Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central reaches general availability, with promise of smooth NAV transition to come
Microsoft launches Dynamics 365 Business Central today, April 2, with plans to reach both new prospects looking for a SaaS ERP solution and existing Dynamics NAV customers looking for continuity.
The latest roadmap for Business Central now shows that NAV as a brand name will have no further releases after NAV 2018. There had been plans for NAV 2018 R2 in the autumn of 2018 but that appears to have been scrapped in favor of a move directly to Dynamics 365 Business Central for both cloud and on-premises in the second half of 2018.
In a new announcement, Microsoft GM Marko Perisic states that the decision is not an indication of any disruption in the roadmap or release plans for existing NAV customers. "For the existing partners and customers, this will be just another upgrade, like they would do for Dynamics NAV, with a name change," he writes.
Dynamics NAV and Business Central run the same code base, Perisic and other Microsoft officials have stated multiple times. That commitment will preserve NAV user and partner investments, Perisic re-iterated, whether customers choose to stay on-premises or look to migrate to the public cloud:
Because Dynamics 365 Business Central and Dynamics NAV run the same application code base, this empowers us to smoothly transition all our Dynamics NAV partners and customers into Dynamics 365 Business Central. Dynamics 365 Business Central is a cloud first solution, designed for the age of digital transformation powered by the cloud. But it will not be a cloud only solution. In the ...
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