New Data Conversion Tool

Kowa
Kowa Member Posts: 926
edited 2008-05-09 in General Chat
According to unconfirmed rumours, one of the next NAV Versions will have a one-click data conversion tool which extracts all relevant data needed for a sucessful implementation from virtually any other ERP System. All you need to do is enter the version and build no. of the old system. You press the button, NAV does the rest. This will speed up the implementation process considerably. No more hassling with dreadful dataports or endless excel sheets. I'm really looking forward to this state-of the-art software engineering masterpiece.
Kai Kowalewski

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  • Captain_DX4
    Captain_DX4 Member Posts: 230
    Wow! That would be remarkable! But I hardly can believe that such a functionality will be created for a couple of reasons. A) This would be an incredible undertaking to manage for data-mapping, and B) new implmentations so often take advantage of clients desires to "optimise their business processes" by changing setups to what they'd hope they could be and not what they have been doing.

    So I could not see incredible value in a feature like this that would be used so infrequently (I figure once per new install) and will require a rigourous review to make sure that those settings ported over will be eveything that they should for a new install. But I'm sure if they code it, it shall get used! *hehe*
    Kristopher Webb
    Microsoft Dynamics NAV Developer
  • Marije_Brummel
    Marije_Brummel Member, Moderators Design Patterns Posts: 4,262
    And they wonder how rumours get started...

    Any information on the source of this please? It is very unlikely...
    Marije Brummel | Freelance Business Central Specialist
  • davmac1
    davmac1 Member Posts: 1,283
    and today is April 1 :D
    David Machanick
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  • Alex_Chow
    Alex_Chow Member Posts: 5,063
    Good one. :lol:

    Would be nice though. :-k
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  • ara3n
    ara3n Member Posts: 9,258
    Alex Chow wrote:
    Good one. :lol:

    Would be nice though. :-k

    Won't work and will require modification, and most of other ERP system have some customization. I guess they could do it for some leading competition, like SAP B1.

    I just see it as more code that will not apply to to 90 percent of implementations.


    So far this is the first April 1st joke, I've encountered. Slashdot for some reason didn't destroy the news day.
    Ahmed Rashed Amini
    Independent Consultant/Developer


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  • Kowa
    Kowa Member Posts: 926
    So far this is the first April 1st joke, I've encountered.
    I couldn't find any yesterday either, so I decided to start one myself. :D
    Kai Kowalewski
  • tinoruijs
    tinoruijs Member Posts: 1,226
    Kowa wrote:
    So far this is the first April 1st joke, I've encountered.
    I couldn't find any yesterday either, so I decided to start one myself. :D

    Good one. :lol:
    Tino Ruijs
    Microsoft Dynamics NAV specialist
  • Miklos_Hollender
    Miklos_Hollender Member Posts: 1,598
    Rumour is that 7.0 will have a feature that it will sell products by itself on eBay and banknotes will come out of the floppy drive :D
  • Timo_Lässer
    Timo_Lässer Member Posts: 481
    Miklos Hollender wrote:
    [...] and banknotes will come out of the floppy drive :D
    Damn! I have no more FDD in my Notebook. For such a feature, I would buy an USB FDD... :mrgreen:
    But, with my luck, this feature will only work with internal FDDs :wink:
    Timo Lässer
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  • kriki
    kriki Member, Moderator Posts: 9,121
    Timo Lässer wrote:
    Miklos Hollender wrote:
    [...] and banknotes will come out of the floppy drive :D
    Damn! I have no more FDD in my Notebook. For such a feature, I would buy an USB FDD... :mrgreen:
    But, with my luck, this feature will only work with internal FDDs :wink:
    Maybe we should ask to let those banknotes come out of the CD/DVD-drive. The advantage is that the banknotes can also be bigger! :mrgreen:
    Regards,Alain Krikilion
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  • bbrown
    bbrown Member Posts: 3,268
    kriki wrote:
    Timo Lässer wrote:
    Miklos Hollender wrote:
    [...] and banknotes will come out of the floppy drive :D
    Damn! I have no more FDD in my Notebook. For such a feature, I would buy an USB FDD... :mrgreen:
    But, with my luck, this feature will only work with internal FDDs :wink:
    Maybe we should ask to let those banknotes come out of the CD/DVD-drive. The advantage is that the banknotes can also be bigger! :mrgreen:

    They would need to be CD-R/DVD-R drives so the system can create the banknotes.

    While we're at it, can it support mirroring in case we lose a banknote, we'll still have it?
    There are no bugs - only undocumented features.
  • kriki
    kriki Member, Moderator Posts: 9,121
    bbrown wrote:
    kriki wrote:
    Timo Lässer wrote:
    Miklos Hollender wrote:
    [...] and banknotes will come out of the floppy drive :D
    Damn! I have no more FDD in my Notebook. For such a feature, I would buy an USB FDD... :mrgreen:
    But, with my luck, this feature will only work with internal FDDs :wink:
    Maybe we should ask to let those banknotes come out of the CD/DVD-drive. The advantage is that the banknotes can also be bigger! :mrgreen:

    They would need to be CD-R/DVD-R drives so the system can create the banknotes.

    While we're at it, can it support mirroring in case we lose a banknote, we'll still have it?
    I have my doubt about that. It is forbidden to copy them!
    Regards,Alain Krikilion
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