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Anyone working professionally with Microsoft Dynamics NAV upgrades is often asked, “will it ever get easier” in reference to the upgrade process. Then follows a deep breath and sad expression in their eyes.

Upgrades have been a deep passion of mine for many years. I’m fortunate enough to be surrounded by upgrade experts daily. The good news, based on recent conversations and activity in the Microsoft Dynamics NAV channel, there is light at the end of the tunnel and relief for complex upgrades has actually arrived.

When deciding to host your Dynamics NAV’s solution data on Microsoft Azure, it is crucial that you deploy your NAV system in the right Microsoft Azure datacenter region. To determine which Microsoft Azure datacenter location is best you must carefully consider performance and availability. Luckily, this article explains all the factors to evaluate in order to choose the right Microsoft Azure datacenter region as well as the technical aspects of deploying your NAV solution in one region versus another.

Recently, 1ClickFactory together with Microsoft hosted an executive briefing webinar on: “Partner opportunities and strategies for moving customers to the new Dynamics AX”. During the webinar, Søren Fink-Jensen, the CEO of 1ClickFactory, and Pepijn Richter, Director, ERP Product Marketing at Microsoft, shared useful insights on tools that will help Partners simplify their upgrade processes in transition to the new Microsoft Dynamics AX. Find out all about that in this blog post.

As a Dynamics NAV Partner, I am sure you can agree transforming Classic Reports manually using the RTC client is a painful, technical, time-consuming and just plain annoying experience. After a few too many report transformations we got fed up with the arduous process and decided to take matters in our own hands.

The new Microsoft Dynamics AX has helped overcome the challenges faced by Dynamics AX ERP users in the retail, distribution, manufacturing, services, and public sectors enabling them to make smarter decisions faster with access to the real-time insights on any device and in any place. Not to mention, it is the first Cloud enabled product version to date.

Now let’s take a deeper dive into the new, exciting features of the most awaited and latest version of Microsoft Dynamics AX to see how it will help your business grow at its own pace.

With the release of the new Dynamics AX, your opportunities to increase your revenue stream from AX upgrades as well as from cross-selling other Microsoft Cloud products has erupted. Are you leaving these revenue streams untapped? Watch our Executive Briefing with Sigma IT Consulting webinar, one of the leading Dynamics AX Partners in Sweden, to learn the strategies they deployed to build a growing and profitable AX upgrade practice. 

More than 5 years ago Microsoft released RTC client causing the need of Classic Reports to be transformed into RDLC. 1ClickFactory Code Transformation Classic Reports to RDLC service for NAV already helped to transform more than 2300 reports for over 130 partners. It saved time, money and even resources in their efforts to rebuild Classic reports as part of their NAV upgrade process or after the upgrade when transforming the remaining objects.

Do you have a strategy for transitioning your customers to the new Microsoft Dynamics AX? Join two online Executive Briefings in May to clear up the uncertainties and get recommendations from Microsoft, other Partners, and 1ClickFactory to prepare for the big move to new AX.

What can you, a Dynamics AX Partner, do NOW to ease your customers’ transition to new Dynamics AX (7) once all versions of the product (Public Cloud, Private Cloud & On-Premise) are available? Did you know that upgrading your customers to AX 2012 CU8 or later CU provides a direct upgrade path to new AX (7)? Read this article to find out why this way might be beneficial for you and your customers now. 

With new Microsoft Dynamics AX now available on Azure and private cloud and on-premise versions to be released this fall, now is the right time to prepare your customers for the big move.

There are various ways to move your customers to the new Dynamics AX depending upon each of your customers’ starting points. In this article, we will cover 4 of the most common customer upgrade scenarios and review the most beneficial upgrade tactics to move your customers to the newest version of Dynamics AX.