Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
Microsoft’s ERP for small and mid-sized companies, descended from Navision, sold through a partner channel and priced per user; Copilot features arrive through Microsoft 365 rather than as a separate AI product.
| Founded | Launched 2018; Navision founded 1984 in Denmark, acquired by Microsoft in 2002 |
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| Founders | Jesper Balser, Peter Bang, Torben Wind (Navision) |
| Ownership | Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) |
| Customers | More than 40,000 customers by Microsoft’s last disclosure, implemented by thousands of partners |
| What it does | Finance, sales, purchasing, inventory, projects, manufacturing and service management, tightly integrated with Microsoft 365, Power BI and Teams |
| Recent moves | Price rise on 1 November 2025; Copilot agents for sales order and payables processing; continued shift from on-premises NAV to the cloud service |
| Pricing | Essentials US$80 per user per month; Premium US$110; Team Members US$8 |
| Markets | Global |
| Peers | NetSuite, Sage Intacct, Acumatica, Odoo, SAP |
Why it matters
Business Central is the mid-market ERP with the widest partner channel and the tightest link to Excel, Teams and Outlook, which is how most finance teams still work. Its AI arrives as Copilot inside tools people already pay for, a different route to the same customers the AI-native ERPs are chasing.
Updated September 2026.
Part of Accountio’s accounting technology coverage.
