Kristen Hosman’s Dynamics 365 Business Central Blog

Community Summit was held in Houston October 12-15, 2021 and it was quite different than ones in the past. Less attendees, less sessions, masks required in the sessions, however one thing remained and that's the fact there was allot of walking. Here's my short recap of my experience this year.  Presenting -  I left Colorado with only one session on the calendar and arrived in Houston on Monday mid day. While sitting in the hotel lobby I had the opportunity to chat with Steven Chinsky who informed me that a partner pulled out of the conference (that day) and wasn't going to be leading their sessions virtually, so there were now open slots in the NAV/BC track. After discussing with him some possible session ideas I had two more sessions that I was going to lead. It was very important to me that there wasn't any open rooms, after all there were so many people that traveled to Houston to attend.  Migrating from Dynamics GP to D365 Business Central – A Real-World Customer ...

Back in February I was talking with some friends about how I was shifting from QuickBooks to Business Central (BC) for my own businesses books. It didn't take long for the questions to begin. Is it better than Dynamics GP? Is it easy to implement? Is it easy to use...and more. So I decided I would hold a weekly Dynamics 365 Business Central online learning opportunity for them to see for themselves. I started free online training sessions in mid March and held them weekly through the end of June. It was a great way for me to share my love of BC with others; plus COVID-19 had just hit the United States so it was a way for me to "hang out" with my friends virtually. The attendees were made up of a GP system admin, a project manager, an accountant, and even a CEO. All of the attendees have used or even implemented Dynamics GP in their career and are members of GPUG. Week one we started with the basics, what is BC and how is it different than GP. I covered navigating and ...