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Microsoft Announces the Availability of Management Reporter for Microsoft Dynamics ERP

Microsoft has now announced the general availability of Management Reporter for Microsoft Dynamics ERP. Management Reporter, formerly codenamed Management Reporter 2.0, will act as the replacement for Microsoft FRx, www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20000822/MSFTLOGO Management Reporter extends the proven functionality of Microsoft FRx and enables people to quickly and easily create, generate, help secure and publish professional-looking financial statements, such as profit and loss statements, balance sheets, and cash flow reports, and will also allow them to take advantage of the following: • Custom reports without IT assistance. These reports reduce the burden on the IT department by empowering the finance team to create its own financial statements. • Deep cross-functional analysis. Management Reporter provides easy and accurate financial reporting, intercompany reconciliations and eliminations. • Reduced training time and increased productivity. A familiar user interface and reporting ...
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Direction of Microsoft Dynamics NAV

Based on Microsoft Dynamics NAV Statement of Direction – April 2010 Microsoft has now announced that NAV is going to support for Unicode with the release of Dynamics NAV "7", which will be released next year - 2011. This will also mean that we are finally going to say goodbye to Navision's native database, which otherwise have served very well basically since the release of the first DOS version of Navision in 1987. It is a goodbye to this REALLY GREAT & SUPER STABLE database. Unicode has been too much of a worry to the average Navision customer. But for international customers, who have been working with many different countries in the same database, then it's going to be a great help. NAV "7" will also be another goodbye. With the release of NAV “7”, "Forms" are also going to be disappeared. "Forms" have been the data presentation object until NAV 2009; however with the introduction of the “Role Tailored Client” - “RTC”, it is now t...

Future of NAV Development Environment

The C/SIDE development environment is going to be replaced from Classic Client to RTC. As you know, still we have to depend on the NAV Classic Client for making any customization, even though we do the implementation in RTC, but this structure is going to replace with the upcoming versions of Dynamics NAV. Some of the highlights would be as follows; 1. No Object Designer! Simple. This will be replaced with Designer Home Center; it will be another role center which allows developers/consultants to make any changes to the standard objects of the application. 2. Page Designer will be replaced with another page where it will allow you to proceed with your table customizations. This feature will be brought into the other object types as well. 3. In the Object List, developer will find the all objects including data about where they used and information about the usage. 4. No Visual Studio! Own simple editor for making all changes in Code Units. 5. The structure of the Editor would be more t...

Navision Employee Portal

Employee Portal provides a Web-based interface that gives employees quick access to mission-critical business information such as invoices, customer data, and some selected reports. Moreover, it real time integrates with the standard Microsoft Dynamics NAV database while collaborating with Microsoft® Windows® SharePoint® Services 3.0 (WSS 3.0) or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007) to provide you a browser based interface. Depending on the volume of transactions and the number of concurrent users, you can setup Employee Portal to run with either WSS or MOSS. However with MOSS, you would get additional support for making further developments. Employee Portal can also be identified as a Web Portal for Sales Persons who travels all over the country. In such instances, salesperson can logging to NAV and start creating Sales Orders or Sales Quotes as required by them. Let’s look at some typical screens available in the default Web pages. Item List /Product List Page This p...

Navision Employee Portal

Employee Portal provides a Web-based interface that gives employees quick access to mission-critical business information such as invoices, customer data, and some selected reports. Moreover, it real time integrates with the standard Microsoft Dynamics NAV database while collaborating with Microsoft® Windows® SharePoint® Services 3.0 (WSS 3.0) or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007) to provide you a browser based interface. Depending on the volume of transactions and the number of concurrent users, you can setup Employee Portal to run with either WSS or MOSS. However with MOSS, you would get additional support for making further developments. Employee Portal can also be identified as a Web Portal for Sales Persons who travels all over the country. In such instances, salesperson can logging to NAV and start creating Sales Orders or Sales Quotes as required by them. Let’s look at some typical screens available in the default Web pages. Item List /Product List Page This p...

Upgrade from NAV 5 to NAV 2009 SP1 – A Quick Guide

Regardless of the version from which you are trying to do the upgrade, the whole process can be divided into two main phases as Object Upgrade and the Data Upgrade. Let’s first look at the Object Upgrade. In Object Upgrade, you have to identify all the customizations done in the current live version of the customer database and implement the same in a new 2009 SP1 database. Please remember that there are no short-cuts for this process. This is entirely a manual process, but you can make use of the existing tools such as Developer Toolkit. Using the Developer Toolkit you can compare/merge the original version 5 db and the current customer database wherein you can identify the differences between the two databases and implement the modifications in a new 2009 SP1 fresh database. Once you complete this process, you are through with the phase no 1. Remember that this is the most time consuming phase in an upgrade project. If you make any mistakes then you have to suffer a lot in the subseq...

Upgrade from NAV 5 to NAV 2009 SP1 – A QUICK GUIDE

Regardless of the version from which you are trying to do the upgrade, the whole process can be divided into two main phases as Object Upgrade and the Data Upgrade. Let’s first look at the Object Upgrade. In Object Upgrade, you have to identify all the customizations done in the current live version of the customer database and implement the same in a new 2009 SP1 database. Please remember that there are no short-cuts for this process. This is entirely a manual process, but you can make use of the existing tools such as Developer Toolkit. Using the Developer Toolkit you can compare/merge the original version 5 db and the current customer database wherein you can identify the differences between the two databases and implement the modifications in a new 2009 SP1 fresh database. Once you complete this process, you are through with the phase no 1. Remember that this is the most time consuming phase in an upgrade project. If you make any mistakes then you have to suffer lot in the subseque...