Finance and operations (or supply chain) apps are enterprise resource planning (ERP) software as a service (SaaS) offerings that are built on and for Microsoft Azure. The finance and operations service provides organizations with ERP functionality that supports their unique requirements and helps them adjust to constantly changing business environments, without requiring that they manage infrastructure. Finance and operations apps can include one or more of the following solution areas:
- Dynamics 365 Finance
- Dynamics 365 Human Resources
- Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management
- Dynamics 365 Commerce
- Dynamics 365 Project Operations
Together with business intelligence, infrastructure, compute, and database services, these apps enable organizations to run industry-specific and operational business processes. Customers determine the configuration of the business application logic that best suits their unique business processes. Functionality and business processes can be augmented or extended through one or a combination of the following solutions:
- Built in personalization experience
- Microsoft Power Platform tools
- Visual Studio–based finance and operations software development kit (SDK) and Azure DevOps build automation
- Independent software vendor (ISV) solutions from AppSource
Based on requirements, customers choose their solution approach. They work with us to define, develop, and test their solution by using the tools and best practices that are provided in Microsoft Dynamics Lifecycle Services. There are four common scenarios:
- Standard finance and operations apps "out of the box" configuration (no extensions)
- Finance and operations apps configuration that includes one or more ISV solutions
- Finance and operations apps configuration that includes one or more customer-specific extensions
- Finance and operations apps configuration that includes a combination of customer-specific extensions and one or more ISV solutions
Organizations can match their business growth by easily adding users and business processes through a simple, transparent subscription model. Finance software. ERP software.