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Should you invest in Dynamics NAV now?

DynamicsUser.NET Admin's Blog — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 22:32:57 GMT

In a different post Daniel asked a very interesting question after Microsoft's announcement that

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DynamicsUser.NET Admin's Blog — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 22:32:55 GMT

I know it's been a long time since I've been writing to this blog. It's not because nothing

re: Groove and OneNote - Convergence 2008 day 2 (post 3)

Erik P. Ernst — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:33:40 GMT

Yes that's how I use it also. And I found it especially good for supporting the development documentation, as you can actually start quite unstructured with just your thougths and ideas and the work this into a more and more structured matter, finally ending up with something you can just put into NAV and code. And later it's easy to convert the notes into user documentation.

re: Groove and OneNote - Convergence 2008 day 2 (post 3)

Nikolas — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:48:00 GMT

Thanks for sharing Erik . I havent tried Groove ..(sounds like what sthg i could use ) but use One Note religiously for my code snippets ..email drafts , screen captures and so on..

Groove and OneNote - Convergence 2008 day 2 (post 3)

DynamicsUser.NET Admin's Blog — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:21:06 GMT

Today my first session was about "Extending Collaboration with the 2007 Microsoft Office System

Convergence 2008 - the keynote (post 2)

DynamicsUser.NET Admin's Blog — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:04:16 GMT

Kirill Tatarinov's keynote was the first session on Convergence 2008. As someone who have participated

Welcome to Convergence EMEA 2008 in Copenhagen (post 1)

DynamicsUser.NET Admin's Blog — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:53:49 GMT

I have just arrived in Bella Center, the venue where Microsoft Convergence takes place in Copenhagen

re: Why will Microsoft not let me speak about Dynamics NAV at Convergence?

Ludo Van den Ende — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:15:30 GMT

Hi,

I was responsible for the localisation of the Belgian version in the "old days" (1997-2003). On the other hand I have been involved in several international projects as well: you get the questions mentioned here everytime. Personally I think making a mix (or the regional approach if you like) is the solution to go for.

Some countries require more localisations than others, that is true. To give an example for Europe: the finance area in NAV is oriented towards Anglosaksian bookkeeping (England, US, Australia, but also Denmark, ...). In this kind of bookkeeping system there is a lot of "freedom" so to speak. This is quite opposite to so called "Roman" bookkeeping (that starts with Belgium and down to the south of Europe: France, Italy, Spain). In this kind of bookkeepping system the left hand doesn't trust the right hand .. if you know what I mean. Hence a lot of extra controls must be build in..

Like David Singleton mentions: no one is on top of it. The process has been out of control (for several reasons, politics is just one of them).

That said, it obvious that there is the given situation today and it will be tough to get arround it.

One element of the orginal discussion is not mentioned: Dynamics AX. Dynamicx AX is THE reason for Microsoft to leave NAV like it is/was for several years. Microsoft does not want to mess up their Marketing. They don't want to make the gap between the two products smaller ... Thats why you, Erik, probably had no chance of explaining your case...

re: Dynamics User Group now on Facebook.com

venkat — Tue, 27 May 2008 07:27:41 GMT

re: Delayed Happy New Year

waldo — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:33:13 GMT

Happy New Year, Erik! And have fun with the project .

re: Delayed Happy New Year

DenSter — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 13:15:14 GMT

Happy New Year to you too, sounds like you had a good head start with all the young ones there with you.

Looks like a fun challenge Erik, that would be an awesome project to work on. Not many people get to completely redesign an existing system, and correct all the flaws along the way.

re: Should you invest in Dynamics NAV now?

David Singleton — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 02:23:47 GMT

Yes exactly what I heard. It would be a bit silly to release a product with a name that only lasts 1 month

re: Why will Microsoft not let me speak about Dynamics NAV at Convergence?

Art27 — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 15:00:06 GMT

Erik, Niels,

Interesting discussion.

I have been involved in several projects with a kernel development and international rol-out. And all with a different approach in how to handle the local requirements. For both ways there are pro's and contra's. At the moment I am assisting a company with 8 subsidiaries over the world. They have choosen Erik's model. But they made a mess off it. Not because the model is right or wrong, but because they didn't know what they are doing. And that's the most important thing when 'choosing' a model.

Personally I agree with David: it would be great if MS minimizes local functionality and merges several countries into 1 release, like in NA and Australasian.

And it shouldn't be too hard to do that. Different legal functionality could be triggered by a setup or license trigger. Maybe MS can make a start with it now 6.0 has been postponed?!

So Niels, I know you don't answer on the forum, but let me know if I can be of any help with this.

Regards,

Maarten

re: Should you invest in Dynamics NAV now?

Erik P. Ernst — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 20:53:11 GMT

Hehe! And you really think a NAV product will be available in 2018?

re: Should you invest in Dynamics NAV now?

themave — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:13:29 GMT

Nav 2009, I think we will probably upgrade to Nav 2009 sometime around 2012, will probably use it till around 2018 at which time will will probably be ready to upgrade to Nav 2015, as that will be the most stable version out.