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Building ERP Solutions with Microsoft Dynamics NAV

By : Stefano Demiliani
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Building ERP Solutions with Microsoft Dynamics NAV

By: Stefano Demiliani

Overview of this book

Implementing Microsoft Dynamics NAV in the real world often requires you to integrate the ERP with external applications or solve complex architectural tasks in order to have a final successful project. This book will show you how to extend a Microsoft Dynamics NAV installation to the enterprise world in a practical way. The book starts with an introduction to Microsoft Dynamics NAV architecture and then moves on to advanced topics related to implementing real-world solutions based on NAV and external applications. You will learn how an enterprise distributed architecture with NAV at the core can be implemented. Through a series of real-world cases on every topic and every industry (sales, retail, manufacturing, distribution, healthcare, and so on), you’ll see step by step how to efficiently solve a technical problem. These common problems encountered in a NAV implementation will be solved using the entire technology stack that Microsoft offers. By the end of the book, you will have the knowledge to efficiently solve certain scenarios, you will know which is the best solution architecture to propose to a customer and how to implement it.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Building ERP Solutions with Microsoft Dynamics NAV
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Summary


In this chapter, we have covered the first real-world usage of NAV web services: publishing your data to the Microsoft cloud business intelligence platform (Power BI).

We have discovered what Power BI is and what you can do with the Microsoft BI service (desktop application and cloud portal).

We have learned how to publish NAV data to the Power BI Desktop application by using NAV OData web services and how to create reports and dashboards from that application. Next, we have learned how to publish a dashboard to the cloud portal of Power BI.

Finally, we discovered the Microsoft Dynamics NAV content pack for Power BI and looked at how to use it and what the actual limits are.

In the next chapter, we'll see a real-world case of integration between NAV and external applications by using web services.