If you’re currently using NAV 2009 and you want to go straight to NAV 2018, either SaaS or on-premise, you have quite a bit to consider. The answer to this question starts with where you are coming from with your base NAV product. Visit Microsoft’s Business Central website to learn more about this product, especially when it comes to the improvements over older versions of NAV. Regardless of its name, you will still have a NAV product, and this NAV product now has a cloud, SaaS option. Basically, NAV 2018 is the last NAV version to ever be called “NAV.” Eventually, however, Microsoft will rename it Dynamics 365 Business Center (DYN365BC), but it will still be, at its core, on-premises NAV 2018. Dynamics NAV 2018 is still an on-premises solution. Business Central is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) option for NAV, but it’s not an on-premises replacement for NAV. In a previous post, we discussed the onset of Dynamics 365 Business Central, which is based upon the NAV 2018 code. You’ve outgrown your last space and now your software, too. It’s similar to needing new office space or a completely different office location to accommodate your business growth. These settings might have been fine back then, but as you have grown as a business, you’ve outgrown your software.

If your business is growing or evolving, you will keep running into architectural bottlenecks with your older software. The older a system is, it’s less likely to have any support at all from the publisher, which invites disaster to these users, both on a security and an operational stability level.

This is mainly because as time passes, it will become increasingly difficult for us to provide any support for older systems. Of course, we try to encourage our clients to stay relatively current with technology.

Even if your business currently has the extended support for these older systems, the clock is still ticking.Īt Sikich, we want to support your older Dynamics systems as long as we possibly can, even independent of Microsoft’s support plans. In regards to NAV 2009 R2 (and older), Microsoft stopped supporting them in 2015, allowing for purchase of extended support through 2020. In addition, all third-party compatible apps will no longer update. However, those who purchased extended support from Microsoft will continue to have NAV 2013 support until 2023. This means that Microsoft will no longer offer any bug fixes and patches, end-of-year service packs, or support. Mainstream support for Dynamics NAV 2013 ended back in January, 2018.

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