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LatestDrawing the line between your CRM and your ERP: which system owns inventory, billing, and revenueWhen you run Dynamics 365 and Business Central together, the design question that saves you the most trouble is deciding which system owns each job.Cross-platformBuying GuideAugust 11, 2026
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Aug 6, 2026How a pro sports franchise gets accurate ticket sales reporting with Dynamics 365 Sales CRMA pro sports franchise's group sales team needed a reduced ticket count to post as its own dated line rather than quietly changing the original number. Here is how that gets built in Dynamics 365 Sales, and why the weekly report depends on it.Cross-platformBuying GuideAug 6, 2026What to expect when a Business Central implementation startsA manufacturer near the end of its buying process asked what happens once a Business Central project starts: who you work with, what the first weeks cover, the weekly rhythm, what to prepare, and what tends to move a timeline.Business CentralExplainerAug 5, 2026Co-managed IT for a growing internal team: where an MSP adds depth without replacing your staffWhen an internal IT team is splitting into infrastructure and business-operations tracks, a co-managed arrangement fills the gaps instead of taking over.Cross-platformBuying GuideAug 5, 2026One back Office, many LLCs: structuring IT when you keep spinning up new entitiesA founder-led services group kept launching separate companies off the same team, and the IT question was how to keep the entities clean while sharing people.Cross-platformBuying GuideAug 5, 2026Same product, different price per customer: item variants vs new item numbers in Business CentralA chemical distributor needed the same product to carry a different negotiated cost and price for each customer, and Business Central gives you two clean ways to model it.Business CentralExplainerAug 4, 2026Microsoft agent 365 and computer-use agents: what they are and how the licensing worksA look at the new class of AI agents that operate a browser like a person, and how buying one as a Microsoft license changes the cost math.Microsoft 365ExplainerAug 3, 2026Business Central's MCP server now exposes all standard APIs and API queriesThe Model Context Protocol server in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central now exposes all standard Microsoft APIs plus API queries as tools, which changes the math on custom development for AI agents and integrations.Business CentralExplainerAug 3, 2026Project Operations now enforces time entry incrementsMicrosoft Dynamics 365 Project Operations lets you require that every logged time entry be a multiple of an increment you set, so rounding rules live in the system instead of in your team's habits.Dynamics 365 Project OperationsExplainer
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Jul 30, 2026Dynamics 365 Sales Professional vs Sales Enterprise: what the upgrade buys youA look at when the cheaper Dynamics 365 Sales license does the job and when the extra spend for Enterprise pays for itself.Cross-platformBuying GuideJul 30, 2026Microsoft Fabric in plain terms: reporting across HubSpot and everything else you runWhat Microsoft Fabric is in plain language, when it belongs underneath Power BI, and how both work for a business whose systems are not Microsoft.Power BI & FabricExplainerJul 30, 2026Quality control in Business Central: how the quality management module blocks a failed lotHow Business Central's quality inspection module tests incoming material, blocks a failed lot, and keeps quarantined stock out of production.Business CentralExplainerJul 29, 2026Connecting claude to Google drive: scoping access and the multi-account snagA look at how the Claude Google Drive connector actually scopes access to what each user can see, why shared projects are now limited, and the signed-into-six-accounts problem that quietly breaks it.Cross-platformBuying GuideJul 29, 2026Enrolling Macs in Intune without wiping them: direct registration as an interim stepWhen you can't reset a fleet of Macs right away, direct Intune enrollment gets you security and control today, with automated Apple Business Manager setup for new devices later.Microsoft 365ExplainerJul 28, 2026Sequencing PDM and ERP: why your part master should land before your ERP goes liveAn engineer-to-order instrument manufacturer had a product data management rollout underway and a brand-new ERP to pick, and the order of those two projects mattered more than the timeline.Business CentralExplainerJul 27, 2026Email open tracking in Dynamics 365: why the richer reporting can cost you deliverabilityA clinical-stage biotech weighing the jump to the Enterprise CRM tier learned that embedded email tracking can push more of your mail into junk folders.Cross-platformBuying GuideJul 25, 2026Business Central cloud migration tooling now covers any SQL-based source systemDevelopers can build reusable data migration engines for any SQL-based source system using the same Business Central cloud migration tooling already used for Business Central, Dynamics GP, and Dynamics SL migrations.Business CentralExplainerJul 25, 2026Selling wholesale through Shopify without Shopify Plus: what the Business Central B2B connector coversShopify moved core B2B features to all of its plans and the Shopify Connector for Dynamics 365 Business Central now matches, though catalog limits still separate the lower plans from Plus.Business CentralExplainerJul 25, 2026Subcontracting in Business Central production: what the native capabilities coverNative subcontracting capabilities are generally available in Dynamics 365 Business Central production processes, which reopens the build-versus-add-on question for manufacturers that outsource operations.Business CentralExplainerJul 24, 2026Security and device management in a Google Workspace shop, without adding MicrosoftIf your company runs on Google Workspace Enterprise and needs endpoint protection, device management, and compliance evidence, there is a path that stays out of Microsoft entirely. Here is what Google covers on its own, the specific third-party products that cover the rest, and the questions that decide whether it holds.Cross-platformBuying GuideJul 23, 2026Business Central and Microsoft 365: what connects out of the box and what takes setupTeams, SharePoint, Outlook, Excel, and Power Apps all connect to Business Central, but they need different amounts of work before anyone uses them. Here's what each one does and what has to be turned on.Business CentralExplainerJul 22, 2026Buying ERP advice instead of a full implementation: how a shared-responsibility engagement worksA manufacturer that survived a rough ERP go-live wanted a partner for counsel and specialty work rather than a full build, and here's how we scope that kind of engagement.Cross-platformBuying GuideJul 22, 2026Configurable products without thousands of SKUs: item groups in NetSuite vs bundles in Dynamics 365A CNC manufacturer built a workaround to quote configurable products without buying a configurator, and here's how that need translates when you move to Business Central and Dynamics 365 Sales.Business CentralExplainerJul 22, 2026Microsoft licensing for regulated and compliance-driven businessesWhat Microsoft licensing does and does not do for FDA 21 CFR Part 11, CMMC, HIPAA, and SOC 2. Which capabilities sit in which tier, what a smaller business can do about it, and the two decisions that are expensive to reverse later.Microsoft SecurityExplainerJul 22, 2026Phase 0 for an AI or automation project: the readiness and design work before the buildAn AI or automation project can't be quoted against unknowns like data quality, permissions, and which processes are worth automating at all, so Phase 0 designs and proves the build first.Azure & AIBuying GuideJul 22, 2026Phase 0 for a compliance project: the gap assessment before remediationCompliance remediation can't be fixed-fee quoted until an assessment defines the boundary and maps every control to an owner, which is exactly what a compliance Phase 0 produces.Microsoft SecurityCompliance

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