Internal Sabotage: A Critical Risk Factor of ERP Failure

Businesses that implement ERP systems have nothing but good intentions when deciding to reengineer business processes and alter IT infrastructure. Unfortunately, employees sometimes overlook this good intent and focus solely on the consequences: new business processes means they must learn new procedures which means they must…

NAV 2013 | Unicode, OemCode and OemText

I'm currently involved in my first customer/end-user upgrade. It's a system that I implemented myself three years ago with 2009 RTC. Highly (extremely) customized, 50GB and a gazilion interfaces. The first step in an upgrade, besides merging the objects, is opening the database in the NAV2013…

Detecting RunTime Enviroment in NAV

‘In the beginning’ life was easy. All C/AL-code was executed on the C/AL-client. When the NAS came with Navision Financials 2.65, there was no command to determin if C/AL was executed on the NAS. On the other hand, could the NAS only be run in Application-mode,…