6 predictions for Microsoft Dynamics GP in 2016

It has become something of a tradition for me in the latter parts of the year to predict what comes next for Microsoft Dynamics GP. You can view last year's predictions to see that some have come true while others may be in more of a "pending" state. Here are six new predictions about where GP will go in 2016.

1. Microsoft Dynamics GP and NAV will share more features with each release.

There's already a lot of sharing going on between the GP and the NAV development teams. The NAV team has been helping with the GP HTML 5 client due out early next year and the GP has brought financials improvements and their lessons from GP's workflow engine to the NAV 2016 release. No, I don't think this is some stealth effort to unite the products, they are way too different for that. I do expect this trend to continue with more sharing of features and know-how between the teams.

2. Paperless efforts will accelerate.

Two features in GP 2015 really get user's attention, Workflow and Document Attach. A lot of finance organizations want to eliminate paper. The interest in Document Attach combined with workflow has been huge. The barriers to document management adoption tend to be the budget and fear that the end result won't live up to the hype. GP Document Attach is the gateway to more robust document management solutions like Metafile's MetaViewer. Document Attach in GP is a bit like a first car, people are glad to have anything. After they discover features that can improve their life, it's much easier to justify the next level ...