Walk with me through the learning curve of a developer who is new to Business Central. We’ll assume he/she is familiar with modern web development. Wow! I’ll give Microsoft the WOW effect. When you spin up Business Central you get more than you bargained for. Where other frameworks show you a hello...

I use Extensions and Visual Studio Code in my daily life. Or at least for a while, nowadays it’s more something in my weekly life. I try to avoid them when I can. Not because they are bad or evil but because they slow down my productivity, and because I have legacy software. Almost everyone I talk...

Upgrading software is hard. Not because merging software is hard. It’s hard because people are creatures of habits. Let me give you an example. We recently upgraded from NAV 2016 to NAV2018. This means big changes to the Customer Card. I’m fine with that. While in the process I moved my customizations...

Opinion, by Mark Brummel When Microsoft closes a door, they open a window. Sure I miss working with the classic client where I could make forms look however the customer wanted them to look. All the colors available withing the RGB pallette, a simple report designer and the database is one file. If NAV...

Sometimes you need an external signal to rethink your strategy. This morning I read this tweet on my timeline. @markbrummel Thx for sharing your thoughts around business central. In your opinion… if your are looking at competing products. What might be a better option than D365BC? Say 50 concurrent...

Opinion, by Mark Brummel Yesterday I got an email from WordPress with a notification that my blog was down for a quick moment because they had to scale it up to a larger server because of the trafic. They also sent an email to Mark Zuckerberg to please notify ahead next time if there are to many people...

Opinion, by Mark Brummel Continued from previous posts … My daily driver is a Defender. You tech nerds should know enough but for those of you who don’t, a Land Rover Defender. It’s 18 years old. I bought it a few months ago after a lot of research. I needed  a car that can carry at least...

Opinion, by Mark Brummel Many great things come from Sweden. If all houses in the world containing IKEA furniture would collapse I would guess we’ld all be standing on a pile of rocks right this minute. Did you know IKEA uses NAV? Yes they do. A solution based on another solution. Actually the...

Opinion, by Mark Brummel Before I continue where I left of with the previous post (I’ve prepared all the parts) I like to say a few words. This is by far the most difficult blog I’ve ever published. It was not hard to write. It’s something that agravates me for a long time. I still feel bad about...

Opinion, by Mark Brummel Yes! The short answer is yes and if you don’t care about details you can close the browser window or delete the email. I’ll elaborate on the Yes, but there is also a “Yes, but not if…” that I will share with you. Why Yes? ERP is dead and there is a good reason why...