InspireSmart Solutions provides services such as integration of Microsoft Dynamics NAV with Microsoft Office, SQL server, Dynamics CRM and other Microsoft products. The integration between Microsoft Dynamics Nav 5.0 and other Microsoft technologies help improve your financial, customer relationship and supply chain management

Microsoft Dynamics NAV 5.0 works smoothly with other leading Microsoft products and technologies to increase your business and gain most out of your existing technology investment. 

Integration lowers the total cost of ownership of your Microsoft Dynamics NAV solution because it makes it easier for Microsoft partners to deploy, customize

InspireSmart Solutions is a certified partner of Microsoft Corporation to install, implement, configure and provide consultation services for Navision 4.0 and Navision 5.0. We help your business accelerate growth by tailoring different processes like manufacturing, distribution, financial management, sales and marketing, human resources, warehouse management, customer relationship and more. We provide services such as integration of Dynamics with Microsoft Office, SQL server, Dynamics CRM, and other Microsoft products.

InspireSmart Solutions provides services such as integration of Microsoft Dynamics NAV with Microsoft Office, SQL server, Dynamics CRM and other Microsoft products. The integration between Microsoft Dynamics Nav 5.0 and other Microsoft technologies help improve your financial, customer relationship and supply chain management.

Microsoft Dynamics NAV 5.0 works smoothly with other leading Microsoft products and technologies to increase your business and gain most out of your existing technology investment. 

Integration lowers the total cost of ownership of your Microsoft Dynamics NAV solution because it makes it easier for Microsoft partners to deploy, customize, and maintain your solutions.

Inspiresmart Solutions, a certified partner of Microsoft will consult, train, support, and provide add-on technology for Microsoft Dynamics NAV. Our C-Side programmers will understand your need, and provide you with complete solution in managing, controlling, and auditing different aspects of the business. Microsoft Dynamics NAV formally called as Microsoft Dynamics Navision is deployed all over the world. Currently over 55,000 companies in over 130 countries use Dynamics for everyday business use.  Inspiresmart specializes in understanding your business motto, and needs, and then deploying the all in one super high tech software for a smooth running of transactions, and easy cash flow.

Microsoft Dynamics NAV (formerly Microsoft Navision) helps you respond profitably to your supply chain partners and customers. It helps you plan and reorganize production to meet new and changing market demands, tighten distribution processes, manage your inventory and warehouses according to your unique requirements, and improve the efficiency of your business relationships with personalized portals and automated business transactions. Streamline operations to benefit both you and your customers. Reducing operational costs saves time and money for your entire organization and allows you to offer more competitive prices. Cost reduction is a worthwhile business goal in itself, but it’s also another way to strengthen your relationships with customers.

Export to Word and Excel

The first time I saw this, I though that this I some how got the impression that it was Table based. But its not, the templates are based on Forms and Reports, (though Reports are not yet active, so that might just be advance prep for 5.1). If there is not template, then Export to Excel creates an Excel Sheet for every Tab, SubForm or Frame on the form. The data copied across respects the layout sorting filtering etc of the form. So even without creating a template (which looks like a nightmare, but lets wait for Kamil to go into the technical side of that), you could create a form that some how represents the Excel spread sheet you want. Word on the other hand creates a table for each Tab, SubForm and Frame, and is not as neat.

Inventory Costing

For long time Navision users this is going to be a “well finally” type thing. You can now create an Inventory Worksheet, something like account schedules, that allow you to view, reconcile, adjust, and post inventory costs to the GL. I have written similar functionality, but specific to clients’ needs, as I am sure many others of you have, but this is nice to finally have a generic solution.

This comes with Inventory periods, which look like a work in progress, since they seem to lack a few critical things, such as : Relation to Normal Accounting periods; Ability to perform true date based Standard costing, Average costing by period by location. And I am sure there are more things as I look deeper.

But I have to say that this is probably the biggest step forward in making inventory costing visible to Navision users ever.

License tracking

This is an odd one. License agreements, and acceptance (the tick box when you install) are now stored in the database. This looks like it is incomplete, but I would not be surprised to see in 5.1 that you need to be logged onto the internet to create a new database.

I also noticed a few things in the license agreement. There is mention of “Named Users”. This is quite separate from the normal concurrent users. This may be a country specific thing, and maybe in some countries you can purchase Named Users instead of concurrent users. The other was Multiplexers. You are not allowed to channel multiple users though one login, or at least if you do, then you need to buy the appropriate number of users. I am not a lawyer, but I guess this will have implications for applications such as : POS, retail and cash register systems; Shipping systems that interface to say FedEx or UPS; Bar coding and scanning servers; and even some web interfaces.

Jobs

This at first impression looks like there are some big changes, but I need to look closer to see if its not just a clean up.

The first thing you notice, is that Phase, Tasks Steps and Budgets are gone, and replaced with Task Planning.

Approvals

This is an enhancement to Sales Release process, and allows you to implement a rudimentary work flow process. At first glance it looks pretty basic, but since it uses 14 new tables, it needs a further look.

Job Scheduler –> Job Queue

The Job Scheduler has gone, and is now replaced with the Job Queue. I guess there could be two reasons for this, first so that it can be sold as a granule without having to purchase Service, and second it was never really finished anyway. The old Job Scheduler simply came in as an Add-On that Microsoft acquired, so I assume they felt it time for a clean up.

Outlook integration

This again is one of the big things. I have not looked at it at all, but I do know that the big news is that you can now do a partial synchronize, rather than having to sync everything every time. If you integrate Outlook to Dynamics NAV, then this alone will probably be the reason that you upgrade.

Item Tracing

This is a new feature that allows you to trace Tracked items through the system. There is no data setup in Cronus, so I will need to post some entries to find out exactly how it works, but it does seem to show where Serial and Lot numbers have been used.

There are also a couple of new tables for tracking in Manufacturing, so I would assume there has been some Tracking clean up done.

Dynamics NAV 2009 contains a new subsystem for dealing with Web Services. This feature has been well received by partners and customers alike. Partners have expressed interest in having web services available for earlier versions of Dynamics NAV. This feedback resulted in a technology talk at Directions2007 in Florida, where the topic was what could be done to day. The conclusion of the talk was that everything we where intending to deliver was already possible today, yes some code is needed but strictly from function/feature perspective all of it is possible, and it is not even all that ugly. Dynamics NAV 2009 will provide out-of-the-box programmatic web service access to the application and will therefore remove the need for this additional technology plumbing described here.

I have to say that the response to my talk has been tremendous. After the response to my talk on Web Services in NAV 5.0 and previous versions I decided to write this blog post and make the source files available.

This post is about how to bridge the gap between the need for web services now and the current platform, it will help you understand how you can provide Web Services directly from Dynamics NAV today, in a “simple” and flexible way, already today.

To work with the samples in this post you will need: Visual Studio 2005, Dynamics NAV 5.0 and .Net 3.0 installed on your system. This sample should work on Dynamics NAV 4.0 to but has not been tested on that version.