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By Steve Endow
Change Is Hard
It's trite, I know. But it doesn't make it less true.
I think it's worthwhile to pause and take a moment to consider how difficult change can be. Actually acknowledge it.
Change can be uncomfortable, scary, and stressful. Change can be costly and arduous and tiring. Change can be inherently destructive.
It often feels much easier to ignore it, delay it, or pretend it isn't happening. But you can't always avoid change. Sometimes you have time to prepare for change, and sometimes you have no advance notice.
In the ERP world, consultants see the symptoms of change regularly when customers implement a new ERP system.
"My old system did X, why can't the new system do X?"
"I just don't have time to learn this new system. I have too much work to do!"
"I liked the old system better."
Turnabout is Fair Play
But occasionally, it seems that those pesky consultants get a taste of change.
Microsoft has changed quite a bit since it acquired Great Plains Software. Great Plains was rebranded as Dynamics GP, and the GP team at Microsoft put a lot of work into the product, adding new features and expanding its capabilities.
But over the last several years, Microsoft has invested heavily in its 'cloud computing' strategy, with Azure and Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings. As part of the cloud strategy, Microsoft has also invested heavily in ERP software as a service, hosted in Azure.
Dynamics AX has become Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations, and Dynamics NAV has now, finally, become Dynamics 365 Business Central. Dynamics GP is notably not on the Microsoft Azure ERP SaaS menu. It's our turn to change.