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Watch this video to quickly train yourself on how to deploy Dynamics AX Retail Demo on Microsoft Azure.

4+ reasons to upgrade your Dynamics NAV from a performance perspective

While working for Microsoft as a Senior Engineering Lead, I was leading a team that was responsible for the end-to-end performance testing of Dynamics NAV and developing performance tests / benchmarks for partners & customers, I had a unique chance to witness the continual performance improvements made to Microsoft Dynamics NAV since 2009. In this article, I will walk you through the areas where Dynamics NAV customers can reap the most significant performance improvements in Dynamics NAV by upgrading to the latest versions.

In the new buying paradigm in the small- and medium-sized business space, customers are looking for an out-of-the-box, ready-to-use ERP solution with few customizations. They are even willing to adjust their needs to accommodate the solution from the ERP vendor. In return, they expect low start-up and maintenance costs. In other words, customers are not looking for a complex solution (like a Ferrari); instead, they want a solution with the best ROI (like an economy class car). For these customers, less is more. 

In the previous blog post, I shared how to speed up your Classic to RDLC reports transformation by using the FREE Express version of 1ClickFactory’s Classic to RDLC report transformation tool. In this post I will use the same example, show how you can easily create a word layout from RDLC, also how to get a report with both RDLC and Word layouts.

Rebuilding Classic reports in the RDLC is both a costly and time consuming task for Dynamics NAV Partners. To help Partners overcome this challenge, we at 1ClickFactory have created the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Classic report to RDLC transformation tool that speeds up transformation and enables Partners to meet project deadlines. 

1. “Dynamics Partners Live to Upgrade & Re-implement”

Are you dreading the inevitable upgrade versus re-implementation discussion with your AX customers? You are not alone.  It is a common misnomer that all Microsoft Dynamics Partners love to resell services – such as through software upgrades and re-implementations.

The truth is, without dedicated upgrade or re-implementation resources, these projects can be a drain on your capacity and productivity.  Trying to execute these upgrade and re-implementation projects without upgrade tools, methodologies and experienced practitioners, these projects can end up being more costly than profitable.

We are pleased to announce the release of our latest service to the Microsoft Dynamics Partner Community, Self-Provisioning for Microsoft Dynamics NAV on Windows Azure and in Office 365.

We saw a unique opportunity with Microsoft Dynamics NAV to ‘change the game’ for Microsoft Dynamics partners by providing them a service that would deliver the high performance and reliability of an on-premise solution, with Windows Azure at the foundation, but translate the simplicity and ease-of-use to the end user in the Cloud.

Recently I have updated my Windows 8 to Windows 8.1. Everything seemed to be ok, until I realized that I cannot start neither of my AOS (AX 4.0, AX 2009 and AX 2012).

With the release of Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012, many features and functions have changed. One item that may cause a slight inconvenience for partners and customers is the change to the R2 order of dimensions. If you have worked with Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 or earlier versions, you are used to a fixed order of dimensions, as shown in this blog post. 

In this article I want to share with my peers how to hold the same two columns in a page as we have in a form.