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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
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Preface

Business case 1 - handling mobile informations with NAV 


With an introduction of devices such as Surface, Microsoft has gained ground in its pursuit of enterprise mobility: having a full desktop experience (you can use every desktop application you have on your office machine) on a mobile device (that you can use with a keyboard, with a pen, or simply with a touch of your fingers):

In the transport (logistics) industry, devices such as Microsoft Surface or Windows Mobile tablets are often used by couriers to manage shipments and for a real-time connection with the headquarters' NAV ERP. In the services field, there are more and more companies that use Surface devices in mobility to handle their services to the final customer.

In this business case, a transport company has all its business running on the Microsoft technology stack. In particular, the company utilizes Microsoft Dynamics NAV as the headquarters' ERP. The company has lots of couriers that dispatch goods every day and they need...