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Mobile Solutions for Business Central: Why the Native App Is All You Need

Mobile Solutions for Business Central: Why the Native App Is All You Need

Oct 19, 2026

I’ve been watching companies buy expensive third-party mobile applications for Business Central for years now, and I keep asking myself: why? I get it—old habits die hard. For decades, if you wanted warehouse staff scanning barcodes or shop floor workers capturing production data on a tablet, you had to buy something from an ISV. That’s just how it was. But somewhere around Business Central version 23, that stopped being true. Microsoft gave us native barcode scanning, tablet support, and AL extensibility in the standard mobile app—and most people are still acting like it’s 2015. I just came back from the...

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