It's been an exciting one for me.
First up Dynamics CRM4.0 was released at the start of the year. We have done a number of installation of it now and the team have done some very interesting things with it.
Next Dynamics NAV5 SP1 was released, while not a major release it did bring some interesting things. Firstly it got rid of the highly confusing SIFT tables and replaced them with views. It also brought access to the Dynamics Mobile client.
Then December brought us Dynamics NAV 2009. This is a major release and brings us lots of fun stuff. The most obvious is the new Role Tailored Client(RTC). It also gives NAV web services out of the box, something we have been after for a long time. It supports SQL2008, also released this year. We have already started working with this latest version and have a number of upgrades and new installations lined up for the first part of next year.
Closer to home the Intergen Dynamics team had some significant growth with around a dozen new team members joining over the year.
Dave Roys in Christchurch was awarded Most Valued Person by Microsoft, this is a great honour as there are only a dozen or so MVP's for NAV worldwide and Dave is the only one in Asia Pacific.
Craig Keenan was made a Subject Matter Expert for NAV.
Intergen was involved in the Dynamics NAV Partner Advisory Board and with 7 attendees out of a total of 11 coming from Intergen I think it shows how involved in the future of NAV we intend to be.
Away from the Dynamics products. Windows 2008 and SQL 2008 were both released.
Intergen has been doing huge amounts of work with MOSS as well as its more traditional custom builds. We have also been looking at all the new stuff Microsoft announced at the PDC around Cloud Services, Windows 7 etc.
2009 should be a very interesting year, between all the new things that are coming and the current global economic situation there will be many challenges ahead. More and more I think companies will be looking at ways to work smarter and reduce their overheads. Hopefully that will mean that people like me will still be in demand.
