Microsoft Dynamics GP — what the future holds?

3 min readMay 6, 2020

At the time when Microsoft came up with their updated solution for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, everyone had a query — as what does the future has in store for Microsoft Dynamics GP? The current cloud ERP solution efficiently targets the same medium and small businesses as Dynamics GP.

Further avoiding the confusion, Microsoft also came up with a clear road map of the Microsoft GP for the partner and customers to be completely transparent.

The current Microsoft GP road map highlights a new version each year with updated features, capabilities and amelioration but in the present case, Microsoft GP customers eliminate its use as it does not hold complete cloud capabilities and hence possesses no such chance in future as well.

Also, community support is rising day by day for Microsoft Dynamics Business Solution. Owing to such reasons, many customers and partners have switched to Dynamics 365 Solution.

Listed below are 3 reasons why the switch took place:

1. Scalability:

Scalability is crucial for any evolving organization, thus making it essential for businesses to go for cloud-based implementation. With the assistance of Microsoft GP, which provides ‘Private Cloud’ a business can only use the cloud benefits at the time when they are connected to the internet at the work premise.

As it is an on-premise solution, businesses can only reach out to it when hosted at the data center. However, Dynamics 365 Solution is way simpler and easier application as organizations can reach out to it anytime, from any location and on any device.

2. Flexibility:

In the case of Microsoft Dynamics GP, it needs the assistance of a 3rd party tool and few roundabout reporting efforts for the production of dimensional reports. However, Microsoft Dynamics Business Solution uses dimensional reporting structure & also can vividly define a default dimension.

3. Path up-gradation:

The ready to begin approach for the Dynamics GP is a little cumbersome. This is an old solution and it needs daily upgradations. Owing to time constraints many organizations skip new releases, upgrades and go for older versions of the application.

On the contrary, Microsoft Dynamics 365 upgrades take place at limited intervals as they are driven with few minor testing through a sandbox environment.

Bottom Line

Customers and partners must understand the basic difference between Microsoft Dynamics GP and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. While both are Microsoft products designed to serve organizations, the primary difference lies in their features.

As Microsoft is still investing in GP, they are also trying to make things simpler and easier for their customers by opening doors for them by putting Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central forward.

While Dynamics GP is unique in its way with its set of qualities and advantages, there stand numerous reasons for organizations to turn it down and opt for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.

However, few organizations which are wanting to keep things within their work premise would prefer Dynamics GP while others would opt for D365 owing to its benefits like scalability, quick updates, and flexibility.

Get our support to know which solution fits your business?

Reach out to Dynamics Business Solutions (DBS), a preferred Microsoft Dynamics Partner in UAE to avail any of the solutions as per your business need! We at Dynamics Business Solutions hold both solutions by the name DynaPay for Dynamics GP and DynaPay for Dynamics 365 BC.

We would also be efficient in helping you out in choosing between the two solutions if you want our assistance. So why wait? Get our help today!

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