Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central for Student Data information, results information access for students (Student Information System), Finance, Procurement, and HR, and Faculty course allocation and grades update (Faculty Portal). It helps to track progress reports of students, their grades, and also track financial matters like their payments, and staff member payment requisitions. It addresses problems of students trying to register for a course pending prerequisites, faculty members clashing on a time table i.e allocated two courses on one day at the same time and it helps track students eligible for graduation as well as the recruitment and admissions team with entering new students in the system and accepting/rejecting their applications. The scope of our use case is that the whole institution uses the system and it makes data entry and tracking pending matters faster and easier.
Pros
- Integreted data management accross all departments
- Academic Controls being automated
- Resource Management and Timetabling
- Monitoring graduation eligibility and student's progress
Cons
- being able to have full access on the business central ios mobile app. Some information is restricted and cannot be acced unless i use a laptop
Return on Investment
- Positive: Faster Decision making and having access to centralized and realtime data which stipulates taht reports that in the past took ages can be gotten instantly
- positive: the 365 has improved student life cycle especailly in the tracking of theri academic procgrsss by being able to ID graduation eligibility
- positive: very time saving - when I want to generate a student transcript, it does it withing seconds after punching in a student ID
Usability
Alternatives Considered
IBM Managed Services for SAP Applications
Other Software Used
Zoom Workplace, Google Meet, Apple Keynote


