Implementing Microsoft Dynamics NAV - Third Edition

Explore the capabilities of Dynamics NAV 2016 and discover all you need to implement it

Key Features

• Learn the key roles of your Dynamics NAV partner and the roles within your customer's organization
• Create configuration packages and perform data migration on your own
• Find out how to troubleshoot your problems effectively with your Dynamics NAV partner

Book Description

Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 is an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) application used in all kinds of organizations around the world. It provides a great variety of functionality out-of-the-box in different topics such as accounting, sales, purchase processing, logistics, or manufacturing. It also allows companies to grow the application by customizing the solution to meet specific requirements.

This book is a hands-on tutorial on working with a real Dynamics NAV implementation. You will learn about the team from your Microsoft Dynamics NAV partner as well as the team within the customer's company. This book provides an insight into the different tools available to migrate data from the client's legacy system into Microsoft Dynamics NAV.

If you are already live with Microsoft Dynamics NAV, this books talks about upgrades and what to expect from them. We'll also show you how to implement additional or expanding functionalities within your existing Microsoft Dynamics NAV installation, perform data analysis, debug error messages, and implement free third-party add-ons to your existing installation.

This book will empower you with all the skills and knowledge you need for a successful implementation.

What you will learn

• Study the roles within a Dynamics NAV partner and within a customer's company
• Create reusable data migration packages
• Work with the debugger to pinpoint error messages
• Get to grips with the key tables used in data reporting and analysis
• Successfully upgrade your installation to the latest version
• Manage and expand your existing installation with additional functionalities
• Explore the free third-party add-ons that can leverage your existing installation

Who this book is for

This book is for Dynamics NAV partners and end users who want to know everything about Dynamics NAV implementations. It is aimed at those who want to be project managers or get involved with Dynamics NAV, but do not have the expertise to write code themselves.

Alex Chow has been working with Microsoft Dynamics NAV, formerly Navision, since 1999. Over the years, he has conducted hundreds of implementations across multiple industries. His customers range from $2-million-a-year small enterprises to $500-million-a-year multinational corporations. Over the course of his Dynamics NAV career, he has often been designated as the primary person responsible for the success and failure of Dynamics NAV implementations. The fact that Alex is still in the Dynamics NAV business means that he's been pretty lucky so far. His extensive career in the Dynamics NAV business is evidence of his success rate and expertise. With a background in implementing all functions and modules inside and outside of Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Alex has encountered and resolved the most practical to the most complex requirements and business rules. Through these experiences, he has learned that sometimes you have to be a little crazy to have a competitive edge. Believing that sharing these experiences and knowledge would benefit the Dynamics NAV community, Alex writes about his journey at www.dynamicsnavconsultant.com. He founded AP Commerce (www.apcommerce.com) in 2005. It is a full-service Dynamics NAV service center. In addition, Alex has written a book about Dynamics NAV titled Getting Started with Dynamics NAV 2013 Application Development by Packt Publishing. He lives in southern California with his beautiful wife and two lovely daughters. He considers himself the luckiest man in the world.