• Synchronization Pattern

    Many times I wrote about “decoupling” and “integration” between Business Central and other systems, now I want to share my approach to data synchronization. Let’s take a third party WMS …

  • Old but gold Intranet

    I started designing Intranets many (and many 😅) years ago and, despite new technological stuffs, these sites are hard to die. An intranet is a computer network for sharing information, …

  • “Fast Track” Migrations

    In the past weeks I’m talking with some colleagues about the “best way” to do a successful migration from NAV to Business Central. Since there is not a “best way” …

  • Less Dev, More Ops

    Last monday I received a support request by a customer: All number series are wrong! New orders are taking 2022 numbers and posted invoices 2023 ones! WTF 🤯 I immediately …

  • Accounting reconciliation with Copilot

    Few months ago, Microsoft announced “Bank account reconciliation with Copilot” an exciting new feature for Business Central. Bookkeepers in SMB organizations need to import bank statements and reconcile transactions with …

  • V24, here you go!

    Last 5th of April, Microsoft released Business Central 2024 wave 1 (V24) for On Premises environments. As known, who use BC in Cloud don’t have to worry about upgrading: Microsoft …

  • Update Business Central on premise in minutes!

    Every month Microsoft releases a Cumulative Update for Business Central and two times per year a new major version is released (“wave 1” in April and “wave 2” in October). …

  • “AppDestination”

    In these weeks I’m wondering what will be the evolution of Business Central AppSource. I had already spoken about the issues working with third party APPs with closed source (IP …

  • Yet another post about decoupling

    Some weeks ago, Stefano Demiliani wrote an interesting post about “decoupling” (“Decoupling”: the misterious word for many Dynamics 365 Business Central partners. – Stefano Demiliani). He concluded: And for you, …

  • One month at the speed of light

    In these days I’m working on a complex migration from NAV to BC of a pharmaceutical environment. The customer is satified by NAV, the processes are very standardized and the …

  • IP Rights and Open Source

    Probably you noticed that in the last source files of Microsoft Business Central, the Open Source MIT license appeared: The Business Central source code (and previous the NAV source code) …

  • The same companion table

    Waiting for the 2023 Wave 2 release of Dynamics 365 BC, I want to share some considerations with you about the Extensions data model. Here is what we are expecting …

  • Old blog posts in translation…

    Be patient: I’m translating the old blog posts in English. 🙂

  • Goodbye C/SIDE, welcome AL!

    It was a long journey that led to the development of “Extensions V2” for Dynamics NAV. Those who have tried with events and then with the first extensions will remember …

  • Move SQL databases from one server to another

    If you have many databases, SQL Agent jobs, and logins with special permissions, moving an instance of SQL Server from one server to another can take a long time. However, …