Dynamics 365 Strategy & Ecosystem
Planning, ISVs, and news from the wider Microsoft Dynamics ecosystem — what is changing and what it means for your roadmap.
9 articles
Reporting Inside Business Central vs. Power BI: Where the Line Should Sit
Business Central reporting vs Power BI: which reports belong in the ERP, which belong in Power BI, and how to stop the same number showing up in two places and disagreeing.
Floyd Chan · 6 min read
Five Reports Your CFO Wants That You Cannot Build Inside Business Central
Five CFO reports that reveal Business Central reporting limitations: cohort margin, forecast versus actual, cost-to-serve, multi-entity inventory aging and cash conversion, and where each belongs instead.
Nick Detmer · 6 min read
Seven Signals You've Outgrown Business Central
Have you outgrown Business Central? Ignore revenue and headcount. Seven operational signals that point to Dynamics 365 Finance, five bad reasons to move, and how to score your own evidence.
Nick Detmer · 7 min read
Demand Planning Without a Crystal Ball: What Business Central Does Natively vs. What You Have to Add
Business Central demand planning and forecasting: what the native supply-planning engine does well, where statistical forecasting needs Supply Chain Management or an ISV, and how to tell a data problem from a tooling problem.
Nick Detmer · 7 min read
Three Ways to Get Business Central Data Into Microsoft Fabric (And Which One You Actually Need)
Three ways to get Business Central data into Microsoft Fabric — OData/API pulls, the community BC2ADLS pattern, and Microsoft's native BC2Fab link into OneLake — and how to pick the one you actually need.
Nick Detmer · 6 min read
Business Central vs. Dynamics 365 Finance: The Comparison Without the Sales Pitch
Business Central vs. Dynamics 365 Finance without the sales pitch. Where the two products overlap, where the gap is oversold, what each licence costs, and why complexity rather than revenue should decide.
Nick Detmer · 7 min read
Dominate Your Market with Valuable ISVs – A Qixas Group Perspective
At Qixas Group, as a Microsoft Gold partner, we're privileged to work with an array of Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) that enrich Microsoft Dynamics...
Shawna Sharma · 3 min read
Why ERP Projects Fail Because of Poor Planning
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) projects may well be the key to your growing business. From Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and beyond, these...
Nick Detmer · 2 min read
Meet Floyd Chan, This year's winner of The Microsoft Directions Excellence Award
Meet Floyd Chan, This year's winner of The Microsoft Directions Excellence Award The Microsoft Directions Excellence Award recognizes like-minded leaders...
Shawna Sharma · 1 min readOther topics
Migration & Upgrades
Moving from Dynamics NAV, GP, or on-premises Business Central to the cloud: upgrade paths, data migration, performance, and what it costs.
Retail & Hospitality
Unified commerce for specialty retailers, hotels, and restaurants: POS, inventory, margin protection, and loss prevention on Dynamics 365 and LS Retail.
ERP Implementation
Choosing a partner, planning the rollout, and driving adoption — the decisions that determine whether an ERP project delivers.