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Overview

Learn is the starting area for people new to Business Central or looking for background material. It combines a functional overview, hands-on practice scenarios, demo data, technical design notes, and partner-specific resources.

Start with the business functionality overview to see which processes are supported: finance, sales, purchasing, inventory, projects, fixed assets, CRM, HR, manufacturing, assembly, warehouse and service management. Then practice with the business process walkthroughs, which use the CRONUS demonstration company. The Contoso Coffee demo data page offers a fictitious company for exploring manufacturing, warehousing, and service modules.

For deeper technical questions, the application design details index points to articles on inventory costing, dimension set entries, supply planning, warehouse availability, item tracking, and VAT handling. Partners have two more pages: resources covering readiness, releases, Copilot and agents, integrations, and migrations, plus Viva Engage communities for discussion with Microsoft experts.

Key points

• Business functionality overview lists supported areas: finance, sales, purchasing, inventory, projects, fixed assets, CRM, HR, manufacturing, assembly, warehouse, service.
• Business process walkthroughs are step-by-step scenarios in the CRONUS demo company, such as sales campaigns, prepayments, approval workflows, project management, warehouse picking, and data export.
• Contoso Coffee demo data is fictitious company data for learning manufacturing, warehousing, service, and common modules, with setup and configuration guidance.
• Application design details index covers inventory costing, dimension set entries, supply planning, warehouse availability, item tracking, and VAT handling.
• Partner resources cover readiness programs, latest releases (2026 release wave 2, update 29.0), Copilot, Sales Order, Payables and Expense agents, Power Platform and Shopify integration, migrations, and marketplace apps.
• Viva Engage groups let partners discuss technical topics, give product feedback, and follow announcements and best practices.

Learn pages

• Application design details: This content contains detailed technical information about complex application features in Business Central.
• Business functionality supported by Business Central: Provides a feature overview of all the business functions and departments supported by application areas, such as finance, inventory, and project management.
• Business Process Walkthroughs: This selection of walkthroughs provides step-by-step, end-to-end business processes that you can perform using the CRONUS demonstration company.
• Introduction to Contoso Coffee Demo Data: Overview of scenarios for how Contoso Coffee demo data can help you learn how to use the capabilities in Business Central.
• Resources for partners: Resources for partners contain a set of resources, services, and tools to support Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.
• Viva Engage for Dynamics 365 Business Central Partners: Viva Engage for Dynamics 365 Business Central Partners provides a set of resources, services, and tools to support Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.

Business Central pages and reports

The pages, reports and queries this hub’s Learn pages name (ms.search.form, API reference), joined to the code by exact object id (data/index/docs-objects.json); a page shows the table it runs on.

• Page 5194 “Contoso Demo Tool” · on Table 5161 “Contoso Demo Data Module”
• Page 9000 “Whse. WMS Role Center” · captioned “Shipping and Receiving - Warehouse Management System”
• Page 9004 “Bookkeeper Role Center” · captioned “Bookkeeper”
• Page 9005 “Sales Manager Role Center” · captioned “Sales Manager”
• Page 9006 “Order Processor Role Center” · captioned “Sales Order Processor”
• Page 9007 “Purchasing Agent Role Center” · captioned “Purchasing Agent”
• Page 9009 “Whse. Worker WMS Role Center” · captioned “Warehouse Worker - Warehouse Management System”
• Page 9010 “Production Planner Role Center” · captioned “Manufacturing Manager”
• Page 9016 “Service Dispatcher Role Center” · captioned “Service Manager”
• Page 9017 “Service Technician Role Center” · captioned “Outbound Technician - Customer Service”
• Page 9020 “Small Business Owner RC” · captioned “President - Small Business”
• Page 9022 “Business Manager Role Center” · captioned “Business Manager”
• Page 9024 “Security Admin Role Center” · captioned “Administration of users, security groups and permissions”
• Page 9026 “Sales & Relationship Mgr. RC” · captioned “Sales and Relationship Manager”
• Page 9027 “Accountant Role Center” · captioned “Accountant”
• Page 9030 “Account Manager Activities” · captioned “Activities” · on Table 9054 “Finance Cue”

Source: Microsoft Learn (CC BY 4.0). Descriptions are Learn’s own.