It shouldn't come as any shock that the era of running businesses or departments by being chained to a desk is quickly fading. But what you might not see is how the concept of "remote" is expanding beyond the capability of working from a different location than the headquarter office. What you will see is the evolution of "Going Mobile". Now you might be thinking, what other technical buzzwords can we feed the executive soul to convince them to always demand more...

The following article is adapted from a portion of one chapter of Mark Brummel's new book Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 Application Design . T he full chapter of the book discusses how to integrate sales and purchase documents with the built in Warehouse Management and Reservation processes. Here we will discuss how to use Microsoft Dynamics NAV to manage sales and purchase documents. The primary focus in this article is how the application is designed and where to go to change or enhance...

Microsoft MVP Mark Brummel has a new book that aims to clarify how the worlds of functional and technical design in Dynamics NAV 2013 must be made to work together for the creation of successful solutions. Unlike a pure development book, Brummel has targeted the newly published Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 Application Design at both functional consultants and technical developers.   read more

A selection of the latest insight from the Dynamics NAV blogs: NAV 2015 Glance 2: UI Elements Removal; Any Clue About Cue?; Using of Expressive Tiles in NAV 2015; The Help Menu in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 NAV 2015 Glance 2: UI Elements Removal On the dynamiXs blog, Luc van Vugt recalls a past Microsoft project called Elba. The goal of Elba was to release a wrap pack version of Dynamics NAV (or Microsoft Business Solutions-Navision as it was called in those...

It's rare to find an organization today that isn't adopting a cloud infrastructure for one or more of their applications. While some organizations prefer to build their cloud infrastructures themselves, leveraging a cloud provider who offers Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and assistance to help manage the move to a modern datacenter is also a common path to reach this goal.  One of the largest public cloud options, Microsoft Azure, is growing in popularity and is the basis of many infrastructure...

Microsoft Dynamics GP professionals liked being able to call themselves certified professionals, and when Microsoft abruptly dropped their SMB certification standards for Dynamics GP, NAV, and SL (also known as "SMB ERP" nowadays), the community - and Microsoft heard about it from partner channel... read more

In the first week of October you can find the European Microsoft Dynamics NAV partners heading northeast. They'll travel to the city of Poznan in Poland - this year's location for the Directions EMEA event. Traditionally, Directions was focused on the technical and functional roles in a partner organization. Over the last few years, however, this focus shifted to cover also the more business related topics and roles. There are two editions of Directions: one for the US and...

In Sunday's keynote at NAV Directions ( #Directions14 if you're following along on Twitter), Microsoft presented three pillars behind the vision for Dynamics NAV 2015 - that it is quick to implement, easy to use, and has the power to support SMB ambition. Based on early experiences with NAV 2015, it's clear that the new release aims to align itself with Microsoft's wider strategic goals as explained recently by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella:   read more

Balancing inventory against customer demand is an ongoing struggle for any company that makes and/or stocks physical merchandise. Overstock and you may find yourself holding the bag on inventory that no one wants, but under-stock and your customers may go elsewhere to find what they're looking for. Even Dynamics ERP users have to take these possibilities into consideration and prepare for a number of scenarios (stock outs, obsolete inventory, etc.). In Eight ways to shake up inventory...

Microsoft confirmed that Dynamics NAV 2015, the next major release of the product, will hit general availability (GA). The announcement came at the Directions 2014 US, though Microsoft has not yet made any public announcement. New customers will reportedly have access on October 1 and existing customers will get the new release on October 6. Luc Van Vugt shared  details  from NAV program management director Marko Perisic's presentation at the conference. Among them, he reports that...