Series of Interview Video’s

Software Advise, which is a research company on mrp software published a series of videos with the interview from Microsoft’s Director of ERP Marketing, Guy Weismantel. Click this link to view the videos.

Microsoft Dynamics® Regional Partner Awards - 2010

Microsoft announced the Microsoft Dynamics® Regional Partner Awards – 2010.

Here is the link to the press release.

Microsoft Dynamics Inner Circle and President Club Members

Microsoft announced the  Microsoft Dynamics Inner Circle and President Club Members for the FY10.

Here is the link to the list of winners and Congrats to them.

Dynamics NAV Job Graphs

Job Graphs website provided graphical analytical interpretation of different aspect of Dynamics NAV…

Refer the link to find the details…

Microsoft Unveils New Functionality for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009

Microsoft unveils the new functionalities for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009. You can read the press release.

PRAGUE — May 19, 2010 — As part of Microsoft Corp.’s commitment to providing leading enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions to midrange organizations worldwide, the company today unveiled Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 R2 at Directions EMEA 2010. Because of the investment in architecture for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009, customers are able to take advantage of the benefits of the software-plus-services vision through the R2 release more quickly than scheduled, including built-in integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM and online Payment Service. Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 customers will benefit from the following:

•Microsoft Dynamics CRM integration. Today’s fast-paced business environment demands instant access to customers and vendors. Microsoft is providing built-in integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Benefits of customer relationship management (CRM) integration include eliminating redundant data entries, keeping information up to date in both ERP and CRM solutions, and providing salespeople with the ability to quickly access detailed business information about contracts, pricing and product availability. Customers can choose between integration to on-premises Microsoft Dynamics CRM or Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online with the option to migrate to either option over time.

•Online Payment Service for Microsoft Dynamics NAV. This enables customers to process payment transactions from the Microsoft Dynamics NAV interface across multiple channels, including e-commerce, point of sale and call center transactions. The Payment Service works with leading payment processing services and all major credit cards.

•RoleTailored interface access for remote or roaming users. Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 R2 supports direct access from the Microsoft Dynamics RoleTailored experience over the Internet. This allows for remote or roaming users to take advantage of the richness and Microsoft Office integration of the RoleTailored interface and the many integration features connected to local resources, such as the operating system and Microsoft Office. This reduces the complexity and overhead compared with using other applications such as Citrix Systems and Terminal Services, especially for hosting partners offering cloud-based Microsoft Dynamics NAV deployments.

•Microsoft Application Virtualization support. The Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 R2 RoleTailored interface can be deployed using Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) technology, which is relevant for both on-premise and hosted solutions. This provides a better experience for the end user as all integration with local applications is done on the desktop. It also cuts IT costs by centrally managing Microsoft Dynamics NAV client installations with automatic deployment to the desktop after an update.

•Windows 7 user experience improvements. Through Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 R2,jumplists can be used to open recently accessed customers and vendors for increased business productivity and efficiency, and the icon overlay functionality provides information on system events and status streamlined with the Windows 7 user experience.

•Treemap visualization. Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 R2 showcases the possibilities around business data visualizations abilities in Microsoft Dynamics NAV through rich ad hoc data visualization. It provides treemap analysis that enables the comparison of any two values, for example sales and profits, which increases business productivity and business insight. The innovative client extensibility framework used allows partners to extend the user experience of Microsoft Dynamics NAV to integrate visualizations into any end-user scenario.

“We’re delivering this release in response to customer and partner feedback,” said Crispin Read, general manager of Microsoft Dynamics ERP at Microsoft. “Microsoft is committed to continuously bringing forth innovation in our ERP solutions, including the integration with cloud services. These latest enhancements to Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 are an important step in delivering solutions that drive real business productivity.”

“The new features in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 R2 improve our business opportunities and benefit our customers. The fact that Microsoft is able to deliver faster than planned reaffirms our decision to build our solutions on Microsoft Dynamics NAV,” said Christian Sega, managing director at agiles Informationssysteme GmbH, an industry solution provider and consulting company specializing in horizontal workflow solutions built on Microsoft Dynamics NAV.

Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 R2 will be available in the fourth quarter of 2010.

What makes Expert - Matt.Traxinger

Today I read the following post from Mr. Matt.Traxinger and really impressed with it…

The what is not nearly as important as the why.
Obviously the most important part of being an expert is understanding what you're doing. Don't get that confused with knowing what you're doing. Just because you can perform the lab exercises in the functional and technical manuals with your eyes closed doesn't mean you're an expert. Knowing how to run Adjust Cost, even knowing what it does, is not the same as understanding why it needs to be run.

It's not what you know, it's who you know
If you know what every button, every object, and every line of code in the system does then congratulations. You should either be billing 2000 hours a year and making a six-figure salary or running your own solution center. It's important to remember that in an application as big as NAV you're never going to know it all. Even Microsoft MVPs and senior level professionals have questions sometimes. That's not to say that you shouldn't strive to learn as much as possible, but you should have a place, or better yet, specific people that you can bounce questions off of. Speaking from experience, it's not easy to learn when you don't have anyone to help you. If you need a place to start, I highly recommendwww.mibuso.com.

Love what you do
I've developed in my fair share of languages: Basic, C, C++, Java, Jython, C#, SmallTalk, Lisp, just to list the more well known ones. I've built windows applications, web sites, all sorts of things. I have to say, though, that I absolutely love being an ERP developer. If I spent my days writing OS and device driver code I would go insane. Whenever people ask me what I do, it's basically a conversation ender: Computer Programmer (I boil it down to a term they should be familiar with). Little do they know they're missing out on so much fun. I can't imagine doing anything different. If you don't feel the same way about what you do, then you should find something you do love. Don't spend your time trying to become an expert in something you don't want to do.

Transferability
If you can't put the things you know into words (that includes speaking, writing, coding, and anything else that involves knowledge transfer) then you cannot be considered an expert. The purpose of becoming an expert is not just to hoard everything you've learned, but to turn that knowledge into practical, useful tools. More importantly, your knowledge should be used to make other more knowledgeable. Think back to when you were the junior developer, wanting to succeed, but not knowing where to start. The ability to help others will only make you more successful.

MSDN Feedback

Till now I know that, there is an option in MSDN to give feedback but I never used it before.

Today I also came to know the details about the MSDN Feedback, especially for Microsoft Dynamics NAV blog.

Click the link to know the details about it.

ERP_Data Philosophy

Even though I have good knowledge on different aspects of ERP, today I noticed a very good data philosophy in the David Studebaker book related to ERP.

“Enter once, use everywhere”

Product Suggestions for Microsoft Dynamics

Today I came to know about the Dynamic suggestions link. This is used to give your product suggestions and Bug Reporting. This helps to make future versions of Microsoft Dynamics better.

Please click the link to connect to the dynamicsuggestions.

Understanding the Difference Between GP, NAV, SL and AX

Here is the nice post from Houston Neal on “Understanding the Difference Between GP, NAV, SL and AX”.
Please click the link to read this post.

Here is the another link from Houston Neal on Manufacturing Solution Advice.

How to become an MVP (Most Valuable Professional)

Here is a nice post from Paul S. Randal on '”How to become an MVP”.

Click the link below:

How to become an MVP

Top 30 'Top X List' Websites

What really get on my nerves, even more so than Joe Pasquale stupid song, are the often too popular sites that keep on producing their "Top X Lists". What happened to good old original Content is King?. So if you can't beat them, join them. Here is my Top 30 list of websites that quite often product Top X lists of crap...

1. Smashing Magazine
2. Oddee
3. Web Designers Pot
4. Six Revisions
5. 1st Web Designer
6. Noupe
7. Mashable
8. Specky Boy
9. Naldz Graphics
10. Net Tuts+
11. Smash!ng Apps
12. Outlaw Design Blog
13. [Re]encoded
14. Hong Kiat
15. PXLshots.com Blog
16. Design Reviver
17. WebUpon
18. Instant Shift
19. Web Urbanist
20. Photoshop Roadmap Blog
21. Digital Labz
22. Freelance Folder
23. abduzeedo
24. Web Design Ledger
25. Toxel
26. Just Creative Design
27. Spyre Studios
28. Listphobia
29. Digital Photography School
30. Life Hacker

Top 5 qualities of a great Microsoft Dynamics consultant

Top 5 qualities of a great Microsoft Dynamics consultant:

• Industry expertise
• Application knowledge
• Creativity
• Patience
• Communication

Click this to read this excellent post from Vjeko.