When Your IT partner Doesn’t Know Your Systems: What Could Happen, and How to Prevent It from Happening

We’ve seen it many times with many companies: The IT team decides to make updates to an application, operating system, or platform without first checking to see how that update will affect other systems—and something “breaks.” The fact is, one team doesn’t necessarily know what another team is doing, the tools they’re using, or how… Continue reading When Your IT partner Doesn’t Know Your Systems: What Could Happen, and How to Prevent It from Happening

Microsoft’s New Commerce Experience: What It Means for Customers

What Is Microsoft’s New Commerce Experience (NCE)? Microsoft has announced and will start rolling out in January 2022 its New Commerce Experience. What is NCE? Simply put, it is a new pricing model. Microsoft’s goal is to simplify the buying experience for all of their business customers. Over the years, as Microsoft has developed and acquired… Continue reading Microsoft’s New Commerce Experience: What It Means for Customers

Manufacturing in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central: How to Choose between Premium and Essential Licensing 

In 2018, Microsoft began offering Dynamics 365 Business Central in two versions: Business Central Essentials and Business Central Premium. If your company has manufacturing and/or assembly as part of your business, it is important to understand the difference between these two versions to ensure you get the solution that addresses your needs. This blog post discusses the differences between the… Continue reading Manufacturing in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central: How to Choose between Premium and Essential Licensing 

Why Cysiv Chose Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Doesn’t Require Tricky Modifications to Fit the Bill Finding the right solution to solve business problems is a challenge nobody is immune from. Even sophisticated technology companies struggle with issues around business processes, customer service, security…the list goes on. Regardless of the challenge, a modern ERP solution should be the… Continue reading Why Cysiv Chose Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

Choosing a Partner for Migrating from Dynamics GP to Dynamics Business Central

Although Microsoft Dynamics GP (Great Plains) will be around for a while, it’s clear that Microsoft is putting emphasis on development of Dynamics 365 Business Central. If you’re a GP user, you’ve probably heard of many reasons why it’s time to move to another ERP, specifically Microsoft Dynamics Business Central, and the advantages of doing… Continue reading Choosing a Partner for Migrating from Dynamics GP to Dynamics Business Central

Advantages of Moving from GP to a Microsoft ERP Solution

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For the past several years, since it became evident that Microsoft is focusing future development on Dynamics 365 Business Central and less on Microsoft Dynamics GP (Great Plains), GP users have been hit hard by vendors and partners trying to convince them to move to another ERP. While some of the information being presented to… Continue reading Advantages of Moving from GP to a Microsoft ERP Solution

The Microsoft Technology Stack – What It Is and Why You Should Care

If you’re around technology at all, you’ve become accustomed to acronyms, clever (and not so clever) names, terminology, slang, and so forth—some of which are pretty obvious in their meaning, some not so much. But beyond that conundrum is this question: I know what XYZ term/name/acronym is, but I don’t know why it should matter… Continue reading The Microsoft Technology Stack – What It Is and Why You Should Care

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2021 Wave 1 Release

True to form, Microsoft will be including a plethora of new features and functions in the latest release of Dynamics 365 Business Central 2021 Release Wave 1 (due for general availability this spring). Areas of improvement include service, administration, banking/payments, collaboration, and onboarding, as well as new country specific products and modern development tools. Read on… Continue reading Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2021 Wave 1 Release

Highlights from Nadella’s Inspire 2019 Keynote: Connecting the Entire Enterprise

Connecting the Entire Enterprise The keynote delivered by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella at the 2019 Inspire conference was inspiring to partners…but what about customers? There was a lot of great content, so we’re using this 3-part blog series to boil it down and tell you what it all means to users of Microsoft Dynamics 365… Continue reading Highlights from Nadella’s Inspire 2019 Keynote: Connecting the Entire Enterprise

Microsoft Inspire 2019 Nadella Keynote: What Customers Need to Know

The Technical Landscape The keynote Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella delivered to Microsoft partners at the 2019 Inspire conference was…inspiring. But why should customers be inspired? Nadella had much to say, so we’re boiling it down in this 3-part blog series to relay what this means to anyone using Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central or Dynamics… Continue reading Microsoft Inspire 2019 Nadella Keynote: What Customers Need to Know