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Having worked on Business Central for months now, there had always been an “obvious” comparison between the features that were available with the RTC versions of NAV and were “sort of” missing in Business Central. Seemingly Microsoft realizes that and had been working actively on it. Some of these were added in the  October 2018 Release , a lot shall be added in the  April 2019 release  as Microsoft announced in their release note for the upcoming release of Business Central. Apart from adding the productivity features, as I had experienced (and also acknowledged by Microsoft support folks) there had been a lot being done for performance optimization on Business Central, which is due to release on April 19. As a matter of fact, it is quite evident from the April 2019 release notes. “..We’ve invested heavily in boosting performance, reliability, and scalability of Business Central, across the platform and business application” “We will continue to enhance t...

Healthcare is one of the fastest growing industries worldwide in terms of revenue and employment. The ecosystem encompasses hospitals, doctors, patients, medical equipment/device providers, health insurance providers, pharmacies to name a few. Keys reasons for the increasing demand for healthcare services include population aging, an increasing prevalence of chronic diseases and quest for a higher quality of life. With a rising number of healthcare service providers and digitization, people are becoming more aware of a plethora of treatment options available. As a result, people are becoming increasingly demanding in terms of quality of service, transparency, personalized care, consistent communication, cost of care, etc. They are more likely to take the second opinion and switch providers in case of unsatisfactory service. Like any other industry, it faces fierce competition for patient outreach and retention. As a result, service providers around the globe are looking out fo...

Business Central Online, the latest offering in the Microsoft Dynamics 365 family has completely changed the way of ‘Customization development’ for any experienced NAV developer. Coding language has changed from C/AL to AL (i.e. AL-Extension V2.0) with the custom code sitting as a separate extension, not at all interfering with the standard code. The custom code now gets deployed as an ‘app’ on top of the standard code base. Development interface has also undergone a change - earlier development was in C/SIDE, now it is through Visual Studio platform. For further details, refer my previous  blog . Business Central offers a container-based image environment called ‘Docker’ enabling access to both the AL development environment and the C/SIDE development environment. Docker gets installed on a Windows OS machine – creating the Sandbox environment for a developer to work with. Sandbox is a non-production instance of Business Central available for development and testing. ...

One has to admit that with the Dynamics 365 offering, Microsoft has taken a big leap towards automating the majority of the business processes in any company. The combination of various applications in the Dynamics 365 stack provides an integrated solution coverage. These applications can talk to each other with ease and the integrations can be achieved with much lesser technical effort and challenges. One such feature on the BI front is the ability to use Power BI for reporting along with Business Central. Dynamics 365 Business central has the capability to show Power BI reports inside, however, the question could be-  Can we design our own reports with Business Central data using Power BI and access them from within Business Central? As an example, this article covers the steps on how one can use Business Central as a Data source and build powerful Power BI Reports according to the business requirements. The Power BI report can then be embedded in Business Central, t...