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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
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Summary


In this chapter, we have seen how to create a real-world interface between Microsoft Dynamics NAV and an external application. As learned in the chapter, it's always recommended not to directly publish NAV web services to an external application but instead use a middle tier that wraps the calls and permits flexibility and scalability.

In this chapter, we have covered all the aspects of the interface creation, such as business logic management in NAV, development of a RESTful WCF service that acts as middle tier between NAV and the external clients, application testing, and deployment.

We have learned several tips on how to write a modern interface (different responses, layered solution, security, and much more) and now we have a solution ready for production.

The next chapter will show us how to use Control Add-ins in order to use the external services from a custom user interface on NAV.