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title: "Custom Dynamics 365 Apps, Built to Order"
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description: "When there is no packaged app for the decision you need: custom Power Apps, document intelligence and ERP-side builds on your own governed Microsoft stack."
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# Custom Dynamics 365 Apps, Built to Order

Built to order means the engineering exists and we build it for you, on your own Power Platform, Dataverse and Azure, through the integration points Microsoft supports, without modifying the ERP core. Your implementation partner keeps running your ERP. We build what sits beside it.


## Shipped, built to order, or a blueprint

| Status | What it means | Where it applies today |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Shipped | Running for a customer today | Contract review, as Paralegent AI |
| Built, demonstrated on request | The software exists and is shown live against your own data | Pricing · pick-path and slotting · demand and inventory |
| Built to order | We have the engineering and build it for you; there is no packaged app yet | Reconciliation · mobile field apps · warehouse mapping · IoT and asset tracking · the ERP-side document build |
| In development | Being built now, named as roadmap | MCP server and Copilot extension |
| Blueprint | Architecture designed, nothing built | Supply-chain risk · the F&O planning-operations set |


## What we build to order

### Financial reconciliation

Matching and reconciling transactions across systems, with the evidence behind every match kept and shown. The point is not the match rate; it is that a controller can see why two rows were paired and disagree with it.

### Mobile and field apps

Custom mobile Power Apps and AI extensions for Supply Chain Management — the jobs done standing up, on a device, by somebody who is not going to open a desktop client to do them.

### Warehouse mapping and layout

Mapping the physical warehouse and optimising layout, alongside pick-path and slotting. The layout question is upstream of the routing question and is usually the one nobody has revisited.

### IoT, asset and condition monitoring

Sensor and asset data feeding the ERP so a condition raises the right record rather than an email. Incoming-inspection apps that read images and sensor data sit beside this at blueprint stage.

### Document intelligence, ERP side

Read, classify, extract and validate invoices, contracts and forms — with the source quote and page kept behind every extracted value, so a disputed figure can be traced rather than argued. The document pipeline is in active client use; the ERP-side app is built to order.

### Approval routing and document-driven workflow

Getting a document to the person who must decide, with the context they need attached, and recording what happened. Built to order across the Dynamics estate.


## How a build runs

### 01. Diagnose

Scope before building. The first output is often that the answer is a report, better master data, or a configuration change — all cheaper than a build, and we would rather say so in week one than month four.

### 02. Architect

Architecture and acceptance criteria agreed up front, in writing, including which integration points are used and what happens at the next platform update.

### 03. Deploy

Milestones tied to working software and a weekly demo. No throwaway code — the pilot is the first production slice, not a prototype to be rebuilt.

### 04. Optimize

Every deployment ships with documentation, runbooks, monitoring and training, plus post-launch support. The measure is whether your team can run it without us.


## Questions

### What does “built to order” actually mean?

It is one of five status words we use precisely. Built to order means the engineering exists and we build it for you, but there is no packaged app you can buy off a shelf. It is distinct from shipped, which means running for a customer today; from built and demonstrated on request, which means the software exists and is shown live against your own data; from in development; and from blueprint, which means the architecture is designed and nothing is built. We would rather use five words than one vague one.

### Are you a Dynamics implementation partner?

No, and that is deliberate. The partner who implemented your ERP keeps running it — the configuration, the upgrades, the support model. We build the decision layer and the apps beside it, through documented integration points, so the two pieces of work stay separable. We have never competed for implementation work and the arrangement stops making sense if we do.

### Where does a custom build run?

On your own governed stack: Power Platform and Power Apps, Dataverse, and Azure in your own tenant, with Azure OpenAI where a model is needed. Microsoft Fabric and Copilot Studio are integrated where your estate already runs them. AppSource is the distribution route where that suits procurement. You keep full ownership of code and data.

### How is Business Central work different from Finance & Operations?

Different product, different data layer, different environment model — and knowing that difference is most of the expertise. Business Central leads on quoting and pricing, where time to value is shorter. Finance & Supply Chain Management carries warehouse and planning, where the data volumes and the environment topology are the harder part. A team that treats them as one platform will be wrong about both.

### How does an engagement start?

A scoped four-to-six week pilot on one workflow, with a single explicit success metric agreed before we begin and a weekly readout. The pilot is the first production slice rather than a prototype. Commercial shape is agreed in the working session — bring the workflow and the person who owns it.

### What about security and compliance?

Secure by design and least privilege: encryption in transit and at rest, role-based access, audit logging. Architectures are aligned with SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA and PCI-DSS practices. Aligned with — Cognilium does not claim formal certification.


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