Book Image

Implementing Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central On-Premise - Fourth Edition

By : Roberto Stefanetti, Alex Chow
Book Image

Implementing Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central On-Premise - Fourth Edition

By: Roberto Stefanetti, Alex Chow

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics Business Central is a full business solution suite and a complete ERP solution, which contains a robust set of development tools; these tools can help you to gain control over your business and can simplify supply chains, manufacturing, and operations. Implementing Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central On-Premise covers the latest features of Dynamics Business Central and NAV from the end users' and developers' perspectives. It also provides an insight into different tools available for implementation, whether it's a new installation or migrating from the previous version of Dynamics NAV. This book will take you from an introduction to Dynamics NAV 2018 through to exploring all the techniques related to implementation and migration. You will also learn to expand functionalities within your existing Microsoft Dynamics NAV installation, perform data analysis, and implement free third-party add-ons to your existing installation. As you progress through the book, you will learn to work with third-party add-on tools. In the concluding chapters, you will explore Dynamics 365 Business Central, the new Cloud solution based on the Microsoft NAV platform, and techniques for using Docker and Sandbox to develop applications. By the end of the book, you will have gained a deep understanding of the key components for successful Dynamics NAV implementation for an organization.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Summary


In this chapter, we looked at how to handle the implementation of Microsoft Dynamics NAV or Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central from a customer's perspective. We covered a few areas but the whole idea is that you, as a customer, have to manage the implementation as a project. The implementer cannot do all the work for you. People within your organization will have tasks and responsibilities assigned to them, and you will have to monitor and control all of those tasks.

Get involved with the project management and with the project's progress; in order to make the project successful, continuous follow-up is needed to check the project's progress step by step. The customer must work hand in hand with the consultant to get good results (a mixed team is the best).

In the following chapter, you will see how a company may have data in other applications (their old ERP system, spreadsheet files, and so on) and how it can be massively imported into Microsoft Dynamics NAV or Microsoft Dynamics...