DevOps has changed a lot in the last decade. And in the world of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and its predecessor, Dynamics NAV, the devops landscape has absorbed many of those changes in just the last two to three years as Business Central emerged as a cloud-first SaaS ERP product. Our guests on this episode, Tobia Fenster, a Microsoft MVP and Microsoft Regional Director and fellow MVP Waldo (a.k.a., Eric Wauters), discuss their experiences with DevOps for Business Central, including the tools and services they have created to improve the experience. Their work in this area has been driven by both a need to help their internal teams and to offer solutions for the broader BC developer ecosystem that take on a range of needs in areas like container management and automated build pipelines. DevOps requirements are more sophisticated than ever, which means the tools are more powerful, but the concepts are also more complex. That rapid shift could be a risk both to partners and to BC customers that rely on customizations in the cloud. The situation remains quite manageable, Tobias and Waldo say, but development teams joining the BC community need to address the challenges straight away and understand the stakes, for their own sake and for their customers. Show Notes: 1:40 – Introductions to Tobias and Waldo 4:00 – How is the developer experience today different from the old days? 6:45 – Waldo's outlook on embracing Extensions 10 :00 – How is the development community adapting to modern techniques? 13:30 – Who needs to have expertise in modern CI/CD and containerization for an ISV or a VAR organization? 18:00 – The origins of ALOps (created by Waldo) and its reception in the community 20:45 – Tobias's experience as an ALOps early adopter and use of the tool at Cosmo Consult 25:15 – What are Waldo and Tobias are asking of Microsoft to strengthen DevOps 30:00 – What types of partner organization can benefit from finding an existing DevOps framework 33:00 – What, if anything, should customers and others in the community understand about these development topics and the impact on their systems? 37:00 – What to look for in the near future Links: Tobias: MVP | Regional Director | Blog | Cosmo Consult Waldo: MVP | Blog | ALOps | iFacto https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UovYTV-yGto

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This episode is sponsored by Versapay. The payment processing landscape today has been shaped by the enormous stresses of the last fifteen months. As our guests, Meredith Mitchell and Jason Read of Versapay explain, they have seen customers accelerating existing modernization plans while for others, their companies' survival hung in the balance of opening up new digital payment options for clients. Jason and Meredith discuss some of their latest thinking around payment modernization and process automation, like ways to help an organization get paid on time and to make the process both easy for customers and united with the rest of the business operations through systems like Dynamics 365 Business Central. The Versapay team is also watching some of the more interesting trends today in the Microsoft space, like supporting migrations of Dynamics SMB customers to Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management and helping customers seeking achieve even more optimization around payments. Show Notes 1:00 – What has changed in conversations with finance professionals in the last year 6:00 – How CFOs and treasurers faced the reality of the pandemic 8:30 – Bringing new capabilities online quickly to help customers pay 9:30 – The latest thinking on payment modernization in the B2B world 14:30 – Finance organization goals, from customer experience to cash flow 17:30 – Process automation in the Microsoft ecosystem 21:30 – What else customers asking for and how Versapay has responded 24:45 – Looking ahead in the product roadmap at Versapay 27:30 – Investing in supporting upgrades and migrations to Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management in addition to Business Central 28:45 – The latest on the ChargeLogic merger with Versapay 30:00 – Wrap up – improving how payment around ERP can continue to be optimized. For more information on Versapay or book a demo with them, visit https://info.versapay.com/versapay-payments-schedule. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3kgi1E_Nxo