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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

Involve end users


End users are the people who will actually be using Microsoft Dynamics NAV or Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central on a daily basis. The project will truly succeed if they fully utilize the system. And they will only fully utilize the system if they believe it's reliable and find that it makes their jobs easier.

For all of this to happen, it is important that they get involved in every step of the implementation, from the very beginning. They may not have a high position within the company, and they may not have the power to make certain decisions, but they will definitely have a lot to say.

When we talked about the definition of internal processes, we said that you had to ask yourself and your people what your processes were, the activities inside each process, and the information used by the process. We also said that real processes should be considered and not just theoretical processes. The ones who actually know real processes and activities are end users. If their...