If you have no plans to upgrade, then life carries on as normal, you pay your BREP (Microsoft’s Annual charge) and you continue to buy users and objects as you always have.īut if you are planning to upgrade then you need to consider the following But how will this affect the majority of you reading this article - those of you who already have Dynamics NAV? You may have noticed that the last paragraph only mentions Business Central, that’s because the Dynamics NAV brand is regenerating and from 1st April whether you are new or upgrading, we will be talking Dynamics 365 Business Central. Please note, that a minimum term of 1 year now applies to the Subscription option. There will be two options available to companies wanting a new licence, you will still be able to buy a Perpetual licence and host it wherever you want (Private Cloud, On-Premise or within a Managed Service) or if you prefer you will be able to use Dynamics 365 Business Central on a Subscription basis (either in the Public Cloud hosted by Microsoft, on a Private Cloud, in a Managed Service or On-Premise). However, if you want to buy a new licence that uses Concurrency as the basis for counting Users then you still have time new Dynamics NAV licences that are based on User Concurrency can still be purchased up until 31st March 2019.įrom the 1st April onward, new Dynamics 365 Business Central licences will only be available on a Named User basis. The most significant announcement is the end of Concurrent User licences with everything moving to a Named User basis.

Microsoft have announced the future licencing policies they will be implementing for the Dynamics NAV and Dynamics 365 Business Central platforms.

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