Overview
Comprehensive business management
Work smarter, adapt faster, and perform better with Business Central—named the best ERP system of 2024 by Forbes Advisor.1
- Use powerful AI with Copilot and automated workflows to streamline processes, speed up tasks, and make better decisions.
- Work seamlessly with the Microsoft 365 applications you already use, such as Outlook, Excel, and Microsoft Teams, reducing data entry and switching between applications.
- Protect your data while maintaining regulatory compliance with world-class identity protection, role-based access, and encryption.
- Remove data silos and access business intelligence with real-time dashboards, flexible reports, AI-driven insights, sustainability tracking, and key performance indicators (KPIs) for each role.
- Manage your finances end to end—oversee your budget, accelerate month-end and year-end close, automate bank reconciliation, use unlimited dimensions, track fixed assets, and more.
- Create accurate cash-flow projections using AI to analyze the financial position of your business.
- Make more profitable decisions with robust reporting, ad-hoc analysis using Copilot, and connections to Excel and Microsoft Power BI.
- Support multiple currencies, languages, exchange rates, consolidations, intercompany transactions, and tax regulations.
- Increase sales with marketing text suggestions from Copilot, customer interaction tracking, and guidance on upsell, cross-sell, and renewal opportunities.
- Take better care of customers by managing the entire sales process from within Outlook and deliver better outcomes with connected service operations.
- Transition smoothly from sales to service, track customer returns and repairs, and manage service agreements to meet and exceed customer expectations.
- Improve your customer experience by connecting with Dynamics 365 Sales, Customer Service, and Field Service.
- Better manage projects using timesheets and advanced job costing and reporting. Develop and modify detailed budgets to enhance project profitability.
- Manage resource utilization by planning capacity and sales. Track customer invoicing against planned or actual costs.
- Get real-time business intelligence on project status, profitability, and resource-utilization metrics.
- Enable employees to do their best work with role-based access, and foster collaboration by sharing links to projects directly in Microsoft Teams.
- Improve your supply chain with vendor management, purchasing, e-commerce with Shopify, order fulfillment, and returns.
- Optimize manufacturing outputs, even in agile and complex environments, with detailed bills of materials, assembly-to-order support, and production orders.
- Replenish inventory based on actuals, demand, and availability using AI-powered sales and inventory forecasting.
- Improve organization within your storage facilities and manage inventory with an easy pick-and-put-away process supported by bar-code scanners.
Copilot in Business Central
Work smarter with Microsoft Copilot
Use the power of next-generation AI with Copilot in Dynamics 365 Business Central to boost productivity, spark creativity, and improve business performance.
FEATURES
Experience the Business Central difference
Be ready for growth
Support your business now and as it grows with the industry-leading reliability, scalability, and performance of the Microsoft Cloud.
Take your business on the go
Work anywhere with full capabilities on desktop, tablet, or mobile across Windows, macOS, Android, and iOS devices.
Rapidly deploy and onboard
Implement in weeks and get users started quickly with role-based dashboards, 200-plus training courses, content-aware help, and guided tours.
Available worldwide
Use Business Central in 47 languages and in over 160 countries to expand your business globally.
Meet your sustainability goals
Track and report greenhouse gas emissions with ease and accuracy to manage your environmental impact.
Customize with prebuilt apps
Extend Business Central with industry-specific apps and extensions to meet your unique vertical or business requirements.
Collaborate in Microsoft Teams
Improve collaboration with read-only access to Business Central data with a Microsoft 365 license—no additional charge.
Streamline with custom workflows
Enhance productivity with built-in workflow templates—or build your own—using the embedded Microsoft Power Automate experience and Copilot.
Connect with existing systems
Take advantage of open architecture to combine Business Central with systems you already use, such as payroll.
See the Total Economic Impact™ of Business Central
Learn how businesses reduced costs and increased overall efficiency in this 2023 Forrester study.2
Pricing
Simple, straightforward pricing
Get the scalability, flexibility, and security of Business Central.
Partners
Tap into the Microsoft partner network
Access industry-leading Microsoft partners for help buying, implementing, and optimizing Business Central.
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Connect with an expert
Get matched with a Business Central partner to help you through your business challenges.
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If you prefer to search for a partner on your own, visit AppSource to find a specialist in your area.
Customer stories
Trusted by the world’s most innovative brands
Resources
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Frequently asked questions
- An ERP (enterprise resource planning) system is a software platform businesses use to manage and integrate data across core processes such as finance, procurement, manufacturing, and supply chain. ERP systems centralize data, streamline operations, and enhance decision making across the organization.
- Migrating to the cloud with Business Central can help you reduce costs associated with maintaining on-premises systems, streamline operations by using more timely data, and enhance security. You’ll also have access to AI capabilities such as Copilot, enabling your teams to work smarter, adapt faster, and perform better.
- Business Central is part of the Microsoft ecosystem of solutions that work together and scale as your business grows. Get seamless cloud access to real-time data connected to Microsoft 365 (Outlook, Excel, and Teams) and Microsoft Copilot. Tackle your unique business challenges with low-code apps from Microsoft Power Platform and prebuilt industry solutions available on AppSource.
- Business Central works seamlessly with Microsoft Teams, Outlook, and Excel, enabling employees to collaborate and access information without switching applications. You can even share Business Central data, such as product details, with coworkers who have a Teams license, at no additional cost. Explore how Business Central and Microsoft 365 connect data to the tools where work is done.
- Get started today with a free 30-day trial of Business Central or take a quick self-service guided tour. See why over 40,000 small and medium-sized businesses have chosen Business Central to adapt faster, work smarter, and perform better.
- See the high-level capabilities included in Business Central Essentials and Business Central Premium licenses and compare options. For a more detailed overview, download the Business Central capability guide.
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- [1]Forbes Advisor, Best Cloud ERP Software of 2024, Amy Nichol Smith, March 24, 2024.
- [2]The Total Economic Impact™ Of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting, October 2023. Results are for a composite organization based on interviewed customers.
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