Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central,
one connected view of finance and operations
The real value of a new finance system comes from how comfortably your people use it, which is much easier when it feels familiar from the start. Business Central works naturally alongside the Microsoft tools your team already knows, like Outlook, Excel and Teams, so people settle in quickly and start seeing the benefits straight away. Codestone helps you set it up around the way your team works, so it feels like a natural next step rather than a big change.
What Are the Benefits of Microsoft Business Central?
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Business on Autopilot
Save time with automation and unified workflows
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Improved Accuracy
Reduce errors with connected data and accurate reporting
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Get Paid Faster
Improve cash flow with better visibility into receivables and payables
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Delight Customers
Deliver better customer service with a 360° view of interactions
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How Do I Know if Business Central is Suitable for My Business?
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central covers finance, sales, purchasing, stock and projects on one data model, and it runs inside the Microsoft environment your teams already use. For a business that has outgrown its accounting package and filled the gaps with spreadsheets and a separate stock system, that familiarity is worth more than it sounds.
What sits inside it
Business Central covers four areas of the business:
- Finance and reporting, including multi-company and multi-currency
- Sales and service, from quote through to cash
- Stock and purchasing, with the supply chain behind them
- Projects and jobs, carrying time, cost and billing against each one
It is one data model underneath all of it, which is what separates an ERP system from an accounts package that has grown attachments.
Managed Services Packages
Business Central covers four areas of the business:
- Finance and reporting, including multi-company and multi-currency
- Sales and service, from quote through to cash
- Stock and purchasing, with the supply chain behind them
- Projects and jobs, carrying time, cost and billing against each one
It is one data model underneath all of it, which is what separates an ERP system from an accounts package that has grown attachments.
Business Central or SAP Business One?
Most growing businesses are choosing between exactly these two, and the honest answer is that either will run a growing business well. Business Central makes more sense where your teams already use Microsoft 365 and you want the ERP to sit inside that, or where projects and jobs are central to how you make money. SAP Business One tends to win where stock, manufacturing and distribution are the operational heart of the business, because its warehouse and production depth is greater out of the box. Codestone implements both and has no reason to push you either way.
Managed services packages
Essentials (great value), 8×5 Basic SLA. Standard response times on the default CloudCare SLA.
Plus (most popular), 12×5 Enhanced SLA. Faster response times, with faster routing and prioritisation.
Premium (top tier), 24×7 Premium SLA. The fastest response times, with around the clock coverage.
Included with all tiers:
- Service desk channels: web, phone, email and chat
- Escalation and incident management
- An assigned Customer Value Manager and Account Manager
- Response and resolution SLA (P1 to P5)
- Problem and change management
- An annual business strategy workshop
Why the Microsoft connection matters
Finance closes faster because the numbers are in one place. Your team works in Outlook, Excel and Teams the way they already do, with Business Central underneath, so adoption takes far less out of your team than a wholesale change of environment. Reporting comes out of Power BI on live data. Because it sits inside the Microsoft stack, the security, identity and licensing you already run extend to cover it.
- Flexible, Scalable Support
- Proactive System Monitoring
- Comprehensive Security Management
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If you are growing fast
You are probably here because headcount is the only lever you have left. Business Central automates the repeatable work in finance and order processing, which means the next £10m of turnover does not need a proportional increase in people. Most businesses at this size go live on the core in a matter of months and add to it afterwards.
If you are running something more complicated
Multiple companies, foreign currency, inter-company trading and a group consolidation all work in Business Central, and plenty of businesses well past £100m run on it. What decides the answer is usually not size but complexity: the number of legal structures, how much manufacturing sits behind it and how demanding your statutory reporting is. Past a certain weight of statutory reporting and inter-company structure, SAP S/4HANA is the stronger platform, and Codestone implements that too.
Working with Codestone on Business Central
Discovery comes first, and it is where the process decisions get made and where most of the value is won or lost. Configuration, data migration and testing follow, and that stage depends far more on the state of your data than on the software. Training runs alongside rather than being bolted on at the end, because adoption is what decides whether the system pays back or sits half used. Expect the early process decisions to take real effort, since deferring them is what turns a straightforward project into a long one.
Why choose us for Business Central
Codestone sits at the top credential tier of the Microsoft partner ecosystem, with 30 years of delivery behind it. For a Business Central project the more relevant part is that we also look after everything around it: identity, security, Azure and Microsoft 365. The ERP does not end up as an island looked after by someone who never touches the rest of your technology.
Common questions
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Is Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central an ERP system?
Yes. The test is whether one data model sits under the whole operation rather than under the accounts alone, and Business Central meets it. An accounts package with bolt-ons does not.
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Who is Business Central for?
Small and medium-sized businesses that have outgrown spreadsheets, entry-level finance software or a legacy system. It suits businesses already working in Microsoft 365 particularly well.
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Is it too complex for a smaller business?
No, though it is more than a bookkeeping tool and it rewards a proper implementation. You do not need internal IT to run it. You do need to spend time on process decisions and training at the start.
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How long does a Business Central implementation take?
It depends on how many companies you run, how good your data is and how much integration is involved. A single company on standard processes is a matter of months. Several companies, multiple currencies or heavy integration take longer, and we give you a range with the assumptions behind it during scoping.
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Does Business Central work with our other systems?
It connects natively to Microsoft 365, Power BI and Azure, and to third-party systems through open APIs and connectors. Integration is worth scoping explicitly rather than assuming.
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What does a Business Central partner do?
Discovery, solution design, configuration, data migration, testing, training, go-live and ongoing support. The difference between partners shows up in the first stage and the last, not in the middle.
