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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
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Preface

Chapter 8. Exploring Microsoft Azure and its Services

In the previous chapters, we've analyzed different integration scenarios between Microsoft Dynamics NAV and the external applications. We have learned how to decouple your NAV installation from an external world by creating custom integration layers and by using NAV web services for exposing the business logic.

But what about the cloud? The cloud is actually a great opportunity and you need to start thinking about using cloud services in your projects for handling different tasks that require scalability of resources or services that will be difficult to develop or deploy by yourself.

In this chapter, we'll see an overview of the Microsoft Azure platform and its services. We'll discover what Azure is and what services the platform offers now in all the different areas of the application. The chapter will cover the following topics:

  • An overview of the Microsoft Azure platform

  • Managing cloud resources on Microsoft Azure

  • An overview of the most...