Introduction

Business depends on multiple applications. Until now, all these applications were hosted in-house, on the company's own server, which integrated applications by exchanging a flat file or directly accessing the database. In the last few years, technologies have taken a big leap and introduced numerous ways of managing business applications; cloud computing is one of them.

Microsoft has made sure that Dynamics NAV will continue to meet its customer's integration needs for this new type of infrastructure. In this chapter, we will be taking a look at the different ways of integration with Microsoft Dynamics NAV.

This chapter will show you how to share information using XML or flat text files, creating and consuming web services, and loading files on an FTP server. These recipes will serve as a foundation for all your future integration efforts.