What are the daily responsibilities and work of an NAV Techo-functional Consultant?

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What are the daily responsibilities and work of an NAV Techo-functional Consultant?
Including Daily actions like backups , reporting etc.
Including Daily actions like backups , reporting etc.
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Backups usually are not the responsibility of NAV consultant, more of IT. If you have a SQL-savvy NAV consultant (and NAV Technical consultant should be to some extent) he or she may help with setting up the backup scripts and do some initial testing of restore procedures, but further day to day SQL job management would be rather out of scope
Functional consultant is generally supposed to advice on how to use NAV in certain scenarion, how to setup it up from business point of view, train users perhaps. I'd say it is more an accountant-type speciality. The Technical consultant is more focused on infrastructure setup, installation, maybe performance tuning etc., more of IT type of guy
The "Techo-functional Consultant" position description suggest it shoud know everyhing. In reality functional consultants know quite a bit of technical side, and technical consultans know quite a bit of functional side, but it is in my view unreasonable to expect that a technical consultant who knows inside out network/security/certificates/SQL etc could advise how to structure your G/L Accounts.
Slawek Guzek
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Slawek_Guzek wrote: »Backups usually are not the responsibility of NAV consultant, more of IT. If you have a SQL-savvy NAV consultant (and NAV Technical consultant should be to some extent) he or she may help with setting up the backup scripts and do some initial testing of restore procedures, but further day to day SQL job management would be rather out of scope
Functional consultant is generally supposed to advice on how to use NAV in certain scenarion, how to setup it up from business point of view, train users perhaps. I'd say it is more an accountant-type speciality. The Technical consultant is more focused on infrastructure setup, installation, maybe performance tuning etc., more of IT type of guy
The "Techo-functional Consultant" position description suggest it shoud know everyhing. In reality functional consultants know quite a bit of technical side, and technical consultans know quite a bit of functional side, but it is in my view unreasonable to expect that a technical consultant who knows inside out network/security/certificates/SQL etc could advise how to structure your G/L Accounts.
Great answer. I myself am a technical NAV guy and want to do some functional stuff, do you think an accountant training is good idea for it? ThanksUnited Kingdom5
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There is no general answer, it depends on the job description.0
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Backups usually are not the responsibility of NAV consultant, more of IT. If you have a SQL-savvy NAV consultant (and NAV Technical consultant should be to some extent) he or she may help with setting up the backup scripts and do some initial testing of restore procedures, but further day to day SQL job management would be rather out of scope
Functional consultant is generally supposed to advice on how to use NAV in certain scenarion, how to setup it up from business point of view, train users perhaps. I'd say it is more an accountant-type speciality. The Technical consultant is more focused on infrastructure setup, installation, maybe performance tuning etc., more of IT type of guy
The "Techo-functional Consultant" position description suggest it shoud know everyhing. In reality functional consultants know quite a bit of technical side, and technical consultans know quite a bit of functional side, but it is in my view unreasonable to expect that a technical consultant who knows inside out network/security/certificates/SQL etc could advise how to structure your G/L Accounts.
Slawek Guzek
Dynamics NAV, MS SQL Server, Wherescape RED;
PRINCE2 Practitioner - License GR657010572SG
GDPR Certified Data Protection Officer - PECB License DPCDPO1025070-2018-035 -
Slawek_Guzek wrote: »Backups usually are not the responsibility of NAV consultant, more of IT. If you have a SQL-savvy NAV consultant (and NAV Technical consultant should be to some extent) he or she may help with setting up the backup scripts and do some initial testing of restore procedures, but further day to day SQL job management would be rather out of scope
Functional consultant is generally supposed to advice on how to use NAV in certain scenarion, how to setup it up from business point of view, train users perhaps. I'd say it is more an accountant-type speciality. The Technical consultant is more focused on infrastructure setup, installation, maybe performance tuning etc., more of IT type of guy
The "Techo-functional Consultant" position description suggest it shoud know everyhing. In reality functional consultants know quite a bit of technical side, and technical consultans know quite a bit of functional side, but it is in my view unreasonable to expect that a technical consultant who knows inside out network/security/certificates/SQL etc could advise how to structure your G/L Accounts.
Great answer. I myself am a technical NAV guy and want to do some functional stuff, do you think an accountant training is good idea for it? ThanksUnited Kingdom5 -
Developer101 wrote: »I myself am a technical NAV guy and want to do some functional stuff, do you think an accountant training is good idea for it?
Just do some investigation before picking up a course as it is quite hard to pickup a good and most useful accountancy training. Gaining the good accountancy knowledge is usually a matter of education and experience, rather than a training. Still it is worth training yourself.
Slawek Guzek
Dynamics NAV, MS SQL Server, Wherescape RED;
PRINCE2 Practitioner - License GR657010572SG
GDPR Certified Data Protection Officer - PECB License DPCDPO1025070-2018-031 -
Slawek_Guzek wrote: »Developer101 wrote: »I myself am a technical NAV guy and want to do some functional stuff, do you think an accountant training is good idea for it?
Just do some investigation before picking up a course as it is quite hard to pickup a good and most useful accountancy training. Gaining the good accountancy knowledge is usually a matter of education and experience, rather than a training. Still it is worth training yourself.
Was thinking about AAT , i do not know much in detail but this course seems to be easier than others. I might enroll on this one. It is a UK course but recognized internationally as well.United Kingdom1 -
Unfortunately I am lacking myself in this part
Can't advice if it is good or bad
Slawek Guzek
Dynamics NAV, MS SQL Server, Wherescape RED;
PRINCE2 Practitioner - License GR657010572SG
GDPR Certified Data Protection Officer - PECB License DPCDPO1025070-2018-031 -
Thank you:)United Kingdom0
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