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History of Navision, from PC-Plus to Business Central 1983 to 1987 - The adventure begins - PC&C founded
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Table of Contents
  • History of Navision from 1983 till today
  • -1983 to 1987 - The adventure begins - PC&C founded
    • Jesper Balser
    • Michael Nielsen
    • Peter Bang
    • Torben Wind
    • What is PC&C?
  • 1987 to 1989 - Navision version 1.0
  • +1990 to 1994 - the global customizable erp solution
  • +1995 to 1999 - Navision Financials - first Windows version
  • +2000 to 2001 - in the internet bobble
  • 2002 to 2004 - Microsoft Business Solutions Navision
  • +2005 to 2007 the last classic versions
  • 2008 - the role tailored client
  • 2011-13 - growth in the application
  • 2013 to 2015 - the "modern" versions
  • 2016 to 2017 - NAV as SAAS or the end of Navision
  • 2018 to - The beginning of a new era
  • +Dynamics NAV names and versions
  • +Large NAV events and conferences
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1983 to 1987 - The adventure begins - PC&C founded

The Navision adventure starts when the company PC&C (Personal Computing & Consulting) was founded in 1983 by Jesper Balser, Peter Bang and Torben Wind. At that time on they where students at the Danish Technical University (DTU) in Copenhagen, Denmark.

 

PC-Plus (1984) - Finance, Customers, Vendors and Inventory.

PC-Plus - the first "Navision"

In 1984 the company released their first accounting solution in Denmark & Norway. PC Plus was a character-based accounting solution for SOHO (small office/home office) market. It was only single user system, but as being fully designed to run on one of the new IBM PC or PC-compatible personal computers. Had had grown in popularity and had for the first time allowed small companies to afford and use computer. Now PC&C had delivered one of the first accounting systems, and the users loved it.

(article from Danish Computerworld November 5th, 1985 - "Program becomes the accountants hot Christmas wish)

(article from Danish Computerworld November 5th, 1985 - Our ambition is not 117 employees!)

Beauty of Simplicity

The first company slogan was in use until end of the 1990'ies. It was not just a slogan, but their key to designing software.

Despite no longer in use, then its very clear that this slogan still is the very heart of Dynamics NAV.

What happened to PC-Plus?

The rights to PC-Plus was later sold to one of the biggest PC-Plus partners (?? do you know who, please comment or update), who with smaller technical updates continued supporting the system to 2010. But there are still many small companies in Denmark who continues to use it in 2015.

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