Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

Dynamics 365 "Tenerife" has a new name

Yesterday, Microsoft has announced that Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations Business Edition will be re-branded as Dynamics 365 Business Central. The re-branded product is launching on April 2, 2018 bringing full Dynamics NAV capabilities to the cloud. In addition to the new product name, the release also adds application modules that so far were only available in the on premises version of the product, such as manufacturing, warehousing and service management.

The official web site for the new version of the product can be found here: Dynamics 365 Business Central while the roadmap for the current and upcoming updates can be found here: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Roadmap.

Two Price Points

There will be two price points for the product: Essential and Premium. To quote Microsoft:

Essential includes: 

• Financial Management, including general ledger, workflows and audit trails, bank management, budgets, deferrals, bank reconciliation, dimensions, fixed assets, and currencies
• Customer Relational Management, including contacts, campaigns, opportunity management, and built-in integration with Dynamics 365 for Sales
• Supply Chain Management, including sales order management, basic receivables, purchase order management, locations, item transfers, and basic warehousing
• Human Resources, including employees and management of their expenses
• Project Management, including resources, estimates, jobs, and time sheets
• Other, including multiple languages, reason codes, extended text, Intrastat reporting, scheduled tasks, and integration with Outlook

Premium includes following functionality, in addition to what’s offered in Essential: 

• Service Order Management, including service orders, service price management, service item management, service contract management, planning and dispatching
• Manufacturing, including production orders, version management, agile manufacturing, basic supply planning, demand forecasting, capacity planning, machine centers, and finite loading, bringing the full breadth of the popular Dynamics NAV application to the cloud.

On Premises Version in 2018 Fall

Somewhat shadowed by the upcoming release note was the fact that the on-premises version of the product which was so far known as Dynamics NAV 2018 R2 has been pushed out to fall of 2018.

For further information you can refer to the original post on the Microsoft Blog.