“Work smarter, not harder” is as old as clichés can get, yet when it comes to modern business, it’s as apt as ever. With the advent of agile, AI-powered ERP platforms, successful businesses are embracing technology’s ability to maximize output through automation, integration, and collaboration. By choosing to use Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, businesses of all sizes and industries can arm themselves with the tools needed to enhance and optimize their entire operations.
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One of BC’s biggest advantages over other modern ERP platforms is Microsoft’s powerful AI tool, Copilot. Copilot is a native, integrated AI tool that allows businesses to use artificial intelligence for a variety of tasks to maximize efficiency, ignite creativity, and improve business performance.
Perhaps Copilot’s most powerful feature is its ability to automate routine functions for a business based on a simple text prompt. Tasks such as data entry, matching invoices to sales orders, and checking documents for errors. This frees employees to work on more important, intensive, and fulfilling projects. Additionally, automating tasks like data entry and matching significantly reduces the risk of human error, resulting in more accurate and reliable data.
Copilot can also power non-financial sections of the business, such as marketing, by assisting in the generation of advertising copy, product summaries, or even creating sketches and graphics for advertisements.
As part of the Microsoft 365 family of apps, Dynamics 365 Business Central integrates seamlessly with other Microsoft apps such as Outlook, Teams, and Excel for increased connectivity and production across all parts of the business.
Of most interest on the business side is the seamless integration of Microsoft Excel. Used in tandem with BC’s powerful, built-in suite of reporting capabilities, users can harness the familiarity of Excel to drill down into their data, edit, and then extrapolate conclusions before updating the data directly into the main system, ensuring that data is always up to date.
BC’s integration with Teams and Outlook makes communication easy, regardless of how your business is structured. Since BC is accessible anywhere, from any internet-connected device, your employees are never out of the loop, no matter where they are located. Meetings can be attended from the field, and urgent emails are never out of reach, even if the recipient is not in the office.
Speaking of Teams, BC users can offer read-only access to their BC data to outside users who possess a Microsoft 365 license, enabling better collaboration with outside partners, all without having to pay to add additional licenses into their setup.
As a modern ERP platform, Dynamics 365 Business Central offers users the ability to integrate with pre-built, industry-specific apps to help tackle tricky, highly specialized challenges. With industry-specific options for fields as varied as healthcare, food service, manufacturing, and more, BC enables businesses to solve complex problems unique to their fields, all without sacrificing universal functionality.
BC is a highly customizable platform, which allows businesses the freedom to tweak and change workflows to suit their employees’ preferences and needs. BC offers pre-built templates directly “out-of-the-box” to help businesses begin the optimization process quickly, as well as the ability to customize those templates, or create your own, as you discover additional needs in your workflows and operations. This flexibility allows for increased productivity as well as greater employee satisfaction.
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central offers a wide array of data-driven optimizations and customizations, making it the smart choice for businesses of any industry. A modern, agile ERP platform, it integrates seamlessly with other Microsoft apps and offers powerful AI tools like Copilot to help automate tasks and maximize efficiency, allowing users to accomplish more with less work—every business’ dream.