Every Business Central migration,
mapped and de-risked
Whether you are moving off Dynamics Great Plains, upgrading from Navision, or migrating a legacy customer relationship management system to Dynamics 365, you get a clear route, a fixed scope, and a team that has run this migration before.
Submit your brief, call within 48 hours, scoped proposal in 3 days, Sprint 1 begins within 1 week of sign-off
Legacy enterprise resource planning is not a platform. It is a liability.
Every month you delay a migration, your team absorbs the cost in workarounds, manual reconciliation, and missed decisions. Here is what that looks like in practice.
- Manual data exports from Navision or Great Plains into spreadsheets for every financial close
- No real-time inventory or order visibility across locations
- Information technology team maintaining unsupported software with escalating licensing risk
- Customer relationship management data siloed from enterprise resource planning, forcing duplicate entry and reconciliation
- Reporting delayed by days, not hours. Decisions made on stale data.
- Automated financial close with real-time Power BI dashboards
- Live inventory and order tracking across all warehouses and channels
- Cloud-native platform with Microsoft support and a clear upgrade path
- Unified customer relationship management and enterprise resource planning on a single data model. One source of truth.
- Reporting available in minutes. Decisions made on data from today.
Find your exact migration path
The tour cycles through each source system automatically. Each view shows the recommended destination, typical timeline, key risk flags, and a conversation starter for your assessment call.
Your current system
Recommended route
Dynamics GP to Business Central
Microsoft ended mainstream support for Great Plains. Your data, your customizations, and your team's workflows all need a clean migration path before the support window closes completely.
Typical timeline
12 to 20 weeks
Primary risk
Custom report mapping
Data scope
General ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, inventory
First conversation
"What customizations exist?"
CRM Migration to Dynamics 365
Moving your customer relationship management to Dynamics 365 Sales unifies customer records with your enterprise resource planning data. Your sales team gets live order history, payment status, and inventory in the same system where they manage prospects.
Typical timeline
6 to 12 weeks
Primary risk
Contact and account deduplication
Data scope
Contacts, leads, opportunities, activities
First conversation
"What is your current platform?"
Legacy ERP Migration
Migrations from custom-built or third-party enterprise resource planning systems require a structured discovery phase before any data mapping begins. We scope the gap, flag the risk, and build a phased plan before a single record moves.
Typical timeline
16 to 28 weeks
Primary risk
Unmapped custom data fields
Data scope
Defined in discovery sprint
First conversation
"What is your schema structure?"
Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations upgrade
Moving from Axapta or an older Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations version to the current cloud release gives your finance and operations teams access to continuous updates, improved Power BI integration, and reduced on-premise infrastructure.
Typical timeline
20 to 36 weeks
Primary risk
Independent software vendor extension compatibility
Data scope
Full entity migration and code review
First conversation
"Which release are you on?"
Scope, data, cutover, and support
Every record mapped before a single line migrates
You get a complete data mapping document before migration begins. Every source field maps to a destination field, every transformation rule is documented, and your team validates a sample extract before cutover.
| Source (Great Plains) | Destination (Business Central) | Status |
|---|---|---|
| GL_Account | General Ledger Account | Validated |
| PM_Vendor_MSTR | Vendor | Validated |
| RM_Customer_MSTR | Customer | Pending sign-off |
| IV_ItemMaster | Item | Pending sign-off |
A go-live runbook your team can follow hour by hour
Cutover is the highest-risk 48 hours of any migration. You get a documented runbook with named owners, time-boxed tasks, rollback triggers, and a dedicated migration lead on call throughout the window.
30 days of hypercare so your team lands confidently
The 30 days after go-live are when edge cases surface. Your team gets priority access to the migration engineer who ran your project, same-day response on data discrepancies, and a structured issue log with resolution targets.
From fragmented systems to $70M in annual revenue
Company
Half Price Drapes
Multi-channel window treatment retailer
The problem
Data was siloed across multiple systems and sales channels. Inventory, orders, and fulfillment had no unified visibility. Decision-making was slow, reactive, and dependent on manual exports.
What changed
Microsoft Power BI was integrated with Dynamics 365 enterprise resource planning to centralize inventory, order, and customer data into real-time dashboards. A multi-channel commerce solution was built and integrated with the enterprise resource planning system, including advanced custom features and automated payment and fulfillment workflows.
- Power BI and Dynamics 365 enterprise resource planning integration
- Unified multi-channel commerce layer
- Application programming interface integrations and payment automation
The result
million in annual revenue, post-migration
Integrated analytics improved operational efficiency through real-time insights. Inventory management and customer experience improved across all sales channels. Optimized systems and marketing strategies increased conversions and long-term scalability.
How data moves from source to Dynamics 365
Every migration runs through four controlled phases. The tour cycles through each phase automatically so you can see what happens to your data at every stage.
Phase 1: Discovery
During discovery, the migration team connects to your source system in read-only mode. Every table is profiled: row count, null rates, duplicate keys, and referential integrity. Risk flags are documented and a migration scope document is signed before any data moves.
What separates a clean migration from a painful one
Typical implementation partner
- Scope defined by partner, not buyer. Surprises appear at cutover.
- Data mapping delivered in the final sprint, not upfront
- No dedicated cutover lead. Clients manage go-live day themselves.
- Post-go-live support sold separately at day rates. Issue queues pile up.
- Rollback plan absent or not tested before go-live begins
Redefine migration approach
240 projects- Buyer-defined scope. Every line item agreed before Sprint 1 begins.
- Complete data mapping document in week 2. No end-of-project surprises.
- Named migration lead on call through the full 48-hour cutover window
- 30-day hypercare included in migration fee. Same-day response on data issues.
- Rollback plan tested in staging. Trigger criteria documented before go-live.
What buyers ask before committing to a migration
Your assessment call includes a schema review. You share read-only access to your source system or export a table list and row count summary. That gives the team enough to scope the data volume, identify high-risk tables, and produce a line-item proposal in three business days. You see the full scope before any commitment.
Every migration project includes a tested rollback plan. If a critical data set fails validation during the cutover window, the runbook includes a documented trigger point and a rollback procedure that returns the source system to full operation within a defined time window. The rollback plan is reviewed and signed off by your team before go-live begins.
Both are possible, but the decision affects timeline and cost. Most organizations migrate current open transactions plus two to five years of historical data to Business Central, and archive older data separately in read-only format. The discovery phase defines exactly which tables move and which are archived, with your finance team's input on retention requirements.
Client/server Application Language code from Navision does not transfer directly to Business Central's Application Language extension model. The discovery phase includes a full customization audit, categorizing each item as migrate, rewrite, replace with standard Business Central functionality, or sunset. You get a ranked list with effort estimates for each item, so the decision to keep or drop a customization is yours and it is documented before any development begins.
Across a full migration project, your team's involvement is primarily three things: data validation reviews at the end of each mapping sprint (usually two to three hours per session), user acceptance testing in the staging environment (your finance and operations leads, one to two days total), and go-live day availability for sign-off. The migration team handles architecture, data engineering, environment setup, and post-go-live support.
Who we work with, and who we do not
Migrations succeed when the team, the timing, and the scope all line up. Here is when we are the right partner, and when you should keep looking.
Good fit when
- You run Dynamics Great Plains, Navision, Axapta, or a comparable legacy enterprise resource planning that has reached its support window
- Your finance and operations leads can give 4 to 6 hours per week for validation and user acceptance testing
- You want a go-live date within six months and are ready to scope it now
- Reporting accuracy and real-time inventory visibility are board-level conversations at your company
Not a fit if
- You are looking for a software-only license sale without an implementation partner
- A single information technology generalist is the only resource available from your side
- You have already committed to a different enterprise resource planning platform and want a second opinion only
- You need a four-week emergency cutover with no discovery or staging
Not sure? Tell us your situation and we will be straight with you. Send your brief.
Get your migration path scoped in 3 days
Tell us what your team is managing manually that a properly migrated system should handle automatically. We will map the path, scope the risk, and send a line-item proposal in three business days.
- Scoped before work starts. Line-by-line pricing. No commitment to receive a proposal.
- 240 migration projects completed across Great Plains, Navision, legacy enterprise resource planning, and customer relationship management paths
- Rollback plan and hypercare included in every migration scope
migration projects completed
supported migration paths
Call within 48 hours, scoped proposal in 3 days, Sprint 1 within 1 week of sign-off
Brief received
We will review your migration situation and send a scoped proposal within 3 business days. If there is a quick question we need answered first, you will hear from us within 48 hours.
Your migration path is already mapped. Let's confirm it.
The assessment is free and your Business Central migration proposal is line-item specific. There is no commitment and no pitch call until you have seen the full scope and price.
No commitment. No pitch. Submit your brief, call within 48 hours, scoped proposal in 3 days.