Functional areas
The core functionalities of Dynamics NAV have not dramatically changed over the years. New functional areas have appeared and the existing ones still work as they did in the previous versions. In NAV 2009, Microsoft was focused on changing the entire architecture (for good), and NAV 2013 is the consolidation of the new architecture. NAV 2016 enhances what was released with NAV 2013. All these architectural changes were made to bring Dynamics NAV closer to the existing Microsoft technologies, namely, Microsoft Office 365, .NET, SQL Server, Azure, and so on; in the meantime, the core functionality has not undergone a drastic face-lift compared to the architecture.
Microsoft has been adding small functional features and improving the existing functionalities with every new release. As you have seen earlier in this chapter, the base Dynamics NAV 2016 covers the following functional areas:
- Financial Management
- Sales & Marketing
- Purchase
- Warehouse
- Manufacturing
- Job
- Resource...