Microsoft 365 Business Central

For about a year now, we have been talking about “Tenerife”. Despite going to great lengths to calm down the partner channel, the name and what it stood for has caused massive misunderstandings and great anxiety. Hopefully that anxiety will come to an end because today the new name has been announced: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (click here for the announcement and click here for the overview page). A catchy, easy-to-pronounce, 14 syllable name, and it is scheduled to be released on April 2, 2018.

I just wanted to put this out there, and I don’t have a ton of things to say right now, but watch this space for much more stuff to come. This week is Directions Asia in Bangkok, and there will be plenty of information coming out of that event. With the release of the new product there will be some new requirements for partners to get their IP into AppSource, and I will have plenty of things to share about that. Microsoft is working incredibly hard on getting all the information out there, including new material in the learning portal (the link that I had wasn’t working when I wrote this, so I owe you that one) and a ton of new and updated content in the new technical documentation site called ‘docs’.

I am in a very fortunate position to be involved in the very early stages of Business Central, I’ve had the pleasure to be working with the new product for a while now. I have to say I was skeptical of the Web Client and having everything in the cloud, but as I’ve gotten used to how it all works, and how the new ecosystem is forcing to improve our internal processes, I can’t help but be happy about the way that my industry is taking me into a more professional approach to my business. No longer do we get away with flying by the seat of our pants, and do whatever we can get out there in a short term, quick and dirty way. We must adapt and get ALL of our ducks in a row. Our approach to design, architecture, coding, marketing, delivery, automated testing, EVERYTHING must be in top shape in order to be successful in the new age.

This is the time where you have to adapt, or be disrupted. For me personally, it scares the heck out of me, but I also welcome the challenge. I am looking forward to what is to come next, I hope you are too.

2 thoughts on “Microsoft 365 Business Central”

    1. Great minds think alike Jon 🙂 I saw you were in Thailand for Directions Asia, I did not make it out there unfortunately

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