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Transition from C/AL to AL - From a developer's point of view

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Business Central Online, the latest offering in the Microsoft Dynamics 365 family has completely changed the way of ‘Customization development’ for any experienced NAV developer. Coding language has changed from C/AL to AL (i.e. AL-Extension V2.0) with the custom code sitting as a separate extension, not at all interfering with the standard code. The custom code now gets deployed as an ‘app’ on top of the standard code base. Development interface has also undergone a change - earlier development was in C/SIDE, now it is through Visual Studio platform. For further details, refer my previous  blog . Business Central offers a container-based image environment called ‘Docker’ enabling access to both the AL development environment and the C/SIDE development environment. Docker gets installed on a Windows OS machine – creating the Sandbox environment for a developer to work with. Sandbox is a non-production instance of Business Central available for development and testing. ...

Marketing Automation Solutions for Microsoft Dynamics 365

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If you are a business owner or a marketer, you know how hectic the work days can get. Back-to-back meetings, ensuring the team is on track to meet their monthly marketing goals, double checking the social media activities which goes live in the next 30 minutes and the list goes on... It can be an excruciating task to balance everything you need to do while also making sure that your marketing is reaching the right audience, at the right time, with the personalized message, to successfully generate new leads. That’s where marketing automation comes to play. How Marketing Automation helps a business? Marketing Automation solution makes the marketing process more efficient and streamlined. By implementing a Marketing Automation system, the marketer becomes more effective as it provides more flexibility, helps in increasing efficiency and assists in achieving marketing goals faster. Marketing Automation allows one to nurture leads through the entire buying process, deliver...

Highlights from Directions Asia 2019

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32 years of heritage, 223,000 customers, 3.3 million users, sold in 196 countries, served by 4500 partners. No rewards for guessing what we are talking about. Yes, this is how strong the global Dynamics NAV eco-system is. And the recently concluded 'Directions Asia 2019' once again exhibited – the eco-system which continues to modernize and grow stronger. In its new avatar of D365 Business Central , the eco system is experiencing 311% growth in partners selling Business Central, 41% growth in new Business Central customers month-over-month in Asia, and adding over 30 Applications each month to the AppSource. It is this momentum that makes Directions - the Dynamics NAV/ BC partner event - perhaps the most important event focused on Business Applications. While the Directions EMEA brings around 2500 participants, and Directions US has about 1000, in its 3rd year Directions Asia 2019 attracted over 450 participants, from 32 countries. Kudos to the Directions Asia organiz...