Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is an enterprise resource planning system from Microsoft. The product is part of the Microsoft Dynamics family, and shares the same codebase as NAV and NAV's C/AL language is being phased out in favor of the new AL language. The product is primarily a web-based Software as a Service solution accessed via dynamics.com, though presently there is an on-premise version available, which includes the option to use the NAV role-tailored "thick" client.
History
D365BC is primarily based on the codebase for Microsoft Dynamics NAV, first published as Navision, which Microsoft acquired in 2002. In 2016, Microsoft announced the creation of Dynamics 365 — a rebranding of the suite of Dynamics ERP and CRM products as a part of a new online-only offering. As a part of this suite, the successor to NAV was codenamed Madeira. In September 2017 at the Directions conference, Microsoft announced the new codename "Tenerife" for this product, which would be released as "Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations Business Edition", while the successor product to Dynamics AX would be called "Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations Enterprise Edition". On April 2, 2018, D365BC was released publicly and plans for semi-annual releases were announced. With the October 2018 release, D365BC is available in the cloud, on-premises, and in hybrid deployment. The last release of D365BC include new many features and a lot of technical and functional improvements; the currently version is 15.0 October 2019's Release.
Features
Microsoft D365BC delivers integrated functionality to provide support for:
You may not mix and match Essentials and Premium users. You must license Essentials or Premium users but not both. Dual Use right Dual Use right is available only through SaaS cloud licensing offering. The customer who uses SaaS version can download a license key for On-premise release.
RapidStart Services
Microsoft makes available to customers and partners the ability to utilise RapidStart Services to help set up a new company quickly. You can use the following components to speed up your company setup:
