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You're reading from Implementing Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central On-Premise Explore the capabilities of Dynamics NAV 2018 and Dynamics 365 Business Central and implement them efficiently

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2018

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781789133936

Length 764 pages

Edition 4th Edition

Tools

Dynamics 365

Concepts

Enterprise Resource Planning

Authors (2):

Roberto Stefanetti

Alex Chow

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface

1. Exploring Dynamics NAV and MSDYN365BC – Overview

2. Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2018 – An Overview FREE CHAPTER

3. General Considerations

4. Implementation Process – Partner's Perspective

5. Implementation Process – Customer's Perspective

6. Migrating Data

7. Upgrading to Dynamics NAV and MSDYN365BC

8. Development Considerations

9. Implementing Functional Changes

10. Data Analysis and Reporting

11. Debugging with Dynamics NAV and MSDYN365BC

12. Popular Reporting Options

13. Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

14. Working and Developing with Docker and Sandboxes

15. Other Books You May Enjoy

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The data model

If you have never worked with Microsoft Dynamics NAV before and have only started started playing around with it, there are a few words you will see over and over again, including setup, journal, posting group, post, document, entry, dimension, among others. You may not have a clue what all of these mean or what they are used for, but don't worry—we will explain it all!

Microsoft Dynamics NAV is structured into different functional areas, namely, financial management, sales and marketing, purchase, warehouse, manufacturing, jobs, resource planning, service, and human resources.

Each of the functional areas has its own setup, where the behavior of each of the areas is defined. A general setup also exists in the Administration menu.

As discussed earlier, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is the evolution of Microsoft Dynamics NAV and, to date, it maintains the same features of Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2018. It is used only with a Web client, which makes it slightly different...