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by 486sx33 679 days ago
A general purpose, all encompassing ERP system that works for ANY industry

Yeah. That sounds awful

The author makes some great points, I think the biggest one from a business perspective, for anyone who is ever involved with a project that scopes an ERP is how do I get my data out of this thing? AND then, example output! I’ve seen ERPs that are basically impossible to ever get all your data out of, and then others where they export everywhere completely verbose, in CSV based on some C code from 1976 … so then what?

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With the shared data backend “dataverse” (previously CDS - Common Data Service) being used for the entire Dynamics platform (ERP, CRM), seemingly being easily accessible, I was under the impression, exporting data was rather easy too.

I only know the platform from a recent D365 CRM POC, so I’d appreciate if you could elaborate on your thougts/experiences.