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Microsoft’s New Expense Agent Simplifies Business Central Expense Reports

Clayton Jones

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May 28, 2026

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Most expense management improvements over the years have been incremental. Better OCR. Faster receipt capture. A mobile app instead of a desktop form. The underlying workflow stayed the same: employee collects receipts, employee manually enters data, finance…

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What’s Rolling Out in Business Central 2026 Release Wave 1

Lupe Haro

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April 7, 2026
The latest release of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is now rolling out, with updates scheduled between April and September 2026. When Microsoft first introduced this wave, the themes were clear:…

Where Microsoft Copilot Fits into the Workday

Zoltan Orban

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March 31, 2026
There is a lot of marketing around Copilot, but in practice, its value often shows up in small, everyday tasks. It is not a replacement for expertise, but it can…

What Copilot “Cowork” Means for Business Users

Zoltan Orban

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March 26, 2026
Microsoft recently introduced Copilot Cowork, and I wanted to take a closer look at what it represents in practical terms, especially for business users working across Microsoft 365 and related…

Why CRM Data Quality Matters More Than Data Volume

Marisa Mini

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March 24, 2026
A database of 100,000 messy, outdated records is far less valuable than 5,000 that are clean and accurate. Companies often obsess over data volume. But when more data is prioritized over…

From Reactive to Predictive: AI in Business Central Distribution

Zoltan Orban

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March 19, 2026
Most distribution teams don’t lack reporting. If anything, they often have too much of it. Dashboards, planning worksheets, inventory reports, and KPIs are readily available inside Dynamics 365 Business Central. Yet…

AI Agents in Business Central: How the Payables Agent Works

Jennifer Ryan

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March 17, 2026
Scroll to the bottom of the blog for a recorded demo of the Payables Agent in D365 Business Central. Accounts payable teams often spend hours each week downloading invoices, entering data,…

Migrating 1.3 Million CRM Records in Dynamics 365: Why We Used a Custom Console App

Marisa Mini

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March 5, 2026
A government client needed to restructure 1.3 million contact records in Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM. At that scale, traditional UI tools and flows can throttle, fail silently, or leave a…

AI Agents in Manufacturing ERP: D365 Business Central Guide

Seetharaman Andiappan Rajaram

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March 4, 2026
AI agents are now live inside Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. For manufacturers evaluating AI in ERP systems, the practical question isn’t what an agent is it’s how AI agents…

Customize Edit in Excel in Business Central

Jennifer Ryan

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March 3, 2026
When working with Edit in Excel in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, it's important to understand that this feature is more than a simple export tool. It creates a direct…

How to Use D365 Business Central Analysis Mode

Carlos Lozano

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March 3, 2026
Transforming Data into Decisions for Modern Businesses Organizations using Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central generate significant volumes of financial and operational data. However, collecting data is only the first step. The…

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