>> Hello and welcome to What's
New in Dynamics 365 Business Central.
My name is Bill Kramer,
I'm the Director of Product
Marketing for Business Central and I'm
really very excited to be
taking you through some of the new features,
capabilities, and offerings, with our latest release.
For those who may not be familiar
with Business Central, I'll start,
by illustrating how it fits within the Dynamics
365 family of solutions and what makes it unique,
and then we'll talk about what's new.
Dynamics 365 is a central pillar
of Microsoft's Intelligent Cloud strategy.
Microsoft Azure is the premier enterprise cloud
providing a global trusted,
hybrid, and secure platform for business everywhere.
Microsoft 365, adds
the world's best productivity tools like Excel, Outlook,
and SharePoint, the customers use across
the globe to work smarter
faster and more effectively every day.
Connecting the data and users of
these products is Dynamics 365,
the set of turnkey solutions
positioned to unlock next for any business.
Engaging customers, empowering employees,
transforming products, and optimizing operations.
For larger or more complex enterprises,
Dynamics 365 provides a number of
dedicated business solutions that
can be deployed stand alone,
or in concert with each other as needed.
Dynamics 365 for Sales, for Marketing,
Customer Service, Projects Service Automation,
Finance and Operations, Retail and Talent.
Along with solutions for
Artificial Intelligence and Mixed Reality.
But for small and medium size organizations who don't
require quite that level of
complexity to run their business,
well, Business Central is an
all-in-one business management solution.
Combining Financial, Sale Service and
Operations in a single unified experience.
Offering robust analytics and
infused with Artificial Intelligence capabilities.
From day one, it makes
managing a business easier and faster.
Despite its ease of use and the low cost of ownership,
Business Central is a full featured solution.
It's functionally deep and rich owing to
Microsoft's decades of expertise
in business applications development,
yet is tailored specifically to
the needs of small and medium businesses.
Today many of these businesses are facing
acute challenges with their existing systems,
that impede their ability to grow and lead them
to seek out new modern solutions.
Systems are disconnected, information is siloed,
and this is the most common problem
facing businesses of all sizes.
We hear business leaders describe scenarios of having to
copy and paste or rekey information multiple times,
and commonly having to access
several different systems in order
to complete a single common process.
Reporting is often complicated
and provides insufficient information,
out-of-the-box reports have tended to be very basic.
Organizations often need to buy additional software,
or configure existing systems and
reports to get the deeper insights they need.
Both of these workarounds are expensive,
or not scalable, and they're time-consuming efforts.
Lastly, businesses find that
it's increasingly expensive to upgrade,
maintain, and scale their legacy systems.
For some it's the gradual growth
of the business which makes it current software
insufficient and they cite performance concerns or
lack of integration with
key systems like payroll, inventory.
For others who've been using the same software for
10 years or more, outdated capabilities,
inefficient user experience, lack of support,
or the burden of maintaining these systems,
adding new functionality for
their ever-changing business needs.
Well that makes for costly operations that can
adapt or grow at the pace their leaders demand.
We built our solution specifically
to solve these problems for growing businesses,
and help them to digitally transform.
If you've outgrown your existing accounting software
or legacy ERP applications,
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central can easily
and seamlessly connect your people
and processes like never before.
It's deeply integrated with Office 365,
and it's infused with built-in intelligence so,
it's easy to use and helps you make
better business decisions every day.
Business Central puts flexibility
at the core of your business,
enabling you to grow at your own pace
and adapt in real-time.
That means you can start small
with the right fit for employees roles,
your industry, and your business needs and
extend it as your business evolves and grows.
The all-in-one nature of Dynamics 365 Business Central,
eliminate silos so all data can be
quickly and easily shared
with key people throughout the company.
You've got access to the most current accurate data,
so you're making the most informed decisions possible.
So, for example, the
second sales rep in
the field makes a change to a customer quote,
it gets reflected in the numbers being
pulled for a forecast report back at the office.
With more accurate information at your fingertips,
your business can truly began to transform.
You can work wherever your business takes you,
you've got full capabilities on
any device whether desktop, mobile,
or tablet and Business Central
is deeply embedded within Outlook.
So business data and processes
work right where users spend most of their time anyway.
With all business data at your fingertips real-time,
you get an end-to-end view of
the business with out-of-the-box dashboards
designed for each role that give
users exactly what they want to see.
With flexible KPIs that can be
easily tailored for specific needs.
Artificial Intelligence let you elevate
your performance empowers and
improve customer experience.
System suggestions based on historical data and trends,
lead to optimize process outcomes,
better decisions, and higher productivity.
You can easily tailor Business Central in
a no-code environment through
the UI and with embedded PowerApps,
Power BI and Flow.
Visit App Source, it's
Microsoft's business application marketplace
to quickly add third party integrations,
horizontal or vertical specific add-on functionality
that's designed to work seamlessly
with Business Central right from the start.
You can start with as many or few users
and modules as you want,
and grow as your business grows.
Built on Microsoft's Intelligent Cloud,
Business Central will scale and perform as your volumes
do with no additional cost or system tuning required.
So, now that we've covered
the key capabilities and benefits of Business Central,
we'll turn to what's new in the October 2018 Release.
The Microsoft Dynamics 365 family
of business applications,
is built around four key pillars of
software design that guide our product investment.
Dynamics 365 solutions are built to be modern,
unified, intelligent, and adaptable,
and they're built to work
seamlessly with Microsoft's Power platform,
to easily tailor and extend
analytics, processes, and functionality.
This release delivers key advancements
in each of the four pillars.
Starting with a modern UI everywhere,
giving On-premises Windows users
the same rich modern user experience
as Web-based cloud users.
Beyond UI, the cloud and On-premises
versions are fully unified at the application level.
With one core base managing both deployment options.
Intelligent cloud insights are
available for our On-premise customers,
and those customers become cloud-ready.
So, when they want to adapt their operations,
Business Central makes it easy.
With Microsoft Dynamics 365, innovation is constant.
Our investment in research and development and
cutting-edge AI and Machine Learning technologies
is unmatched in the industry and we're delivering
new capabilities into the market faster than ever before.
This is just a sampling of
more than 100 new features we've
delivered in the last six months alone.
So first, let's talk about Unified.
This release of Dynamics 365 Business Central
is a key milestone
in our mission of helping to bring
our small and medium-sized customers to the cloud.
With decades of experience supporting
the success of our On-premises customers,
and hundreds of thousands of customers around
the globe running their business software onsite,
we set out on a journey to support them seamlessly with
a single code base that allows
them to move to the cloud when they're ready.
Our spring release delivered the full capabilities of
a robust On-premise software in the cloud.
With the October release,
customers now have the option to deploy
the service locally to their own choice of hardware,
while also having a replicated tenant
in the cloud to enable
cloud-powered solutions such as Power BI, PowerApps.
Microsoft Flow, and the Advanced Machine Learning and AI
capabilities that can help them
run their business more efficiently.
A dashboard shows their cloud-ready
status so when they're
ready to transition to the cloud
completely, it's a simple step.
The October release also delivers
a key milestone around intelligence,
allowing us to bring insights from
the Intelligent Business Central Cloud,
to existing On-premises customers of
Microsoft Dynamics NAV, GP, and SL.
By adding the Business Central Cloud
these On-premise customers can automatically
synchronize their data to the cloud where
AI and other cloud-based scenarios
can run against their data,
returning insights directly
in their Windows-based solutions.
So, with insights around financial performance,
sales, Power BI dashboards,
predictive cash flow forecasts,
On-premise customers now get
an unparalleled analytical experience
powered by the Cloud.
As a modern business solution
Business Central provides a common experience for cloud,
On-premise, and hybrid deployments.
Users connecting to On-premise or
cloud deployments of Business Central all
benefit from the same productive and
refreshed user interface and features.
This ensures an easier transition
and shorter learning curve for new employee onboarding.
The companion mobile app is common as well.
So, now there is a single Dynamics
365 Business Central universal app,
that's able to connect to cloud,
On-premise, and hybrid deployments.
The apps are available for Windows 10, Android, and iOS.
An updated design for
Business Central further improves data layout,
readability, visibility, and easier navigation.
There's an updated look and feel for
detail pages throughout the system.
We've also streamline navigation with
a back button displayed prominently
on the left of the page,
and special Dynamic system
commands occupying the middle section.
These elements move the navigation closer to users
allowing them to stay focused
on the data and task in hand.
Business Central already had a truly beautiful,
really enjoyable user experience,
something our customers tell us all the time.
This release just continues
our commitment to craftsmanship,
and delivering the best user experience
available anywhere for business applications.
The search field become truly universal.
Delivering a broad and search scope,
enhanced search logic, and revamped results display.
Users can find objects such as pages and
reports but also find actions and product documentation.
Search results display abstracts that
clarify each item in
the result for better user experience,
and most important, the universal search field uses
the advanced AI of Microsoft Cortana language services.
So it's voice-enabled and supports
fuzzy matching, which means,
users can quickly find what they want
even if they don't know exactly what to search for.
The October release they also includes
a number of enhancements to list management.
Advanced lists filtering lets users create
complex filters using operators,
ranges, variables, and shorthand.
A variety of keyboard shortcuts lets users create
compound filters on the fly
without ever leaving the list.
You can apply filters to one or more dimensions that
influence computed values to adjust the limit totals,
and use all this in combination with filter
sort and search to explore and analyze your data.
Performance enhancements and the ability to
copy and paste multiple rows into the same list,
or in a Microsoft Excel,
are just some of the great
productivity enhancements in this release.
The October release also includes a number of
capabilities that benefit IT and administrative users.
Partners receive the ability to build,
upload, manage, deploy, upgrade,
and even troubleshoot their tenants
specific customizations,
and the ISV add-ons they use.
We've made productivity enhancements to
the development experience and added
support for additional extension scenarios.
Developers will be more productive when
developing and troubleshooting solutions,
and we'll have more options to meet
customization requirements using extensions.
Add modify or delete the standard permission sets,
add new permission sets in bulk
with a file upload or via rapid start,
and a new event tracer makes it easier than ever
to identify and extend any action in the system.
It automatically generates code for you.
Lastly, extending our support
for businesses around the world,
the October 2018 release includes
localized versions of Business Central for
customers in Iceland, Norway, and Mexico.
More than translation into native language sets,
these localized versions include
support for applicable accounting tax,
and other local regulatory, and compliance functions.
Well, those are some of
the highlights in the October
release in Business Central.
I'd encourage everyone to visit
the Business Central website to learn more.
Talk to your partner or
let us help find a partner near you,
or just sign up for a free trial,
and experience Business Central yourself. Thank you.