The future of AppSource

26/09/201726/09/2017 atotovic AppSource, Dynamics 365, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Microsoft Dynamics NAV apps, AppSource, consulting, D365, Dynamics, Dynamics 365, service

With Dynamics 365, AppSource was introduced as platform for Apps exchange. This was a place where you could find apps based on product type and industrial solution. Now we can find more and more Apps there.

But now, AppSource got a new additional reason of existing. This is not only place where you can find App. Now, you can also find a good consulting service there (and not only for D365, but also for PowerBI). You just need to choose Consulting Services and you can find a list of them:

Or if you are located on Apps, you will also see that you can choose some of existing consulting services, related with your product.

With these possibilities, now you can be nore close to your partners, and not only as ISV, but also as consulting implementator. With this, the way of how this kind of business works will be dramatically changed, and for all partners it will be good idea to accept this new approach as soon as possible.

If you want to publish your services, you can go to the List on AppSource and choose “Grow your business – offer your implementation services” and you can find a manual how to do it as Microsoft system integrator, because you still need to meet some conditions. But if you succeed, you can offer different consulting services in fixed scope and with a fixed duration and become well known globally with your services.

New UX in NAV (Dynamics 365 Tenerife)

19/09/2017 atotovic Conference, Dynamics 365, Microsoft Dynamics NAV apps, Directions, Directions NA, Dynamics, Dynamics 365, Dynamics 365 tenerife, GA, Microsoft Dynamics NAV, NAV, NAV Tenerife, New client, Tenerife, UX, Web Client

After first Keynote on Directions NA, we got a very exciting news about rebranding of our products and about their common future as Dynamics 365 ‘Tenerife’. In my previous post, I wanted to announce only the most important news and later write a more detailed. But in a meantime, Waldo wrote a post with perfect explained all these details and I’ll just give you URL to this post instead of writing the same text.

Before I start with other exciting news from the second Keynote part, first I want to share details when we can expect new products:

Dynamics 365 ‘Tenerife’ – In preview, but GA Spring 2018
Dynamics 365 for Sales – In preview, but GA Spring 2018
Dynamics 365 for Marketing – In preview

Dynamics GP and Dynamics SL will continue as for now with the same name and we will get new versions this year at Q4.

But now, what we have more about new future release. OK we will get a lot of new features, but on the first sight, new UX will be the first what we can see and just to say my personal opinion – It is the great work. We will get complete rendered web client (probably Tablet and Phone and the same time, I’m not sure). Now when you compare all Dynamics 365 clients, there are all almost the same. This is the point, we don’t want to speak about specific different solutions, we want to speak only about Dynamics 365 as a product; and of course, we will run only these Apps we need:

Now, I can just share some first pictures of the new client to see how it looks like. When we run Dynamics 365 ‘Tenerife’, we can see new refreshed role center with very interesting ordered information:

Then in further, when we slightly go down, we can see more tiles and Power BI charts:

If we click on some tile, we can get very first sight to the most important information in beautiful interface:

The list pages are very similar as in old client, but without fact boxes. These information will be available on a different place, but by my opinion on much better place:

And on the end, cards are little bit different with the most important information on the top of card:

I really like this new interface and I cannot wait to make more tests with this.

Modern DEV Experience in NAV

30/11/201630/11/2016 atotovic Dynamics 365, Microsoft Dynamics NAV apps, C/AL, D365, Development, Dynamics, Dynamics 365, github, Microsoft, Microsoft Dynamics NAV, NAV, NAV2017, Visual Studio Code

We finally got first view on new modern DEV environment for NAV. This is still not finished product, but we can see something already announced on Directions NA and Directions EMEA this year. We expect final version of this tool for developing extensions somewhere about Christmas.

Now the first project is public published ans all of you can download it from https://github.com/Microsoft/AL. This is just simple “Hello World”, but good enough for the first sight. Unfortunately, I didn’t download it earlier and I can just start to play with it. Just download it and be updated.