Digital is reshaping how we live, work, and play and Business Central ERP from Microsoft is paving the way forward.
Leading organizations today are reinventing their core business while reimagining how they transform their digital platform, culture, and approach to achieve their business outcomes. For businesses, realizing the benefits of digital transformation requires business leaders to look beyond technology. They need to reimagine existing business models and embrace different ways of bringing together people, data, and processes to create value for customers and maintain a competitive advantage for themselves.
Digital transformation is about reimagining how you bring together people, data, and processes to create value for your customers and maintain a competitive advantage in a digital-first world.
Digital technologies create new opportunities for businesses across the globe by changing the way that goods and services are produced, sold, and consumed. These technologies help organizations adapt in the face of competitive pressures and evolving customer needs. Doing so often involves reimagining the digital platform, culture, and overall approach to transformation with a focus on customer engagement, business processes, and data and intelligence.
Dynamics 365 Business Central ERP
Business Central ERP is a business management solution for small and mid-sized organizations that automates and streamlines business processes and helps you manage your business. Highly adaptable and rich with features, Business Central enables companies to manage their business, including finance, manufacturing, sales, shipping, project management, services, and more.
Companies can easily add functionality that is relevant to the region of operation, and that is customized to support even highly specialized industries.
Business Central is fast to implement, easy to configure, and simplicity guides innovations in product design, development, implementation, and usability. It is designed specifically for organizations to bring in and integrate business processes faster, make decisions quicker, and connect with their customers, real time.
Business Central is a complete solution across the spectrum of business processes for marketing, sales, service, operations, and finance. Dynamics 365 Business Central is the next generation of Dynamics NAV for the age of digital transformation.
Customers are armed with an unmatchable collection of technologies to help them digitally transform and Business Central is the foundation atop which these businesses can blossom.
Overview of Business Functionalities in Dynamics 365 Business Central ERP
Business Central provides functionality for common business processes in small and mid-sized companies, mainly within wholesale and professional services. However, more complex processes, such as assembly, manufacturing, service, and directed warehouse management are also supported.
Provided below are an overview of functionalities and the relevant modules in Business Central ERP.
Integration with Outlook
With Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central you can go from quote to cash without the complexity of switching applications. Set up customers or vendors, create quotes, process orders, and submit invoices without leaving your inbox. Easily export data and create outgoing documents directly in Word and Excel with seamless integration between Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Office 365.
Mobility
Mobility enables businesses to put technology advancements into practice on any day, across multiple devices, and at any location. Your employees need to be connected like never before. Customers expect your sales and service representatives to have immediate access to the information they need to solve their problem or deliver on a good or service they expect to receive. Calling back to the office to see if an item is in stock or waiting for a follow-up response to schedule a service appointment just doesn’t make sense anymore.
Cloud-based business applications make it easier to give employees the information they need to stay productive regardless of where they need to work. But it’s not enough to be able to access information; you need to be able to act on it based on customer demand. Your mobile experience needs to be consistent and secure, replicating what you could do in the office on your phone, laptop, or tablet regardless of the operating system.
With the mobile experience of Dynamics 365 Business Central, your employees can:
- Manage quotes, proposals, and orders from the field.
- Confirm inventory status before making a commitment to customers.
- Deliver better service with full access to customer history, maintenance contracts, and service schedules.
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central stands out among other competitive business solutions as the same package of features is available for mobile and desktop devices.
It is a common practice that companies offer mobile software versions with limited ERP modules. However, Dynamics 365 Business Central is different. The user has access to the same functions and tools, regardless of the device used. In case of mobile devices, the system operates with Windows, iOS and Android, which means you can manage your company from any platform and switch to another while working continuously with a consistent user interface.
Intelligent Cloud Insights
Microsoft continuously invests in intelligent cloud solutions and business intelligence enhanced with artificial intelligence and machine learning technology. Their major goal is to empower organizations to optimize their business processes and boost performance.
Dynamics 365 Business Central users have constant access to resources and services from any place, at any time, no matter if they work with the cloud or on-premises version. Using the on-premises version you can connect to Intelligent Cloud through Intelligent Edge.
In Business Central, the Intelligent Cloud Insights page shows four key points of interest for most businesses:
- Cash availability
- Sales profitability
- Net income
- Inventory value
Next to the KPI charts, you get insights into potential areas of concern, including overdue payments. Choose each insight to drill into the data.
Cloud Computing is no longer just a Buzzword
Cloud technology sets the foundation of transformation for businesses. The adoption of cloud services worldwide has continued to accelerate at an incredible pace. For almost all industries, the cloud changes how people work, where people work, and the way people do business. While cost reduction is still a top priority, scalability and business agility have stepped to the forefront as primary reasons businesses are adopting cloud solutions.
The next generation of business applications in the cloud allow businesses to start with what makes the most sense for their business now, and easily extend and modify as their business needs change over time without IT complexity and disruption to their business. With the right service provider and the right applications in the cloud, even complex business processes can be moved to the cloud with confidence.
For businesses to survive and thrive in this new era, they must embrace digital transformation. But what is digital transformation? A simple definition is the use of digital technologies, such as mobile, social, analytics, and cloud to transform how people work and businesses operate. Less-mature digital businesses are focused on solving discrete business problems with individual digital technologies. The businesses that are connecting their processes, systems, people, and data are able to get deep insight into what’s happening in their business. They are also able to anticipate what will happen and capitalize on that insight quickly.
Traditional boundaries are being reshaped by digital transformation. Historical silos that existed between disparate CRM, ERP/Accounting systems, and other third-party systems are becoming obsolete. In addition, business apps that now work seamlessly together with productivity tools like email, word, and data processing blur the lines between structured business processes and unstructured personal productivity so people and businesses can achieve more.
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