Dynamics 365 Business Central: use sequential GUIDs when possible.

I think that everyone of you know what a GUID is. A GUID (Globally Unique Identifier) is a 128-bit number … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central on-premises and SQL Server 2025.

Yesterday Microsoft announced the general availability for SQL Server 2025. This new edition brings important changes for partners and customers … More

Evaluating LLMs performances for your AI task: presenting my LLMEvaluator.

After my session about creating AI solutions in Dynamics 365 Business Central using Managed vs Custom AI at Directions EMEA … More

Introducing YAMPI: the MCP server for Dynamics 365 Business Central administration.

At the end of November 2024 Anthropic introduced the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open standard and open-source framework created with the goal to standardize … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: announcing Italy North availability.

This is the post for the Italian customers and partners that I had in the bag from months. I think … More

Understanding LLM performance degradation: a deep dive into Context Window limits

Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized how we interact with AI, but they come with a critical constraint: the context … More

Azure Logic Apps: Built-in vs Managed Azure Blob Storage Connector.

When creating workflows with Azure Logic Apps that uses the Azure Blob Storage Connector, you have the possibility to select … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: finally we’ll have TRUNCATE table in SaaS.

In the last 3 years I wrote many times about the need to have the possibility to execute a massive … More

Azure Logic Apps: are you handling large blobs? Keep memory usage under control.

When working with Dynamics 365 Business Central (and generally speaking on a lot of other serverless projects) it’s quite common … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: compressing API responses at max.

In the last part of the session I’ve done with Duilio at BC TechDays this year on how we handle … More

High performance workflows with Azure Logic Apps: using Azure SQL as storage provider.

In the past I wrote many posts and also done a lots of sessions at different conferences about how to … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: the problem of large data deletion – part 2: AlterKey

Yesterday I talked about the always more increasing need to perform large data deletion in SaaS for some tables and … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: the problem of large data deletion.

In the last two months I was invited to speak at two partner’s events and during those events I had … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: what I want for Santa is…

Often when approaching the end of the year we love to contact our Dynamics 365 Business Central customers and asking … More

Azure Logic Apps: stateful and stateless workflows overview and performance comparison.

Azure Logic Apps Standard is a new deployment option for creating and running automated workflows in a single-tenant environment. This … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: be careful on your upgrade code.

It’s the second time that I see partners asking informations about the following message coming from Dynamics 365 Business Central: … More

How Dynamics 365 Business Central handles incoming web service calls (for dummies).

In the last two days I was in Assago (Milano) at the WPC Conference, probably the most important IT conference … More

Me @ Directions EMEA 2024

Also this year Directions EMEA conference is approaching and next week all the EMEA’s Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central partner’s … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: adding fields to the new Modern Search engine via AL code.

Some weeks ago I wrote a post explaining, with some technical details, the new Modern Search feature introduced with Dynamics … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 2: new Search in List pages (but don’t abuse of it)

Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 2 release (version 25) introduces a new search capability for list pages. Now users … More

Running inline C# scripts in Azure Logic Apps workflows

Last week I wrote a post explaining the new Inline Powershell action available in Azure Logic Apps standard. With this … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: the power of NumberSequence

Assigning number series to documents seems a simple task to users but in an ERP (where concurrency is always present) … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: monitoring field changes with telemetry is better…

In a traditional Dynamics 365 Business Central project, expecially when the customer is a large company, it’s quite often requested … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: Edit in Excel and Long Running SQL queries

Dynamics 365 Business Central has (from a long time) a nice feature for the end user called Edit in Excel. … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: introducing the new Table Key module

One of the announced features for Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 1 release is the possibility to enable or … More

Monitoring your Azure OpenAI usage (part 2)

In a previous post I wrote about how you can monitor your Azure OpenAI usage with Azure Monitor and Application … More

Azure Functions and Data Parallelism: things to know.

When working with code on some complex data operations, sometimes to improve performances it’s possible to use code techniques like … More

Monitoring your Azure OpenAI usage

I want to continue the saga of “using Azure OpenAI in a professional way” by talking a bit about a … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: Copilot, Azure OpenAI and real-world enterprise usage.

We are entering a new era of AI, one that is fundamentally changing how we relate to and benefit from … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: SQL Server and Read Committed Snapshot Isolation impact.

One of the greatest thing introduced in the latest Dynamics 365 Business Central release if cerainly the TRI STATE LOCKING … More

Azure Functions and Blob Triggers: be careful on the binding type.

This post is borned to signal a problem that I’ve recently found in a customer and I think that sharing … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: is my on-premises customer ready for SaaS?

“Is my Dynamics 365 Business Central on-premises customer ready to be moved on SaaS?“. “Will the SaaS platform able to … More

The history of a Dynamics 365 Business Central data processing workflow…

Once upon a time there was a workflow named SpongeFlow created with the intention of processing complex data coming from … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central and Retention Policies: please KISS!

No… you don’t have to spread kisses all over the world, but probably the opposite… 🙂 I think that many … More

Azure Functions with VNET integration: remember to enable Runtime Scale Monitoring

When working with Azure Functions, in real-world projects could happen that you need to connect to resources in an Azure … More