Microsoft Dynamics C5 2014 release planned, based on Dynamics NAV core

Microsoft Dynamics C5 is probably one of the most popular Dynamics ERP systems you've never heard of - unless you're a smaller business in Denmark, where it is quite the basic ERP system for small companies in Denmark, according to Erik Ernst, a Dynamics NAV consultant and MVP.

Dynamics C5 is getting face lift later this year, and the new and improved release, Microsoft Dynamics C5 2014, will be a scaled down version - with a maximum of three users - of it's older, more sophisticated sibling, Microsoft Dynamics NAV.

Dynamics C5 2014 will be based on Dynamics NAV 2013 R2, although there's not much information about what exactly will be included. The current version is Dynamics C5 2012.  The development system is not open, and reports must be made using NAV's standard 2013 R2 report designer, Dynamics NAV MVP Mark Brummel wrote in his own blog post.

Brummel is sharing what he knows about Dynamics C5 2014 with users in English because most of the content on the web is in Danish. Why? Because the mini-ERP system has always been a local Danish product.

With this release Microsoft has decided to merge Dynamics C5 and Dynamics NAV, so even though Dynamics C5 will still be called C5 it will run on the NAV core, he said.

"One of the questions Erik raises in his post is what functionality Microsoft will offer with C5," Brummel said. "Although I cannot firmly answer that question I can make a good ...