[Mark Rhodes]

I’m looking for customers in our community who have done an analysis around moving from NAV to Business Central in the cloud.  Have you considered the financial impact around licensing, hardware, telecom, admin, maintenance and backup, modifications, add-ons, integrations, etc.? Have you evaluated the impact to your staff, skills, and processes?  What about new capabilities with your services, operations, future expansion, etc.?  I’d love to hear your story. If you’d like to contact me directly please email me at mark.rhodes@dynamiccommunities.com.  Thank you!

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Mark Rhodes
General Manager, NAVUG
Dynamic Communities
Windsor CO
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[Johannes Sebastian Nielsen]

I would love to see this as well.
BC might not be ready for all NAV customers today, but is currently progressing very fast.

My thoughts:

Cloud vs. On-Premise
NAV has been moving to Azure for a long time along with Subscription licensing.
Is is no surprise MS wants in on the hosting. But I do worry about the Partner channel.
NAVs success is built on a strong partner eco-system.

The user experience
I am not sure a current NAV user will be able to accept BC as it currently, using the Web client anyways.
The system is however evolving quickly and there is also a native Windows store App which I have yet to try out 🙂 

Add-on’s
I know the disallowance of custom DotNet libraries has delayed some ISV solutions if they rely on such. (We dont.)
This is however changing as more and more built-in functions gets available.

Also, we now know DotNet will be allowed in BC “On-Premise” version that will be released in Fall 2018. Some Add-on’s might only become available for this version.

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Johannes Sebastian Nielsen
Tasklet Factory
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[Val Gameiro]

I agree. BC is about 90% there or more.

Certainly, at the moment, there’s less work for partners. More just on the implementation side, nothing on development, but I think that’s coming. I have my first integration with TrueCommerce EDI coming.

And there’s always questions from new users, so there’s support. Especially for people migrating from QuickBooks, there’s a learning curve. Microsoft’s new videos are pretty useful and cover most topics, but some people like them, and some hate ’em.

Overall, for simpler implementations and smaller companies, I think it’s a no brainer.

For bigger companies who want to host it on-prem, MS is releasing BC on-prem in the Fall, I believe. I imagine the RTC is going to get the same minimalistic makeover that seems to be all the rage nowadays.

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Val Gameiro
Advanced Business Systems, LLC
Implementer/Project Manager
Austin, Texas
former NAVUG Austin Chapter Leader
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[Franz Kalchmair]

mark, good questions. many of us would want to get the answers for them. 
as val said, for small companies it could be used as it is today, if they do not want many customizations. the license and user questions: i read quite often, that the licenses are more expensive compared to the current nav licenses. so it’s the companies choice, if it’s worth for them in the long run. for the users it is a change, but if they know the nav webclient, then the change is not so big. for the bigger companies: best wait for the fall release. after that we will see, what are the differences between the online and onprem version. so means, good questions, but to early …

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Franz Kalchmair
Microsoft MVP
Senior Consultant
Austria, Europe
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[Johannes Sebastian Nielsen]

BC is not tablet client-only.

There is also a Windows App client with keyboard shortcuts 🙂

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Johannes Sebastian Nielsen
Tasklet Factory
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