Sourced artificial intelligence and software context
Models, products, and production services: Dynamics 365 Business Central
The City of San Jose identifies artificial intelligence as a priority growth sector and includes AI training and job-matching programs in its fiscal year 2025 to 2026 economic plan. Translate the business setting into companies, dimensions, posting groups, workflows, and operational records. Ask the consultant to show the accounting result of each choice. AI product work can join source data, models, application code, evaluation, user feedback, cost controls, access rules, and production support under separate owners.
Evidence to request: Use a transaction scenario and require company, dimension, posting, approval, inventory, and reporting decisions. Define the user decision, model boundary, source data, evaluation set, deployment path, access control, cost target, failure response, and approving product owner.
Sourced semiconductors and advanced manufacturing context
Engineering, fabrication, and supply controls: Dynamics 365 Business Central
A July 2025 City of San Jose economic-development release names advanced manufacturing and semiconductors among the industries the city plans to attract, retain, and grow. Set the extension and integration strategy. Require evidence from APIs, events, AL extensions, upgrades, monitoring, and the boundary with Power Platform or external products. Semiconductor and manufacturing programs may connect product definitions, equipment, process recipes, production schedules, quality results, suppliers, inventory, maintenance, and cost records.
Evidence to request: Review an extension or integration with upgrade safety, failure handling, authentication, monitoring, and operational support. Set the design or plant boundary, product revision, process control, equipment interface, traceability unit, quality release, supplier handoff, change window, and support owner.
Sourced data centers and energy infrastructure context
Capacity, continuity, and facility operations: Dynamics 365 Business Central
San Jose's July 2026 large energy-use project page distinguishes data centers from research laboratories, advanced manufacturing sites, electric-vehicle charging hubs, and other power-intensive facilities. Define migration, testing, cutover, and support ownership. Candidates should explain opening balances, master data, open transactions, permissions, jobs, exceptions, and reconciliation. These facilities can combine power, cooling, networks, physical security, capacity, asset maintenance, environmental controls, backup systems, and tenant or workload commitments.
Evidence to request: Ask for a cutover cycle the consultant owned, including migration order, reconciliation, permissions, exceptions, and sign-off. Name the facility and workload boundary, capacity unit, power and cooling dependencies, availability target, access model, maintenance path, recovery test, and change authority.