But, how did we get here?

Financials, Navision, NAV… name it the way you like most. I always thought it was a fucking gorgeous good product. It has its weaknesses as any other software, but in general is a solution that allows you to make so many changes in a very short time and let’s say this is something good ⏲.

The problem comes when, its strongest point ends up being its most important weakness. Let me explain:

Since it is so easy to add changes to the standard solution, the customer (or boss) asks and asks for new changes ?. Functionalities, integrations, controls, fields, etc. What should be something with 2 arms, 2 legs and 1 head, ends up being a Frankestein with 15 legs, kevlar wings, 5 heads, 12 arms and 4 digestive systems. All is fine until…

? THE UPGRADE

Going live an ERP is an extra work load for a team on any organization ?. So, when the solution is finally working at 100%, the last thing anyone wants to hear about is doing an upgrade. It’s undestandable.

And who is this bad for? Well, I think this is bad for everyone (customer, partner, users, tech team) but mostly this is bad for the product. A software that is difficut to migrate ends up on horror museum with all kind versions running on all kind of organizations giving a bad view. A caos.

In my opinion, the fact Business Central does not give free accesss to base objects to be changed widely is an incredible advantage that will give us the best of it with each new upgrade coming in. Since the changes have to be isolated in blocks and subscrived to events of the solution, we achieve the goal of having developments isolated from the base product. Now, we just need to wait and confirm if the base product is going to grow having all those events available in the future on any upcoming upgrade made going forward.

We will continue having Frankesteins (hurray! ?) but now they will be attached to a base body that comes with 2.000 connectors which will exist once this body is replaced with newer versions.

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PS. Hey, the picture from the top was made by Conor Samuel and you can find it Unsplash.