The last few days (between the soup and potatoes (Flemish expression ;-)), I have been trying to set up a full blown environment on Project “Madeira” . Not easy, as I am not from the US, and this preview only got released in the US. And apparently, Microsoft is serious about that – like when I try to download the Windows App , I get the error message that the app is not available in my country … Now, important to mention: this blogpost is based on the comments I got on my previous post (from Jacques Bolduc ) – which put me in a direction that is available for any Microsoft Dynamics NAV Partner…

As of today, Project “Madeira ” is in public preview. Question is .. What is Project “Madeira”? In short: It’s a new offering in the cloud, in fact “NAV-in-the-cloud”, strongly integrated with Office 365. But the focus of Project “Madeira” isn’t really “NAV” – it would never say “NAV-in-the-cloud” – but it’s a “Business Solution” in the cloud :-). But now you know: it’s based on NAV :p. But then again – what do I know. :-). This is all just very new (announced today), and I think – at this point – it’s better for me to give you some info to get you more informed, instead of giving my personal…

There is a new congress in town. Or at least – in Stuttgart :-). NAVUG is coming to Europe for the very first time this year! As NAVUG is very strongly focused on the User , this is really another type of congress that we’re actually used to (in Europe). Now, NAVUG is all about education , networking and best practices . If you look at the schedule, you see that that is exactly what they are focusing on for their target group: IT/Developers , Finance people , Data Analysts and Project Managers . This is how NAVUG describes the congress themselves: NAVUG European Congress is dedicated…