The data in a Business Central system can be accessed by means of pages, queries, and/or reports, providing total flexibility. Whatever tools are available to the developer or the user, and are appropriate, should be used. There are some very good tools in Business Central for data manipulation, extraction, and presentation. Among other things, these include the SIFT/FlowField functionality, the pervasive filtering capability (including the ability to apply filters to subordinate data structures), and the Navigate function. Business Central includes the ability to create page parts for graphing, with a wide variety of predefined chart page parts included as part of the standard distribution. We can also create our own chart parts using tools delivered with the system or available from blogs or MSDN.
The Business Central database design approach could be referred to as a rational normalization. Business Central isn't constrained by a rigid normalized...
