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We are shaping Business Central
Our Business Central consultants are directing the future
Jesse Lawrence
Business Central is not a product that was released and forgotten. In fact, since it was called Navision, or Dynamics NAV, Microsoft have invested heavily on updates for the product, giving it better features and making it continually more secure. Dynamics Consultants have been helping to add to those improvements to give the customers what they want and need.
Microsoft’s flagship Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution for Small and Medium sized Businesses (SMB) is Business Central, part of the Dynamics® Family of products. As a core part of Microsoft’s business offering, the product has had huge amounts of investment from the point that Microsoft bought it as it’s predecessor, Navision, rebranding the product as Dynamics NAV an later to Business Central. Through modernisation, new features and continual development, Business Central has become one of the most advanced ERP solutions ever to be available.
Since the focus changed to the SaaS based model, Microsoft have been taking suggestions to improve the product through the Dynamics 365 Ideas platform. As a partner that deals with hundreds of customer requirements, we get a good understanding of what is required and now have a large number of suggestions that have actually found their way into the product.
Microsoft and Partners
Microsoft’s ethos is to work with partners, as the people on the ground implementing the systems. This means that it’s the partner’s job to really understand the customer requirements. This puts Business Central Partners in the perfect position to know where there are gaps in functionality, or areas that can be improved.
Dynamics Consultants Changing the Business Central Offering
As Business Central Partners, Dynamics Consultants work with end customers on a daily basis and really understand market requirements. As such, we have submitted a wide range of suggestions, many of which have been published to the Business Central solution.
Andrew Trayfoot – Solutions Architect
Andrew (Andy) Trayfoot has extensive knowledge around Business Central; in particular he has become known for working on complex Manufacturing and Warehousing solutions. The following are the titles of some of his suggestions that have been completed:
- Integrate Jobs & Service Management into Warehouse Functionality
- Inventory Pick & Putaway Improvements
- Add Lot & Serial No. to Item Journal Lines
- Increase the Size of the 'Company Badge' field
Stuart Hardman – Commercial Manager
Before Stuart became our commercial manager, working on partnerships and our solutions portfolio, he was one of our longest serving Solutions Architects and consultants. Working with a lot of finance based solutions, including with intercompany consolidations, it is no surprise around his suggestions that have been completed:
- Stop deletion of City, County, Post Code when entering a Country Code
- Intercompany Bank Account Transactions
- Add Balance at Date to Bank Account List
David Curd – Technical Support Consultant
David is our longest serving employee, with an in-depth technical knowledge of a range of Microsoft systems. As a key member of our support team, he works closely with both customers and Microsoft, and as such has been involved in his own ideas, as well as getting involved with helping with formulating other ideas into completed solutions:
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