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Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 Top Ten Product Highlights

Having implemented our company internally on NAV 2016 and wrapping up a good sized NAV 2016 implementation from start to finish, we have a few opinions to share.  NAV 2016 is by far, the best version of NAV to date, as it should be.  Microsoft has put a lot of hard work into the product and it shows.   Here are our top ten product highlights: (note: some of these features may have been introduced prior to NAV 2016.)

  1. With proper hardware and configuration, NAV 2016 is snappy and responsive and is likely the fastest version-to-date. 

  2. The NAV tablet and phone apps work great and configuring screens is a snap.   

  3. End-users can configure Orders, Invoices and the like using Microsoft Word.  This works quite well and users are easily trained on how to do this.  

  4. Bank reconciliations are very easy to perform.  It is basically a matching game and nearly as fun as playing Tetris.  

  5. Security has always been a time consuming and cumbersome process to set up in the past.  Not so in NAV 2016.  Security can now be quickly and easily set up.  

  6. Company management – creating and copying companies has never been easier. 

  7. Improved integration with Excel, Word and Acrobat has markedly enhanced the user experience.  

  8. The development environment is the best-to-date.  The development environment auto-predicts while you type, assisting the developer in writing code.   It is almost as good as having the code written for you!

  9. The upgrade tools continue to impress.  The tools do an excellent job of merging customizations and converting data and run very quickly.  

  10. A huge technological leap was the addition of Events.  This allows developers to make code changes in such a way so that the impact of the customizations on upgrades is dramatically reduced. 

     

What to Avoid:

  1. Don’t recommend the use of Extensions at this time.  (Allows for non-code modifications to be loaded at run-time).  In testing, we were able to corrupt the database and had to restore from backup.  We’ve noticed a number of patches to this area in cumulative updates. 

  2. Don’t bother installing every cumulative update.  They are released monthly and is far too often to be upgrading a production system.  

 

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