On May 25, 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will come into effect in the European Union. Despite the UK currently negotiating the details of Brexit, the government has confirmed that the rules of GDPR will still be fully enforced within the country
The new regulations signal a significant change in how data will be managed by companies. NAV customers will be able to manage the GDPR regulations differently depending on what version of NAV they are using.
NAV 2018
Microsoft has promised that by May 2018, NAV 2018 will include a solution for GDPR. The details of how the GDPR functionality will work are not yet clear but it is likely that the functions will work in combination with Microsoft’s cloud based solution, Azure. NAV 2018 may use Azure permissions to restrict access to data, and manage privileges in the cloud. The details are yet to be finalised
Pre NAV 2018
However for any version of NAV before NAV 2018 (NAV 2017, NAV 2016, NAV 2013, NAV 2009, NAV 5.00, NAV 4.00 etc), Microsoft does not provide any solution. While some customers will see this as an incentive to upgrade to a new version of NAV, others will seek an alternative solution
The options for companies using older version of NAV are:
- Consult your Microsoft partner for advice. Some partners will provide consultants to help you in the process of becoming GDPR compliant
- Recruit a GDPR consultant from one of the consultancies which have been created as a result of the new regulations
- Opt for the only one out-of-the-box solution for handling GDPR regulations created by NAVGDPR. Contact us for information about our affordable solution