So Dynamics NAV 2016 will complete the set by adding a Phone App client to the existing Windows, Web Browser and Tablet clients. Supporting Apples iOS and Googles Android operating systems as well as Windows Phone, it will allow you as easy access to your NAV system as you’ve had from your tablet since 2015 came out.
With a redesigned interface that best utilises a screen that’s maybe 6 inches high by 4 inches wide if you’re lucky, it displays the same information as your core system but rearranged to better fit the interface.
So my bet is that it will get more use than the tablet client has as if you run Dynamics NAV, why would you not put it on your phone? Just giving you the ability to look up a customer’s balance or a quantity in stock from anywhere whenever you want will prove useful. You’re not going to use it to enter masses of transactions but as a reference it puts the information NAV holds where you are and that’s got to be great.
So the prerequisite is that you publish your middle tier service to the Internet using a security certificate. Costing maybe £100 per year it seems crazy not to though and its standard practise to do this for every install at the partner I work for.
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Author: James Crowter
I’m passionate about how businesses can improve their efficiency by getting process optimal more of the time. For the last twenty five years I’ve worked to help organisations of all sizes and types implement the ERP & CRM software that typically they decide they need when things are going wrong. I’ve seen that work unbelievably well and enabled those organisations to rapidly grow but I’ve also had some hard projects over that time where it’s felt more like warfare at times.
Since 1996 (and version 1.01) I’ve been working with a small Danish product called Navision that’s now become Microsoft’s Dynamics NAV and I’ve also been using and consulting around Microsoft CRM since 2005. As managing Director of one of the longest established first Navision and now Microsoft Dynamics partners I’ve been involved in the complete history including numerous product councils and system design reviews. It’s my privilege to know many of the key Microsoft executives and product designers and have insight into both where the products are now and their future direction.
So colleagues & clients have asked me to start this blog to share some of the insight that both this knowledge (obviously where not restricted by NDA’s or client confidentiality) and experience can help. Specifically I want to concentrate not on the specifics of how (there are some great blogs already for that) but why. If any user helps their business make better decisions or consultant can give better advice then that will be objective achieved.
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