Microsoft Dynamics NAV has been a preferred ERP solution in the small business realm for years. Today, it hopes to expand its clientele by seeking out enterprise-level customers as well.

According to an article in ComputerWorld, Microsoft's business software solution has begun to attract a number of organizations that would otherwise have signed with enterprise-focused providers. Microsoft has accomplished this by showing its versatility and ability to scale itself to meet customer needs.

During the Convergence conference in New Orleans this week, executives from cosmetics manufacturer Revlon explained why they chose to replace their business systems with a Microsoft Dynamics NAV solution. CIO David Giambruno explained during an onstage interview that the company didn't favor a traditional fit but rather looked for the best possible system.

"We were an equal-opportunity ERP acquirer," Giambruno said. "The effort in pulling all the information together, while effective, wasn't efficient. My job is to make systems work for people, not people work for systems. We're literally collapsing it into one ERP globally."

While Microsoft's Dynamics NAV system is still typically preferred by small businesses, the fact that it can support large enterprises should give companies confidence that their solution will be able to adapt to any future changes. For example, if a company adopts a Dynamics system and then starts to grow, it can do so with confidence knowing that its ERP solution will scale with it.

Ultimately, businesses need technology to cater to their specific operations, but it's important for the software to not lock them into a specific series of processes. In today's uncertain economy, it's difficult to know what the immediate future holds. By investing in a NAV system, organizations will at least know their software will be there to support them along the way.