Dynamics 365 Business Central is live!

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With over 160,000+ customers, Dynamics NAV has sold in 195 countries – that’s pretty much every country in the world. Today we are proud to announce that we are furthering this success story with Dynamics 365 Business Central by making it generally available as a cloud service starting today.

Dynamics 365 Business Central brings the full power of Dynamics NAV to the cloud, as a modern solutions for modern businesses. Business Central has at its foundation a set of trusted, proven technologies in a single, end-to-end application. As such, Business Central offers:

• Business without silos. Unify your business, and boost efficiency with automated tasks and workflows—all integrated within familiar Office tools like Outlook, Word, and Excel.

• Actionable insights. Achieve greater outcomes and gain a complete view of your business with connected data, business analytics, and guidance delivered by Microsoft’s leading intelligent technologies.

• Solutions built to evolve. Start quickly, grow at your own pace and adapt in real time with a flexible platform that makes it easy to extend Business Central based on your changing business needs.

For an intro to Dynamics 365 Business Central see this:

If you would like to go deeper into the product, we hope you will enjoy this video:

Business Central would not be possible without the amazing team that is behind this great product. I cannot express enough how proud I am of them and what they have accomplished. To hear from some of the team members about what their favorite features are, see this:

Dynamics 365 Business Central is a cloud first solution, designed for the age of digital transformation powered by the cloud. In the fall it will also be available for self-deployment on premise and in the intelligent edge for customers that prefer that option. Because Dynamics 365 Business Central and Dynamics NAV run the same application code base, this empowers us to upgrade our existing partners and customers into Dynamics 365 Business Central. For the existing partners and customers running on premise, this will be just another upgrade, like they would do for Dynamics NAV, with a name change. For customers interested in the cloud, starting today, Dynamics 365 Business Central offers unprecedented opportunities to drive transformation of their businesses, improving their business performance through the power of Microsoft cloud technologies and services.

For more information on coming updates, please keep an eye on the roadmap site.

Dynamics 365 Business Central will be generally available today in 14 countries – United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Denmark, Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Italy, France, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, Sweden, and Finland, and will be sold through our Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) partners. Australia and New Zealand will be generally available beginning July 1, 2018. Our network of global partners has the expertise to help you create and deploy a solution that meets your industry-specific needs. Do even more with Dynamics 365 Business Central using pre-built applications, available through the AppSource marketplace, to easily and cost effectively extend your solution.