1. NAV2013 - Introduction to ODATA Web Services: How to easily publish your NAV data to the outside world Cristian Nicola, www.DynamicsBIGuide.com

2.  To quickly illustrate the more common uses of ODATA  Not meant as a step-by-step training Goals

3. The Open Data Protocol (OData) is an open protocol for sharing data. It provides a way to break down data silos and increase the shared value of data by creating an ecosystem in which data consumers can interoperate with data producers in a way that is far more powerful than currently possible, enabling more applications to make sense of a broader set of data. What is the Open Data Protocol?

4. OData provides a uniform way to expose, structure, query and manipulate data OData also provides a uniform way to represent data format, allowing computers to know more about the data types, data relationships and structure of the data. Choosing to expose your data as OData you tap into a large ecosystem that can target your dataset without any modification. You also tap into an ecosystem of developers since a lot of developers already know how to target an OData API and they won't have to learn anything new to get going with your dataset. Why use ODATA?

5.  Use Pages and Queries to setup the data to be published  Publish above elements using Web Services  Quick Demo using Query object How to setup ODATA in NAV

6.  Internet Explorer  Excel  SSRS  Custom applications (.NET and Java)  Many more options … How to consume ODATA in NAV

7.  Excel 2010: PowerPivot  Excel 2013: PowerPivot and PowerView  Demonstration ODATA Services and Excel

8.  ODATA can be used as a data source for SSRS reports  “Magic word”: feed{}/entry{}/conten t{}/properties  Demonstration ODATA Services and SSRS

9.  Silverlight Demonstration: www.DynamicsBIGuide.com/ODATAExplorer www.DynamicsBIGuide.com/ODATAExplorer  Mobile and Tablet access  Sample.NET support from Microsoft: http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Visual-Studio-Toolbox/OData- Support-and-HTML-Clients-in-LightSwitch Custom Programming (.NET and others)

10.  It can be done via custom.NET development  It will support ANY SQL Database  Faster development for specific data feeds  More complex for a setup driven application that will allow users to define the feeds ODATA & Older NAV versions (2009 and below)

11.  One central place for defining external data access  Record, table and field level access control  No programming needed for adding new data collections  Access from a wide variety of applications both standard and custom, both local and web based  Better alternative to Jet Express and Web Services for reading data Why use ODATA Revisited

12.  In NAV 2013, ODATA is a read only data source whereas Standard Web Services are read and write ODATA vs. Standard Web Services

13.  Official ODATA Microsoft website: www.odata.orgwww.odata.org  My website: www.DynamicsBIGuide.comwww.DynamicsBIGuide.com  Email: cnicola@ncadynamics.comcnicola@ncadynamics.com Questions?