Business Central or Finance & Operations?
The platform you choose also shapes the talent you'll need.
I'm seeing the same shift from both sides of the D365 ERP market.
More clients are defaulting to Business Central before anyone's asked what the business will need in three years.
And more of the BC roles candidates show me read like F&O jobs wearing a BC label.
Same drift, two vantage points.
BC's rise is real. The customer base has passed 55,000, up from around 30,000 two years ago, and Microsoft now puts it ahead of NetSuite. For a growing mid-market company, it's a genuinely good answer.
The trouble starts when "good answer" turns into "answer for everything."
BC and F&O are built for different scale. BC for simpler finance and a few entities. F&O for high volume, complex supply chains, real multi-country operations. Neither is better. Different jobs.
The expensive mistake isn't choosing BC. It's choosing it because it's cheaper and faster, then outgrowing it and re-platforming a year or two later.
And that fork doesn't just pick your software. It picks your talent. BC and F&O people aren't the same pool.
Get it wrong and you don't just re-platform.
You rehire.
I work with Microsoft Partners, ISVs and end users across the US, helping them build permanent and freelance teams across the Dynamics 365 ecosystem.
If you'd like to compare notes on the market or discuss your hiring plans, I'd be delighted to connect.
