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Implementing Microsoft Dynamics NAV - Third Edition

By : Alex Chow
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Implementing Microsoft Dynamics NAV - Third Edition

By: Alex Chow

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 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, purchase processing, logistics, or manufacturing. It also allows companies to grow the application by customizing the solution to meet specific requirements. This book is a hands-on tutorial on working with a real Dynamics NAV implementation. You will learn about the team from your Microsoft Dynamics NAV partner as well as the team within the customer’s company. This book provides an insight into the different tools available to migrate data from the client’s legacy system into Microsoft Dynamics NAV. If you are already live with Microsoft Dynamics NAV, this books talks about upgrades and what to expect from them. We’ll also show you how to implement additional or expanding functionalities within your existing Microsoft Dynamics NAV installation, perform data analysis, debug error messages, and implement free third-party add-ons to your existing installation. This book will empower you with all the skills and knowledge you need for a successful implementation.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Implementing Microsoft Dynamics NAV Third Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Phases


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

It's especially important to define how the 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 people, 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 Dynamics NAV implementation...