When working with a Microsoft application like Outlook, you’ll notice the emphasis on productivity throughout the entire application interface, not to mention a seamless connection between all the business applications you might need from Microsoft.

In fact, the ability for all your systems to work in sync was likely a huge draw to Business Central in the first place. Business Central can be easily integrated to an Outlook account, but did you know that there’s a way to open up and work within Business Central, right from your Outlook window?

It’s time for Microsoft’s twice-annual updates to Power Platform and Dynamics 365 suite of applications. With each of these updates, new features, improvements, and fixes are rolled out to Power Automate, Dynamics 365 Sales, Marketing, Business Central, and more. There’s a lot of material to cover, so we’ve broken down a few of the features that we’re most excited to see rolled out in Business Central:

We’re starting the new year off with an ongoing roster of exciting webinar offerings to help anyone using Business Central or Dynamics NAV optimize their system functionality by adding extensions, or add-ons, to their already established Business Central. If you use Business Central and have thought, “Oh, I wish the system did this,” then stick around for our monthly add-on spotlight webinars. First up this year: Multi-Entity Management with Binary Stream!

For the mid-market space specifically, providers like Microsoft, SAP, and NetSuite all have cloud-based ERP applications that offer similar functionality. It can be difficult to wade through the many online resources and sales calls to determine the best solution.

To make it easier, we have put together a high level comparison between Microsoft’s premiere mid-market ERP application Dynamics 365 Business Central, and the most common competitors include NetSuite, SAP, and Epicor.