Dynamics Business Central / NAV Developer Digest - Vol. 528
ArcherPoint’s Developer Digest focuses on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and Dynamics NAV development. This week’s volume includes MCP for Business Central, an AI playground codeunit for BC, and a look at the Internet’s early development.
The Dynamics 365 Business Central community, consisting of developers, project managers, and consultants, collaborates across various platforms to share valuable insights. At ArcherPoint, we greatly value their dedication and expertise. To ensure widespread access to this technical knowledge, we created Developer Digest.
Is Business Central ready for MCP?
One challenge for AI systems is integrating new data sources. Function calling allows models to connect to external APIs but requires custom handling, making it hard to scale.
The Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open standard introduced by Anthropic, attempts to standardize how AI applications connect with external data sources and systems, providing a universal method of connecting to data and tools.
This can significantly impact the connection between AI agents and assistants to data sources.
Stefano Demiliani discusses using an MCP server for Business Central to integrate ERP actions or data into Microsoft Copilot, GitHub Copilot, and more.
Read his blog to learn more: An MCP server for Dynamics 365 Business Central? Why not?
Playing in the AI playground for Business Central
Speaking of AI in Business Central, Erik Hougaard provides a video demonstration of his AI playground codeunit for BC.
The code, available from GitHub, allows users to connect to various LLMs (Azure OpenAI, ChatGPT OpenAI, LMStudio, etc.) and provide prompts that can tailor the output.
This video demonstrates the possibilities for using AI in BC.
Check out Erik’s video, My AI playground codeunit for Business Central.
The start of something big
A man had too many computer terminals on his desk. From that humble beginning, Robert Taylor, the director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Information Processing Techniques Office (ARPA IPTO), started a chain of events that resulted in the development of the Internet.
Jeremy Reimer provides a fascinating trip through the early days of the development of the Internet. Read the first installment of his series, An Ars Technica history of the Internet, part 1.
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