For a decades programmers used algorithms to solve specific problems. But did you know that ‘if-else’ is not the only way to write code? Did you know that your data can be an algorithm itself!

Yes - true.

All we need is to use data in a smart way. And that’s where Machine Learning can help.

In this session we will see

• what general problems could be solved through machine learning?
• what is machine learning itself?
• how can YOU solve your customer problems with machine learning?

At the end we will see how using Dynamics 365 Business Central and machine learning in pairs, you can quickly solve problems that were previously very difficult to solve or not solved at all.

Detailed agenda:

• Understanding customer request
• Data search and preprocessing
• Azure Machine Learning Studio
• Choosing right algorithm
• Publishing and AML web services
• Presenting predictions on Power BI reports
• Prediction from Dynamics 365 Business Central

You will leave the session with the realization of a completely new approach to solving problems and understanding the tools and techniques for applying this approach in real life.

• Dmitry Katson

  Russian Federation

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  AirApps

  

• Steven Renders

  Belgium

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  think about IT

  

You are probably familiar with the “viral sign-up” for Business Central (https://trials.dynamics.com), and maybe you have also sold Business Central through the Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) program.

But do you know what actually happens when you go to https://businesscentral.dynamics.com? The first time you go there, and subsequent times? How and where is your “BC database” created, and when does it get deleted again, if ever?

In this session, we will cover:

• How CSP, AAD, and BC work together, incl. the meaning of terms like tenants, environments, subscriptions, licenses, users, roles, and groups, and how they are connected
• What actually happens when a user logs in to Business Central, incl. license checks, provisioning, “finding your tenant”, etc.
• Which types of databases does Business Central run on
• The service topology of Business Central, and how global vs. regional vs. local services work together
• How the Business Central platform is evolving: It is no longer “just” the NST and the Web Client, rather it is becoming a web of special-purpose microservices

All presented using words, pictures, and demos.

It is our goal that you leave this session with:

• A firm understanding of how the Business Central service works inside
• Practical take-aways such as how to manage your customers and their environments, how to automate administrative tasks, etc.

• Christian Heide Damm

  Denmark

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  Microsoft Development Center Copenhagen

  

• Esteban Ardaya Heckl

  Denmark

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  Microsoft Development Center Copenhagen

  

In this session you will get a high-level understanding of the new modern user interface, including proficiency enhancements that your customers will love, and features your developers can take advantage of in your solutions.

• Tomas Grubliauskas

  Denmark

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  Microsoft Development Center Copenhagen

  

• Andrea Tino

  Denmark

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  Microsoft Development Center Copenhagen

  

In this session you will learn about the latest features in the AL language and the Visual Studio Code extension for Business Central.

Since the first release of the new development tools and compiler in Dynamics NAV 2018, we have continuously improved and extended both tools and compiler. We will talk about new improved support for extensibility, improved tools, and new language features.

• Alex Toader

  Denmark

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  Microsoft Development Center Copenhagen

  

• Esben Nyhuus Kristoffersen

  Denmark

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  Microsoft Development Center Copenhagen

  

With Business Central we are moving the entire application to the cloud. Coding for the cloud however offers its own set of opportunities and challenges. In some cases we wanted to change the application to uptake cloud benefit, in other cases to avoid the pitfalls. In this session, we will present some of the ‘unique stories’ (delight and horror) and describe how and why we changed the product. We will also describe some of the inner workings that can have a large impact on performance of our (and your) solutions. Expect to leave with expert insights and learnings.

• Torben Wind Meyhoff

  Denmark

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  Microsoft Development Center Copenhagen

  

• Bardur Knudsen

  Denmark

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  Microsoft Development Center Copenhagen

  

• Jens Møller-Pedersen

  Denmark

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  Microsoft Development Center Copenhagen

  

Let’s face it, source-code customization is not an extensibility friendly way to do customizations. Extensions is the preferred way, since it is both upgrade friendly, allows co-existence with other extensions and has capabilities to be published for others to uptake. In this session you will hear about our application, where we are taking it, how we design for extensibility, how to handle .NET, how we think about componentization, possible localizations done by extensions and how to extend and make your own code extensible. You will also learn how to publish your extensions both internally and externally, the processes and tools.

• Gert Robyns

  Denmark

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  Microsoft Development Center Copenhagen

  

• Bardur Knudsen

  Denmark

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  Microsoft Development Center Copenhagen

  

• Michael Hammond

  United States

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  Microsoft Fargo (US)

  

NAV of today is not NAV of yesterday. Every new version brings new things, old things become obsolete, and new concepts arise at every corner. Looking back at NAV over the past ten or fifteen years, there are very few things that are the same.

The architecture changed. The front end changed. Now, even the language changed. No matter when and how you started your NAV career, the NAV you work with today is not the NAV you started working with.

In this session, two of prominent NAV MVPs, Eric “Waldo” Wauters, and Vjekoslav “Vjeko” Babić will look back at the past fifteen years of development of NAV, and will provide insights, thought, reflections, praises, recommendations, and general thoughts of what happened, why it happened, how it influenced the future, as well as a look forward into what might be coming ahead and where this NAV ship is going to take us over the next few versions.

Fasten your seatbelts for a rollercoaster of architecture, best practices, technical twists and insight.

• Vjekoslav Babic

  Croatia

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  Cloud Ready Software

  

• Eric Wauters

  Belgium

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  iFacto Business Solutions | Cloud Ready Software

  

In this session you will see demos and implementation details of real life scenarios and best practices for using NAV/BC on Docker. The scenarios covered are:

• Self-service with containers: How to provide containers to developers and product managers through an easy to use web interface
• Multi-container environments: In some cases you need to run mutiple containers at once and you will see how this can easily be accomplished with Docker compose
• Automated extension 2.0 builds: Build your 2.0 extension using a CI/CD pipeline can greatly benefit from Docker containers including multi-stage images
• Using Azure Container Instances: If you just want to run a NAV/BC container without having to worry about the underlying infrastructure, Azure Container Instances are the solution

• Tobias Fenster

  Germany

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  Axians Infoma

  

The days of “The Beauty Of Simplicity” are over. Our new world is not about surviving, it is about thriving. Business Central brings us more new opportunities than we ever had in the old Navision world.

We will take a look into our crystal ball and see where today’s developers need to change to thrive in the Brave New World. Covering the core of the new technologies with a very broad brush, we will give you an insight into the skills you must have to survive, and the skills that will set you apart from the crowd to build your successful future.

For the dinosaurs, we will discuss the catch up and how to leverage your experience. For the new blood, we will offer suggestions to help you to decide where to fit in the new Business Central EcoSphere. The focus will be the future, not lamenting the past. This is a time to plant seeds to grow.

• David Singleton

  United Arab Emirates

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• Erik P. Ernst

  Denmark

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Over the years we have customized thousands of customer databases using C/Side that now have to be converted to extensions using AL and Visual Studio Code.

During this session you will learn from real life scenarios how to avoid pitfalls and upgrade your customers in an efficient and cost effective way.

We will walk through examples and touch on challenges like:

• Converting C/AL to AL
• Data migration
• Breaking down monolyths into microsolutions
• Running hybrid with C/Side and extensions
• Extension versioning
• DotNet vs. Azure functions
• Using API’s to replace C/AL

• Peik Bech-Andersen

  Denmark

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• Mark Brummel

  Netherlands

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  NAV Skills

  

Unusual showcases of how new cloud and just released on-premises Dynamics 365 Business Central takes benefits of interacting with Microsoft Azure platform.

Several practical examples will be live-demoed during the session:

• Azure functions integration through http client
• creation of fully serverless Business Central in Azure container service to exchange files though Blob storage
• bot framework integration for QnA user questions inside Business Central client to give references to Microsoft Docs articles as answers
• integration with Azure Data Lake storage to store files and backups
• integration with ML (recognition of sex and age of customer, filling extra data and sending to ML for estimation of income)
• Azure service bus integration with secret IoT device

• Alexander Ermakov

  Russian Federation

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  Awara IT

  

• Andrey Baludin

  Russian Federation

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  Awara IT

  

It all starts with a change requirement. And another one, followed by yet another one. And please, make it quick… Eventually this results in a new version of your product running for many end users. How do you make sure you can deliver quickly and keeping up the quality of the product at the same time? That’s what Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery is about. We will discuss what CI/CD means and show real life implementations how to achieve this with Business Central.

• Gunnar Gestsson

  Iceland

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  Advania

  

• Kamil Sáček

  Czech Republic

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  Navertica

  

• Arend-Jan Kauffmann

  Netherlands

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  Cloud Ready Software

  

Do you know that feeling, not having enough time to learn something new? Stuck in C/SIDE and C/AL while envying others who play around with AL and Visual Studio Code? Or maybe you have tried to start with Extensions v2 but did not get as far as you want?

Whatever your reason is to start with AL and Visual Studio Code, this is your chance to enter the new era of modern development for Dynamics 365 Business Central! Take your first steps into this new world, guided by Arend-Jan Kauffmann, who has already delivered dozens of AL workshops to so many other developers.

This workshop that will teach you the basics of AL language and VS Code. You will learn how to set up Visual Studio Code, the structure of the AL language, the objects and how to use them. At the end of the day, you will be able to create an Extensions v2 app, deploy it and use it.

This is a 1-day workshop and can be combined with the ‘Deep dive in AL’ workshop the day after.

Prerequisites:

• The only thing to need to bring is your laptop. Workshops VM’s will be provided.
• It helps if you have knowledge of C/AL development. But even without you will be able to follow this workshop.

Workshop date: Tuesday 20 November

• Arend-Jan Kauffmann

  Netherlands

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  Cloud Ready Software

  

So you think you can do AL coding? There is always something new to learn! As soon as you have started creating Extensions v2 apps with AL in Visual Studio Code you will realize there is a lot more to discover. This workshop will go over many topics you always wanted to know more about. It brings you to the next level of developing Extensions v2.

Topics that will be covered:

• Work with translations
• Embed data
• Include control add-ins
• Publish web services
• Integrate with other web services (including Azure Functions!)
• Proper use of events
• Configure VS Code
• Differences between on-prem and cloud development
• Update the symbol files
• Multiple project structure
• Dependent apps
• Install & upgrade scenarios
• Managing apps with PowerShell

Just to name a few… All brought to you by Arend-Jan Kauffmann, one of the most experienced teachers in AL development who already delivered dozens of workshops to hundreds of developers.

This is a 1-day workshop and can be combined with the workshop ‘First dive in AL’ on the day before.

Prerequisites:

• The only thing to need to bring is your laptop. Workshops VM’s will be provided. Please feel free to use your own development environment instead.
• You need to have knowledge of the AL language and Extensions v2. It certainly helps to have knowledge of C/SIDE and C/AL language.

Workshop date: Wednesday 21 November

• Arend-Jan Kauffmann

  Netherlands

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  Cloud Ready Software

  

Our world is always changing, and it is changing faster and faster. The development environment keeps getting more flexible, which means that you need to know about more things each time that a new update comes out. The sheer number of things that you need to know about can feel overwhelming.

This workshop will give you the skills that you need to get a grip on the whole thing. We will start with an empty slate, and we will go through all phases of a development project, and cover every step of the way.

You will learn how to set up a development environment using Docker, how to create a source code management repository, how to approach different ways to do source code management, how to manage a project using Visual Studio Team Services, how to build all of the elements that come with a Business Central app, how to do automatic testing, how to submit apps to AppSource and how to maintain them, and everything else that comes with being a Business Central developer.

Workshop date: Tuesday 20 or Wednesday 21 November. This is a one day workshop.

• Daniel Rimmelzwaan

  United States

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  Cloud Ready Software

  

How Git works inside, branching strategies, merge strategies, this is what you need to know to be able to use Git on full speed.

We will be using the command prompt and/or git client of your choise (could have limited possibilities) and of course VSCode to demonstrate how different commands could be used to reach what you need. After the workshop you will know what words like “stash, reflog, squash, GitFlow ” means in the context of Git and you will have overview to make decisions and create rules when implementing and using SCM.

Prerequisites:

A basic knowledge of VSCode and SCM is advantage.

Workshop date: Tuesday 20 or Wednesday 21 November. This is a one day workshop.

• Kamil Sáček

  Czech Republic

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  Navertica

  

With an advent of web, and especially the tablet and the phone clients, it became obvious that we won’t be able to pretend the Web world has infiltrated our sacred C/AL ground for much longer. All the Web technologies, HTML5, CSS, and above all – JavaScript – have entered into our world and now we need to learn how to make this new animal behave in our own backyard. But JavaScript is not an easy beast to tame. Easygoing to the point of sloppiness, and flexible as a chewing gum, cryptic even before you minify it, as beautifl and elegant as it is cruel and scary, with functions that are variables that are also properties, and expressions, and at the same time behave as if they are all booleans, where everyting is either truthy or falsy, and where == was not good enough as an operator so it also came up with ===, if JavaScript gets you royally confused, don’t worry – it’s all by design.

If there was ever a language that was as powerful as to allow you to do absolutely any kind of craziness you could come up with, but at the same time allowing you to mess things up beyond all reason, then it’s JavaScript. It can do whatever you want it to do, and it’ll let you do whatever you want to do to it. And it now talks directly to C/AL, so you better get to know it well before it starts making fun of you.

This one-day workshop led by Vjekoslav Babić, who had been a seasoned Web developer for years before jumping on the C/AL wagon 15 years ago, you will learn all the intrinsics of JavaScript that can confuse an AL developer. Not only you’ll learn all the important language features such as callbacks and closures, or harness the immense power of expressions – you’ll also learn how to write efficient code, how to not make common mistakes, and how to take advantage of amazing development features embedded into every modern browser. And above all, you’ll learn how to properly use all this together with the good old C/AL.

Prerequisites:

• A laptop
• Latest version of Visual Studio Code

Workshop date: Wednesday 21 November

• Vjekoslav Babic

  Croatia

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  Cloud Ready Software

  

Control add-ins have been around for a long time, but a true breakthrough has arrived only with the AL language support for them.
Building new control add-ins has never been easier, but there are still challenges to overcome, and best practices to observe, when building new, or porting old control add-ins to the AL language.

This one-day workshop, presented by a community veteran Vjeko Babić, will cover the development process for Control add-ins in AL language, end to end. It will arm you with all the necessary knowledge to build new control add-ins and make them blend seamlessly into your Microsoft Dynamics NAV and Dynamics 365 Business Central solutions.

Prerequisites:

• A laptop
• Development-level access to an instance of Microsoft Dynamics NAV or Dynamics 365 Business Central with full permissions to deploy and manage control add-ins (preferably installed locally, or in an Azure VM)
• Latest version of Visual Studio Code

Workshop date: Tuesday 20 November

• Vjekoslav Babic

  Croatia

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  Cloud Ready Software

  

Last year, waldo did a session about VSCode – the new development environment we as NAV developers should get used to. He was asked quite some times to put that into a workshop.

Well, here you go:

This workshop will focus on VSCode as a development tool, like:

• Its configurability
• Its extensibility
• Coding hacks
• Shortcuts
• Snippets
• SCM
• ...

We will be installing and configure our VSCode the way we like for doing AL development. We will dive into VSCode Extensions which will help you during Al Development. And last but not least, we will create our own VSCode Extension.

Prerequisites:

• I will prepare Azure VMs for you for during the workshop. All you need is your laptop with Wifi!

Workshop date: Tuesday 20 or Wednesday 21 November. This is a one day workshop.

• Eric Wauters

  Belgium

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  iFacto Business Solutions | Cloud Ready Software

  

This workshop leads the delegate through a simulated implementation project, where the goal is to customize Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2018 or 365 Business Central to meet a customer’s requirement.

After a thorough introduction to the Visual Studio Code editor with integration to an off-site GitHub repository, the delegate will be given a simulated functional requirement document and must create a working solution.

The solution will be created purely as an extension in Visual Studio Code, without changing a single object of the standard application of Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2018.

The course will be 80% hands-on and includes pdf course materials. Virtual machines will be provided, including licenses.

The course covers:

• The Visual Studio Code Editor
• Native Github integration
• Using Snippets
• Creating Snippets
• Converting existing objects to AL
• And of course, creating objects:
  • New Tables
  • Extending existing tables, including which properties can be changed and where to add code to triggers
  • New Pages
  • Extending existing pages, including which properties can be changed and where to add code to triggers
  • Creating codeunits, including:
    • Event subscriptions
    • Install Codeunits
    • Upgrade Codeunits

  • Creating reports in Dynamics 365 Business Central
  • Creating reports in Dynamics NAV 2018
  • Creating XML Ports
  • Creating Queries

• Controlling the Departments menu
• Design patterns in Dynamics NAV/Dynamics 365 BC
• Using the Visual Studio Code editor with other extensions, like:
  • PowerShell
  • XML Documents
  • JSON Tools
  • Snippet Creator

• Upgrading to extensions
• Differences between solution development in Dynamics NAV 2018 and Dynamics 365 BC

Prerequisites:

• Knowledge of Microsoft Dynamics 365 BC.
• You must know the Dynamics NAV integrated development environment
• You must master programming in the C/AL language
• You must understand the concept of programming with events
• You must understand the concept of extensions

Workshop date: Tuesday 20 and Wednesday 21 November. This is a two days workshop.

• Peik Bech-Andersen

  Denmark

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In this workshop you will get an introduction to Docker on Windows from installation to running your first containers and using container concepts. Then you will see how NAV on Docker is built, how you can customize it and finally go through some real life examples of how containers can help with your dev and ops strategy.

Prerequisites:

Participants have to bring their own laptop. Azure VMs that allows you to consume paid services will be provided.

Workshop date: Tuesday 20 or Wednesday 21 November. This is a one day workshop.

• Tobias Fenster

  Germany

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  Axians Infoma

  

Have you ever ordered a dish in a cafe, but you were told that it was not available?

I did. This is a very unpleasant situation. And for both parties.

The cafe can lose the client, simply because the demand was incorrectly predicted.

In this workshop we will see how machine learning can solve this problem. What general problems can be solved through machine learning? And what is it? A fashion word or a working tool?

We will see how using Dynamics 365 Business Central and machine learning in pairs, you can quickly solve problems that were previously very difficult to solve or not solved at all.

Detailed agenda:

• Here is the answer, so what was the question? Understanding customer request.
• Looking for treasure. Data search and preprocessing.
• Swiss knife for prediction. Azure Machine Learning Studio.
• Let’s try a role of Data Scientist. Data engineering with Python.
• Teach me. Machine Learning data flow
• Give me that brain please. Choosing right algorithm
• I know the answer, can I share it? Publishing and AML web services
• Everyone can be fortune-teller. Prediction from Dynamics 365 Business Central

Prerequisites:

• Azure Machine Learning account
• Dynamics 365 Business Central docker sandbox
• Passion to learn something new

Workshop date: Tuesday 20 or Wednesday 21 November. This is a one day workshop.

• Dmitry Katson

  Russian Federation

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  AirApps

  

In this workshop, lead by Steven Renders, you will learn how you can create stunning dashboards with the Power BI toolset.

Using a hands-on approach, you will get an overview of the Power BI toolset and how to apply it to create stunning dashboards that not only bring your data to life but also learn from it.

At the end, you will have the skills so you can turbo-charge your reporting capabilities with Dynamics NAV and Power BI.

Topics

• How Do I Get Started?
• The Power BI Toolset
• How to prepare your data model depending on the type of analysis and dashboard you want (DAX Design Patterns).
• Real-world examples how Power BI provides insight to move forward.
• Use and visualize your Dynamics data.
• Real-world Examples
• Tips and Tricks

Prerequisites:

• Software:
  • Latest version of Dynamics NAV (W1 demo database) installed and working.
  • Office Excel 2016, Professional Plus or Office 365 Professional Plus edition.
  • Power BI Desktop

• Knowledge:
  • Basic knowledge about the Dynamics NAV data model.

Workshop date: Tuesday 20 November. This is a one day workshop.

• Steven Renders

  Belgium

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  think about IT

  

Since NAV 2016, with every major release and cumulative update, Microsoft provides us with a load of automated tests to run against standard code. As the solutions we build, one way or another, extend standard behavior, this standard test collateral can be an invaluable asset in safeguarding the quality of our code. Now in a fast changing market with a higher frequency of updates retesting your code, on a regular base and in shorter time, has become more relevant than ever. And actually the only option you have to achieve this is using automated tests.

In this one day workshop we will use the Microsoft standard tests to learn about the concept of automated testing and how to get the them run on your solution with as little as effort as possible. This will be a good basis for your next step: writing your own tests, the topic of the second workshop Writing your own automated tests, that will be held on Wednesday November 15, 2017.

Prerequisites:

Bring your laptop with

• latest version of NAV installed with a clean CRONUS database, preferably w1
• latest product DVD
• your developers license

Workshop date: Tuesday 20 November. This is a one day workshop.

• Luc van Vugt

  Netherlands

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  fluxxus.nl

  

Based on an internal need Microsoft introduced the Testability framework with NAV 2009 SP1. Using this framework over 17,000 automated tests have been created over time, supported by more than 50 function libraries.

Making use of this big collection of examples can you will learn what the essences of automated testing are, and how the testability framework and function libraries can be used to create your own automated test.

This workshop logically follows the Tuesday November 20 workshop “Getting Microsoft automated tests working on your solution”, but can be participated in independently.

Prerequisites:

Bring your laptop with

• latest version of NAV installed with a clean CRONUS database, preferably w1
• latest product DVD
• your developers license

Workshop date: Wednesday 21 November. This is a one day workshop.

• Luc van Vugt

  Netherlands

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  fluxxus.nl

  

You might have heard of DevOps. It is the culture and practice of software engineering to unify software development and operations. Key pillars here are to automate and monitor the process to ensure fast and consistent output. Everything from the development, integration, testing and release. The goal is to have short and focused development cycles of deliverable content resulting in dependable and high quality releases that quickly adopt with the objectives of the business.

In this workshop we will explore ways to make your team more effective. Getting the team more focused on development and less distracted on other things. We will look at why Source Code Management and good workflows are important. Last but not least we will look at how you can automate builds, testing and deployment.

Prerequisites:

A basic working knowledge of VSCode, Git and PowerShell.

Workshop date: Wednesday 21 November. This is a one day workshop.

• Soren Klemmensen

  Canada

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  360 Visibility

  

AnveoGroup.com sponsor presentation

Speaker: Nils Peemöller

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