Dynamic Communities Launches NAVUG Focus Event

The year 2016 marks the first Dynamics NAV User Group (NAVUG) Focus event.

Dynamic Communities, Inc. will host NAVUG Focus 2016 on June 7 and 8 in Schaumburg, Illinois, concurrent with AXUG Focus 2016.

Microsoft Dynamics NAV users who attend Focus can dig deeper into topics aimed at helping them do their jobs more effectively. NAVUG Focus offers numerous 90-minute deep-dive sessions in the three areas (and learning tracks), being finance, IT, and manufacturing. The goal is to enable attendees to come away with best practices, improved industry knowledge, and sharpened skills that they can immediately apply to their jobs.

"This is the first year that we've done a Focus event for NAVUG," says NAVUG Program Director Mark Rhodes. Dynamic Communities launched AXUG Focus in 2014, and it is partly based on its success that NAVUG is launching this event.

Additionally, Rhodes says that NAV community members continue to advocate for more in-person events so users and partners can get together, talk face to face and share experiences.

"So we wanted to do another event that bridged the gap between Summit and the regional chapter meetings," he says. "And we also wanted to provide more advanced-level topics and content and wham, we've got a NAVUG Focus event."

Describing the content, Rhodes says "We really wanted to go into more detailed topics - we like to say 201 and 301 types of sessions. So intermediate and advanced topics." Rhodes worked with a committee of partners and customers to determine what topics ...