Business Central: an all-in-one Enterprise Resource Planning solution
Enterprise resource planning made easy and cloud-based
Business Central: an all-in-one Enterprise Resource Planning solution
Microsoft's Dynamics 365 Business Central is the optimal digital cloud-based ERP solution for your business
Microsoft's cloud-based Business Central solution gives small and midsized companies the possibility to ensure business continuity. You can automatically pull systems and processes together to manage financials, sales, service, and operations, as well as connect with 3rd party applications like payroll, banking, CRM, or industry-specific systems.
Business Central makes it possible for your employees to have easy access to data, functionalities and business applications right where they need them.
Business Central gives you:
- Easy-to-use platform and functionalities
- Scalable and secure cloud platform
- Extensive set of always updated functionalities
- Data security and other compliances
”The new group-wide ERP system is a crucial part of Musti Group's growth strategy. It has already provided us with significant advantages and will allow us to further improve our operations.”
Panu Hannula
IT Director at Musti Group
Security
Business Central uses Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) as the authentication method, which is automatically set up and managed for you.
- Monthly service availability is 99.9%
- In case a disaster recovery is needed, failover/Recovery Point Objective is less than 24 hours.
We can help you elevate your business
With the help of our solution-oriented team of experts, we can take your system and business to a whole new level.
We can create extensions around your Business Central solution while keeping the core solution updatable.
We also offer a wide range of readymade components and add-ons without the need to add a single line of code.
Make your business vision a reality
Essential or Premium license?
Business Central comes in two different licenses, Essential and Premium.
Essentials covers all the most common business processes and features such as finance, purchasing, sales, projects, supply chain and warehouse. Most businesses have this license.
Premium covers all the above while also supporting processes and features related to production and service management.
Software as a Service (SaaS)
Software as a service (SaaS) supports your business through times of change by keeping them up-to-date automatically. With SaaS you also get speed to market, innovative functionality and a competitive edge – all you need to face and overcome any new demands.
The SaaS also enables you to take advantage of Microsoft’s Power Platform ecosystem with loads of readymade integrations, apps, data insights and other value adding solutions.
Beyond borders
Business Central can support several companies as well as international businesses and fulfills the legal requirements of different countries. The solution also has multiple language settings available.
Transform your business with Microsofts Power Platform
Business Central is fully integrated with Office 365, including Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, which makes it a natural choice for Office 365 users and gives the feeling of familiarity.
Microsofts Power Platform is an intuitive, extensible platform of low-code tools that helps you transform your business.
You can analyze data through Power BI, build solutions in Power Apps, automate processes in Power Automate, and create intelligent chat bots with the Power Virtual Agents tool.
Microsoft Power Platform empowers all your users—regardless of their technical capability—to collaborate and build transformational solutions across your organization.
Role-specific benefits using Business Central
Business Central comes with a set of readymade roles, which you can adapt to give users quick access to information that is pertinent to their role in the company.
The readymade roles include accountant, business manager, dispatcher, sales order processor, production planner, sales and relationship manager, administration etc.
In the tabs you can see some of the key features for some of the roles.
We can of course help you adapt and customize the different roles so they fit your business' specific needs.
Finance
The Financial module features real-time accounting and tools for automating and reducing manual work, such as reconciliations, financial statements, and month closures. Financial reports can be generated directly from the ERP or through Microsoft Power BI analytics. This significantly reduces the need for Excel and manual reporting. We can complement the ERP with purchase invoice recycling and approval features, which are embedded directly into Business Central.
Sales and purchasing
Build better relationships with your suppliers and convert the best offers to orders. The Sales and Purchasing module enables a streamlined sales order / quote / contract process that minimizes manual errors and provides unambiguous information on customers, vendors, sales history, and upcoming tasks.
Production
The Production module is able to calculate and optimize your manufacturing capacity and the resources needed to improve production schedules and meet customer demand. It is also possible to maintain the correct inventory quantity by automatically calculating your inventory levels, lead times, and reorder points.
Inventory & Warehousing
The Inventory module enables your business to optimally replenish your inventory and helps to create purchase orders with sales forecasts and expected inventory depletion. The solution gives you a comprehensive view to warehousing by tracking product events and shipments based on storage locations, floor plans and dimensions of the warehouse.
Microsoft AI, Copilot, a part of Business Central
Microsoft has integrated its own artificial intelligence, Copilot, into Business Central.
Copilot offers valuable capabilities for Business Central users and helps organizations achieve better results in smarter ways.
Copilot offers valuable capabilities for Business Central users and helps organizations achieve better results in smarter ways.
Benefits of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Copilot for Business Central users:
- Efficiency: Copilot enables full-scale use of AI in ERP processes. It automatically generates content such as product information, messages, and sales orders, streamlining everyday tasks.
- Improved customer service: Copilot helps users create high-quality content and enhances customer service. For example, sales orders can be processed faster and more accurately.
- Ease of use: Copilot improves the usability of the ERP system and saves time and effort. Users don’t need to be data experts – they can focus on core business operations.
- Unlocks creativity: With Copilot, employees can concentrate on creativity and strategic thinking while routine tasks are handled automatically.
New ESG reporting features in MS D365 Business Central
Features that support the monitoring and reporting of greenhouse gas emissions, such as sustainability account charts, sustainability journals, and sustainability entries, have been launched in Business Central. Currently, you have access to several reports that make emissions analysis and monitoring simple and accurate. Features are continuously being further developed.
Why Azets?
- Azets has been delivering Microsoft Dynamics systems since 2001 and is one of the largest Business Central suppliers in the Nordics.
- We are specialized in Nordic implementations and have more than 100 ERP professionals located in all four Nordic countries.
- We work closely with Microsoft to ensure that the expertise and solutions offered to our clients are state-of-the-art.
- Our extensive industry expertise and good understanding of our clients' businesses and needs have resulted in multiple long-term relationships.
- We take pride in our track record of delivering projects that stay on budget and on schedule.
- Our Continuous Services ensures that your IT managers can sleep better and focus on other tasks, as we cover and handle all your ERP related issues.
- We are easy to reach and responds quickly to make sure that your ERP solution is always up and running.
Continuous Services
The objective of Azets Continuous Services is to manage proactive actions in a structured way and react effectively when needed.
Monitoring and Support Service solves possible issues in Applications as soon as possible to minimize the inconvenience caused to customer.
Azets offers systematic Maintenance services to proactively maintain the solution to ensure system operability.
For Change & Release management, Azets assigns a Change manager team to keep customers' solutions up-to-date and proacting to both errors and business needs.
Service operations are controlled in accordance with ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) policies and Agile/Scrum methodologies according to the Quality Management System guidelines.
Azets naturally works as an integrator with customers 3rd parties to cover the smooth service experience.
- Wide support hours (also evenings and weekends).
- Customer specific Service Level Agreements.
- Support languages are English, Swedish, Danish and Finnish.
- Monitoring of all events that occur through the solution to detect and escalate exceptions as agreed.
- Azets job monitoring tool for BC job queue monitoring.
- Follow-up the new releases of solutions in scope.
- Customer specific documentation upkeep.
- Maintenance calendar planning.
- The intention of change and release management is to define, build, test and deploy a controlled change in the Customer’s system.
- Test and release the new updates and releases of the solutions in scope.
- Agreed meeting frequency and sprint model. Agreed release schedule. Service Manager acts as Change Manager.
Upgrade from Microsoft Dynamics NAV to MS 365 Business Central
Why upgrade from NAV to Business Central?
- Microsoft Dynamics NAV has reached the end of its lifecycle, and Microsoft is no longer actively developing older versions.
- Support and maintenance for NAV are being phased out.
- Once Microsoft ends support for your current version of NAV, no more security updates will be provided. This increases the system’s vulnerability and the risk of data breaches.
- Microsoft now offers a modern, cloud-based replacement for NAV: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, a reliable ERP system for businesses of all sizes.
The transition from NAV to Business Central is straightforward with our support. For NAV users, Business Central is easy to adopt, as it includes all the functionalities of NAV within a modern interface. In addition, Business Central offers a range of new features and capabilities that go beyond what NAV could deliver.
How is an upgrade from Microsoft Dynamics NAV performed?
Generally, there are two main methods for upgrading to Business Central:
Generally, there are two main methods for upgrading to Business Central:
- Technical version upgrade
- Clean start (new installation)
Our experts can help you choose the best method and provide a free cost estimate for the upgrade.
Important considerations when planning your NAV upgrade:
The codebase and extent of customizations in your NAV environment:
Are you using standard NAV functionality, or has the solution been tailored with custom features and integrations? This directly impacts the scope and complexity of the upgrade project.
Are you currently using Microsoft Dynamics NAV or Business Central, but your current Partner does not meet expectations?
We sometimes encounter customers with:
- A system that has not been fully implemented
- Users that find the system complicated to use
- A system that is technically outdated
- A current partner who is not able to provide the necessary development resources to support the business.
In such cases, it is possible to change partner, where the maintenance, development and license management of your system will be transferred to Azets. With the help of our solution-oriented team, we can take your system and expertise to a completely new level.
Do you want more information about changing your Business Central Partner?
Contact us
Azets is a leading Nordic provider of business and ERP systems based on Microsoft Business Central. We also offer a range of services that contribute to our customers' business development. We help companies of all sizes and industries achieve their goals. Contact us using the form here for more information on how we can assist your company.