How far away is the Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Financials train?

January 12 2017

Train at a station

I listened to Paul White at Directions 2016 last year and his assurances that the Microsoft Dynamics NAV market as we knew it was not going away. Dynamics 365 for Financials was a different and new market segment that, while growing rapidly,

About James Crowter

I'm passionate about how businesses can improve their efficiency by getting process optimal more of the time. For the last twenty five years I've worked to help organisations of all sizes and types implement the ERP & CRM software that typically they decide they need when things are going wrong. I've seen that work unbelievably well and enabled those organisations to rapidly grow but I've also had some hard projects over that time where it's felt more like warfare at times.

Since 1996 (and version 1.01) I've been working with a small Danish product called Navision that's now become Microsoft's Dynamics NAV and I've also been using and consulting around Microsoft CRM since 2005. As managing Director of one of the longest established first Navision and now Microsoft Dynamics partners I've been involved in the complete history including numerous product councils and system design reviews. It's my privilege to know many of the key Microsoft executives and product designers and have insight into both where the products are now and their future direction.

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On January 26th, 2017 Adair Durie said:

First, great article. My quick comments: * The confusion around D365F is hurting NAV sales right now, resulting in Microsoft and the NAV channel bleeding money, as the market does not see that Microsoft has a practical SMB solution * Due to the current lack of functionality in D365F, it would be unusual for any 5+ user companies to use D365F. Yet due to the significant marketing of D365 and the lack of marketing for NAV, the market does not perceive that Microsoft has a practical SMB solution. * When D365F is of similar capability to NAV, the NAV Partner channel will move to D365F. No issues. I am waiting with anticipation!!!
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On January 26th, 2017 James Crowter said:

Here in the UK Adair, we are not seeing NAV slowdown because of D365F, in fact the partner I work for has just had two record months after twenty odd years. We are starting to get the odd question about D365F, I think the massive press coverage is bringing it to people’s attention. Once we explain there is no current timetable for release yet, they are buying or subscribing to NAV. If your in the US or CA I can understand it might be different. Microsoft could do with committing to at least an outline roadmap; clients need that to be able to plan decisions. My suggestion would be to put them on a NAV subscription platformed on Azure and tell them they can move to D365F when it ready for them. After all its not the first Microsoft product release that’s take a couple of releases to make maturity is it?

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