When performing a business analysis for Microsoft Dynamics NAV implementations you often need to look long and hard, for deep and insightful stakeholder requirements. As a boy growing up in the mid-west I heard the occasional story from my family about my grandparent’s cat named “Blooey” that they owned starting around 1917. Blooey’s name came… Continue reading You Need to Look Long and Hard for Stakeholder Requirements
NAV Web Services – Pages vs. XMLports
There are two major methods for publishing complex NAV functionality as a web service: publishing a Page object, and publishing a Codeunit object with a function that uses an XMLport as a parameter. Which one should you use? Like Obi-Wan Kenobi and Captain America here, Pages and XMLports are both awesome, but they should be… Continue reading NAV Web Services – Pages vs. XMLports
Enter to Win Microsoft’s Win to Grow Business Challenge
Microsoft is giving away $45,500 in software and services to three lucky companies who want to transform their businesses using Microsoft Dynamics solutions. I would like to see both winners from the US as well as the Canadian winner select Microsoft Dynamics NAV as their solution of choice to transform their businesses. All entries… Continue reading Enter to Win Microsoft’s Win to Grow Business Challenge
NAV 2013 Report Designer – Pandora’s Box?
Having tried reading documentation on RTC reporting in NAV 2013, I would liken it to trying to find meaning in Gertrude Stein’s poem “Roast Beef”. I quickly gave up on the documentation, and tried another approach. I just dived in, head first! “So, how different can RTC reporting in NAV 2009 and NAV 2013 be? … Continue reading NAV 2013 Report Designer – Pandora’s Box?
NAVUG Forum Recap
The NAV Users Group (NAVUG) www.navug.com achieved a significant milestone this year in breaking the 1,000 member mark. In addition, attendance at the annual NAVUG Forum Conference, which was recently held in Seattle, grew by almost 30% with 350 registered attendees this year. NAVUG continues to be an excellent source of training for end… Continue reading NAVUG Forum Recap