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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

Phases


The following section of this chapter will describe each phase in a Microsoft Dynamics NAV implementation, and the tasks each phase includes. In a waterfall environment, you can do one thing after another. In an agile environment, don't forget to loop through all of the phases, especially those of getting the project requirements, analysis, development, and part of the task from the deployment phase.

It's especially important to define how information will flow through all the phases to ensure that important information does not get lost.

Presales

This is the first contact between the partner and the customer—the big lines on which the project will be drawn.

This phase is usually executed by the sales or marketing teams, with the help of a business consultant. Many companies think that at this stage, the project hasn't started yet, so they don't think that this job is part of the project. But it actually plays a very important role.

Selling a project like a Microsoft Dynamics NAV implementation...