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Implementing Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013

By : Laura Nicolàs Lorente, Cristina Nicolàs Lorente
Book Image

Implementing Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013

By: Laura Nicolàs Lorente, Cristina Nicolàs Lorente

Overview of this book

<p>Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 is an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) application used in all kinds of organizations around the world. It provides a great variety of functionality out-of-the-box in different topics such as accounting, sales and purchases processing, logistics, or manufacturing. But it also allows companies to grow the application by customizing the solution to meet specific requirements.<br /><br />"Implementing Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013" explains all you need to know to successfully handle your first Dynamics NAV 2013 implementation. You will learn what the application can do out of the box, how you can extend it to meet any kind of requirements, and how to manage real implementation projects with real customers.<br /><br />This book does not only cover typical topics when implementing the new version of an ERP system; topics that are not found in any previous documentation of Dynamics NAV, such as the implementation process at the customer side, or implementing functional changes on existing Dynamics NAV implementations are included in here. This approach makes this book different.<br /><br />After reading "Implementing Dynamics NAV 2013" you will be empowered with the skills and knowledge you need for successful implementations.</p>
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Implementing Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013
Credits
About the Authors
Acknowledgement
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 6. Migrating Data

Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 is now completely configured and tuned. A range of brand new functionalities have been programmed and everything is ready for us to go live. But, data is needed for it to start working!

Companies may now start working with Dynamics NAV, but they are not new companies; they have been working for a while, and they already have all kinds of data: their customers, vendors, items, accounting information, and so on.

In this chapter we will see which tools can be used in Dynamics NAV to migrate data into the system and how to convert data to meet NAV requirements. We will look at tools such as:

  • RapidStart Services

  • XMLport

  • User defined tools

We will also see what kind of data is commonly migrated to Dynamics NAV and which strategies can be used to migrate it. The kind of data and strategies are listed as follows:

  • Master data

  • Open entries

  • Historical data

  • Open documents