- Eliminate data silos
- Scale your business in real-time
- Expand when you are ready
- Make smarter data-driven decisions
- Add features and functionalities based on your changing business needs
Dynamics 365 Business Central
Dynamics Business Central is considered as the next generation of Dynamics NAV. Serving over 160, 000 customers and millions of users across the globe, Dynamics NAV has successfully established itself as one of the leading Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions. Where Dynamics 365 Business Central has been introduced as an extremely flexible and adaptable solution: serving the needs of businesses across industries, geographies and individual customers.
Dynamics 365 Business central is a cloud-based software as a service (SaaS) accounting application fit for small and medium-sized businesses. For an integrated experience, it can easily be paired with Office 365 and other Microsoft cloud applications.
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Dynamics Business Central Pricing & Licensing
There are two main types of Licenses available for Dynamics Business Central: Essentials and Premium. You can pick one depending on your business needs.
Key Features and Functionality
Seamless Business Operations
The Dynamics 365 Business Central intuitive User Interface (UI) is familiar yet modern. With features like role-specific views, smart notifications and personalized feeds, it can be customized to meet individual needs.
Effective Financial Management
From sales to customer interactions, Dynamics 365 Business Central can intelligently link data from different departments of the business. The financial and accounting tasks are automated, thus producing more accurate and faster results.
Complete Project Management
Creation, management and tracking of customer projects are supported through timesheets along with advanced job costing and reporting capabilities. With real-time insights, you can monitor resource usage, modify your plans and track billing.
User Interface
The Dynamics 365 Business Central intuitive User Interface (UI) is familiar yet modern. With features like role-specific views, smart notifications and personalized feeds, it can be customized to meet individual needs.
Customization and Extension Options
In-client visual designer can be utilized to customize your solution, while PowerApps and Microsoft Flow will facilitate custom app creation using Common Data Service for Apps.
Automated Supply Chain
Inventory levels are optimized with the help of built-in Power BI and intelligence dashboards, where lead times and order points are calculated automatically.
Integration
Established on the proven features of Dynamics NAV coupled with the ability to expand, the cloud-based Dynamics 365 Business Central does not only integrate seamlessly with Microsoft Dynamics 365 apps but also other Microsoft products such as office 365 and Microsoft Flow. The extended integration with Outlook enables users to utilize Dynamics 365 Business Central quote-to-cash feature, allowing them to generate quotes based on the contents of an email and send invoices.
Robust Human
Resources
From tracking and grouping employees against different criterion set to posting expenses against employee cards, Dynamics 365 Business Central enables easy management of human resources. The HR data is available through self-service Business Intelligence (BI), where you also benefit from the manager and employee self-service functionality.
Intuitive Customer Relationship Management
Responding to cross selling and upselling is quicker, as you can easily track customer interactions throughout the sales cycle. Outlook integration facilitates easy resolution of sales and service queries
Mobile-enabled
Users can access the rich functionalities of Dynamics 365 Business Central across tablets, phones, Windows, iOS and Android desktops.
Native Intelligence
Artificial Learning (AI) and Machine Learning enable enhanced insights, forecasting and recommendations.
Dynamics 365 Business Central &
Microsoft Dynamics NAV -
Similarities
Dynamics 365 Business Central and Microsoft
Dynamics NAV both are based on the same codebase, making them similar products in a number of ways:
- They are accessible from anywhere at any given time.
- They have the same financial management, purchasing, service management, jobs, item management and sales features.
- Familiar and user-friendly interface across devices.
- Seamless integration with Lexmark and Microsoft Office products like Excel.
Dynamics 365 Business Central &
Microsoft Dynamics NAV -
Differences
- Approach: Where Microsoft Dynamics NAV primarily focuses on the stakeholders within the business, its modern counterpart Dynamics 365 Business Central takens a more outward approach by engaging not only with stakeholders within but also those external to the business.
- Deployment: With Microsoft Dynamics NAV there is limited flexibility as the license has to be purchased by all users. However, it can be hosted on-premises or even on the cloud. Dynamics 365 Business Central software on the other hand is hosted on Microsoft Azure servers, which limits storage problems.
- Customization: Microsoft Dynamics NAV is highly customizable. The application can be customized based on your specific needs by going into the source code. With Dynamics 365 Business Central, this is not possible and you have to rely on apps available on AppSource (a store that hosts applications developed by Dynamics partners and ISVs).
Choosing Dynamics 365 Business Central Over
Microsoft Dynamics NAV
- You have a limited budget, seeking additional flexibility with licencing
- You want a solution that is handled entirely by Microsoft, where limited efforts are required to implement the software
- You want subscription-based pricing with continuous updates as opposed to a large upfront payment
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