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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

General guidelines


Depending on the requirements, the functional changes will be different. Some will just require a few actions to complete the change; others may require many actions, which are not just related to the functionality being changed. There are a few things to take into account when implementing a functional change. In this section, we will provide some general guidelines. Later on, we will follow the guidelines for all the examples in the chapter.

The following diagram shows the general steps that should be performed to implement a functional change:

The steps in detail are as follows:

 

  1. The first step is to clearly define the functional change.
  2. Think about how this change will affect existing Microsoft Dynamics NAV or Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central functionalities and whether those functionalities will need to be changed as well.
  3. Define a list of all the actions that will have to be completed to be able to implement the functional change.
  4. Choose the right time to implement...