3 Quick Highlights of Dynamics 365 Business Central from Directions North AmericaMay 10, 2019 by Kim Haythornthwaite
- It is a robust solution that has depth of functionality. Business Central with the April 2019 release has built on the completeness of the 2018 release of a full Navision in the cloud. Some of the cool features I love:
- Can be run fully in the cloud.
- The depth of dimensions on the chart of accounts. Prior GP users might find this unattractive but I love the potential to slice and dice data with this.
- The product layout is impressive and looks really intuitive for first time users.
- It has an OCR feature, this is an additional price to get the invoice details, but it looks very user friendly. You can automatically post your invoices with the OCR.
- Bank statements and credit cards bills can be auto-posted into the general ledger on statement import. It will first look for existing transactions and create a suggested match. Then you can autopost the new transactions or create journals. This is very similar to QuickBooks functionality.
- Has a nice ecosystem of apps to extend the application.
2. Price point of $70 per user per month is very attractive. This includes unlimited related/affiliated companies. This pleases me to see this price point. It is a bit higher than QuickBooks but Business Central deliveries a lot more functionality with its cloud offering. The cloud version of QB has some bugs around inventory that I don’t think we will find with Business Central as Navision has been around for a long time. The price point also sits a little lower than some of the other competition representing a good value in the market.
3. Interoperability between Outlook and between Mobile. I think Microsoft can really leverage a success story here. For lovers of the Microsoft solution stack, take a good look at Business Central. It has some really neat functionality with Outlook, you can create a quote within Outlook based on the text from a purchase request from a customer. Business Central is fully deployable on a mobile device.
Written by Kim Haythornthwaite. Nolan Business Solutions is a Microsoft Partner and a CSP that offers Business Central.