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  • TechEd 2006, Update Thursday/Friday. [Final]

    Marq
    I am in an information overload.

    we are out of NAV sessions. so I basicly have a change to hang aroud a bit.

    Yesterday there was a big party at Fenway park we attenden. [We is Stuart, Anders, Robert and me].

    They only served Heineken there but you realy don't want to drink that. I had a Samual Adams at the pub.

    This it for now at the teched. I'll be goiing back to haolland i a few hours.

    PS. I am posting this from the same machine where the NAV 5 client is installed, I've been plaing with it for an hour and it is realy a great user interface
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    Mark Brummel
    Add-on Manager

    http://www.verito.nl/
    http://mbs.startpagina.nl/

    Yamaha FJ1100-'85
    • 2006-6-16

  • TechEd 2006, Wednesday update

    Marq

    When reading this, please keep in mind that I am on like my 6th or 7th guiness (payd for by Microsoft).

    Actualy one guy told me there is a large Irish community in Boston explaining why the beers here are so great.

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    What can I tell you guys about today.

    The NAV sessions are allmost out, we had the last one today.

    The first session I got today was about SQL tools. This was a realy great session. There are loads of new analisys tools added to SQL 2005 that could help us NAV guys finding  out about all of our performance issues.

    I think when all bugs are fixed we realy should actualy have all of our customers on SQL 2005. The tools are great.

    I attended a CRM session . Just to get to know the product. It is realy a Intenet exporer solution running on webservices, which is realy great for salespeople, but is it realy difficult to get information from different tables in one view, Very much unlike the net NAV 5.0 client where we have information from all around the application rather than having the users go thrue the info form by form.

    The realy nice thing about the crm thing is the connection with word using VSTO tools. You can actualy start a word merge from whithin word getting info from the CRM thingy, but also updating information to CRM. Imagine changing the customer name or any other field in word and having it changed in the database, CRM has it! I went to the session together with Stuart, the NAV 5.0 project manager, and he was realy entousiastic about this so don;t be suprised when this will be available in 5.1 or 6.whatever

    After that we had some lunch with the NAV people, who are realy giving me the feeling being a member of their team rather than the guy from the MVP program.

    The session after lunch was about BizTalk and EDI. It was a realy theoretical session but kind of gives you the idea what the application does.

    Then there was the last session for NAV. This was presented by David Studebaker. He owns a company together with is wife and a couple of other folks doing about 1 or 2 upgdades a month.

    He did a great presentation about how to appoach a upgrade in NAV and having all kind of tips about best practices. I'll thy to upload the ppt slide tomorrow.

    After that got finished I attended a Microsoft Influencer party. First I felt a little alone, not knowing all of these people, but I ended up having  a great time with other MVP's and Microsoft folks.

    Well, that is basicly it for today.

    I hope to upload some NAV 5.0 screenshots like tomorow or friday.

    Best,

    Mark

    • 2006-6-14

  • TechEd 2006, Tuesday update [NAV 5.0]

    Marq
    Wow, I just do not know where to start.

    I guess most of you guys want me to start at all of the NAV 5.0 stuff.

    I won't

    Today started out real quetly. I arrived at the convention round 8. Got some breakfest and about 3 cups of coffee and atteded some SQL session about what is being new in the 2005 verison.

    After that there was a session about the NAV conection with .net. Basicly just showing some stuff making timesheet posting in the job ledger entries available from outlook though a .net ADO connection, having the NAS cathing the business logic.

    I might be able to update the objects in NAV as well as the .net VSTO objects in outlook to Luc to post to the download selection.

    After this session I had lunch with some of the NAV crew attending at this event.

    Before the 5.0 session I was able to catch a session about Sharepoint server 2007. It is realy a great product, and considering 2007 version can get data out in into a SQL database it realy opens up opportunities for a small set of customers of our NAV product not being completely sattisfied about the userinterface.

    But wait until they have seen 5.0!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    WOWOWOWOWOW It is realy a great user interface.

    NAV will be the first product running on the generic Microsoft Dynamics UX 2006.

    It is a completely new inteface, rendering data given from the 2nd tier of the 3tier application NAV will be having from the 5.0 version onwards.

    Just to make clear first.

    NAV developing will be in C/AL in 5.0

    The development environment will still be C/AL, and it will remain that way until a similar development environment has been found when it gets to easy adoptobility.

    We will actualy get another objecttype, called Page, like the XML and PANE objects in 4.0. This will enable you to create the pages the NAV 5.0 client will use to render for the user interface.

    All of the current forms will be available into the pages thing. And we will be able to add all kinds of fancy stuff like graphs, COM add-ons like Word, Excel, Mappoint and things like that.

    One of the things realy cleared out on me when looking at the 5.0 client is the Infopanes in the 4.0 client. In the 5.0 client, they are separate things within your page enabling users to get information about the e.g. sales header or sales line records without going into the table related forms and stuff like that.

    In fact, that will be the biggest change in user experience in NAV 5.0 Whereass in the 'old' 4.0 client you are used to go to 5 or 6 or 7 other forms to get to the detailed data, in 5.0 the detailed data is presented within the Infopanes.

    This is also where the new user based model snapps in. You can define user roles and this enables you to make the application more userfriendly for the enduser not being conserned about the bits of the application they do not use.

    One of the great impovements that conserns this is the removing of the tab-oriented forms. The new forms are just big forms containing all data with a kind of bar instead of the tab of which I forgotten the name from they gave to it, I'll post the name tomorrow.

    The great thing about this improvement is that you will be able to remove information from this form using the user role, lets say e.g. a user do not need to know about the purchasing part of an Item, this information is not shown at the form, rather than having to make a new form for a different user we are doing today.

    Going onwards to the 3tier thingy.

    In the new situation the business logic will be executed at some 2tier layer running on IIS Server. I am not realy into the technical thing whereass it conserns this subject, but maybe someone else can explain about that being good or bad.

    I do not think it is the same thing as the AX programm is running on, it is specialy designed for NAV.

    I think I could just go on and on about the NAV 5.0 client but I also want to catch some sleep...

    The demo about the client should be available for downloading in a couple of days, or otherwise I'll get it to be here someway.

    If there are any questions about this subject, please post them so I can try to answer it.

    Last thing I want to inform you about is that we had a bowling event with the whole dynamic team including GP, AX, CRM etc, and visitors invited at the TechEd. I did not realy got a high score but it was a nice event when it gets to meeting people.

    That is it for today,

    I hope that it is somewhat satisfactional whereass it conserns the NAV 5 thing. If you have any questions, please post.

    Either I can try to answer them or any of the other mvp's because the demo we've been getting today was mostly the same thing we got to see 2 months ago as part of the mvp programm, so the NDA thingy is removed from that subject. [not from the webservices thing!]

    One last thing, if you want to tryout 5.0 client, just drop by our demo stand at the teched, you are allowed to play with it !!! Mr. Green

    I think it is the you last chance, 3 days left.... Angel

    I don't know if there is a chance to play with it at the partner conference.

    Best,

    Mark
    _________________
    Mark Brummel
    Add-on Manager

    http://www.verito.nl/
    http://www.afin-it.nl/

    Yamaha FJ1100-'85
    • 2006-6-13

  • TechEd 2006 Monday Update

    Marq
    Today was the real start of the TechEd. I met most of the Navision crew today. I is realy great meating up with all of these guys after 7 or 8 years of Navision developing.

    Today started off with a strategic biefing about the dynamics brand. There was loads of stuff about the CRM 3.0 version and the AX 4.0 version but the thing I liked most was the preview about the new generic Dynamics Client first being adopted in NAV 5.0 next year.

    It realy looks great. Especialy when running on a Vista client.

    Anyone got a look at Vista. There is a lot going on at this TechEd about Vista and Office 12.

    Going back to the NAV 5.0 Client.

    Much of the stuff today under NDA will be released at the TechEd tomorrow. To please stay tuned for the update tomorrow.

    There were 2 NAV sessions today.

    There was the introduction to Dynamics NAV thing. This was a realy nice session when you'd never heard about NAV. Todd told about all the things NAV is about and the dev environment, changing the application layer, stuff like that.

    The other session was about tuning NAV for SQL. One of the realy amazing things about this session was the first slide. It was actualy saying; We have a problem running on SQL. But the next slide said; We have the solution. It was another aproach than the marketing guys take when talking about NAV on SQL without any problems.

    There was a presentation about some absolutely realy cool set of tools within NAV enabling the SQL from within the NAV environment instead of the SQL enterprise manager.

    This evening I had Demo station duty from 6.30 until 9.00 pm.

    It was realy cool having a GP mvp coming to our booth telling: Hey we have a problem with a customer and we cannot solve it in GP.

    I told him about NAV about the availability of changing within all of the NAV application and this guy was realy getting entousiastic about NAV instead of GP, saying NAV could solve this problem whereass GP could not.

    Also realy a great thing was that half of the NAV team from denmark were waching me explaining it to this guy while biulding half of the solutoin in NAV during the conversation. It was realy great getting compliments of the NAV team about modifying NAV while taling to a 'customer'

    After that there was a AX developer asking about the difference between NAV and AX. I told him about the difference in adoptability. I showed him how easily NAV can be changed and modified to your business needs. And he got realy entousiastic about NAV instead of AX.

    Next to that there was a dinner with all of the NAV TechEd crew. It was a realy great opportunity meeting with all of these guys.

    All together is was a great day.

    Tomorrow is THE presentation about NAV 5.0

    Best,

    Mark.

    PS. I am a bit dissapointed about the replies to this thread. If you have any replies please post them, even if they are smiley post.
    Please remember that I am on a realy tight scedule on this event. I only have about 10 to 15 minutes a day to get you guys updated about what is going on here. The days here start at 6am and stop about 11pm and you have to catch some sleep inbetween.
    • 2006-6-13

  • Tech Ed Update Sunday

    Marq
    We had a mvp meeting today. My first international one. It is realy great seeing all of these gurus getting together. Cool

    It actualy felt a little strange being between all of these visual studio/sql and windows expert. Dynamics is realy a different type of sports. Angel

    We had a presentation by Sean O’Driscoll telling eveyone how great the MVP program is. And it is. Applause

    Only thing is when he mentioned, 'when you are a mvp'. I do nog recognise myself into that. Acutaly the mvp-girls, April and Melissa congratulated me on having a social life, instead of 12 computers at my house. Anxious

    After that we had some roundtable sessions, but not much dynamics stuff was mentioned, but I might got a change of aranging some stuff for the mvp program concerning Dynamics in the future. [NDA]

    At 5:30 we had a staff meeting for the dynamics guys. Unfortunately the Navision guys are flying in late so I will be meeting them tomorrow. Mr. Green

    After that we had the keynotes. This was a realy great show with some of the microsoft top gurus telling all about where microsoft is heading and how important we are, stuff like that. Dancing

    I'll keep you all informed about how things are evolving here. Tomorrow is the real start. Very Happy

    I am not realy into the blogging stuff since it is very timeconsuming. You might want to have a look at this website.

    http://techedbloggers.net
    Best,

    Marq.
    • 2006-6-13
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