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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

Historical data


When moving from an ERP system to another ERP system, such as Microsoft Dynamics NAV or Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, a lot of companies want to import their historical data into the new ERP. For example, companies may want to import all of the inventory entries made for the previous year for statistical purposes. If they start working with Microsoft Dynamics NAV or Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central in the middle of a fiscal year, they may want to import all of the G/L entries made in the old system for the current fiscal year.

In Microsoft Dynamics NAV and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, this kind of data is stored in ledger-entry tables. If you have to conduct a migration of such data, never import it directly into the ledger entry tables. Use journals instead and post the data. This way, Microsoft Dynamics NAV or Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central will create the ledger entries for you in a consistent way.

For the item ledger entries, for instance...