Microsoft Dynamics 365 Blog

With the upcoming legislation for Making Tax Digital, we have been working closely with Microsoft on the compliance updates to Dynamics NAV and Dynamics Business Central. In December, Microsoft released their solution for testing. There are a few minor errors which are due to be fixed for a release at the beginning of February. These will need to be tested and approved by Her M ...

This is the latest update on the preparation for Making Tax Digital for Tax and VAT which will require UK VAT-registered companies to submit electronic summary VAT Returns for the first and subsequent VAT Returns for the first-period end after March next year.  There are big developments so read on! HMRC Delays in Implementation Some VAT-registered persons will not be require ...

For fans of science fiction movies, there have been decades of promises of technology, such as artificial intelligence (AI) and augmented reality (AR), but in general, the shiny robotic future still feels like something for the next millennium. My colleague Stuart made a comment to me about the film Blade Runner, which is based in 2019 - we certainly don't have flying cars, tho ...

When Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central was fully launched in October, we explained that this was the next generation for Microsoft Dynamics NAV. As with most of the products from Microsoft, there is a transition in licensing to a named user basis, which means that people who own concurrent licenses will have to transition their licenses as they upgrade. When the Business ...

We have held a number of very successful "open day" events, with guests speakers from Microsoft and case studies from our customers. Now our Business Software event is coming back! This time, it will be bigger and better, with a lot of big announcements to be made over the next few weeks. With the recent updates with Microsoft Dynamics and the coming together of the Microsoft o ...

The annual Directions event is aimed at partners to provide the latest updates in technology centered around Dynamics NAV and more recently Dynamics 365 Business Central. As a knowledge hub for Microsoft business software, we sent a number of our team to find out all of the latest information. Business Central Updates User updates For users of the software, there are not a g ...

Making Tax Digital (MTD) is the upcoming legislation that is the big topic of discussion for businesses, accountants, software suppliers, and even HMRC! If you have read any of our previous blogs about Making Tax Digital, you will know that Microsoft has been working with HMRC on how to make their software solutions compliant with the various stages of implementation of MTD. We ...

Having spoken about the future of Dynamics NAV and Business Central, announcements are already being made by Microsoft ahead of the Directions event later this month. From this month, there will be one brand name, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, sold either as the Software As A Service (SAAS) model which has been available since April, or the newly released on-premise ...

Every year we visit the key event for Dynamics NAV, Directions EMEA. This event is hosted in a different country every year, with this year's venue located in The Hague in Amsterdam on 29th-31st October. As a knowledge hub to our customers, industry and even other Dynamics Partners, we make sure that we are up to date with all of the latest news and releases from Microsoft.  F ...

The Making Tax Digital Panic Following the mad panic of GDPR, with many companies panicking over regulations and last minute attempts at compliance, concerns over next year’s requirement by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) to make tax digital are already starting to ramp up. In fact, just like with GDPR, many companies are using this hype as a way of cashing in on the next tren ...

With business software solutions becoming more readily available for smaller businesses and Artificial Intelligence (AI) becoming a reality, the world of accountancy is really changing. We talked to our inhouse expert, Martin Coates, about how accountants can stay relevant and provide value to their customers.

Last November we discussed the future of Microsoft Dynamics NAV and Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations – Business Edition. The blog described the evolution of D365 for F&O to gain the functionality of NAV and with a new name, which has now been released – Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. Who it is for? Microsoft’s messaging is that Business Central ...