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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
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Preface

Azure SQL Database


Azure SQL Database is a cloud relational database service based on the Microsoft SQL Server engine that provides scalability, performance, and mission-critical capabilities. Azure SQL supports all the existing tools, libraries, and APIs available for the on-premise option.

Azure SQL is available with the following service tiers (all with 99.99 percent SLAs):

  • Basic: This is useful for small databases or with small transactions.

  • Standard: This is the recommended option for standard production-ready cloud applications. This is the minimum tier required for a Dynamics NAV production environment.

  • Premium: This is useful when you have a high transactional application and you require the maximum database performances. For intense workloads, this is the recommended tier to choose.

The interesting fact is that you can start from a small service tier and then scale in or out manually or programmatically at any time without downtime.

There are applications where usage patterns (resources...