New Features in Dynamics-NAV 5.0

Mibuso has a powerpoint presentation from Tech-Ed 2006 on New Development Features of the Upcoming Release of Microsoft Dynamics NAV 5.0. There is some interesting new stuff in there and I urge you all to have a look.

The new developments looks fantastic, this is a huge step forward and should create many opportunities.

I see the following plus points:

• Multi threaded three tier model. Should improve performance and scalability.
• Nothing has to change if the customer is happy with current architecture then it can remain and they will still benefit from the new UI.
• Role based UI. This is now the standard ERP approach for large companies. Adding to the possibility of targeting companies with 100+ users.
• SQL server Reporting Services. This is essentially a huge upgrade for all reporting. Scalability is improved as reporting can be handled by a separate server. All reports can be hosted by SharePoint. Standard reports can be improved with features such as drill down and charts.
• Main development still performed exclusively with CAL C/SIDE.
• Integrated Web Services. This will allows us to far easily create Web Sites and Mobil Application which integrate fully with NAV.
• Vastly improved User Experience (UX). This product should demo like a dream.

There are a few negatives:

• The main problem is all code must be recompiled when any code is changed. Hopefully this will not be a permanent change, but if it is bug fixing/ support will become trickier.
• Because of the integration with SQL Reporting Services report development will take longer, however features will be improved.
• Web services will be created in CAL and then precompiled into C#. However we will have no access to the C# code, meaning certain performance issues may be difficult to resolve as we are dependent on code created by a translator. Hopefully this will change before release.

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