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Implementing Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central On-Premise - Fourth Edition

By : Roberto Stefanetti, Alex Chow
Book Image

Implementing Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central On-Premise - Fourth Edition

By: Roberto Stefanetti, Alex Chow

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics Business Central is a full business solution suite and a complete ERP solution, which contains a robust set of development tools; these tools can help you to gain control over your business and can simplify supply chains, manufacturing, and operations. Implementing Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central On-Premise covers the latest features of Dynamics Business Central and NAV from the end users' and developers' perspectives. It also provides an insight into different tools available for implementation, whether it's a new installation or migrating from the previous version of Dynamics NAV. This book will take you from an introduction to Dynamics NAV 2018 through to exploring all the techniques related to implementation and migration. You will also learn to expand functionalities within your existing Microsoft Dynamics NAV installation, perform data analysis, and implement free third-party add-ons to your existing installation. As you progress through the book, you will learn to work with third-party add-on tools. In the concluding chapters, you will explore Dynamics 365 Business Central, the new Cloud solution based on the Microsoft NAV platform, and techniques for using Docker and Sandbox to develop applications. By the end of the book, you will have gained a deep understanding of the key components for successful Dynamics NAV implementation for an organization.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Dynamics 365 Business Central – integrations


We can integrate Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central using different technologies, such as:

  • Microsoft PowerApps (you can make your Business Central data available on PowerApps)
  • Microsoft Azure Functions (Azure Function is a way for handling integrations and you need to create your own functions)
  • REST APIs (you can create Connect apps with third-party solutions using REST APIs)

Microsoft PowerApps

PowerApps is part of Office 365; it allows you to create apps (web and mobile) that connect to anything within the Microsoft ecosystem. We can considerate an application build platform for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central; it is a cloud-based and no-code solution.

 

 

PowerApps is a suite of apps, services, connectors, and data platforms that provides a rapid application-development environment to build custom apps for your business needs. The following screenshot shows the PowerApps—customer app connected to Dynamics 365 Business Central:

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