Tag: Starter

Business Central, Information, License, upgrade

Those planning for Upgrade – Some Important Information

Ashwini Tripathi

As per the roadmap which Microsoft has published for Business Central, it shows that the Business Central product name will be continued for future. It means there will not be a Dynamics NAV 2019.

BC Road-map

Looking at your investment in terms of license and annual BREP, it is sense able to upgrade to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, whether your solution is deployed in Cloud or on-premises.

Don’t take me wrong I don’t mean to say that Microsoft Dynamics NAV and Dynamics 365 for finance and operations, Business edition are now obsolete.

Microsoft is not closing support to these products, it is still available to them. Only any new updates to these solutions we cannot expect any more.

One important note: New customers will still be able to purchase Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2018 till 31st March 2019. Same concept of concurrent user license with starter/extended pack.

From 1st April new customers will not be able to license NAV 2018, but existing NAV customers using the solution can still be able to purchase additional licenses as per their requirements if any.

If you missed earlier post do check this Link also.

 

What had changed in license model for Dynamics 365 Business Central

 

One change that a major one is now no more Concurrent licenses, new license purchased will be for named user.

One user one license, however named user will be able to access the application from multiple devices.

As earlier starter & extended pack was available now it will be Essentials and Premium.

Stander version of Business Central is termed as Essentials while with additional modules Service and Manufacturing is termed as Premium.

When comes to licensing you are not allowed to mix and match essentials & premium licenses, it should be from either of them.

Where is Limited user? Don’t worry it have been taken care as Team Member License. Read access throughout the application and write access to maximum of three tables excluding General Ledger entries.

License can be purchased as Perpetual or Subscription basis.

Licenses for Business Central differ from Dynamics NAV licenses in several ways:

  • Dynamics NAV licenses are calculated from concurrent users, where multiple users can share a license. Business Central licenses, on the other hand, are calculated from named users
  • With Business Central it is no longer necessary to have a Starter Pack. As a minimum, you need a Premium or Essentials user
  • It is only possible to have either Premium or Essentials users in your license. You can purchase Teams Members for both Premium and Essentials licenses.

 

What deployment options are available?

  1. Perpetual License – On premises
  2. Perpetual License – Cloud
  3. Subscription License – On premises
  4. Subscription License – Cloud
  5. Software As A Service (SaaS)

 

When you can upgrade to Microsoft Dynamics Business Central?

 

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is now generally available worldwide for cloud, and on-premises deployments. However you can check if it is available for your country from your local partners.

Local Functionality in Dynamics 365 Business Central

You can go-ahead with upgrade planning whenever you want too. Just get in touch with your current ERP provider.

For free lancing upgrade/development tasks you can contact us too at KSD Consultancy Private Limited. We are taking new project booking till 31st March on our old price, could be fixed or hour basis, which ever suitable to you. You can save lot from your local partners cost.

 

What’s on offer for existing customers?

 

Customers up-to-date with their BREP can upgrade to Dynamics 365 Business Central on-premises using LMT Upgrade.

Due to change in licensing model in Business Central. Below you can see exchange rate from perpetual NAV concurrent license to Business Central named user licenses.

If you have purchased your Dynamics NAV with Perpetual Licencing before October 1, 2018, your current NAV licenses will be converted from:

  • One Full User in Extended Pack to two Premium users
  • One Full user to two Essentials users
  • One Limited user to one Team Member

In addition to the converting of licenses, the licensing setup is different. As mentioned, Dynamics NAV licenses are calculated from concurrent users, where multiple users can share a number of licenses. Business Central licenses, on the other hand, are calculated from named users. The total value of your current licenses will remain the same – even after the conversion.

For more details on Licensing please refer here, make sure you always check with latest version of documents or discuss with your partner for current effective offers.

Dynamics 365 Business Central on-premises Upgrade Policy​

Dynamics 365 Business Central on-premises Licensing Guide

Similar to Dynamics NAV, the functionality of the D365 Business Central is divided into two ‘packages’, Essentials and Premium. The functionality of ‘Essentials’ corresponds to NAV’s ‘Starter Pack’ and the functionality of ‘Premium’ corresponds to NAV’s ‘Extended Pack’

Brief idea as below:

D365 Business Central Essentials /
Dynamics NAV Starter Pack
D365 Business Central Premium /
Dynamics NAV Extended

Financial Management

General Ledger
Cash Management
Fixed Assets
Currencies
Consolidation

Financial Management Extended

Inter-Company (Essentials)
Cost Accounting (Essentials)

Supply Chain Management

Sales Order processing
Purchase and procurement
Item management
Locations
Basic Warehousing

Supply Chain Management
Extended

Advanced Warehousing (Essentials)

Jobs and Resources

Job Planning, Budgets and Invoicing
Resource allocations
Timesheets

 

Contact

Management Contacts
Campaigns
Opportunity Management
D365 Sales Integration

Service Management

Service Contracts
Service Items
Service Order Management

Assembly

Assembly Bill of Materials

Manufacturing

Production BOMs
Works order management
Capacity and Demand planning

It will be always advised to verify before you make up your mind. However you can trust to Microsoft links provided in above post.

 

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License, NAV 2018, Tip & Tricks

Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2018 Licenses

Ashwini Tripathi

You have the choice of purchasing Microsoft Dynamics NAV licenses up front, or paying a monthly fee to a service provider.

Perpetual Licensing:

  • You pay affordable upfront starting price, rapid start tools and built in functionality.
  • You license the ERP Solution functionality, and access to that functionality is secured by licensing users.

 

Perpetual License Overview

Service Provider’s Subscription Licensing:

  • You have choice to keep the upfront cost to a minimum through a “per user per month” licensing fee.
  • This helps get started with a low initial cost while leveraging the built-in functionality and rapid start tools.

 

In both licensing models

You have the choice of two Concurrent-user types –

  1. Limited User (Full Read & Limited Write)
  2. Full User (Full Read & Full Write)

Option to give those users access to advanced functionality through the “Extended Pack.”

Starter and Extended Pack License Overview

Starter Pack (Base Pack – Required)

The Starter Pack offers for one price.

  • Core Financials
  • Distributions
  • Professional Services functionality
  • 3 Full User licenses/ Concurrent CALs included
  • Additional Software licenses may be required, like Server, SQL, Office 365, SharePoint. Additional Software must be licensed according to the applicable license terms.

For many businesses, this is the only license component required.

 

Extended Pack (Optional)

The Extended Pack enables customers to integrate core financials and distribution management with broader functionality extensions such as:

  • Manufacturing to support and control the manufacturing environment
  • Warehousing to manage the warehouse to support operations
  • The first three Full Users included in the Start Pack and coming users get to access to all of the incremental functionality.
  • Starter Pack is the prerequisite to the Extended Pack

 

Packaging of Functionality

A Microsoft Dynamics NAV customer can choose whether to deploy the Starter and Extended Pack through the

  • Microsoft Windows client for Microsoft Dynamics NAV
  • Web client for Microsoft Dynamics NAV
  • Microsoft Dynamics NAV Portal framework for Microsoft SharePoint (also known as the Microsoft Dynamics NAV SharePoint client)

All through the same User types.

2018 Functionality -1

 

2018 Functionality -2

Starter Pack is for companies who need

  • Core Financials
  • Trade functionality
  • Basic Financials Management (General Ledger and Fixed Assets)
  • Basic Supply Chain Management
  • Basic Sales Management (Sales, Purchasing and Inventory)
  • Professional Services (Project management)
  • A broad set of Business Insight and reporting functionality as an integral part of the product.
  • A wide range of tools to customize the solution, to meet the needs of every customer together with deep integration opportunities to be made through web services.

 

Extended Pack is for growing, midmarket, or high-functional-needs companies who are looking for an adaptive solution with a broad set of functionality:

  • Warehousing
  • Manufacturing
  • It comes with additional customization objects for doing more extensive customizations.

 

CONFIGURATION AND DEVELOPMENT

Page Designer

  • Change existing pages and enables you to create 100 page objects (included and numbered from 50,000 to 50,099).
  • The Page Designer also enables you to use the Navigation Pane Designer. This means, for example, that you can create new menu items.
  • This module does not include access to C/AL from pages.

Report Designer

  • Change existing reports and create 100 new report objects (numbered from 50,000 to 50,099).
  • This module provides access to C/AL (the C/SIDE application language) from reports used for defining special calculations and business rules.
  • Create new reports from scratch or copy an existing report to use as a starting point.
  • This module enables you to take advantage of the functionality included for developers in the Navigation Pane Designer (for example, creating new menu items).

Table Designer

  • Change existing table definitions and create ten new tables (numbered from 50,000 to 50,009).
  • You can change properties on fields, such as the field name, decimal places, and maximum value, add new fields to existing tables, and create new tables to store data specific to your business.
  • Create keys for sorting information and change or create new FlowFields and FlowFilters for “slicing and dicing” information in new ways.
  • This module does not include access to C/AL from tables.

XMLports (100)

  • Create new or change existing XMLport objects.
  • XMLport Designer provides access to C/AL (the C/SIDE application language) from XMLports used for defining special calculations and business rules.
  • Every XMLport object in Microsoft Dynamics NAV is created using this tool and can therefore be customized easily.
  • This module enables you to create 100 new XMLport objects (numbered from 50,000 to 50,099) and to take advantage of the functionality included for developers in the
  • Navigation Pane Designer (for example, creating new menu items).

Query Designer

  • The Query Designer provides the ability to modify existing queries in the application, as well as create up to 100 new queries.
  • The Query Designer is the main tool for creating objects of the type Query.
  • Query objects retrieve subsets of data spread across the database and are data pumps for various places within the application such as charts and business logic.

 

Application Builder (A la carte)

  • Change the business rules and special calculations that work behind the scenes. Business rules and special calculations are defined in C/AL (the C/SIDE application language).
  • Although this granule includes access to C/AL, it does not permit access to existing C/AL code that updates write-protected tables (for example, postings).
  • With Application Builder, you can create entirely new areas of functionality for your application, enabling you to tailor Microsoft Dynamics NAV to fit your entire organization.
  • It also enables you to create 100 codeunit objects (numbered from 50,000 to 50,099).
  • You can also take advantage of the functionality included for developers in the Navigation Pane Designer (for example, creating new menu items).

 

Solution Developer (A la carte)

  • Change the business rules and special calculations that work behind the scenes. Business rules and special calculations are defined in C/AL (the C/SIDE application language).
  • This module provides access to code that updates write-protected tables to the Merge and Upgrade Tools.
  • You can also Change or create any object type, Use the menu options Translate/Export and Translate/ Import in the Object Designer.

(These options are not available with the Application Builder module).

 

Application Objects

Codeunits (100)

  • 10 Codeunits are included in the Starter Pack
  • 10 Codeunits are included in the Extended Pack.
  • Additional groups of 100 are available in the Customization suite.

Reports (100)

  • Additional groups of 100 are available in the Customization suite.

Tables (10)

  • 10 tables are included with the Extended Pack.
  • Additional groups of 10 are available in the Customization suite.

XMLports (100)

  • 100 XMLports are included with the Extended Pack.
  • Additional groups of 100 are available in the Customization suite.

Queries (100)

  • Additional groups of 100 are available in the Customization suite.

Pages (100)

  • 100 Pages are included with the Extended Pack.
  • Additional groups of 100 are available in the Customization suite.

 

For more details you can check here.