I hoped to put the blogs online while I was waiting for the airplane, but I didn’t have a connection at the airport. Sunday I had other (more important!) things to do: playing with my daughter and also her performance for her nursery school’s ‘gymnastics essay’ (I don’t find a better translation for the Italian […]
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My first impression was that it was mostly salestalk to sell courses and certifications to both partners and customers, but later on it got more interesting. It was focused on NAV5.0 and NAV2009 though.
Why do you care about training your people?
-more consultants=more revenue, more margin.
-more productive consultants=more revenue, more margin, higher profitability
-avoid burn them out
Partner […]
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Integration options in previous versions
-C/front
-C/ODBC
-OCX
-Automation
-Navision Application Server (NAS)
Web services
-new method of interacting programmatically with the MS Dynamics NAV system
–Access over a network
–execution on remote system
-Widely-used, industry-standard
–Understood/used by other systems/products
–Best way to integrate across systems
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Well, it started quite good: RAIN RAIN RAIN!
Luckily the hotel provided some coats to protect us:
Luc (at the right) and me (at the left).
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Before I posted this, I asked Michael if I could. He answered me that I could do it because it was already public. And also : there were also some customers on the event even if it was partners-only!
Doomsday:What is there for the future: .NET, C#, reporting services,…? I will be out of business because […]
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We are talking about hosted applications.
Why does business want hosted applications?
What does this mean to the delivery model?
What does this mean to your business model? It is an opportunity!
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SQL2005 can do a lot more for reporting then SQL2000.
Why use datawarehouse when
-native db is used for NAV
-many users on NAV
-large SQL Navision DB
-need to combine or consolidate several companies in one report or cube with same structure and currency
-heavy use of NAV dimensions
-when you have additional data sources
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Finished the sessions. Now we have some expo-time. Waldo is showing me some add-ons of his company, so he hasn’t much time to blog.
This is the proof:
BTW:I only noticed it on the foto, but he does have a weird look in his eyes.
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First : Sorry for the error in the name but I don’t have the Umlaut on my Italian keyboard and I am to lazy to get it from MSWord.Well we started with some salestalk:
-”the NAV/SQL Performance toolbox”
-book “THe NAV/SQL Performance Field Guide”
-syntax for commands
-trace-flags
At least the salestalk ended fast and for a techie it was […]
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-develop smart client applications
-create MS office applications
-build Windows Vista Applications
-Handle data more productively
-Enable new web experience
-gain better developer experience
-application lifecycle management (ALM)
Until know I didn’t understand a lot, probably because I don’t know anything about .NET…
Demo-time:
office business application
using:
-Visual Studio tools for Office
-Windows Presentation Foundation
-LINQ to SQL
Creating a worddocument, it shows also the […]
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