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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
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Customer Feedback
Preface

The Microsoft Azure platform


Microsoft Azure is Microsoft's application platform for the public cloud. Microsoft Azure offers mainly IaaS and PaaS services, but also Software as a service (SaaS) is covered (Office 365 runs on Azure, Dynamics 365 applications runs on Azure, Azure websites can serve as SaaS offerings as well by permitting you to configure and run applications such as WordPress in a few minutes).

The following screenshot shows the main differences between an on-premise infrastructure and IaaS or PaaS architectures:

Microsoft Azure is now generally available in 30 regions around the world and the platform is continuously growing (in terms of geographic expansion and the features offered). This is the actual Azure data centers map (with regions covered) provided by Microsoft:

This global network of data centers guarantees high levels of availability and SLAs and data redundancy (locally redundancy in the user's primary region or geo-redundancy in a secondary region).

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