Name: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance
Rating: 4.3 (499 reviews)

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Updated 13th October 2025

What is Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance?

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance software is designed to help organizations manage their financial operations by automating and optimizing financial processes such as budgeting, forecasting, accounting, and reporting. The software provides features for tracking and analyzing financial performance, managing cash flow, and ensuring compliance with regulatory standards. It supports integration with other business applications and offers tools for process automation and data analytics. By enabling real-time financial insights and centralized financial management, the software addresses needs related to financial visibility and operational efficiency, assisting businesses in making informed decisions and improving accuracy in financial activities.

Overall experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance

Director Of Enterprise Financial Systems

Gov't/PS/ED 5,000 - 50,000 Employees, Government

FAVORABLE

“Never Stagnate: Constantly Evolving Feature Sets in D365”

4.0

Mar 25, 2026

The product has industry-specific features to support governmental requirements and processes such as fund accounting, encumbrances, budget control, budget planning, and cash control. D365 is constantly evolving and improving both the feature sets and the underlying technology behind it so you will never be stagnant or behind the times again. It works well with other Microsoft products such as Project and M365. It is also a more affordable solution compared to alternative products we looked at.

Finance Associate

50M - 250M USD, Construction

CRITICAL

“Flexible Configurations and Module Variety Stand Out Amid Reporting Limitations”

3.0

Mar 25, 2026

Rocky integration with project operations, customization is difficult

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Company Description

Microsoft enables digital transformation for the era of an intelligent cloud and an intelligent edge. Its mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Microsoft is dedicated to advancing human and organizational achievement. Microsoft Security helps protect people and data against cyberthreats to give peace of mind.

Company Details

Company type

Public

Year Founded

1975

Head office location

Redmond, Washington, United States

Number of employees

10000+

Annual Revenue

30B+ USD

Website

https://microsoft.com

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The flexible chart of accounts utilizing account structures and advanced rules is very powerful and allows you to configure a complex set of accounts for funding such as funds, subfunds, grants, projects as well as add-in functions, activities and/or programs. The organizational hierarchy can be directly added as financial dimensions or derivied from another financial dimension as well. Budget control can be managed at higher dimension levels than just the lower level financial dimensions. Budget control can be configured approporiation-encumbrances-actual expenditures = available appropriation, but you have option to include preencumbrances and other items such as PO or invoices in progress in the calculation if you desire. Budget and cash control are separately configured so you can manage these at different combinations. Encumbrances can be managed through Purchase Orders and Requisitions, but can also utilize the general budget reservation feature, which is an encumbrance that can be relieved directly or by requisitions, invoices, or purchase orders and will roll the remaining obligation amount to the next fiscal year. You have the flexibility to configure how you want to handle encumbrance rollovers and Prior year budget items.

Flexible and stable configurations, low incidence of bugs, variety of fully integrated modules available

One of the most impressive aspects of Microsoft Dynamic 365 finance is its scalability and its seamless integration with the broader Ms ecosystem. It integrates smoothly with tools such Ms 365, Ms Power BI, Ms Power Automate and Ms Azure, allowing us to unity data across systems and have a single intelligent source of information across all our department . The cloudbased unified interface is also highly effective in providing an effortless experience across finance, supply chain and project accounting module. This simplifies navigation and improves our collaboration across departments. The platform's AI powered automation capabilities are another highlight, particularly intelligent budgeting tools and automated invoice processing which have significantly reduced manual work while improving accuracy across financial operations. Security is another strength. The platform provides airtight enterprise grade security with robust identity management, role based access controls and secure cloud infrastructure. This ensures that sensitive financial and operational data is protected while still allowing authorized teams to access the information they need in real time. In addition the financial reporting and business performance analytics tools are extremely powerful. Realtime dashboards and reports allow us to monitor financial and operational performance closely. The scenario modelling and cross functional planning capabilities also standout,enabling dynamic forecasting and allowing us to align our financial strategy with realtime operational data.

Project accounting is a very complex feature and difficult to reconcile with the other subledgers and GL. Grant accounting features a limited and often needs to be turned into 3rd party solutions for pre-award and compliance tracking versus just financial accounting of grant revenue and disbursements.

Microsoft support tickets are inconsistently addressed, integration requires high level X ability, built in reporting/ SSRS reports inflexible and hard to customize.

The initial implementation and configuration process was quite complex, particularly when aligning the system with our specialized manufacturing workflow. Achieving the full value from the platform required technical expertise and careful customization during deployment. Also the advanced analytics abd automation capabilities require deeper integrations with other Microsoft tools, which took quite sometime to setup.

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Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance Reviews and Ratings

4.3

(499 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star: 35%
4 Star: 53%
3 Star: 9%
2 Star: 3%
1 Star: 0%

Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

4.2

Integration & Deployment

4.2

Service & Support

4.1

Product Capabilities

4.3

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Director Of Enterprise Financial Systems
Gov't/PS/Ed
Government
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Never Stagnate: Constantly Evolving Feature Sets in D365
4.0
Mar 25, 2026
The product has industry-specific features to support governmental requirements and processes such as fund accounting, encumbrances, budget control, budget planning, and cash control. D365 is constantly evolving and improving both the feature sets and the underlying technology behind it so you will never be stagnant or behind the times again. It works well with other Microsoft products such as Project and M365. It is also a more affordable solution compared to alternative products we looked at.
Manufacturing Operations Manager
50M-1B USD
Manufacturing
Review Source
Powering smarter financial and operational decisions with Microsoft Dynamic 365 Finance
5.0
Mar 5, 2026
Microsoft Dynamic 365 Finance has truly been an iconic solution that has supercharged how we manage financial and operational processes in our organization. Since adopting we have been able to modernize our financial management while gaining deeper visibility into our supply chain activities from procurement and inventory management to production and distribution. One of the most valuable capabilities is the end to end transparency it provides across our financial workflows. This visibility allows us to optimize supply chain operations, maintain tighter control over budgets and operational costs and reduce wastage across our procurement and production cycles. The centralized data environment also play a critical role. By maintaining unified reposition for financial and operational data, the platform allows different departments to access consistent, realtime insights. The platform advanced analytics and AI driven capabilities help us generate reports and monitor key financial an operational metrics with accuracy. This has refined our decision making processes by enabling us to rely on data driven insights to manage our finances efficiently and optimize our production environment.
LEAD, SERVICE STRATEGY & TRANSFORMATION
50M-1B USD
Services (non-Government)
Review Source
Platform Excels in Financial Visibility and Integration
4.0
Dec 12, 2025
I have found that the platform delivers strong financial visibility, solid automation, and reliable integration capabilities across complex business units. In day-to-day use, it feels modern, scalable, and powerful, but it does not require structured change management or a clear data model to get the most value. In the telecom industry, where we deployed it, where revenue flows, cost allocation, and compliance demands are high, the system performs well - yet some areas still feel less intuitive and require customization or additional training.
It Security & Risk Management Associate
50M-1B USD
Services (non-Government)
Review Source
A Solid Solution for Your Finance Team
5.0
Feb 18, 2026
Microsoft Dynamics is a robust ERP solution that integrates with the Microsoft ecosystem very smoothly, like any other Microsoft solution. The overall experience has been mostly positive as this product provides peace of mind for our accounting team.
IT MANAGER
<50M USD
Miscellaneous
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Cloud-Based Platform Offers Flexibility And Scalability For Financial Management Needs
5.0
Nov 9, 2025
As an administrator in my company, the overall experience with Microsoft Dynamics is positive. This system provides a strong financial system that helps to manage real-time reporting and also provides seamless integration features with other Dynamics 365 applications. It also helps to provide automation of routine financial processes and transactions which saves lots of time, money and effort. It is a cloud-based platform and offers flexibility and scalability, which is necessary for growing businesses.

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