Our experts take your through the fundamentals of CashFlow forecasting and introduce the new NAV 2017 release with an aiming to getting you self sufficient and taking advantage of the latest functionality at your disposal.
3. 264 Active Clients
Mid Market Focused
2016 President’s Club
Microsoft Dynamics
135 Employees Founded in 1991
QTalent
700 Global
Implementations
Manufacturing
Distribution Fulfilment
z Media £ Finance
Cloud Service Provider2015 President’s Club
Microsoft Dynamics
Professional Services eCommerce
Life Sciences
Fast Facts
4. 620 years of combined Dynamics experience
700 implementations
fastest growing Dynamics partner
5. accountsource fulfil
sell market care
Dynamics 365 Business by QuantiQ
finance
project
service
field
service
Dynamics 365 : Business Edition
6. oDerek Mutter – Senior Consultant
o specialising in Finance and Advanced
Manufacturing
oMatt Vardy – Solution Architect
o specialising in NAV and Dynamics CRM
oDarren Medway – Technical Architect
o specialising in solution design and integration
oAndrea Bright – NAV Practice Lead
o specialising in Dynamics ERP/CRM, delivery team
leadership and Project Management
Meet the Presentation Team
12. NAV Cash Flow Key Benefits
o Based on existing transactions in the system
o Can create different cash flow plans based on differing viewpoints.
o Has its own cash flow chart of accounts.
o Allows user to decide on the type of trading data to include (G/L, Sales, Purchase, Service
and Fixed Assets).
o Allows manual revenue and expense plans to be applied.
o Inbuilt chart or reporting by NAV Analysis Schedules
o Export to Excel
16. Overview
o A business analytics service provided
by Microsoft
o Interactive Visualisations
o Multiple Data Source Possibilities
o Two Versions
o Power BI (Free)
o Power BI Pro (£6.20 pupm)
Free Pro
1 GB per user 10 GB per user
Daily Refresh Hourly Refresh
10K rows / hour stream 1M rows / hour stream
Publish Content Packs
Office 365 Group Collaboration
17. Dynamics NAV
o Dynamics NAV 2013 R2
o Odata (Open Data Protocol)
o Query Objects
o Dynamics NAV 2016
o Content Packs
o Dynamics NAV 2017
o Embedded Power BI Apps
18. Report Writing
o Publish Queries and Pages as
Odata
o Two main report writing tools
o Microsoft Excel
o Power Pivot
o Power View
o Power Map
o Power BI Desktop Designer
19. PowerBI.com
o Online Services (standalone or with O365)
o Sharing & Collaboration
o Natural Query Language
o DataSets
o Live Dashboards
o Reports
o Mobility
o Data Refresh
21. Key Take Away Points
o Can sign up to Power BI today
(https://powerbi.microsoft.com)
o OData compatability since NAV 2013 R2
o Not just Dynamics NAV!
o Readily available report writing tools
o Constantly improving and part of the Dynamics Roadmap
33. Item Enhancements
oPictures via new Brick View
o Item Categories (Hierarchical)
o Item Attributes
o Inheritance from Item Categories
o Tagging
o Filtering
o Reporting
o Item Forecasting
o Cortana Intelligence
34. G/L Enhancements
oNew Account Schedule
Reports
o G/L Account Categories
oImproved nominal
reporting
oDirect integration with
A/C Schedules
35. oSimplified Role Centres & Pages
oImproved User Notifications
o (e.g., - Credit Limit, Setup errors)
oAssisted Setup
o (e.g., - Credit Limit, Setup errors)
oReport Settings
o (Last Used Options and Filters)
User Experience Enhancements
40. Other Enhancements
o Jobs
o Improved Job Card / Job Costing Wizards
o Job Quote
o Richer Incoming Documents (OCR through Lexmark)
o Now handles Line Level Capture (Whole Invoice)
o Over 1000 customers and partners
o Payment Reconciliation
o Now includes Bank Ledger Entries
o Matching on External Document No
o Cashflow
o Cashflow generation can now be automated
o Includes support for VAT Statements
o Includes JOB WIP
o Utilises Cortana Intelligence
46. Microsoft Flow
o Create automated workflow across
your apps and services
o Aimed at Business Users – Not
Developers
o 57 Services and growing
o New templates for NAV 2017
50. oCreate Powerful Apps without writing
a single line of code!
oCreate apps that enable you to read
data, write data or take actions
oCreate apps for your PC, tablet or
Phone
oLeverage numerous Data
Connections
oSign up for a FREE account at
https://powerapps.com
Power Apps
53. oUsed in NAV 2017 for:
o Inventory Forecasts
o Cash Flow
oAzure Subscription
o Machine Learning
oUsed a Time Series Experiment
o Deployed as an NAV Extension
Cortana Intelligence with Dynamics NAV 2017
64. o Take a copy of database, restored on QuantiQ servers
o Understand current workflows in context of new version
o Sometimes with a consultant
o Database Analysis exercise
o Documentation of any custom adaptions
o Removal of custom code/adaptation to new code base
o Development, merging of code to new version
o Data migration testing
o UAT and deployment
Current Process
65. oClassic Way
o Modifications within underlying source
o Object Designer
o Merge process required each time new code released
oExtensions
o Developed outside source code
o Deployment ‘layered’ over code base
o Historically code merge takes most time, ‘Hook in’ to base code
o NAV 2017 supporting all objects
o New development tools and investment from Microsoft
What’s different today
66. oA new approach to development
oCustom code maintained separately to base code
oAdaptations to new versions become less work
oFits in line with Microsoft more frequent releases
oCase by case for each customer, roadmap for some installations
How this impacts upgrade
68. WORD DOCUMENT LAYOUTS
o Tool that allow companies to create and amend word layout of the printed
documents and reports
What is it?
Who can use it?
o Companies using NAV 2015 and onwards
69. WORD DOCUMENT LAYOUTS
o Full control of the layouts of the most of the documents
o Ability to add e-mail body message
o Predefined templates
o No Development required
o Works well with Zetadocs
o Different layout per company
Benefits?
Disadvantages?
o Minimal development might be required to add customised fields
o First setup of the layouts might require more configuration time
70. WORD DOCUMENT LAYOUTS
Examples in NAV
o Modifying existing layouts – Sales invoice
o Creating new layout from scratch – Purchase order