If a navision implementation has to support upwards of 200 users. Central Sever at the Head office (50 users)and 175 Depot offices each having a navision client.Depot will be processing Billing/Collection. In such a scenario would user portal be a solution, so that all the depot offices connect to the central server in the head office and will it not mean, a saving in the concurrent user licenses to be bought because at either of the depot offices Navision client will not be installed only a Web browser.
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If a navision implementation has to support upwards of 200 users. …
I don’t think anybody (including me) already has such a large project with User Portal but I estimate that 175 remote UP-users will not bring Navision down. The bottle-neck might be the bandwidth of the internet connection, or the message queue but not Navision.
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and will it not mean, a saving in the concurrent user licenses to be bought because at either of the depot offices Navision client will not be installed only a Web browser.
From the point of view of Navision the User Portal is only ONE client or user. Therefore you save quite a lot of money with UP. However, the NAS costs approximately the aequivalent of 10 user licenses. But still a high potential of savings if you talk about 175 remote users. ------- With best regards from Switzerland Marcus Fabian
UP requires “named users”, for which you also have to purchase Licences (so called “Web-Users”). One Web-User-Licence costs about 1/3 of a “normal” user. So you could save money, that’s right. But you have to check out, if UP is the right interface for your remote users!
Thanks for the answers, let me redefine my query. Our prospect is in the Utility Industry (Water).There are going to be 200+ users. out of which 175+ are going to be remote clients. All the clients loacted within a radius of 12 miles from the Head Office. Head Office will be linked to the 10 Area Offices by 64 kbps leased line and around 20 Depot offices would connect to each Area Office through modem. The Clients has a preference for the Central server at Head office with Unix OS. So in such a scenario my queries are 1. How many users will Navision be able to support. So that if they want to increase users in future the system does not crash. 2. What would be the best solution for the remote connectivity. Is Critrix a winner?
- first of all: using Unix for database Server? Hmm…make sure windows 2000 tt host IIS and Digital Dashboard can connect Unix server seamlessly. Especially in relation with the two queues User Portal use. - 64 kbps leased line divided by 10 and each area office will re-route the message/http request to depot offices through 33.3 kbps? I guess almost all users (about 175) will logon the database concurently? phuih…yes Navision will not down at all. But I hate to say that with the bandwidths you have, it will be slow. goodname