Cloud Partner Competencies and Business Central

27/07/2020 atotovic Business Central, Certification, Dynamics 365 Business Central, certification, cloud, Cloud Business Application, competency, CRM, D365, D365BC, Dynamics, Dynamics 365, ERP, exam, gold, Inspire, Microsoft, Microsoft Inspire, Partner Network, silver, Small Business, SMB

You are involved only in Business Central business and now you have Enterprise Resource Planning competency. But this competency is not in the cloud and if you want to get Cloud Business Application competency you can choose one of the options as a two different paths in achieving competencies:

Customer Engagements options
Unified Operations option

The first one is for CRM partners and the second one is in ERP. But when you read details, this is for Finance, Supply Chain Management, Retail and Talent (F&O) and all required exams are from F&O. If you want to continue only in Business Central and want cloud competency as Business Central is cloud product, you probably don’t know how you can fit with these requirements.

OK before I continue, I need to mention that this is my private text and it doesn’t represent Microsoft official statement, and this is not an announcement. Everything I’m writing here is based on Cecilia Flombaum presentation on the Microsoft Inspire a few days ago. If you want to see whole presentation, session is still available here (first part of presentation is mostly about Partner Contribution Indicator, but you can find BC details from cca 13:30).

She mentioned that we can expect a Business Central differentiation as well as Power Platform differentiation if you are focused only on one of these solutions. That will allow Business Central partner to achieve their silver and/or gold statuses in Cloud Business Application competency.

Currently we don’t know what will be required to achieve competency and statuses and if it will be connected with recently announced BC exam (probably yes).

But Business Central implementers will have one more opportunity – to achieve Small and Midsize Cloud Solutions competency through a Business Central differentiation opportunity. Probably there will be some differences i.e. slightly different threshold.

OK, this is everything we know for now. As sook as we have more information, you can find it on the Microsoft Partner Network.

Business Central Certification Exam and more…

22/07/2020 atotovic Business Central, Dynamics 365, Power Platform BC, Business Central, certification, consultant, D365, D365BC, developer, Dynamics, Dynamics 365, exam, Flow, Inspire, Microsoft Inspire, Power Automate, Power BI, Power Platform, PowerApp

Yesterday on the first day of Microsoft Inspire (this year in digital format), we had an opportunity to see some long time waited news. We will finally have certification exam for Business Central. It will be MB-800 exam – Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Functional Consultant and this exam will be available from October 2020. It will cover the following processes of implementation: set up Business Central, configure Financials, configure Sales and Purchasing, set up operations, and of course how to use Power Platform components. More about the exam here. When you pass this exam, you will become Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Functional Consultant Associate.

But this is not all. We have more news in certifications. As Power Platform takes more and more spaces in solving business issues, we will get two new exams for Power Platform and they will be available from September 2020:

PL-200: Power Platform Functional Consultant (topics covered: Configure the Common Data Service, Build a Power App, Create automations with Power Automate, Configure Power Virtual Agents, Create visualizations with Power BI)
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/certifications/exams/pl-200
PL-400: Power Platform Developer (topics covered: Create a technical design, Configure Common Data Service, Create and configure Power Apps, Configure business process automation, Extend the user experience, Extend the platform, Develop integrations)
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/certifications/exams/pl-400

New Dynamics NAV API’s

14/07/2017 atotovic Microsoft Dynamics NAV API, Dynamics, Dynamics 365, Inspire, Microsoft, Microsoft Dynamics NAV, NAV

As I promised a few days ago in my post about news in Dynamics NAV, now I’ll add some additional news. In this post I’ll show new API’s.

Currently we have these 42 completed API’s:

And we will have these API’s soon:

Sorry because of quality of pictures (photos taken on Microsoft Inspire). I’ll make them better in the few following days. Today, I just wanted to share these info.

NAV news from Microsoft Inspire

12/07/201712/07/2017 atotovic Dynamics 365, Microsoft Dynamics NAV Dynamics, Dynamics 365, Inspire, Microsoft Dynamics, Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Microsoft Inspire, NAV, NAV Tenerife, Power BI, Tenerife, WPC

I didn’t write for a while, but now we can speak about some news in Dynamics NAV. We got some information on Microsoft Inspire conference and not only about NAV. There are a great news, as announcement of new products, e.g. Microsoft 365 enterprise and business edition… But in this text I just want to mention few things about NAV.

The first, we will continue with both of models, ‘on premises’ and ‘on Azure’. We can expect for all Dynamics products we currently have, ongoing development.

Except this important information about future releases of all Dynamics group of products, we got the main information about the most important technical and functional news in NAV ‘Tenerife’. You can find them on the following picture:

And of course, these are not all news we will see in the next release. For example there is a new and better out of the box PowerBI integration, not only on the role centers. Now we will use more contextual PowerBI integration on different places in NAV.

And not only this. But we will have more information soon… I’ll keep you in a touch.