Imp Precautions to be taken before starting project.

gargatul.it
gargatul.it Member Posts: 14
edited 2008-10-17 in NAV/Navision Classic Client
We are going to Implement NAV5.01 only finanace for one of our client in INDONESIA

Client have nearly 70-80 users in their finanace department.

So i am bit confused ,can NAV Support such User base

how can i manage locking,
how i control the performance

What are the risk factor Involved

and what are the other things i need to consider before start :(

Thanks in advance

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  • Deep
    Deep Member Posts: 569
    For all those things, you need to ascertain answers to some questions like :

    1. How many concurrent users will be there?
    2. WHat is the number of transactions per day per user?
    3. Which database they are using, native or sql?
    4. How many remmote working locations are there?
    5. What is the mode of connectivity?
    6. Hardware sizing and optimization?
    ........ and so on.
    Regards,

    Deep
    India
  • gargatul.it
    gargatul.it Member Posts: 14
    For all those things, you need to ascertain answers to some questions like :

    1. How many concurrent users will be there?
    Ans: All usres i mention are concurrent, approx (50 -60)

    2. WHat is the number of transactions per day per user?
    Ans: They have very high transaction volume -
    Purchase: 4000 invoice per month
    Sales: 6000 invoices and around 6500 tax invoices per month
    G/L: 2000 journal Entries
    More importantly they have 10 interfaces to other systems from which they get the data in to their current G/L system.(not included into these transactions)

    All these numbers are based on their current system

    3. Which database they are using, native or sql?
    Ans: we are planning to use SQL

    4. How many remmote working locations are there?
    Ans: Currently they have Seven(7) Remote location, but very little transaction from that locations.

    5. What is the mode of connectivity?
    Ans: For remote Location - They have lease line, we are planning to use Citrix or WTS
    others they have LAN ,
    all user login to server through application server.
    6. Hardware sizing and optimization?
    Ans: We need to deside Yet.

    ........ and so on.
  • Alex_Chow
    Alex_Chow Member Posts: 5,063
    Yes, NAV is able to handle 60-80 user implementations. I think there's some user here that says they have a 1000+ user implementation.

    You defininitely want to use SQL as your database. There are answers to your questions regarding optimizing, considerations, and precautions when doing large implementations are already posted on this forum. You just need to search for them.

    If you do not want to search the forum (as the answers might be scattered across), you can contact Mark Brummel (http://www.sqlperform.nl), he's is THE expert in SQL with NAV dealing with your problems.
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