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Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 Application Design

By : Marije Brummel
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Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 Application Design

By: Marije Brummel

Overview of this book

Dynamics NAV 2009 is an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software product from Microsoft that can be used for variety of business needs. It is part of the Microsoft Dynamics family, and intended to assist with finance, manufacturing, Customer Relationship Management, supply chains, analytics, and electronic commerce for small and medium-sized enterprises. This book is a focused tutorial on Microsoft Dynamics NAV application development, so you can develop complete applications and not just application outlines. It will show NAV developers how to create different kinds of applications. Different kinds of application are vital in different industries like fashion, automobile, retail, books (education), and other industries. It starts off by introducing the supply chain that you will be using throughout the book. You will implement the Microsoft Dynamics NAV ERP suite and learn how it is set up and customized for various industries. You will be able to customize Dynamics NAV to suit the different aspects of a business such as Financial Management, Relationship Management, Production, Jobs, Trade, Storage, Logistics, and so on. The book will take you through these Microsoft-designed application features and show you how to customize and extend them safely. Thus, you will be able to create a structure of your own in Microsoft Dynamics NAV.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
Preface
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Interfacing into the future

Interfacing will become more and more important in the future as technology evolves. Newer technologies and faster internet connections will allow us to integrate our applications better but will also make it more accessible for end users.

Let's briefly discuss some of the integrations we will see in the near future with Microsoft Dynamics NAV.

SharePoint client in Microsoft Dynamics NAV "7"

The next major release of Microsoft Dynamics NAV will be shipped with a new SharePoint Client that will replace the Employee Portal product discussed in this chapter.

The new product will allow us to reuse the Pages we have already defined for the Role Tailored Client and Web services, and connects to the Service Tier.

Microsoft Dynamics CRM

Another important new interface will be with Microsoft Dynamics CRM. This will allow us to use the strong integration that Microsoft Dynamics CRM has with Microsoft Outlook and use the analysis and...