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Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009: Professional Reporting

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Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009: Professional Reporting

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics NAV is widely used in enterprises with its enhanced reporting features, but there still isn’t a book that covers reporting in depth, until now. This book will show you what’s possible and exactly how to develop reports for Dynamics NAV 2009. Learn why reports are designed in a specific way and then apply this knowledge to your advantage. Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009: Professional Reporting is an essential guide to understanding the effort involved in creating reports in Dynamics NAV 2009, and all of the available reporting possibilities. Reading this book will result in a better understanding and it will help you save time during development.The book starts with an overview of what kind of reports you can create without a developer using charts, dimensions, and analysis views. The next chapter will introduce the new architecture of Role Tailored Client (RTC) reports and the basics on how to create them or have them generated. Moving on we will discuss data visualization, where you will learn how and when to implement all the available Visual Studio controls. Document reports and other types of specific reports are covered next, and you will get to know all the best workarounds for getting them to work correctly.Knowing other related features is vitally important to obtain a helicopter view of all the reporting possibilities of Dynamics NAV, and the next chapter will introduce Business Intelligence concepts and available technologies that could be used in combination with the Dynamics NAV database. Technology is evolving rapidly and new versions of Dynamics NAV are in the pipeline, so the book will also provide you with a view to the future and how to prepare for it.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009: Professional Reporting
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

What will SQL Server do?


At the time of writing, CTP3 of SQL Server Denali was just released and promises to be an exciting release. That is important for us Dynamics enthusiasts because Dynamics NAV runs on SQL Server and the power of SQL Server and the new possibilities capabilities that SQL Server Denali will bring us will in the end also become an added value for Dynamics NAV and even one day might end up in the Dynamics NAV product itself.

SQL Server Denali will bring some new possibilities capabilities on high availability solutions. The idea is that a database should always be available, even when it's down. In the current and previous SQL Server versions we had database mirroring, log shipping, server clustering, replication, and similar options to achieve this goal. In SQL server Denali high availability will be available more out of the box and should be less complex to implement.

The BIDS environment as we are used to today will also evolve into a new tool. BIDS and SSMS will be...