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From the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Blogs: Skillful Success with ERP; WaldoNavPad Tool; Convert 1600 Forms to Pages; Change Default Filter in Input Fields

by Jared Berezin
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Success with ERP Takes Some Nerve and Skill: Vjekoslav Babic passionately describes the real benefits of ERP. Interestingly, Babic writes of how implementing ERP will at first expose problems you may not have previously noticed, but must be faced:

"Benefits of ERP, for those who have attained them, are undisputed. Companies reduced administration by 50%, increased revenue by 200% or productivity by the factor of 5, decreased inventory levels by 60%, all of this courtesy of Microsoft Dynamics NAV (Real ROI Report / Microsoft Dynamics NAV (Nucleus Research) by Nucleus Research)...

"ERP is a tool. Nothing more... Tools are only as good for you as you are good and skilled and disciplined at handling them. Poor tools are just that, poor tools-they won't help you much. But good tools won't help you any better if you don't use them properly. In fact, the better the tool, the more obvious your lack of skill becomes..."

WaldoNavPad in NAV2009: Waldo's Blog discusses the tool he released in 2004 and its latest version for NAV2009:

"... a long time ago (actually back in about 2004), i created some kind of cool tool. It is a tool to be able to handle big amounts of text in NAV. Not with a BLOB, but with actual text fields, to be able to use this text on reports or to be able to apply filtering on the text. So in fact, the navpad is going to cut down your text, but ...

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Jared Berezin serves as a contributing writer to MSDynamicsWorld.com. With combined interests in technology and science, Jared previously served as a writer for Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, drafting scientific narrative reports on the latest advancements in cancer research. Jared has also served as associate marketing specialist for International Data Corporation (IDC), a market research firm. In this position, he planned and executed strategic marketing initiatives for IDC's software and services research programs, and wrote outbound communications to the press, existing clients, and prospects. Jared also has experience working for several local newspapers in eastern Massachusetts. Jared graduated with honors from Colby College with a BA in English and creative writing.
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