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Implementing Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central On-Premise - Fourth Edition

By : Roberto Stefanetti, Alex Chow
Book Image

Implementing Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central On-Premise - Fourth Edition

By: Roberto Stefanetti, Alex Chow

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics Business Central is a full business solution suite and a complete ERP solution, which contains a robust set of development tools; these tools can help you to gain control over your business and can simplify supply chains, manufacturing, and operations. Implementing Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central On-Premise covers the latest features of Dynamics Business Central and NAV from the end users' and developers' perspectives. It also provides an insight into different tools available for implementation, whether it's a new installation or migrating from the previous version of Dynamics NAV. This book will take you from an introduction to Dynamics NAV 2018 through to exploring all the techniques related to implementation and migration. You will also learn to expand functionalities within your existing Microsoft Dynamics NAV installation, perform data analysis, and implement free third-party add-ons to your existing installation. As you progress through the book, you will learn to work with third-party add-on tools. In the concluding chapters, you will explore Dynamics 365 Business Central, the new Cloud solution based on the Microsoft NAV platform, and techniques for using Docker and Sandbox to develop applications. By the end of the book, you will have gained a deep understanding of the key components for successful Dynamics NAV implementation for an organization.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Definition of goals


Implementing Microsoft Dynamics NAV or Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central as your ERP system is not a turnkey project. Purchasing and implementing an ERP system is not like installing Microsoft Office, for which you run the Setup.exe file and are done with it (based on "next-next-end" philosophy). Implementing an EPR is a process and, with such a process, you need the people that are involved to actively participate in all phases of the implementation. How involved the client's team is will affect the final result of the implementation:

In the preceding diagram, you can see that implementing Microsoft Dynamics NAV or Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central on the partner side is a project that can be framed within a larger project, the implementation on the customer side. Depending on the scope of the project, the amount of work on each side may differ.

As in any project, defining goals is essential, to measure whether the project succeeds or not. Goals have to be...