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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

Business case 2 - NAV and the Microsoft Band for healthcare


In this second business case, we want to briefly present a particular case study where a fitness-related company (healthcare sector) wants to track patient's fitness data in their ERP system (a particular verticalization based on NAV).

As you already know, fitness tracker are one of the top requested gadgets in recent years. Producers such as Fitbit or Garmin have devices and they have also SDK that permits interacting with a device via the REST API.

What about Microsoft?

Microsoft actually has one of the best fitness trackers on the market: the Microsoft Band 2. This is the device form factor:

Source: Microsoft

Unfortunately, Microsoft has recently announced that for the moment they will not release a Band 3 but they will continue to support the actual version. However, they will continue to invest on wearables so be prepared to see something more in the near future.

In this business case, we have a company that uses Microsoft's fitness...