Improving Prompt Engineering for Copilot: Content Creation, Code Development, and More

As generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) becomes more commonplace, businesses are leveraging them for content creation, code development, image creation, and process automation. Microsoft is continuing to add AI capabilities and development tools to Business Central. For example, Microsoft has partnered with OpenAI, the makers of ChatGPT, to make generative AI available for Business Central with… Continue reading Improving Prompt Engineering for Copilot: Content Creation, Code Development, and More

ArcherPoint’s Most Popular Content in 2023

Every year, the experts at ArcherPoint work hard to provide informative content that covers a wide range of topics of interest to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central users, from How-To blogs that show you how to accomplish specific tasks in Business Central to technical articles that explain how things work under the hood in Business… Continue reading ArcherPoint’s Most Popular Content in 2023

Understanding Business Central’s Multi-Tenant Architecture: Customization, Security, and Scalability

Microsoft Business Central is an enterprise resource planning (ERP) software that helps organizations manage their financials, operations, sales, and customer service. Business Central supports single and multitenant deployments. A tenant in Business Central is a dedicated and isolated environment that provides a single instance of the software for an organization to run its business processes… Continue reading Understanding Business Central’s Multi-Tenant Architecture: Customization, Security, and Scalability

How to: Handle Drop Shipments and Special Orders in Business Central

Businesses routinely make purchases of stock items to keep in inventory, then send them out as sales orders come in. But when a customer orders an item that is not typically in stock or makes a special request for a stock item, the processes are a little different. These actions refer to Drop Shipments and… Continue reading How to: Handle Drop Shipments and Special Orders in Business Central

Great Software, Bad Implementation

The wrong ERP partner can make or break your company Companies perform extensive searches looking for the best ERP. However, once software selection is completed, they often don’t perform the same due diligence, looking for the best partner to implement that software. Choosing the right ERP software is only one part of the puzzle; selecting… Continue reading Great Software, Bad Implementation

Is There Life After Microsoft Dynamics AX?

Consider Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central as an alternative to Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management If your business is running Dynamics AX, you should know (or perhaps already know) that Microsoft’s Mainstream Support for AX ended on October 12, 2021, and Extended Support ended on January 10, 2023. The impact to you is… Continue reading Is There Life After Microsoft Dynamics AX?

Streamline Operations with Logistics and Shipping Solutions for Business Central

Shipping and logistics have been a critical part of successful businesses for years. The rise of eCommerce has placed increased pressure on companies to get their products into the hands of their customers as fast and as efficiently as possible. For Dynamics 365 Business Central customers, options are available to improve shipping operations. Microsoft Dynamics… Continue reading Streamline Operations with Logistics and Shipping Solutions for Business Central

How Quick-Serve Restaurants Benefit from an Integrated, End-to-End System

As we move into a new year, it is a good idea to pause and consider how your quick-serve restaurant is performing and the steps you can take to increase your efficiency, sustainability, customer satisfaction, and, ultimately, your profitability. Many restaurants have experienced incremental improvements by updating various parts of their operations with new technologies.… Continue reading How Quick-Serve Restaurants Benefit from an Integrated, End-to-End System

Is Your On-Premises Business Central Cloud-Compliant? It could end up costing you!

One of the features that made Navision, and later Dynamics NAV, so popular was how easy developers could customize the application for a client by modifying the base code. The downside was that upgrading the base code required merging the code from different application versions. This merge process is known as a code upgrade or… Continue reading Is Your On-Premises Business Central Cloud-Compliant? It could end up costing you!

Choosing Business Central over Finance and SCM for Manufacturing

The next generation of Dynamics AX If you’re a manufacturer looking to migrate from Microsoft Dynamics AX to Finance and Supply Chain Management, you might want to take a closer look at Business Central before you decide. The combination of Finance and Supply Chain Management is the next generation of AX. It is a powerful… Continue reading Choosing Business Central over Finance and SCM for Manufacturing