Over ten years of experience in developing and implementing software solutions within the banking, tourism, manufacturing, education and retail sectors. Proven success of technical and functional skills in Technical Solution Development, Technical Consultation, Business Process Analyst, Process Re-Engineering, Solution Design, Project Management, Research & ERP Implementations. Managed and participated in over 40+ successful ERP (Microsoft Dynamics NAV) implementations during the past 10+ years while building relationships and exceeding client and management expectations. Possess a strong ability to turn around at-risk projects and deliver unique results. Recognize the value of being friendly, calm and helpful when interacting with people in all areas of life and always willing to learn new skills to build on strengths and learn from experiences. Active member and a community moderator of the official Microsoft Dynamics NAV Community forum and regularly share knowledge with others through personal Dynamics NAV Blog, user groups and webinars. Strongly believes that "one small piece of knowledge someone shares today could be the cornerstone of a huge concept that changes the world tomorrow". Recognized as a Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) for the years 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019. It is the only Dynamics NAV MVP in New Zealand and Sri Lanka. Specialities: » Development Languages: AL, C/AL, » ERP: Microsoft Dynamics NAV 5.0 to Business Central » Databases: MS SQL » Other: SANA, LS Retail
Tharanga Chandrasekara
Author's posts
Aug 21
Elimination of Certification – MPN Silver/Gold Competency requirements – Dynamics NAV
Effective from August 13, 2014, all the certifications and assessments for the Dynamics NAV will no longer required to obtain MPN Silver/Gold Competency. This includes pre-sales and sales assessment as well as the other implementation and technical certifications. Following are the competency requirements, Minimum revenue requirements for SPA Minimum revenue and BREP Revenue Recapture Rates for MPN ERP Gold …
Aug 21
Compatibility of SQL Server 2014 with NAV2013 and NAV2013R2
SQL Server 2014 is released earlier this year with many new and very interesting capabilities. I will get back to you all about that with a separate article and for now lets just focus on comparability of NAV and SQL.After testing the Microsoft Dynamics NAV with Microsoft SQL Server 2014, NAV team has finally confirmed …
Aug 21
CRETE – Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015
CRETE According to the “waldo” Microsoft is going to launch Dynamics NAV 2015 also known as CRETE. During the Convergence 2014 presentation in March, Microsoft committed to shipping yearly releases for NAV, beginning with NAV 2015. Following is the roadmap that Microsoft has presented According to the waldo this is a one major release and we …
Aug 20
How to setup default company for NAS ( NAV 2013 R2 )
In Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 Service Configuration Panel we can set the NAS Default company under the NAS Service tab. But with the new version this input box was missing and this is how it look like in the NAS Service tab. Default Company Text box is missing in 2013 R2 Configuration Panel!! NAV 2013 R2 Service Configuration …
Aug 20
NAV 2013 R2 Image Library
How many of you go through the hassle of selecting the perfect and preferred image for your page actions? I think many of us go through this hassle because we really don’t know the exact image library of Dynamics NAV 2013 R2.But now thanks to “Arend-Jan Kauffmann” we have a very easy way of selecting the image we want. He has …
Aug 20
Customize the Dynamics NAV Splash Screen – NAV 2013 & 2013 R2
I am sure everyone of you who use Dynamics NAV has seen the following startup screen. Original Splash Screen Have you seen a screen like this ? Modified Splash Screen Is it possible to change this screen as we want? YES we can !!Does it take lot of effort ? NOPE !! Only take less …
Aug 19
Styling Dynamics NAV 2013 Page Values
ERP is all about providing critical information to the users with very user friendly manner. Therefore It is always essential to draw attention to the important values, fields in a page. It allows the user to use the ERP very user friendly manner and allow to provide very critical information in very simple manner. If …
Aug 17
Microsoft Dynamics NAV Versions
Following are the versions of Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Navision Financials 1.00: 1.00, 1.00A, 1.00B, 1.10, 1.10A, 1.20, 1.30 Navision Financials 2.00: 2.00, 2.00A, 2.00B, 2.00C, 2.01, 2.01A, 2.01B Navision Financials 2.50: 2.50 Navision Financials 2.60: 2.60, 2.60A, 2.60B, 2.60C, 2.60D, 2.60E Navision Solutions 3.00: 3.00 Navision Attain 3.01: 3.01, 3.01A, 3.01B Navision Attain 3.10: 3.10, …
Aug 17
What is C/SIDE and C/AL
Stands for: C/SIDE – Client/Server Integrated Development Environment C/AL – Client/Server Application Language Description. C/AL is the programming language that used within the development environment for Microsoft Dynamics NAV, and the development environment is called as C/SIDE. C/AL is a database specific programming language and it primarily used to retrieve, insert, and modify the records in the dynamics NAV Database. C/AL is …
Aug 17
About Me
My Name is C.M.Tharanga N. Chandrasekara and working as a Microsoft Dynamics NAV technical consultant.