About the Author

Stefano Demiliani is a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD), MCSA, MCAD, MCTS on Microsoft Dynamics NAV, MCTS on Sharepoint, MCTS on SQL Server, and an expert on other Microsoft-related technologies.

He has a master’s degree in computer engineering from Politecnico of Turin. He works as a senior project manager and Solution Developer for EID (http://www.eid.it), a company that is part of the Navlab group (http://www.navlab.it), one of the biggest Microsoft Dynamics groups in Italy (where he’s also the chief technical officer).

He has a lot of experience in Microsoft Dynamics NAV (from the first versions of the ERP). His main activity is architecting and developing enterprise solutions based on the entire stack of Microsoft technologies (Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Microsoft Sharepoint, Azure, Cloud apps, and .NET applications in general and OLAP and BI solutions for data analysis) and he’s often focused on engineering distributed service-based applications.

He works as a full-time NAV consultant (with over 15 years of experience in handling international NAV projects) and is available for architecting solutions based on Microsoft’s ERP as well as for NAV database tuning and optimization (performance and locking management) and for architecting cloud solutions and applications.

He’s the author of various Microsoft Certified NAV add-ons (for example, the first cost accounting NAV add-on). He has written many articles and blogs on various Microsoft-related topics, and he’s frequently involved in consulting and teaching. He has worked with Packt Publishing for many books on Microsoft Dynamics NAV.

You can find out more about Stefano and get in touch with him by visiting http://www.demiliani.com  or via Twitter (@demiliani) or LinkedIn.

This book is the result of months of work and it’s a dream that comes true. Thanks to all the wonderful staff that has worked with me in these months (Rohit, Aaron, Rahul, Duilio): your support was unbelievable.

I would like to dedicate this book to my little daughter Sara: I love you, maybe a day you will be proud of me also for this!