Which Navision Edition?

Dynamics Nav Business Essentials, also called BE, is the Navision edition designed as a starter, or for smaller companies, or companies with relatively simple requirements. It has a solid but limited base functionality, and offers very few optional add-ons.

Navision Advanced Management, also called AM, is the 'full-blown' Nav edition. It includes significantly more features and functions in the base package, and offers many, many optional add-ons.

However, you can always upgrade Business Essentials to Advanced Management, so you're not stuck if you decide to start with BE and later need more features and functions.

Microsoft publishes a detailed list of what modules and granules are included in or available for the different editions, however, many people find the Microsoft list rather confusing to use, and it does not include any information as to what the different modules and granules actually do. If you'd like to see Microsoft's list anyway, you can download this PDF.

To make it easier to understand and make intelligent choices, we've created the chart below, which shows which modules and granules are included, optional (for extra money), or simply not available, for each of the different Navision editions.