How to Use MVC.Net on the Dynamics NAV Database Structure

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So you’ve been asked to make a web portal for some Dynamics NAV data.  You also have a desire to stay current and would like to take advantage of some of the newer web development frameworks out there.  You’ve seen, or heard great things about how quickly you can get CRUD with some of the popular MVC frameworks out there like pages working with MVC.Net or Ruby on Rails.

Web Integration Options in Microsoft NAV

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You’re a developer, and you’ve been asked to make a part of MS Dynamics NAV web accessible.  Great!  It’s out of the box in NAV 2013.  

Uh oh, it’s not 2013 yet?  No problem, you still have options and should probably consider licensing, architecture, and integration interfaces soon.

Software Build vs. Buy: What's Best for You?

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I’m currently in the process of buying a new house.  I have two options: buy an older home that has as many of the necessities I’m looking for as possible, or build a new house that is customized to my preferences.  The pros and cons are obvious for both, but making a decision between them is not quite that easy.

Introducing the DMS Universal DataPort

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Data is the currency of the information age, so it should come as no surprise one of the more frequent tasks integrators, users, and system administrators encounter when implementing or maintaining a Microsoft Dynamic NAV installation is data migration.  The four common approaches to getting the data from where it resides into NAV are: manual entry in the NAV client, using SQL server’s database tools, using NAV's Excel mapping, or via a NAV Dataport or XMLport.

In-Depth Bank Reconciliations in Microsoft NAV

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I like it when thing lines up as they're supposed to.  Maybe it’s a slight degree of obsessive-compulsive disorder on my part, but my personal well-being is dependent upon keeping certain aspects of my life in a state of tranquility.

When it comes to my operations, and especially my finances, I don't want to come across any unexpected surprises.  At the end of the month, I need to know that my bank statements all sync up with my bank transactions.  I don’t think that’s too much to ask???  In Microsoft Dynamics NAV, performing a bank reconciliation is quick and easy to do and helps ensure that all is in order, and here’s how:

How to Balance Project Agility and Predicitability

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A project manager is often seen dancing in the wilderness of scope creep, balancing resourcing constraints on the head of the budgetary needle, dealing with the inevitable boogeymen on the road to integration.  Your role as a PM, in short, is to remove obstacles that enable real progress.