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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 business scenario


In Chapter 5, Integrating NAV Web Services and External Applications, and Chapter 7, Programming Universal Windows Apps with NAV and Devices, we had an in-depth overview on how to implement a real-world ERP solution that involves many technical aspects such as:

  • Microsoft Dynamics NAV as the ERP in the corporate LAN

  • The ERP must be the master of the business logic

  • External applications need to interact with NAV in a standardized way

  • The communication protocols between NAV and external applications must be HTTP compliant (with XML and JSON as response protocols)

To satisfy the requirements, we have learned how to develop and deploy an interface layer that acts as a middle tier between Microsoft Dynamics NAV and external applications:

The previously described solutions require that you host the interface layer on your own, and you need to manage deployment, scaling, authorisation, and so on.

Now imagine a requirement where many Microsoft Dynamics NAV instances (physically located...