As we have heard many times before, it is likely your Dynamics NAV and Dynamics Business Central On-Premises customers are confused and raising questions surrounding the Dynamics 365 Business Central Fall release 2019. Well, simply ask them if they were sleeping beauty, would they want to be woken up this fall or wait years and years to eventually be awoken?
Most customers will think about Business Central in the Cloud (Microsoft’s Software as a Service solution or ‘SaaS’ for short) as the Eldorado (or destination of gold and eternal bliss). Frankly, I would agree with that in the long term. The fact is, though, that we are not ready to move all types of customer installations to Business Central SaaS, today.
The changes that Microsoft have made not only encompass changes with the basic concept (the solution is now also available in the Cloud, without losing any strength in customization), but there have also been significant changes to the core of Microsoft Dynamics NAV, which is changing the application development language, basically for the first time since 1990. This will bring a lot of advantages for customers but also requires Microsoft ISVs and partners to rewrite a large portion of the code that has been built into their customer base since 1995.
Have you been struggling with updating data using Excel on Business Central? There is a solution - one of the convenient features of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is the ‘Edit in Excel’ functionality. After reading this blog post you should be able to set up the add-in in half an hour or less. The script provided in the blog allows you to run a fully functional ‘Edit in Excel’ add-in with just a few clicks.
Have you considered integrating Office 365 with Business Central? This can increase efficiency while using Office 365 tools and would allow you to access the data easily and quickly. The script provided in the blog post (first of two blog posts) will help you configure and enable Office 365 authentication with Business Central.
Establishing your own Microsoft Azure infrastructure vs. collaborating with a Microsoft Azure infrastructure hosting provider. What risks do you face when setting up your own Microsoft Azure infrastructure in-house? In this blog post I’ll explain the 5 known risks you should consider when evaluating these two Dynamics NAV on Azure deployment options.
As an executive or manager, you know how important it is to have an accurate and timely information available to you when you need to make decisions, especially those critical to your company’s future. Most successful companies implement Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to track and evaluate, making key decisions based on those. The easiest way to communicate and visualize KPIs is to have these displayed graphical with the ability to dive in deeper to a particular value.
In this series of blog posts, we will dive deeper into the features that ensure a customer’s efficiency when using a NAV solution on Microsoft Azure. This blog will analyze the infrastructure backup processes by comparing two deployment alternatives.
Do you need a solution that quickly and securely implements any Microsoft Dynamics NAV, with any customizations, on Microsoft Azure while minimizing your risk and your investment? One year ago, Stig Langset, Sales Director of CGI Norway, one of the largest NAV Partners in the Nordics, was faced with this precise problem when this company undertook their first highly customized Dynamics NAV on Microsoft Azure solution (“PowerCloud”) implementation for The Network Alliance.
