A Dynamics GP Rescue
Service That Goes Live
Faster Than You Think.
Your Dynamics GP environment is aging. Extended support ends, customizations pile up, and every month of delay costs more than you realize. Redefine migrates mid-market companies to Business Central in a fixed 90-day engagement with full data validation, zero data loss, and day-one training included.
For most 30 to 150 user mid-market engagements. Engineering hours saved plus support risk avoided equals the cost of not migrating.
Submit your brief, call within 48 hours, scoped proposal in 5 business days, Sprint 1 begins within 1 week of sign-off.
Every day on GP is a cost you stop seeing
- Extended support ends April 2026
No new security patches. Every unpatched vulnerability is an open door for attackers, and your auditors already know.
- On-premise infrastructure eating budget
Server refresh cycles, IT overhead, and hardware depreciation add up to $40,000 to $120,000 per year for a typical 50 user organization.
- Integrations break every update cycle
Your ecommerce, third-party logistics, and payroll connectors require constant babysitting because GP was never designed for the cloud-first stack you run today.
- Talent pipeline is drying up
GP consultants are retiring and new finance hires expect modern, browser-based software. Recruiting gets harder every quarter you stay on premise.
- Automatic Microsoft cloud updates included
Two major release waves per year deploy to your environment automatically. Security patches ship the same day Microsoft publishes them.
- Infrastructure cost eliminated entirely
No servers, no hardware refreshes, no datacenter contracts. Your information technology team focuses on growth projects instead of uptime maintenance.
- Native connectors for Shopify, Power BI, Teams
Pre-built connectors in the Microsoft ecosystem eliminate custom middleware. Your stack talks to each other from day one without fragile workarounds.
- Finance teams adopt it in days, not months
Business Central shares the Microsoft 365 interface your team already uses daily. Training time drops from weeks to hours for most users.
Four phases, 90 days, fixed scope
Every phase has a named deliverable, a defined exit criteria, and a sign-off your team controls. No phase begins until the prior phase closes cleanly.
Discovery and Dynamics GP rescue assessment
Weeks 1 to 2. Schema audit on your GP database, customization inventory, integration map, and a written gap analysis showing what carries forward and what gets redesigned.
Build and configure
Weeks 3 to 7. Business Central tenant provisioned, chart of accounts rebuilt, dimensions configured, customizations replatformed as extensions, and integration connectors wired.
Data migration and validation
Weeks 8 to 11. Master data, open transactions, and historical balances move across with three reconciliation passes. Trial balances tie out to the penny before cutover.
Cutover and hypercare
Weeks 12 to 14. Go-live weekend with rollback plan ready, two weeks of dedicated hypercare support, and day-one training for every user role.
Your team's time investment across the full 90 days is typically 4 to 6 hours per week: weekly steering call, asynchronous feedback on deliverables, master data review, and final user acceptance testing. We handle everything else.
Walk through every GP capability we replatform
Pick a Dynamics GP module to see exactly what moves into Business Central, what gets retired, and what becomes a standard feature instead of a customization.
General Ledger and chart of accounts
- Full historical posting detail
- Account segments mapped to dimensions
- Trial balance to the penny
- Multi-company consolidation
- Six-dimension financial reporting
- Crystal Reports nightly batch jobs
- Manual journal import macros
Accounts Payable and Receivable
- Vendor and customer master records
- Open transactions and aging history
- Payment terms and credit limits
- Approval workflows by amount
- Electronic invoicing and reminders
- Paper-based check approval routing
- Custom Integration Manager scripts
Inventory, Sales Order, and Purchasing
- Item master with units and pricing
- Stock on hand and cost layers
- Twelve months of sales history
- Native Shopify and warehouse connectors
- Demand forecasting and replenishment
- SOP customizations with Dexterity
- Spreadsheet-driven inventory counts
Payroll and Human Resources
- Employee master, benefits, and tax setup
- Year-to-date earnings and deductions
- Self-service portal for employees
- ADP or Paylocity integration recommended
- GP Payroll module (not on Business Central)
- Paper timesheets and manual entry
Reporting, Smartlists, and Management Reporter
- Financial statement templates
- Smartlist queries as saved views
- Power BI workspace with prebuilt dashboards
- Excel refresh through Business Central API
- Crystal Reports licensing and servers
- Management Reporter (end of life)
Eleven deliverables in every Dynamics GP rescue package
Every line item ships with your engagement. No change orders for the items below, no surprise consulting hours, no separate invoice for training.
Discovery report
A written audit of your Dynamics GP environment with module-by-module migration recommendations and risk callouts.
Chart of accounts redesign
A modernized chart of accounts using Business Central dimensions to replace your legacy segment string.
Full data migration
Master data, open transactions, and seven years of history move across with three reconciliation passes.
Production tenant configured
A live Business Central tenant configured for your industry, your locations, and your reporting needs.
Customizations replatformed
Your GP Dexterity customizations rebuilt as AL extensions on the modern AppSource model with proper version control.
Integration connectors wired
Up to four pre-existing third-party systems connected through native connectors or supported middleware.
Power BI starter dashboards
Five prebuilt dashboards for finance, operations, sales, inventory, and executive overview ready on day one.
Role-based user training
Twelve hours of live training split across finance, operations, sales, and administrator personas with recordings retained.
Two weeks of hypercare
Dedicated post-go-live support window with same-day response, daily standups, and an issue log we close out together.
Cutover and rollback plan
A written runbook for go-live weekend covering every cutover task, dependencies, owner names, and the rollback procedure.
Post-project handoff
Source code repository, deployment pipeline, environment documentation, and admin credentials transferred to your team.
62 GP environments retired, 162 active Business Central tenants
We delayed this migration for four years because every consultancy quoted twelve months and seven figures. Redefine ran our entire 80 user Dynamics GP environment to Business Central in 84 days, hit every reconciliation pass on the first try, and our controller signed off without a single rework ticket.
Built for finance leaders who have been burned before
Fixed scope, fixed price
The proposal you sign is the price you pay. Change orders only apply if your team adds scope, and every change order ships with a written impact assessment before work begins.
Three reconciliation passes
Every migration includes three full reconciliation cycles before cutover. Your controller signs off on each pass and the trial balance ties to the penny before go-live.
Dedicated migration architect
One senior architect leads your engagement end to end. Not a project manager passing tickets around, but the person who designed the migration and signed the scope.
Microsoft Solutions Partner
Designation for Business Applications since 2019. Direct escalation paths into Microsoft engineering for complex licensing, data, and platform issues.
You own the code
Every line of AL extension code, every Power Automate flow, and every Power BI report belongs to you. Repository, pipelines, and credentials transferred at handoff.
Go-live or no-fee promise on phase 1
If our discovery phase reveals your environment cannot be migrated within the proposed scope, we refund phase 1 in full and write up the alternative path in detail.
For a typical 50 user Dynamics GP environment, three more years on the legacy stack costs roughly $312,000: on-premise infrastructure, license maintenance, security patching gaps, integration babysitting, and the productivity tax of slow month-end close cycles. A 90-day migration ends the bleed.
The questions every Dynamics GP team asks first
No. The standard migration carries forward seven years of posted transaction detail, full master data, open transactions, and aging balances. Anything older we offload into a read-only archive database you can query through Power BI if compliance ever asks.
During discovery we inventory every customization and independent software vendor add-on. Custom code rebuilds as an AL extension on the Business Central modern model. For add-ons, we map each one to a native Business Central capability, an AppSource equivalent, or a replatform candidate, and you decide which path each one takes.
Yes, and we recommend it for the first reconciliation cycle. Most clients run a side-by-side close in the final month before go-live so the controller can verify that Business Central produces the same numbers as Dynamics GP under identical inputs. After cutover Dynamics GP stays available read-only for audit reference.
A typical migration takes 4 to 6 hours per week from your finance and operations leads across the 90 days. The biggest commitments are the weekly steering call, master data validation, and user acceptance testing in weeks 10 and 11. We do not need a dedicated full-time project manager from your side.
A typical 50 user mid-market migration lands between $90,000 and $135,000 depending on the number of integrations and customizations. That covers all eleven deliverables on this page including training and two weeks of hypercare. Business Central licensing is separate and we issue you a transparent cost projection during discovery so you can budget independently.
We do not go live until trial balances tie to the penny. If a reconciliation pass surfaces a variance, we trace it, document the root cause, and rerun the pass. Cutover is the controller's decision, not the consultant's deadline. The engagement timeline includes contingency days for exactly this reason.
Yes. As a Microsoft Solutions Partner we can transact your Business Central, Microsoft 365, and Power Platform licensing through the Cloud Solution Provider program. We give you the optimized user-mix recommendation during discovery and you can route the actual licensing through us or your existing partner without affecting the engagement.
Honest answers, both directions
Good fit when
- You run between 25 and 200 users on Dynamics GP today across one to four legal entities
- You want a fixed-scope, fixed-price engagement instead of an open-ended time and materials project
- Your finance team can commit 4 to 6 hours per week from one or two leads over 90 days
- You are comfortable moving to the Microsoft cloud and using Business Central as your go-forward platform
- You want a written, defensible audit trail of every reconciliation pass before cutover
Not a fit if
- You run fewer than 15 users; the discovery and reconciliation overhead outweighs the migration benefits
- You require Dynamics 365 Finance instead of Business Central; that engagement is a different shape and a different price band
- You need to stay on premise long term for regulatory or sovereignty reasons that exclude Microsoft cloud
- You need a 30-day emergency cutover; quality migrations cannot compress below 75 days without skipping reconciliation
- You want a system rewrite at the same time as the platform migration; we recommend stabilizing first, then optimizing in a separate phase
Not sure? Tell us your situation and we will be straight with you about whether this is the right fit.
Tell us about your Dynamics GP environment
Submit your brief and a senior migration architect reviews it personally. You get a scoped proposal in 5 business days, not a cold sales call.
Call within 48 hours, proposal in 5 business days, Sprint 1 within 1 week of sign-off.
We will review your environment details and send a scoped Dynamics GP to Business Central migration proposal within 5 business days. A senior architect will reach out for the discovery call within 48 hours.
Ninety days from now, your finance team can be running on Business Central instead of Dynamics GP.
Every month you wait is another month of infrastructure cost, security risk, and integration babysitting. Submit your brief today and our Dynamics GP rescue service will scope your migration this week.
Submit your brief, call within 48 hours, scoped proposal in 5 business days, Sprint 1 begins within 1 week of sign-off.