W1 and Merging Required Localizations

matttrax

My company has asked me to read up on the possibilities of merging our international companies with the US company in NAV. Pretty much to get out of paying another $250k in licensing fees.

I know it's basically just one big customization, and I understand the actual process of merging objects. But how do you know what you have to merge? A lot of that is not required / government enforced functionality.

That brings me to my questions:

I don't see any documentation on partnersource / customersource describing the modifications that are made during localization. How do you know which modifications between W1 and local are legally required?

Would it be possible for UK and NL companies to function out of a W1 or US database?

Is my only solution to find a partner with experience doing US, UK, and NL? And hope that they know what's required.

I appreciate your help.

matttrax

Funny how people always ask the same questions at the same time:

http://www.mibuso.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=27056

It even says what's legally required (at least the UK version did). 99.9% I'm expecting too much, but anyone know if there is also a changelog for each modification somewhere?

Still, if anyone wants to add their experiences about having multiple countries in the same database (that aren't in other threads here), feel free.

DenSter

matttrax wrote:

Would it be possible for UK and NL companies to function out of a W1 or US database?

That is THE central question, one that you have to ask a local resource, or one that has proven experience with this. They would know which bits and pieces of a localization are for legal requirements as opposed to general business practices. Ask them what it would take to get a UK customer up and running in a W1 database.

If I am not mistaken, NL companies can run the W1 version without any legal issues, but you'd probably have to put in some generally accepted things, such as telebanking and things like that. For UK companies I don't know, it's been a while since I've done one of those.

matttrax wrote:

Is my only solution to find a partner with experience doing US, UK, and NL? And hope that they know what's required.

I think that is the right answer. I used to work for a solution center that had a few international customers like that.

ara3n

I implemented 3.7 for a client that had US NL and UK companies

We went with US version and merged NL telebanking objects and moved them to 50K.
There was no need to merge any UK objects.
Actually UK company started using NL telebanking to my surprise.

DenSter

Was that for the tool company Ahmed? I am thinking that was mostly because we already had a heavily customized US database, although it might be a good plan even from scratch.

ara3n

No it was Safenet.

We also implemented in CA and Hong Kong, China. and several other counties. France. They had 30 something companies a couple of years ago.

matttrax

I implemented 3.7 for a client that had US NL and UK companies

So obviously we should hire / contract you

ara3n

Sorry if this sounded like that. I was just telling you my past experience.
I wasn't advertising.

matttrax

Not at all. I was just joking around. I appreciate everyone's input. Thanks.