D365 Finance & Operations or Business Central: Which Is the Right ERP for Your Business?

Functionality

D365 Business Central

D365 Finance and Operations (F&O)

Approach

• ERP for medium and small companies. That covers all the management processes of the company.

• Microsoft Business Central (formerly Dynamics NAV) is the ERP for small and medium businesses.

• It is a solution that allows you to manage accounting and finances, the entire supply chain, operations, and other company processes.  

• ERP for large companies. 

• Companies with exhaustive management processes in the area of ​​finance and with financial operations in many countries.

• Microsoft F&O (formerly Dynamics AX) is the ERP solution for large companies and multinationals. Dynamics AX is a global solution that offers functions for the comprehensive management of operations at the international level of retail, manufacturing, professional services, and distribution companies.

Technical Characteristics

• Number of users: 1+ up to 200 approx.

• Companies with 1 to 200 employees approx.

• The project team for implementations is usually smaller.

• Relatively short implementation turnaround time (1-6 months).

• Lower investment in implementation.

• In addition to the standard implementation, a large number of plugins are available for additional functionality.

• Business Central uses 80% of the core business logic, so it consumes fewer resources. There are many industry-specific out-of-the-box solutions available to shorten implementation time and enable a smaller implementation team.

• Number of users: 200+

• Companies with more than 200 employees.

• Larger project teams are needed to cover total business processes.

• Implementation response time between 6 to 9 months.

• The standard solution itself already offers a large number of functions.

• Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations uses 95% of the core business logic, making it a much more complex application when it comes to defining and managing projects.

Interaction between Companies.

• Supports handling transactions differently between entities.

• It is less suitable for use in international environments that require multiple locations. Although there are additional modules and plugins to support this.

• It integrates seamlessly into different workplaces, including multinational or complex international environments with many transactions within the organization.

• Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations is localized for many countries, making it easy to deploy across multiple countries from a central setup (no additional plugins required).

Mobility

• Full Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM integration.

• Microsoft Office 365 is fully integrated. Microsoft SharePoint can also be used to further integrate your business processes. Business Central has an additional Outlook extension available to allow creating customers or sending quotes directly within Outlook to increase productivity.

• Direct insights into the data that matters to you with Microsoft Power BI. Reports are easy to create and modify yourself.

• And now you can add the power of AI with Microsoft Azure Machine Learning. Many of your vital processes, such as inventory forecasting, procurement, and financial processes, have much to gain from machine learning.

• Microsoft PowerApps are fully integrated.