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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 the "Pages" which is providing the data presentation to the user. The "Forms" are still used in the Classic Client, but now with the removal of the "Forms" then the typical NAV user will no longer be able to use the Classic Client. (Fortunately) Developers will still have to use the Classic Client, until new development tools will be available in the “Role Tailored Client” with NAV "8" in 2013.

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