Microsoft rolls out Dynamics 365 Business Central for small, medium businesses in India

Microsoft says Dynamics 365 Business Central helps automate and streamline business processes including finance, manufacturing, sales, shipping, project management, and services.

It's a new end-to-end cloud business management solution for small and medium businesses (Microsoft)

Microsoft at its Building a Resilient Future summit announced the general availability of Dynamics 365 Business Central, a business management solution aimed at small and medium-sized businesses.

According to Microsoft, the new business management solution offers the flexibility of Microsoft Dynamics Navision, the company's enterprise resource planning (ERP) app, to deploy in the cloud or on-premises. Users will have the option to access the solution through any mobile device to manage their businesses. Microsoft says the solution has been customised for Indian businesses as well. For instance, it comes with a tax engine comprising over 500+ pre-configured use cases and business scenarios for Goods and Services Tax (GST), Tax Deducted at Source (TDS), and Tax Collected at Source (TCS).

Apart from easy cloud deployment, Dynamics 365 Business Central users can also productivity-focused features such as connecting with people, insights, dashboards, and interoperability with Microsoft's other services such as 365 and Microsoft Teams.

The company further said it was helping businesses transition from Dynamics NAV to Dynamics 365 Business Central through specially designed configuration packages. A simplified process also helps SMBs to update their current data to the new management solution.

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is available through Microsoft Cloud Solution Providers (CSPs) in India. You can learn more about the latest service here.

Rajiv Sodhi, Chief Operating Officer, Microsoft India, said, “SMBs are the backbone of the Indian economy and are driving the country's digital transformation wave with rapid cloud adoption. With Dynamics 365 Business Central, we aim to empower and strengthen the SMB ecosystem in the country. It offers customers affordable and easily manageable tools that simplify and expedite everyday business processes. We believe it will help small and medium-sized organisations move to the cloud confidently and be future proof.”