Overview Even though we’re at the age of the internet, a lot of companies still print hard copy catalogs. If you work in any one of these organizations, you’ll know when it’s catalog season, it’s becomes a very stressful period in that the company has to put together all of their item attributes, pricing, description,Read more
Author Archives: Alex Chow
Overview Just a quick note about boosting the client performance for full Windows or RTC clients for customers using Dynamics 365 Business Central (aka Dynamics NAV). This was brought to us by one of our customers that is looking for ways to reduce the lag for their users using the full Windows client. One ofRead more
Overview Addressing inefficiencies in any company is a crap shoot. Often times, the management of a company will have a discussion with us to discuss their challenges. The conversation in these meeting usually leads to how can they address their “mess”. For example, their inventory quantities are always wrong. It’s not like the managers haveRead more
Overview This was one of the topics that came up frequently while working with users at the last NAV/BC User Group Summit at Phoenix. Many people have different opinion to setup their inventory so costing is done properly. Naturally, knowing a few things on how Dynamics 365 Business Central (aka Dynamics NAV) inventory and howRead more
Overview Through whatever reasons, the customers will want to work with one partner over another. It may be the lack of knowledge, lack of support, slow response, or whatever. The customer can freely choose who they want to work with in regards to Dynamics 365 Business Central (aka Dynamics NAV). Of course for the MicrosoftRead more
Overview Over the years, I’ve written a lot of articles about inventory and inventory costing. I realize there are some tools that I do not mention that are in the inventory module. This is not because I don’t know about them, it’s because I don’t think companies need them. Everyone is super busy these days,Read more
Just saw a slide from Marko regarding the state of Dynamics 365 Business Central aka Dynamics NAV and thought I’d like to share. This is just for Dynamics NAV, not including any other Dynamics 365 products. Quite amazing numbers…
Overview One of my personal complaints about any cloud based ERP software the inability to make customizations that your business needs to maintain a competitive edge. The assumption of a cloud ERP software is that every business should be able to fully utilize the software as the software developers intended. But as we all knowRead more
Overview Microsoft has officially launched the Dynamics 365 Business Central. This is basically the next version of Dynamics NAV but can be deployed on as a subscription as part of your Office/Dynamics 365 portal. Microsoft has tentatively stated that the on-premise will be released the summer of 2018. When that rolls around, you’ll have multipleRead more
Overview If you’ve recently upgraded to Dynamics NAV 2017 or later versions, you will have undoubtedly noticed that the new version of Dynamics NAV (or Dynamics 365 Business Central) is incredibly slow… It’s so slow that it took one of our customers that’s using NAV 2017 3 minutes and 38 seconds to open a customerRead more