

There followed in 1987 the first version of Navision, a client/server-based accounting application that allowed multiple users to access the system simultaneously. PC&C released its first accounting package, PCPlus, in 1985-a single-user application with basic accounting functionality. Navision originated at PC&C A/S (Personal Computing and Consulting), a company founded in Denmark in 1984. Customers with a Dynamics NAV Extended Pack license were moved to the Premium edition.īusiness Central was first published as Dynamics NAV and Navision, which Microsoft acquired in 2002. įrom the launch of the Business Central rebrand, the licensing model changed to a per-seat license model with a 3x concurrent to seat multiplier added to any existing perpetual licences from previous Dynamics NAV versions. The full user has access to the entire system, where as the limited user only has read access to the system and limited write access. With this model, user licenses were of two types: Full User or a Limited User. With the arrival of NAV 2013, Microsoft introduced a new licensing model that operated on a concurrent user basis. Premium includes all of Essentials functionality plus Service Management and Manufacturing features. Essentials covers Finance, Sales, Marketing, Purchasing, Inventory, Warehousing, and Project Management. There are two editions of Business Central, Essentials and Premium. The system is compliant with various internal financial standards to meet local requirements, such as GDPR, IAS/IFRS and SOX. There are an additional 47 localizations provided by local partners.

Localization Īs an international ERP system, Business Central is available with 24 official localizations to work with the local features and requirements of various countries. Some features, such as integration with other online Microsoft services, aren't available in the on-premises version and are only available in the online edition. The Dynamics 365 Business Central system comes in both an online hosted ( SaaS) version and an on-premises version for manual deployment and administration.

The product is designed to assist with finance, manufacturing, customer relationship management, supply chains, analytics and electronic commerce operations of small to medium businesses (SMB). Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system from Microsoft, part of the Microsoft Dynamics 365 product family.
