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Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

A cloud-based ERP system for mid-sized organisations

Supplier name: Microsoft
Country of origin: United States
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Employees global: 163 000

System description

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is an enterprise business solution for small and medium-sized organizations, which automates and simplifies business processes and helps you manage your business. Business Central is highly customizable and offers many features that allow companies to manage their operations, including finance, production, sales, delivery, project management, service and more. Companies can easily add features required for the country in which they operate and adapt the system to handle even highly specialized industries.

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Introduction year:

Customers:

130 33 2018

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Target group:

Micro (1 - 49)|Small (50 - 249)|Medium (250 - 2.499)

Process support

Accounting
Business Intelligence
Financial Management
Maintenance
Manufacturing
Product Development
Project Management
Purchasing
Sales Order Management
Service
Supply Chain Planning
Warehouse Management

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Medium

High

Market information

Share of sales

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Share of customers

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Factors to consider according to us

  • There exist a large number of third-party solutions that can be used to extend the standard solution.

  • Still available as an on-premise solution, but the vast majority of customers goes the with the cloud solution.

  • The system can be used in combination with some of the other Dynamics 365 solutions, e.g. Dynamics 365 Sales.

  • The technology platform was completely changed when going from Navision to Business Central. A key reason was to enable the system as a SaaS solution.

  • If using Business Central across countries, you should be aware that many localizations are provided by partners - and some by Microsoft.

User experience

  • User interface
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User inteface

Client support

Windows

Mac

Webb

Native IOS

Native Android

Mobile webb

Teams App

Slack App

Language support

No. countries

47

English

Swedish

Danish

Finnish

Norwegian

System screenshots

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System video

System strategy

  • System development
  • Price model
  • Deployment options
  • Implementor

System development

New version release

Ad-hoc

Monthly

Quaterly

Twice a year

Yearly

Every two years

Every three years

Development plans

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central form the core platform to use and build advanced ERP functionalities on. It has deep integrations to Power Platform which light up new feature sets not possible before. It leverages the strengths of the Microsoft Azure cloud- with its full capabilities on security, compliance and privacy aspects. Use cases range from capabilities built on Artificial Intelligence as well as enhanced collaboration through Teams integration.

Emerging technology

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is making it easy for new users to be immersed in the system quicker. It has increased Power Platform integration leading to the Low/ No code user to choose the best of both worlds by being able to create new business functionality. It supports greater automation for business tasks, thus providing for accurate and predictable task outcomes as well as helping the user have more time to do things that bring value to the business.

Pricing

Price model

Only one-time fee

One-time fee + recurring fee

Only recurring fee (subscription)

Pricing metrics

No. of concurrent users

No. of named users

No. of employees

No. of legal entities

No. of modules / functions used

No. of transactions

Platform fee / start fee

Pricing add-on

System environments

Storage space

Integrated systems

Integration transactions

Pricing description

See the licensing guide: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkId=866544. Most cases involved purchasing the licenses through a partner of Microsoft.

Deployment options

Deployment forms

Public cloud / Multi-tenant

Public cloud / Single-tenant

Private cloud

On premise

Cloud architecture

Shared Application

Shared Database

Shared Platform

Cloud service model

SaaS - Supplier hosts and maintains application and platform

PaaS - Supplier hosts and maintains platform / Customer host and maintain application

IaaS - Supplier hosts and maintains infrastructure / Customer host and maintain platform and application

Implementor