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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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Unlocking Insights: Power BI Integration with Dynamics 365 Business Central

Joel Trinidad

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December 16, 2025
As businesses increasingly rely on data to drive decisions, Microsoft continues to enhance the synergy between Dynamics 365 Business Central (BC) and Power BI. With the release of Business Central Version 26, users now…

The Spreadsheet Trap in Distribution: Why You Lose Control Without Realizing It

Jennifer Ryan

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December 11, 2025
Let me start with a confession: I love a good spreadsheet. They’re flexible. Fast. Familiar. Elegant.But here’s the problem no one talks about: Spreadsheets eventually become the system. And that’s…

How to Tell if Your Distribution Business Has Outgrown Its Systems

Jennifer Ryan

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December 1, 2025
As a former Controller inside a fast-moving distribution business, I learned this lesson the hard way: You don’t realize your system is breaking until growth exposes every weakness.It doesn’t happen…

What the 2026 Business Central Updates Mean for Small and Midsized Organizations

Lupe Haro

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November 12, 2025
Microsoft is doubling down on what matters most to today’s small and midsized organizations: automation, intelligence, and agility.The upcoming Dynamics 365 Business Central 2026 Release Wave 1 focuses on AI-powered…

How to Migrate Fixed Assets from Dynamics GP to Business Central Smoothly

George Rios

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October 28, 2025
PlanningWhen working on a migration of Dynamics GP fixed assets to Business Central, you will want to identify which fields you want to transfer from one system to another. It…

Introducing the BCS Support Portal

TJ Sedarski

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October 23, 2025
At Bond Consulting Services, we know how important it is to get help when you need it, and to know where things stand once you’ve asked. That’s why we are…

Announcing Unlimited Support for Dynamics 365

TJ Sedarski

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October 17, 2025
It's like having an in-house Dynamics team - without the overhead A Smarter Way to Get Support for Microsoft DynamicsWe've listened to your feedback and we're making support simpler, faster, and…

Meet Bond Consulting at Community Summit NA 2025

TJ Sedarski

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October 9, 2025
Discover how we’re helping growing companies streamline operations and accelerate ROI with Microsoft Dynamics 365.Community Summit North America is right around the corner! From October 19–23 in Orlando, FL, business…

Business Central Licensing Price Increase Coming – Nov 1, 2025!

TJ Sedarski

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September 24, 2025
As of November 1st, 2025, Microsoft is upping the monthly licensing costs for Dynamics 365 Business Central (BC). Although they haven't raised the cost of these licenses in several years,…

Dynamics 365 Business Central Manufacturing: From Raw Materials to Finished Goods

Seetharaman Andiappan Rajaram

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September 16, 2025
Manufacturing/Production module in Business Central:Production/Manufacturing module in Business Central helps production employees to capture the process involved that converts the Input raw material into finished part. It helps capturing all…

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