Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (formerly Dynamics NAV) is one of the ERP products in the Dynamics family.
The technology is based on the Navision product acquired by Microsoft in 2002. This product is the best-selling Microsoft ERP platform, and is often used by companies in the manufacturing and distribution verticals.
$8
per month per user
Oracle Database
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
Oracle Database, currently in edition 23ai, is a converged, multimodel database management system. It is designed to simplify development for AI, microservices, graph, document, spatial, and relational applications.
$0.05
per hour
Pricing
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
Oracle Database
Editions & Modules
Dynamics 365 Business Central Team Members
$8
per month (billed annually) per user
Dynamics 365 Business Central Essentials
$70
per month (billed annually) per user
Dynamics 365 Business Central Premium
$100
per month (billed annually) per user
Oracle Base Database Service - Standard
$0.0538
per hour
Oracle Base Database Service - Enterprise
$0.1075
per hour
Oracle Base Database Service - High Performance
$0.2218
per hour
Standard Edition
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Enterprise Edition
Contact Sales
Personal Edition
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Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
Oracle Database
Free Trial
Yes
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No
No
Entry-level Setup Fee
No setup fee
No setup fee
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Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
Oracle Database
Features
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
Oracle Database
Payroll Management
Comparison of Payroll Management features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
6.8
10 Ratings
8% below category average
Oracle Database
-
Ratings
Pay calculation
6.910 Ratings
00 Ratings
Benefit plan administration
6.08 Ratings
00 Ratings
Direct deposit files
6.99 Ratings
00 Ratings
Customization
Comparison of Customization features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
7.6
23 Ratings
2% above category average
Oracle Database
-
Ratings
API for custom integration
7.522 Ratings
00 Ratings
Plug-ins
7.720 Ratings
00 Ratings
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
8.8
27 Ratings
5% above category average
Oracle Database
-
Ratings
Single sign-on capability
8.823 Ratings
00 Ratings
Role-based user permissions
8.926 Ratings
00 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
7.6
28 Ratings
4% above category average
Oracle Database
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Ratings
Dashboards
7.424 Ratings
00 Ratings
Standard reports
7.728 Ratings
00 Ratings
Custom reports
7.727 Ratings
00 Ratings
General Ledger and Configurable Accounting
Comparison of General Ledger and Configurable Accounting features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
8.4
28 Ratings
9% above category average
Oracle Database
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Ratings
Accounts payable
8.827 Ratings
00 Ratings
Accounts receivable
8.526 Ratings
00 Ratings
Global Financial Support
7.615 Ratings
00 Ratings
Primary and Secondary Ledgers
8.214 Ratings
00 Ratings
Journals and Reconciliations
8.317 Ratings
00 Ratings
Configurable Accounting
7.717 Ratings
00 Ratings
Standardized Processes
8.518 Ratings
00 Ratings
Inventory Management
Comparison of Inventory Management features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
8.6
24 Ratings
8% above category average
Oracle Database
-
Ratings
Inventory tracking
8.324 Ratings
00 Ratings
Automatic reordering
7.816 Ratings
00 Ratings
Location management
8.220 Ratings
00 Ratings
Order Management
Comparison of Order Management features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
7.9
26 Ratings
1% above category average
Oracle Database
-
Ratings
Pricing
8.223 Ratings
00 Ratings
Order entry
8.523 Ratings
00 Ratings
Credit card processing
6.615 Ratings
00 Ratings
Cost of goods sold
8.821 Ratings
00 Ratings
Order Orchestration
8.412 Ratings
00 Ratings
Subledger and Financial Process
Comparison of Subledger and Financial Process features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
8.1
18 Ratings
8% above category average
Oracle Database
-
Ratings
Billing Management
8.116 Ratings
00 Ratings
Cash and Asset Management
8.317 Ratings
00 Ratings
Travel & Expense Management
7.212 Ratings
00 Ratings
Budgetary Control & Encumbrance Accounting
8.014 Ratings
00 Ratings
Period Close
7.917 Ratings
00 Ratings
Project Financial Management
Comparison of Project Financial Management features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
8.7
8 Ratings
14% above category average
Oracle Database
-
Ratings
Budgeting and Forecasting
10.08 Ratings
00 Ratings
Project Costing
10.07 Ratings
00 Ratings
Cost Capture
10.08 Ratings
00 Ratings
Capital Project Management
8.05 Ratings
00 Ratings
Customer Contract Compliance
10.06 Ratings
00 Ratings
Project Revenue Recognition
8.04 Ratings
00 Ratings
Project Execution Management
Comparison of Project Execution Management features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
7.5
10 Ratings
7% above category average
Oracle Database
-
Ratings
Project Planning and Scheduling
7.19 Ratings
00 Ratings
Task Insight for Project Managers
6.89 Ratings
00 Ratings
Project Mobile Functionality
6.78 Ratings
00 Ratings
Definable Resource Pools
6.69 Ratings
00 Ratings
Grants Management
Comparison of Grants Management features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
8.9
7 Ratings
19% above category average
Oracle Database
-
Ratings
Award Lifecycle Management
6.77 Ratings
00 Ratings
Procurement
Comparison of Procurement features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
7.8
14 Ratings
11% above category average
Oracle Database
-
Ratings
Bids Analyzed and Compared
6.78 Ratings
00 Ratings
Contract Authoring
6.58 Ratings
00 Ratings
Contract Repository
6.98 Ratings
00 Ratings
Requisitions-to-Purchase Orders Integrated
7.812 Ratings
00 Ratings
Supplier Management
7.111 Ratings
00 Ratings
Risk Management
Comparison of Risk Management features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
8.2
10 Ratings
21% above category average
Oracle Database
-
Ratings
Risk Repository
6.89 Ratings
00 Ratings
Control Management
6.89 Ratings
00 Ratings
Control Efficiency Assessments
6.89 Ratings
00 Ratings
Issue Detection
7.19 Ratings
00 Ratings
Remediation and Certification
7.47 Ratings
00 Ratings
Logistics
Comparison of Logistics features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
7.4
8 Ratings
8% above category average
Oracle Database
-
Ratings
Transportation Planning and Optimization
6.66 Ratings
00 Ratings
Transportation Execution Management
6.66 Ratings
00 Ratings
Trade and Customs Management
7.26 Ratings
00 Ratings
Fulfillment Management
7.18 Ratings
00 Ratings
Warehouse Workforce Management
8.46 Ratings
00 Ratings
Manufacturing
Comparison of Manufacturing features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
7.7
8 Ratings
3% above category average
Oracle Database
-
Ratings
Production Process Design
8.46 Ratings
00 Ratings
Production Management
8.17 Ratings
00 Ratings
Configuration Management
6.66 Ratings
00 Ratings
Work Execution
8.46 Ratings
00 Ratings
Manufacturing Costs
7.88 Ratings
00 Ratings
Supply Chain
Comparison of Supply Chain features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
7.5
10 Ratings
4% above category average
Oracle Database
-
Ratings
Forecasting
6.610 Ratings
00 Ratings
Inventory Planning
7.610 Ratings
00 Ratings
Performance Monitoring
6.910 Ratings
00 Ratings
Product Lifecycle Management
Comparison of Product Lifecycle Management features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is well suited for inventory management in all aspects. Its accessibility, along with my other apps, when out of the office is unparalleled. I find it easy to work with on a desktop or laptop; however, it could use some work on a mobile device.
I believe Oracle Database is still the best RDBMS database which is the database to consider for OLTP applications and for Adhoc requests. They are good in Datawarehousing in certain aspects but not the best. Oracle is also a great database for scaling up with their Clusterware solution which also makes the database highly available with services moving to the live instance without much trouble.
Automate the creation of bills of materials for production. We can now generate a BoM from a sales order.
Organization of all data pertaining to thousands of parts, assemblies, and finished goods. Engineering and purchasing have a common portal.
We can create sales orders from quotations instead of re-entering them (this did require some bolt-on software). Less redundant work with fewer entry errors.
Accounting can provide reports based on specific criteria stored in NAV. We can pull better and more detailed intelligence.
We've already decided to continue using this software. It is too expensive for us to upgrade so we made a workaround by using the virtual computer with Windows XP installed on it. We did research replacing this software, but it was a better financial decision to keep what we had instead
There is a lot of sunk cost in a product like Oracle 12c. It is doing a great job, it would not provide us much benefit to switch to another product even if it did the same thing due to the work involved in making such a switch. It would not be cost effective.
Best in terms of reporting or coming up with a great dashboard. Seamlessly collaborated with teams without depending on particular device as its web version is the buddy for people with work flexibility. Licensing price and integrations can be the areas of improvement and can simplify the interface which will be easy for a new user.
Many of the powerful options can be auto-configured but there are still many things to take into account at the moment of installing and configuring an Oracle Database, compared with SQL Server or other databases. At the same time, that extra complexity allows for detailed configuration and guarantees performance, scalability, availability and security.
It provides one to efficiently be able to manage bookkeeping and inventory without much challenges. One can easily navigate through workflow processes while managing usages and budgets. Being able to produce reports in Word, Excel or PDF means one is able to have a working document to produce trends and graphs or produce pivot tables.
1. I have very good experience with Oracle Database support team. Oracle support team has pool of talented Oracle Analyst resources in different regions. To name a few regions - EMEA, Asia, USA(EST, MST, PST), Australia. Their support staffs are very supportive, well trained, and customer focused. Whenever I open Oracle Sev1 SR(service request), I always get prompt update on my case timely. 2. Oracle has zoom call and chat session option linked to Oracle SR. Whenever you are in Oracle portal - you can chat with the Oracle Analyst who is working on your case. You can request for Oracle zoom call thru which you can share the your problem server screen in no time. This is very nice as it saves lot of time and energy in case you have to follow up with oracle support for your case. 3.Oracle has excellent knowledge base in which all the customer databases critical problems and their solutions are well documented. It is very easy to follow without consulting to support team at first.
Overall the implementation went very well and after that everything came out as expected - in terms of performance and scalability. People should always install and upgrade a stable version for production with the latest patch set updates, test properly as much as possible, and should have a backup plan if anything unexpected happens
I have personally supported all of the Dynamic family of ERP systems and made the decision to concentrate on NAV as the solution of choice. From a support and development standpoint there are few if any packages that can compare. It is not uncommon for most of the companies that I support to only call me once or twice a month after the first year. This is due to the ease of tracking down problems and errors and the ability for a developer to provide the end-user with routines that automatically correct the most basic kind of error
Oracle is more of an enterprise-level database than Access and SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise isn't getting developed much (some people wonder how close it is to end of life) but SQL Server is miles ahead of Oracle IMO in terms of user experience and comparable in terms of performance AFAIK. As stated, a vendor forced our hand to use Oracle so we did not have a choice. If you are looking for help with an issue you are having, there are lots of SQL Server articles, etc. on the web and the community of SQL Server developers and DBA's is very strong and supportive. Oracle's help on the web is much more limited and often has an attitude that goes with it of superiority and lacking in compassion, IMO. For instance, check out the Ask Tom Oracle blog - a world of difference. If you choose Oracle, go into it with eyes wide open.
Oracle Database 12c has had a very positive impact on our ability to build strong and robust custom applications in house without the need to come up with our own methods of data storage and management.
Oracle Database 12c has the strongest user interface of any database I have worked with and continuously is improving its strength with the addition of support for JSON and XML type objects in the database.
Oracle Database 12c is sometimes very heavy and DBA intensive, but the benefits far outweigh the costs, which we need to spend on DBA support for enabling security and access features.