​​You’ve probably heard of the title “Microsoft MVP” before, and if you are an InterDyn Artis client or are active within the Dynamics community, you’ve probably heard of Shawn Dorward before, too. Shawn is a Practice Lead here at InterDyn Artis, and he just recently received his Microsoft MVP renewal for the second year in a row.

You may have heard of the MVP title and know some of the individuals who attain it, but do you actually know what it really means to be a Microsoft MVP? This isn’t a title that Microsoft gives out lightly, and it certainly isn’t something that is easily attainable. I hope this blog can shed some light on what all goes into being an MVP, how hard these individuals work on a daily basis and how truly impressive it is to hold the title. 
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​Bloggers are wordsmiths. I’m no exception. I might have switched 2 little words in the title of this blog, and it would have made a big difference. I might have written, “Why Should You Choose Microsoft Dynamics Business Central for Cloud ERP?” Instead, I wrote: “Why You Should Choose Microsoft Dynamics Business Central for Cloud ERP.” The former is a question. The latter is a statement.
 
I chose to make a statement because there are so many great reasons why you should indeed choose Microsoft Dynamics Business Central as your Cloud ERP solution.
 
Let’s take a step back to look at the playing field, and you’ll see that the field is crowded with options. So if you’re in the process of choosing a Cloud ERP solution for your company, you may feel compelled to conduct the traditional due diligence and explore several. That requires online research, creating a list, winnowing it down to a short list, scheduling and sitting through demos, getting input from several members of your team, making a choice, entering into negotiations with a provider, pouring over the contract…

Posted by Tim Fry
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By now you’ve been at this for a while. You’ve Googled ERP systems and looked at all the marketing fluff until you’re blue in the face. You’ve been talking to different vendors and based on capabilities you have it narrowed down to a few. Now you need to see what these systems can do. So, you schedule a demo, look at all the pretty buttons and widgets, and come away still not really sure. What happened? How can you make this a more effective process? 

From the most humblest of beginnings...

​Celebrating 30 years in business is as good of a reason as any to wax nostalgic about our humble beginnings in business and our modest level of success over the years.

InterDyn Artis was founded by two high school friends in 1989 and loosely followed a business plan concocted in the MBA program at Virginia Tech sometime in 1987.  Our original intent was not necessarily as ambitious as starting our own business but rather how to power through a project in our Management Information Systems course and get a decent grade.
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Document (Word or Excel) templates in Dynamics 365 allow you to merge CRM data into a pre-formatted document. Details on that process can be found here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/customer-engagement/admin/using-word-templates-dynamics-365.
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Unfortunately, once you create the template, there’s no straightforward way to download the original template again from Dynamics 365. So, if you decide you want to make a change and can’t find the original document, you must go through the exercise of remapping all the Dynamics 365 data fields.
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With the web API and a couple of online tools, though, you can get back up and running.
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Microsoft publishes roadmaps for all the Dynamics 365 solutions here.  For purposes of this article we are going to focus on the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Roadmap.  Before continuing with this article, click the link and take a look at the road map.

Microsoft Dynamics 365 offers a wide range of business applications.  When most people think of Dynamics 365, they think of the traditional Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions.  They are, of course, a huge part of what Dynamics 365 has to offer, but there is so much more.  Here is a quick rundown of the Dynamics 365 universe.
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Since the release of Dynamics GP 2013 R2, Microsoft has been reinventing Workflow and adding new Workflow functionality to each subsequent release.

​Often times, GP Users are not on most recent version of GP and I am often asked – “What workflows do I have available to me in my current version?” ​I put together a list of Workflows along with their release version, for your reference (and mine LOL).

Posted by George Delp
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