, you must use the Commerce Portal Synchronization services and demo sites released with Microsoft Navision 3.70. Contact your Microsoft Business Solutions partner for additional information.