Business Central
AL extensions, AI integrations and BC implementation patterns.

Camera-first warehouse execution: betting against barcode scanners
Every WMS deployment we ever lost died on the scanner hardware project. So we built a WMS that runs on the phone every operator already has. What it takes to make camera-first actually work at warehouse scale — and where dedicated scanners still earn their keep.

Above the Cues: why we built a Role Center charting dashboard instead of pushing Power BI
When Power BI is the wrong default. The decisions behind SourceForge Insight — zero outbound calls, embedded chart libraries, permission-true reads, Page Background Tasks for compute. And why making the security review trivial is the actual product story.

Idempotent POS posting in Business Central: how we made retry safe by construction
How the Posted Sale Map pattern lets retail POS retry posts as many times as the network forces — without ever creating a duplicate sale. The architectural decision that shaped SourceForge Retail for Business Central.

One Business Central payroll engine, five countries: why we made country packs data, not code
How we built one Business Central payroll engine for India, UAE, KSA, Netherlands and USA — without forking the codebase per country. The architecture trade-offs of treating countries as configuration data rather than code paths.

Building an AI Assistant for Business Central: 61 tools, hardcoded write whitelists, and Preview-and-Confirm
The engineering choices behind a Claude-powered conversational interface that lives inside Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central — and why the simplest decision was the most important.

What Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central actually is, and where it fits in the Indian SMB stack
An honest primer on Business Central for Indian small and mid-sized businesses considering an ERP upgrade — what it is, what it isn't, and the questions to ask before committing.

From Tally to Business Central: a migration playbook that respects your CA
The realistic path from Tally Prime to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central for an Indian SMB. Six phases, twelve weeks, and a CA who isn't furious with you.
