Contractors Moving from QuickBooks and GCS Premier to NAV

We are very excited to see the growing number of high-growth government contractors that have moved to Microsoft Dynamics NAV for Government Contractors from PVBS. Many of these companies have graduated from a basic entry-level accounting application with limited functionality, such as QuickBooks, and needed a more feature-rich, intuitive solution. Others have moved from older, inflexible legacy programs such as Deltek GCS Premier. And others were looking for a great Microsoft solution and found it with Dynamics NAV.

We’re particularly excited about two of our customers that have had a great deal of success moving to Dynamics NAV from less functional programs. EMW (Herndon, VA, www.emw.com) and Dovèl Technologies (McLean, VA, www.doveltech.com) have been servicing many Defense, Civilian, and Intelligence agencies for years. We published case studies on both companies on our web site this month.

The EMW case study represents something we frequently see, which is the need for DCAA compliance. EMW expected to start winning a large number of contracts around the world to service the Federal Government and wanted to ensure that the financial systems were well established in advance of the expected DCAA (Defense Contract Audit Agency) audits on their cost-plus and other contracts. The EMW COO said, “We can see how Dynamics NAV lets us do more with less.”

Dovel leadership knew that the growing company had well exceeded the capabilities of QuickBooks. They needed an accounting solution that the DCAA would approve and were convinced that DCAA would not approve their usage of QuickBooks, an accounting software solution that was not designed to meet the needs of government contractors least of all ones that were growing quickly. QuickBooks was enough to get the company started but once it started winning Federal Government business, it quickly became a liability that threatened the company’s growth.