Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system from Microsoft. The product is part of the Microsoft Dynamics family, targeting the small to medium business (SMB) market.

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
Screenshot of the role center of the October 2018 release, North American edition
Developer(s)Microsoft
Stable release
October 2021 (version 19)
PlatformPrimarily cloud-based
PredecessorMicrosoft Dynamics NAV, Navision
TypeEnterprise resource planning
Websitedynamics.microsoft.com/en-us/business-central/overview/

The product is primarily a web-based software as a service solution accessed via businesscentral.dynamics.com, though there is an on-premise edition available, which included the option to use the NAV role-tailored Windows client through version 14, while versions 15 and later are web-client only.

History

Business Central is primarily based on the codebase for Microsoft Dynamics NAV, first published as Navision, which Microsoft acquired in 2002.

In 2016, Microsoft announced the creation of Dynamics 365 — a rebranding of the suite of Dynamics ERP and CRM products as a part of a new online-only offering.[1] As a part of this suite, the successor to NAV was codenamed Madeira.[2]

In September 2017 at the Directions conference, Microsoft announced the new codename "Tenerife" for this product, which would be released as "Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations Business Edition", while the successor product to Dynamics AX would be called "Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations Enterprise Edition".[3]

On April 2, 2018, Business Central was released publicly[4] and plans for semi-annual releases were announced.[5]

Business Central shares the same codebase as NAV[6] and NAV's C/AL language is being phased out in favor of the new AL language.[7]

Features

Business Central delivers integrated functionality to provide support for:

  • Financial management
  • Supply chain management
  • Relationship management
  • Human resource management
  • Project & Resource management
  • Warehouse management
  • Service Order Management
  • Manufacturing

Licensing

Business Central is sold with three license types in both subscription and perpetual models:

  • Essentials
  • Premium
  • Team Members

Essentials:

  • Financial Management
  • Relationship Management
  • Project Management
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Human Resources Management
  • Warehouse Management

Premium:

  • Everything in Essentials (Premium license include all modules existing in Essentials license)
  • Service Management
  • Manufacturing

Dual Use right

Dual Use right is available only through SaaS cloud licensing offering. The customer who uses SaaS version can download a license key for On-premise release.

RapidStart Services

Microsoft uses RapidStart Services [8] available to customers and partners to help set up a new company quickly.

  • Configuration wizard
  • Configuration worksheet
  • Configuration packages
  • Configuration templates
  • Configuration questionnaire

References
  1. Foley, Mary Jo (July 6, 2016). "Microsoft readies combined CRM, ERP Dynamics 365 cloud bundle". ZDNet.
  2. Foley, Mary Jo (April 13, 2016). "Microsoft takes wraps off its 'Madeira' SMB business-management service". ZDNet.
  3. Gumpert, Jason (September 17, 2017). "With updated Dynamics 365 "Tenerife" release plan, Microsoft aims to unify NAV, cloud SMB ERP". MSDynamicsWorld.
  4. Gumpert, Jason (April 2, 2018). "Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central reaches general availability, with promise of smooth NAV transition to come". MSDynamicsWorld.
  5. Foley, Mary Jo (July 6, 2018). "Microsoft's plan to put Dynamics 365 CRM/ERP on a twice-yearly update schedule". ZDNet.
  6. "Business Central everywhere". September 12, 2018.
  7. Demiliani, Stefano (October 25, 2018). "Mastering new methods for Dynamics 365 Business Central success".
  8. "Setting Up a Company With RapidStart Services". April 1, 2019.


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