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BizApps Wiki – a great place for ERP, CRM and other experts

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New platform BizApps.Wiki has just started. On the first sight it looks like as well know Wikipedia, but there is ‘but’…

In comparison with Wikipedia there is highly focused content only with business applications (solutions/software) and other related topics. By the business application topics you can find information about almost all possible business application solutions as well as vendors (global and local). Also you can find information about partners or about the most impactful experts (MVPs or similar).

By the ‘other related topics’ it means you can find a lot information about project management, business processes, implementation processes, learning guides, certifications, events, communities, accounting… and so on.

OK it is obviously that topics are not related only with Dynamics solutions as this is Wiki about all business solutions, but there are for sure a few dozens of articles (maybe even more) related only with Microsoft solutions.

And on the end, there is one really good idea about building the digital business applications museum. Even if its history is not so big, it is very interesting how these applications looked like 20-30 years ago. And this is not finished project… as you can see on the first page, this is an ongoing project (always work-in-progress) where it is expected that community will take a part in building or editing this library of articles.

I’ll not write about the project in more details as you can easily go there and check. Definitely good for developers, consultants, project managers, but also for future experts such as students…

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15 Microsoft Ignite not-to-miss non-Dynamics Session

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A few years ago, and earlier, every time when I attended some conference I’ve chose the topic I’m familiar with. For example, probably in 95% of my time I attended Dynamics NAV sessions or something very close with it.

But in the last few years I changed my attention to very different sessions. In these times, everything is different, and everything is changed. Now if you want to survive in your ERP or CRM world, you need to learn a lot of different topics outside of your primarily interest. Solutions are more and more connected and now nobody want to buy i.e. ERP, but they want to buy completely solution… and if you want to provide it, you have to me familiar not only with ERP, but with IoT, AI, ML…

Because of that, I want to write a small recommendation not-to-miss sessions for all Dynamics ERP or CRM experts on this Microsoft Ignite. As Microsoft Ignite will start in a few days (September 22-24, 2020) and registration is free of charge, be sure you registered and try to attend the following sessions:

Of course, there are a lot of other Dynamics topics and I can suggest watching sessions about solutions you don’t implement. You will expand your knowledge and in this era it is very important to know how to choose what to and when to implement; when to customize and when to integrate… Of course, this is just my opinion and prediction… if you think differently, do as you think. Definitely, try to enjoy this virtual event.

Power BI is a Global BI Leader

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One of the great new features in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 is natively working with Power BI. You can use this feature very easy using OData web service in NAV and copying this URL to Power BI when you try to use it. You just need to choose to import your content pack from Microsoft Dynamics NAV.

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Because of that, I want to write few words about this solution. This BI tool is not only for Microsoft Dynamics NAV, of course. You can use Power BI with i.e. other Dynamics product or with almost every database you want. This is is really powerful and modern tool for analyzing and visualization your data. And everyday is better and better. You can find a lot information about this product here and I don’t want to write about functionalities.

I’ve just wanted to show how other people outside Microsoft see this product. Gartner organized a huge survey about BI products and we can see this results in famous Gartner Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms. You can see that Gartner has positioned Microsoft as a Leader in this area. Microsoft is a leader for the ninth consecutive year, but for the first time, Microsoft is placed furthest in vision within the Leaders quadrant.

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It means we can expect more and more capabilities and new benefits of this solution. Well done Microsoft.

My PPTs from Directions EMEA and NA

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I’ve just published my Power Point presentations from both of Directions conferences. You can find presentations from Directions EMEA and Directions NA. I didn’t want to publish them earlier because Directions NA wasn’t closed.

Now, you can find all details from these two presentations and learn how to implement standard NAV solution in construction business. If you need some help about this, give me a question. If you want to know more about vertical solution for NAV in Construction, I will answer everything you need.

Presentation from Directions EMEA 2015

Presentation from Directions NA 2015

These presentations will be available for download until the end of this year.

NAV ‘Corfu’ is now NAV 2016

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Today at WPC in Orlando, Microsoft have published official name of new NAV. Now, it is Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016. New NAV will be released in few following months with really lot of news. Some of them are: Phone Client, better In/On, works natively with Power BI and CRM Online, e-Everything, Posting Preview, OCR, Workflow,…

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These information are official and you could see them on WPC. But, you can expect more details very soon (after NDA).

Using of Expressive Tiles in NAV 2015

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Cues as tiles already exist in the Microsoft Dynamics NAV client that display business data as FlowFields and integers. But with Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015, they start as some kind of BI tools to also present key performance indicators (KPIs) on Role Centers and includes the following new features. Now we have enhanced the functionality of Cues to give application developers, as well as end users, more control over the appearance of Cues. Each changing will be seen on all clients.

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Now, we have not only static tiles. With new feature, we can configure the Cue to display a bar along its upper border that changes color based on the data in the cue. It can be made by developing a cue or by end-user, using “Set Up Cues” on Role Center page. With this feature, Expressive Tiles provide us more quality in daily work.

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Developing cues, we can change the image that displays on the Cue or set up the Cue without an image on property. There are several images to choose from and for now, we cannot use customized images.

In previous Microsoft Dynamics NAV versions, we could only set up Cues based on FlowFields and we could set up them to display on integer data types. Now, in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015, we can also use normal fields (instead only FlowFields) and we can also use a decimal data type. This provides us additional data aggregation possibilities instead of just COUNT, such as SUM, MAX, MIN, and AVG and of course, extends source of Cue data, such as using query objects.

By using the AutoFormat and AutoFormatExpr properties, we can customize the format of the value in a Cue. For example, we can set the number of decimal places, or place a symbol such as currency sign or % before or after a value.