Friday 26 September 2014

New Nav edition

Just a quick blog this week! Have been on holiday for a few days so not much work done.
I was slightly caught out by the news of a new version of Dynamics Nav that has been announced recently. Nav 2015. Has, to us, a similar look and feel to Nav 2013 R2.
But the goods news is we have the Nav 2015 W1 demo installed at our offices so if you would like to see and use via TeamViewer please drop us an email and we will send the TeamViewer id and pass code to you. Email neil@fpconsult.co.uk if this is of interest.
More details at http://www.waldo.be/2014/07/18/microsoft-dynamics-nav-2015-is-announced/.
Other developments completed this week have included amendments to current reports for lot data, new menu options on some Nav 2009 forms, misc first line support emails. Short work week.
More potential work from existing clients next week and quote sent off this week for a potential new client for Nav 2013 training on site.
So still busy!
Have a great week end all followers. That's all for this week but not so long since the last update!

Thursday 18 September 2014

The end of summer the beginning of autumn so must be time to publish a blog!

Or in other words it has been a while. Busy few months but a brief break next week in York so something to look forward to.
On the Dynamics Nav side of the business, very busy. Most of the way through major development (http://www.dynamicsnavukhelp.co.uk/services/developments/) for an existing client for loading sales and purchase data from legacy systems. Still last phase to be development but 1/3rd live, 1/3rd ready for UAT and the remainder to be developed.
New report developments completed to spec this week. Existing reports amended as required.
A mix of on client site and at our offices training completed (http://www.dynamicsnavukhelp.co.uk/services/training/) covering the usual financial modules.
Nav reminders process amended per client requirements - just waiting to go to the live database after UAT. All good so far.
New first line support trial starts 1st October for 2 months. More details of this type of service at http://www.dynamicsnavukhelp.co.uk/services/support/first-line-support/
Step by step process based instructions (with supporting screen dumps from either the Nav uk demo database or the client's database) across a number of modules completed and delivered in the last few months.
Completed some date compression work and testing for a client to see how long it would take and the benefits. Definitely a catch 22 for this standard Nav functionality and not really going to resolve performance issues. The conclusion was more investigation required.
Very few on site visits to clients in August / September which is unusual but also we did not experience the usual slow down of work in the summer. So cannot complain.
Announcement this week re Nav 2015 available from 1st October 2014. Had a quick look and it does not look as significant a version update compared to Nav 2013. More details I am sure will follow but the look and feel is as per Nav 2013.
On the accounts side, a few changes re clients. But tax deadlines are looming so clients books are arriving for annual accounts and tax calculations. All good.
So that's all for this time. Promised I will try and update the blog more regularly. May be next time I publish a blog Scotland will be independent. :)