Is upgrading to Business Central a smart decision?

In most cases no, there are many ways to accomplish most business process with out of the box functionalities. If that doesn’t satisfy your requirements there are also many 3rd party applications the expand the Business Central functionalities, but of course if an exact fit can’t be found Business Central can be customized to fit your exact need/s.

Unfortunately most report and templates will need to be converted to utilize the Business Central architecture so they will not automatically transition during the upgrade processes. However most NAV reports and templates can be converted quickly so they will not need to be completely re-built.

Scope creep, resource availability and buy-in.

This decision is dependent on your vision for the future of your business. Do you want to have always on access to your system and data from anywhere in the world at anytime? Do you want to not have to worry about your system becoming out of date and have access to new features as soon as they are available? If any of those benefits are of interest to you and your business, then we recommend Business Central in the cloud

Business Central is a comprehensive business management solution developed by Microsoft. It offers a wide range of capabilities to help businesses streamline their operations and make data-driven decisions. Some of its key capabilities include: Business Central Essentials For more sophisticated processes, yet simple enough to be managed in one solution, Essentials provides:

• Financial management
• Sales and opportunity management
• Supply chain and inventory management
• Project management

Business Central Premium Premium includes the Essentials license capabilities and adds key functionality for manufacturing and service order management:

• Service management
• Manufacturing

Business Central is a versatile solution that covers a wide range of business processes, making it a valuable tool for businesses looking to streamline their operations, improve efficiency, and make better use of their data.

When you find that your existing system or processes are slowing down the growth of your business. When your resources are forced to duplicate or triplicate their work to accomplish something that should only be done once. When you find that your existing system has been sunset and is no longer supported by the publisher.

All your existing customizations will be validated against the Business Central Standard functionality to confirm if BC can already accomplish what your customizations are designed to do. In many cases you will not need your customizations because their functionalities are already built into Business Central. If they are not part of the standard functionality your customizations will be converted to apps that will work with Business Central.

All your existing customizations will be validated against the Business Central Standard functionality to confirm if BC can already accomplish what your customizations are designed to do. In many cases you will not need your customizations because their functionalities are already built into Business Central. If they are not part of the standard functionality your customizations will be converted to apps that will work with Business Central.

This depends on your needs. We can migrate all your data as is, we can compress your data and migrate it or we can migrate just what you would like to migrate.

The migration process is dependent on many factors and is different for every business. The factors that contribute to the migration are as follows: how much data will be migrated, how much of the Business Central functionality will be used, how many customizations will be migrated, how many customized reports will be migrated and how much time you and your team are willing to put towards the project.

Our highest priority is user satisfaction so all of our projects include user training and user acceptance testing (UAT). Both of which can be extended to as little or as much as your team would like. Our job is not complete until all users are able to perform their tasks as efficiently as possible.

There will be down time during the go live stage of the upgrade. The amount of time is dependent on how much data will be migrated, how much of the Business Central functionality will be used, how many customizations will be migrated, how many customized reports will be migrated and how much time you and your team are willing to put towards the project. Our goal is to minimize your downtime as much as possible by ensuring all processes have been vetted and tested so your team can be up and running as quickly as possible.

The best ways to ensure minimal downtime are to compress as much data as possible, use as much of the out of the box functionality of the system as possible and ensure all business critical processes have been tested and signed off on by your team.

Indeed, there are third-party add-ons available. Navisiontech provides the EasyEFT credit card processing software compatible with both Navision and Dynamics 365 Business Central. This user-friendly software seamlessly integrated with your current authorize.net API login ID and Transaction key. Additionally, if needed, we can generate a new authorize.net account for you.