Joe Little

Jet Reports is proud to present electrifying and flexible entertainment for our Partners to demonstrate how Jet Reports helps Partners close ERP deals.  In addition to our extraordinary introduction, we will be featuring interviews with three partners who include Jet Reports in their demonstrations to prospects, as well as using them internally to more efficiently manage their own businesses.  We will discuss the release of Jet reports 2010 and ways to create stunning reports for your customers.  Finally, we will have a very high value offer for all Partners who attend our ISV101 Session on Monday, October 4 at 9:15 AM.

Many developers, when moving from any comprehensive IDE, become flustered by the lack of tools that the Dynamics NAV environment delivers.  Many of us do not know that there are many tools and tricks that can be used to make a developers life easier and we intend to explore these solutions.

Microsoft Partner Network (MPN) reflects a major commitment to change the way ERP goes to market.  As the model emerges and develops it has become clear this is no longer "business as usual".  Success, even survival, may depend on how you align your business model. 

Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 SP1 has been introduced incuding new functionality such as client extensibility and Web Services. See a few of the new features and get inspired!

If you're new to NAV then this review of the Role Tailored Client and Security setup in NAV is a must!  We'll be covering the basics of what makes the entire new user interface tick.  Also recommended for NAV veterans who haven't had a chance to work with 2009 extensively.

Pre-Sales Part 1 - sales competencies as designed by MPN.  Part 1 of this series will focus on the core skills necessary to make the transition including MSSP, Demo2Win, SureStep and how to sell ERP.  An intense 1 hour session designed to get you ready to tackle this accreditation testing.  

Jet Reports: New Innovations to Help Sell ERP

SQL Perform: NAV on SQL Server Performance-Perform-Tools and Services

Hynek Muhlbacher

SQL Perform is a one stop performance solution centre.  During this session you will learn how SQL Perform offerings can help you to service your clients better when running NAV on SQL Server platforms.  From pro-active monitoring and preventive maintenance, to excalated performance cases and troubleshooting and tuning.

IT IS: All new IT IS products in 2010: The Dynamics extension to SharePoint, Web, Mobile and EDI Communication now reloaded and partially cloudy

Joe Lorenz

Come in and see the stunning, all new 2010 SharePoint integration for Microsoft Dynamics NAV working.  See your benefits with the experienced solution for building portals and win with team work.  Get to know the word from some IT IS partners and find out about the compelling benefit from this suite of products that once learned will prove to be the one stop shop for extending NAV on the web, in the EDI space, for mobile and e-mail.  Learn about our cloud ready offering and how you can leverage this for getting new impulses into your business.

SPS Commerce: Business Intelligence & EDI: Game-changing SaaS solutions, live demonstration from SPS Commerce

David Novak

Come see why Dynamics NAV users are choosing SPS Commerce's suite of on-demand Supply Chain Business Applications integrated with NAV.  David Novak, a 17-year veteran in the business intelligence industry, will feature a live customer demonstration of SPS' industry-leading "Trading Partner Intelligence."  Customers demand a high-impact, low-risk mechanism to increase sales and reduce inventory costs.  Timely stock-outs, surplus warnings, and inventory alerts delivered via Outlook & web-based dashboards bring actionable intelligence to business professionals.

With prewired connections to 1,300+ retailers, distributors, 3PLs, SPS' proven SaaS-based solutions drive results.  Evaluate the alternative to EDI software and bring value to your customers.

See an exciting new product configurator for Dynamics NAV!  Experlogix, the leading configurator ISV for Dynamics CRM and Dynamics GP, now offers native NAV integration to enable fast, accurate creation of complex quotes and orders.  For sophisticated manufacturing environments, Experlogix combines with NAV to form a dynamic engineering and product management system, automating production orders, costing and routing information while dramatically cutting lead times.  Learn how you can add Experlogix to your NAV ISV portfolio to increase sales and stay competitive.

ChargeLogic: Beyond Credit Card Processing: ChargeLogic Shipping, ChareLogic Connect, and ChargeLogic Checkout

Jonathan Cooper and Deb Adler

ChargeLogic's suite of products goes beyond electronic payment processing.  See ChargeLogic's three upcoming products that bring a modern approach to how you and your customers do business.

ChargeLogic Shipping
Provides total shipping cost prior to payment authorization; integrated with ChargeLogic, NAV, and LS Retail; real-time connection with UPS for discounts and exact shipping fees.

ChargeLogic Connect
This cloud-based service provides true e-commerce integration for NAV and allows customers to benefit from the service's uptime guarantee, ensuring that transactions can be processed even when NAV is down.

ChargeLogic Checkout
This hosted payment environment alleviates merchants' e-commerce sites from the burdens of PCI-compliance.

Visit www.chargelogic.com.

"Who wrote this code?" - Sound familiar?  Did you know that NAV has had a long time development standard regarding formatting and readability of code?  If not - you should attend this session, even if you just need a refresher on why standards are so important to our development community!

Where will Microsoft be in 5 years?  Where will I be?    Do you plan to be a horizontal player or take your business vertical?  Chosing the right "fit" within the Microsoft Partner Network is important. Challenge yourself to think about your current business value and options for growing through investment, partnering or merger. 

Improve customer satisfaction by learning a few simple tips and tricks for Sales Return Management in Microsoft Dynamics Navision. Link Sales Returns with replacement Sales Orders for improved customer service. Turbo charge your customer support representatives by giving them tools to track RMA and Service returns. 

Our new NAV Essentials course continues with an overview of some of the most fundamental but powerful features of the NAV product: Budgets, Dimensions, & Cash Management.  We'll start by going over the basics and then spend time learning some tips and tricks that will be sure to increase the value you deliver to your customers.

Pre-Sales Part 2 will focus on the Proficient and Advanced skills necessary to make the transition including Discovery2Win, Selling across the Microsoft Stack and competitive training.   Q&A on both sessions will be included in part two.

The RoleTailored Client (RTC) is the star in this development session in which we drill into the creation of pages of all types. Understanding how to create, manage, and optimize pages will be covered in detail.

Culture, the economy and channel policy influence best practices for finding, organizing, training and leading a profitable service organization.  Learn from successful partners and challenge their ideas within the framework of Microsoft's Partner Network.

Risk Management is the process of identifying, analyzing, and addressing project risk. Learn how to  approach activities, identify risk characteristics, prioritize risk effects on project objectives, measure the risk probability, plan reponses, monitor risk and risk reduction efforts. Learn proactive risk management tricks and tips to keep your projects running smoothly.

Our new NAV Essentials series ends with a look at Account Schedules & Analysis Views.  These powerful tools will make sure that you know how to get vital information from a standard NAV system and avoid unneccesary customizations! This session also includes an overview of standard reporting in NAV.

Existing customers are the best source of projects that fill gaps between new implementations.  Learn how to build loyalty and wallet share from your customer base.  Think again if you believe your core sales team should call on existing customers.

Centerline Software, Inc: Pivotier-the RIGHT Report Writer for Microsoft Dynamics NAV

Want to learn how to use SSRS 2008 and RDL 2008 with Dynamics NAV?  Interested in using 2010 and 2008 versions of Microsoft, not old 2005 versions?

Come see how Dynamics NAV users can create content-rich ad-hoc, analysis and financial reports without having to be C/SIDE programmers or Excel experts.  See how you can provide modern, colorful reports to both Classic and RTC users in NAV versions 4.x and above.  Developers, learn how to easily generate SQL statements, report models and datasets and use Microsoft's latest reporting tool from the NAV user experience to make the C/SIDE Report Designer redundant.

Lanham Associates: ACE - Advanced Commerce ERP-EDI and More for Your Compliance Needs

Mary Lanham and Jim Augenstein

CCH: Reducing Sales & Use Tax Exposure and Audit Risk with "Best-in-Class" Automation

Phil Schlesinger, Robert Funke

Avoiding tax exposure and audit risk in a multistate sales and use tax environment can be a challenge for most companies, especially, if manual processes are used, or if the automation being utilized is not sufficient in terms of taxability logic and feature fuctionality.  The key to effective Sales and Use Tax Management starts with the implementation of "Best-in-Class" sales tax automation, one that offers robust taxability coverage, handles complex sourcing rules, exemption management, used-based exemption rules, consumer use tax processing, and allows for user specific customization.  Overview of CCH Sales Tax Office system in the NAV world.

BI4Dynamics: BI is very simple with BI4Dynamics!

Klemen Logar, Stefán Torfi Höskuldsson

BI is very simple with BI4 Dynamics!
  -BI4Dynamics is a standardized business intelligence solution which helps customers to get the most relevant information out of their Microsoft Dynamics NAV system without IT support.
  -It covers ALL Microsoft Dynamics NAV application areas out of the box.
  -One can create any report in seconds with NO specific Microsoft Dynamics NAV knowledge.
  -ROI in weeks, not years.
  -Partners will learn WHY BI4Dynamics is the right decision.
  -How BI4Dynamics can help them win more Dynamics NAV projects
  -How to sell BI solution easily and finish BI project on time. 

Equisys: Enhance the value of NAV with Zetadocs for Dynamics NAV and SharePoint

Mitch Brown

In today's environment many of your customers are discovering the advantages of delivering and storing financial documents electronically.  Why not take it to the next level with RTC and SharePoint?  Come to this exciting session to learn how the new features Zetadocs for Dynamics NAV, SharePoint and the RTC combine to offer an enticing ROI that is sure to strengthen your upgrade value proposition.  During the session we will discuss how document imaging and delivery can generate additional revenue from both existing and new customers.  We will also be highlighting our brand new release Zetadocs for NAV 4.0 and how it extends the reach of ERP with SharePoint.

Reports are the output of all of the data entry and design within a solution.  They are one of the most important parts of a business but are often overlooked during implementation.  In this session we will demonstrate the new reporting capabilities with SSRS reports in NAV 2009. During the session we will demonstrate how to take advantage of the new reporting features in your reports.

One of the most popular sessions in previous years asked the question:  "Are you positioned for success?"  Measure your business with current information from Microsoft studies that benchmark partner performance and identify best practices.

The cost of receipts of goods and products, used for either reselling or manufacturing, constitutes an increasing share of the overall costs of the goods. Those costs - which we call item charge costs - need to be managed as well. Item charges can be insurance, freight or any costs from suppliers delivering services to transport your goods. Microsoft Navision provides the ability to directly post these costs of receipts to the products received, independently of the time that you received those invoices. Learn how to efficiently and effectively allocate item charges to your item costs for a complete picture of cost of goods carried and sold. 

This session will explore the basics regarding the development environment in Microsoft Dynamics NAV and how to navigate and make basic changes in both the Classic and RoleTailored environments.

This hands-on-lab about Search Engine Optimization (SEO) shows you how it works,  common mistakes and steps that can improve your own Web presence.

Creation of Role Center's is a new topic and ideology for developers in the NAV world.  Many of us are trained to use a segmented navigation layout that was useful for the previous versions of NAV, but as the focus is now on people and the roles that they encompass, the Role Center becomes a critical component during the development process.  In this session we'll give you information on how to structure and create Role Center's that customers love!

Establishing your brand is more important than ever.  Lead Volume from tele-marketings steadily declines as prospects increasingly go to the Web before talking with your company.   Explore demand generation techniques that work today and identify key elements for your own successful marketing campaigns.

Business Intelligence is more than just transacational reporting. It encompasses a new way of looking at Microsoft Dynamics NAV data. Learn the basic ideas behind BI to develop and organize implmentations into effective and efficient project plans. The focus will be on understanding how to summarize and display the data in reports, KPIs, and dashboards in an impressive manner using the Microsoft technology.

If it hasn't happened, it won't be long before you hear "How can I email this invoice?" or "Can I export this to Excel?".  We'll show you the basics you need to start working with Microsoft Office in combination with NAV.

Six Pixels of Separation... unravel the fascinating world of New Media and Consumer Generated Content to achieve staggering results and generate off-the-charts loyalty.

If you've implemented the 3-tier architecture with the RTC, you've probably run into some type of bug or issue.  As there is not currently a debugger for the RTC, it often makes isolating these issues complex.  This session will focus on how to debug issues in the RTC and how to address them effectively and efficiently.

The market is shifting more and more towards cloud computing, some workloads more than others. Many have voiced that Microsoft is behind the curve. But with Online services, Azure and partner hosting options, we can gain the advantage by delivering the vertical and customized solutions that customers in the ERP world are still looking for. Peel back the layers of hosted and/or SaaS economic model and understand the reality of capital and resource requirements as well as gain an understanding of how hosting may complement your business rather than disrupt.

Learn the difference between the different inventory costing methods and their effect on inventory and manufacturing. Learn how to setup and relate these methods to end users for a complete understanding of the Microsoft Dynamics NAV costing system.

Many customers that purchase Microsoft Dynamics NAV are using multiple subsidiary companies and then need to roll up the data into a consolidated company.  In this session, we'll explore the consolidation process and cover the new intercompany functionality so that you can understand how to implement this feature in the future.

How to use the new NAV Compete Database with special focus on techniques for preparing and presenting winning demos.

Trimit:Looking for Partners to join the Success

Steen Wæver Poulsen

Looking for Partners to join the Success
Being perceived as the solution for the future, the demand for TRIMIT is huge.  Therefore, we are looking for new dedicated partners all over the world to sell:
-TRIMIT Fashion
-TRIMIT Furniture
-TRIMIT Product Configuration
-TRIMIT Trade & Distribution

Parntership Made Easy
TRIMIT offers a total concept with upgrades and a hefty Partner Pipeline Builder, including everything you need to go to market with TRIMIT, offer customers the solution for the future and generate revenue instantly.

Lanham Associates: Charting Your Course with Lanham Product Updates

Dale Lanham & Development Team

Join us to review a banner year's development highlights:

  AFP
    -DRP-Significantly Enhanced Hub & Spoke Support
    -User Defined Forecast Views/Periods
    -Enhanced Container Planning

  EDI
    -New Lanham VAN Offering-Lower Cost of Ownership
    -EDI Master Cross Reference
        -Shipping Agent
        -Shipment Method
        -Payment Terms
    -3PL Inbound Sales 856
    -Multiple SACs
    -New Sales & Purchasing Docs

  E-Ship
    -FedEx Web Services
    -Address Validation
    -New UPS Services
        -World Ease
        -Hazardous Goods

  ADCS Warehousing
    -Handheld Receiving
    -Handheld Device Printing
    -Production Consumption/Output Registration

Cost Control: "Remote Time Entry, Visual Drag and Drop Scheduling, and Activity Based Costing"=A complete Project Management Solution.

Rick Baxter

It's not just about Job Costing any more.  Come and see a demo of Remote Time Entry using DCO Licenses, Visual Drag and Drop Finite Scheduling, and the latest version of Job Manager for NAV 2009 RTC.  See a complete Project Management tool with Estimating, Quoting, Procurement, Consumption, Scheduling, Billing, Labor Allocations, and Reporting.  These solutions can be used for service businesses or manufacturing applications.  Ideal for: R&D, Service & Repair, Industrial Equipment Manufacturers, Engineer to Order, Make to Order, or any company that just needs to track cost details per Job.

agiles: Just let your work flow - with agilesWorkflow!

Mandy Dore, Christian Sega, Gary Winter, Amy Homan, Gary Turner

-How can you sell more NAV?
-How can you better promote upgrades?
-How can you increase customer satisfaction?

agilesWorkflow is a fully integrated workflow, process and notification system built directly within NAV.  Join us for insight into competing more effectively using agilesWorkflow and how you can promote customer upgrades using agilesWorkflow.  Learn from other partners who have let their work flow with agilesWorkflow.

Our session is a must attend to get all the information you need in one place, and real-life experience from other partners.  In true "agiles" fashion, there will be some exciting treats to help get you into the flow.  Don't miss out on the fun!

Digital Vantage Point: E-Commerce For NAV-Raising the Bar with Nav-to-Net 6.0

Michael Kulik

DVP will be demonstrating the newest features in Nav-to-Net, our flagship e-Commerce solution written exclusively for NAV.  In addition to hard core website and content management, the latest version of Nav-to-Net supports abandoned cart tracking, product comparisons, store locator, preferred store availability, and much more.  We will discuss how DVP continues to push the feature-for-feature cost of Nav-to-Net down while improving the quality and efficiency of this class leading e-Commerce solution.  Finally, as always, DVP will be revealing several brnad new features of Nav-to-Net  just for Directions, including multi-dimensional variant support and our new NAV based survey builder and submission tool.  You don't want to miss this!

Scribe Software: Integration with Dynamics NAV - problem solved.

David Baker

Like most applications in the ERP space, the technology behind Dynamics® NAV is changing rapidly.  With c/front at the end of its life cycle, as well as the NAS, it's easy to get behind, or out of the upgrade path altogether.  With other 'best of breed' applications that can complement the business processes of Dynamics® NAV, adoption is less likely if the integration will break when the first upgrade comes along.  Come see how Scribe can solve the integration problem by acting as an abstraction layer between integrated applications, virtually eliminating break/fix scenarios with your Dynamics® NAV integrations. 

Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 R2 was announced at Directions EMEA - now it is time to have a closer look at what it includes and how this can be of value to partners and customers.

Ready to retire or move-on?  What establishes value?  How do you develop a transition plan?  Should you simply phase-out?  Think again about timing your exit and steps that make merger and acquisition work.

Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 provides Web services, which makes it easy for other systems to integrate with Microsoft Dynamics NAV. Web Services allows integration with enabled pages and codeunits over the network. Come and experience the capabilities of web services and the implementation considerations.

If you're truly new to NAV then working with Microsoft can seem overwhelming at first.  We'll show you how they have set up all the tools and online resources you need!  We'll focus primarily on online resources and training materials for partners, with some content at the end regarding how to get in touch with the right people for your needs.

Use this time to get a full understanding of what is required by your sales professionals to pass and obtain the advanced selling competencies as designed by MPN.  Part 1 of this series will focus on the core skills necessary to make the transition including MSSP, the sales role inside SureStep, Orchestrating the sales process and selling business value.   An intense 1 hour session designed to get you ready to tackle this accreditation.

BIO Analytics: Build Your Own BI    

Dan Schwartz    

This session will give you a look at BIO, business intelligence for Microsoft Dynamics.  You work with Microsoft Dynamics NAV, the most customizable ERP solution.  You implement and customize these applications for your customers.  Why would you accept less flexibility in a BI platform?  See how you can customize BI solutions for your clients (and earn the services revenue!).  BIO is a robust, expandable business intelligence solution that provides all the functionality needed by businesses...today and tomorrow.  And now BIO works with more viewers out of the box, including Tableau, providing the opportunity to create additional value for your clients by giving them the best options for their businesses.  See how you can customize BIO to provide a perfect fit for your clients.

Lanham Associates: AFP-Focus on a Solution that still Drives New ERP Sales-In other words, It's Critical!

Dale Lanham

Come brush up on the strongest forecasting & replenishment solution in the middle market.  See what it can do for your new customer adds.

Explore new functionality in DRP, hub and spoke replenishment, user defined forecasts/views, and enhanced container planning.

Forecasting and replenishment remain a critical focus for distributors and manufacturers, and whether your customers are still trying to adjust inventory for weak market conditions, or they must be ready as their markets swing back, forecasting and replenishment define success or failure for them today.

Help your customers attain success.  Learn about the newest capabilities of AFP, and drive new ERP closes.

Fastpath: Security, Audit and Compliance: Fastpath and NAV have the Answers for SOX, Not-for profits, Public sector, etc.

Andrew Snook    

More companies are faced with SOX-style audits than ever before: publicly traded, public sector, not-for profits, healthcare, financial institutions.  Fastpath and NAV can deliver the audit reports that customers need faster and more cost-effectively than many competing ERPs.  Learn the language of audit and compliance so that you can present the solutions your customers need.  Whether tracking database changes and security for a 5 person private company or auditing the international accounting implementation of a Fortune 500 company, Fastpath gets the answers NAV customers need for security, audit and compliance.  Get on the Fastpath to better audits in NAV.

Serenic: Serenic HCM 6.00.03 Release

Aaron Kesteloot    

Get up to speed with the latest enhancements to Serenic's Human Capital Management solution for Dynamics NAV.  Learn more about the many new product enhancements, including Liabilities to AP optional detail report and Postion Management, for a smoother upgrade process with your customers.

Having seen the overview of what's in R2, now it's time to go into deeper details about some of the features!

Your vertical strategy commitment is only the beginning!  Successful implementation builds on effective relationships.  Our panel brings together ISV and Partner viewpoints about issues and the elements required to actively build a valuable partnership.

Hustle critical documents through the sales and purchase processes, standardize approval workflows, and enforce approval limits. Use Microsoft Dynamics NAV to set up e-mail approval chains, define approval limits, and even substitute approvers to keep business processes moving. 

NAV is a great product, but it needs to be implemented properly to work.  We'll go over the new SureStep 2010 project management and implementation tool to show you not only how to use the extenstive tools it already contains, but to also offer suggestions on how to customize it to fit your unique methodology.

Search Engine Optimization and Web Marketing including blogs.  Don't get lost in the stories!   Learn what is working, what doesn't work and how to avoid wasting time and energy!

The 2009 release was the first step in moving from the traditional classic 2-tier architecture to true 3-tier architecture with a dedicated server supporting web-services and a client supporting a role tailored experience.  But the journey has just begun!  Classic forms and the ISAM based native database are no more with the “7” release of Dynamics NAV, but new opportunities like seamless data exchange utilizing Data, better utilization of the SQL server capabilities (Joins anyone?), .NET interoperability and not forgetting a brand new tooling experience awaits us all in the future.  Join this session and learn about the architecture of Dynamics NAV.

Your vertical strategy commitment is only the beginning!  Successful implementation builds on effective relationships.  Our panel brings together ISV and Partner viewpoints about issues and the elements required to actively build a valuable partnership.

Sure Step  for Microsoft Dynamics NAV has been updated and revised. This training sessions will address the Sure Step methodology in conjunction with the Sure Step Business Modeler.  This tool can be used from the sales cycle down to the project closing to keep your team on track.

Fixed assets are an integral part of any business and can be complex to setup and manage.  Microsoft Dynamics NAV makes it easier for companies to setup depreciation methods and books, and in this session, we'll cover the basics on how to setup Fixed Assets in NAV.

With the push towards partner vertcalization it is important for you to understand the market opportunity by industry, vertical, category, company size, and geography.  Microsoft has developed tools that allow our field resources to work with partners to mine the data and gain a better understanding of where the opportunities exist.  In this session we will review these tools, give you insight into the data, resource locations and who to ask for help.  After this session sign up for a 1:1 20 min meeting for a rapid analysis of your individual market(s).

Gold Sponsor-SPS Commerce: Delivering on-demand supply chain applications, pre-wired to Dynamics NAV

David Novak

Every new direction comes packaged with significant problems and frustrating setbacks. Dr. Steve Bedwell will outline a psychological blueprint for solving "impossible" problems and managing toxic emotions, so you can take unflinching action towards your high-priority goals. Everything will be explained using a simple, highly-interactive Two Questions framework that can be easily understood, quickly recalled and readily implemented.
 
FYI: Don’t be fooled by the MD, he's also hilarious. Expect a program that's riveting, provocative and explosively funny...And then watch Dr. Steve exceed your expectations.

So you want to be an upgrade pro?  The complexities in dealing with a 2-tier upgrade are complex, but with the 3-tier upgrade, the tasks can almost feel insurmountable.  During this super session we will be going through how to upgrade your existing Microsoft Dynamics NAV solution (pre 2009) to Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 and use the tools that are available to help you effectively upgrade customers.  This session is Part 1 of 2 and will cover the Developer Toolkit in the first part.

With the introduction of SQL Server 2008 new features and functionality were introduced into the DBMS that we can now leverage for performance optimization and the creation of solutions for our customers.  In this session we'll dive into SQL Server and cover topics such as online index defragementation, row compression, and other DBMS specific technologies that help customers maintain healthy and quick Dynamics NAV databases.

Learn more about the new NAV r2 features and how to prepare for Sure Step and Technical Certification exams.
    -RTC-including improving user productivity and remote users
    -SharePoint
    -Business Connectivity Services
    -Workflow
    -CRM Integration
    -Payment Services
    -App-V, Remote Client
    -Preparing for Implementation Methodology and Technical Certifications

Zones, Bins, Put-always, Picks - the basics of any Warehouse Management Solution.  Understanding the concepts and workflow in Microsoft Dynamics NAV are critical to your success.  Attend this session to learn the basics of WMS in NAV.

Part 2 of this series will focus on the Proficient and Advanced skills necessary to make the transition including Value to Win, Selling across the Microsoft Stack, selling business value II and Sales management.   

So you want to be an upgrade pro?  The complexities in dealing with a 2-tier upgrade are complex, but with the 3-tier upgrade, the tasks can almost feel insurmountable.  During this super session we will be going through how to upgrade your existing Microsoft Dynamics NAV solution (pre 2009) to Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 and use the tools that are available to help you effectively upgrade customers.  This session is Part 2 of 2 and will cover the Developer Toolkit in the second part.

Manufacturing is one of the key functionality benefits of the Microsoft Dynamics NAV application.  This session will cover the basics on how to consume and produce goods, record labor, and understand the basics and best practices in our favorite ERP application.

Many NAV developer's cringe when they hear "Visual Studio".  From "it's too complex" to "NAV's environment is better", the reality that we face today is that the extensibility and web services require thinking "out of the box" to create effective and scalable solutions. This session is Part 1 of 4 in which we cover the basics - setting up Visual Studio so that it works effectively for you to reduce complexity when developing solutions.

Do your pages or forms load slow?  Getting a white screen when you drill down on an account balance?  These types of issues generally indicate an index issue.  In this session we'll discuss the methods of identifying the performance issues as they relate to SQL Server.

What do you do when an item comes in for service when using Microsoft Dynamics NAV?  This session focuses around that question, providing information on how Service Items, Service Orders, and the Dispatching system works within Microsoft Dynamics NAV.

Many NAV developer's cringe when they hear "Visual Studio".  From "it's too complex" to "NAV's environment is better", the reality that we face today is that the extensibility and web services require thinking "out of the box" to create effective and scalable solutions. This session is Part 2 of 4 in which we cover web services and the creation of solutions to consume these web references.

Introduction to NAV automated testing
Improve your productivity and deliver higher quality solutions with automated testing.  In this talk we present the Application testability features added to Dynamics NAV 2009 SP1 that enable unit testing from C/AL.  Using unit tests as a key part of your engineering process will allow you to catch regressions earlier and ship with higher confidence. 

Learn more about the new NAV r2 features and how to prepare for Sure Step and Technical Certification exams.
    -RTC-including improving user productivity and remote users
    -SharePoint
    -Business Connectivity Services
    -Workflow
    -CRM Integration
    -Payment Services
    -App-V, Remote Client
    -Preparing for Implementation Methodology and Technical Certifications.

The Job system in Microsoft Dynamics NAV underwent some major changes for the 5.0 release.  Find out more in this session as we explore job costing basics and how to apply them to your implementations.

Many NAV developer's cringe when they hear "Visual Studio".  From "it's too complex" to "NAV's environment is better", the reality that we face today is that the extensibility and web services require thinking "out of the box" to create effective and scalable solutions. This session is Part 3 of 4 - covering NAV Add-in creation, registering, and how they interact with the RTC.

In this session we will focus on the NAV 2009 Reporting architecture and demonstrate how to troubleshoot common problems when designing reports.  This session will be packed with tips and tricks for building new reports for NAV 2009.

This session cover's the details of the Inventory Costing system within the Microsoft Dynamics NAV environment. Attend this session to understand the differences in costing methods, Item Ledger and Value Entries work, and how applications occur within the system.

Many NAV developer's cringe when they hear "Visual Studio".  From "it's too complex" to "NAV's environment is better", the reality that we face today is that the extensibility and web services require thinking "out of the box" to create effective and scalable solutions. This session is Part 4 of 4 which summarizes the previous sessions, and convey's Tips and Tricks that you can use in the future that were not covered in our other deep dive sessions.

In this session we will focus on the Report Dataset Designer which is coming in NAV '7'. We will build reports using the Dataset Designer and discuss how to upgrade Classic reports if you have not already done so. We will also discuss the future of Classic Report support.

As Microsoft Dynamics NAV is a worldwide application, it has been designed with multiple currencies in mind.  In this session, we'll explore the basics of the currency system and understand how setups and postings are made and tracked.