Dynamics NAV to Business Central – A Migration

Microsoft’s new dimension has now arrived and it’s the ultimate unified solution that it has to offer to its customers. Whether you are a Dynamics NAV, Dynamics GP or Dynamics SL users, the new Business Central allows you to seamlessly migrate to the cloud solution.

Although the migration could take some time gain full scale replacement, as it requires your current systems to be complaint with Business Central cloud solution, the shift is viable and could make your business operations globally available and provide you an on-demand scalable solution in the future.

On premises support

Since April 2018 of its launch, Business Central is adopted by many organizations and they help them handle their business operations in a more innovative way. The new Business Central offers its users with the capability to deploy them on-premises with the October 2018 update.

What it includes?

This Business Central is a perfect combination of features that are broadly classified as Business Areas and additional features which includes reporting and data migration capabilities.

Four major modules go into business areas which are financial management, supply chain and inventory management, sales and service management and project management.

Dynamics 365 benefits

It is a new version of NAV which combines the CRM and ERP offering into one cloud service with process specific apps built for each purpose. Also, it has an integrated solution to help you with your decision making process, by intelligence and built-in insights workflows.

The most advantageous feature of this Dynamics 365 is that it can help your data migration less cumber some with its common data model that makes it consistent across all apps that are used within the Business Central environment. This gives you consistency, exchangeability and scalability.

Upgrading – choose your best way

There are different upgrade methods depending on the version you are have currently deployed. Your upgrades will be easier and quicker if you are using Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013.

If you are using any version earlier that 2013 such Dynamics NAV 4.0 and Dynamics 5.0 it must get an upgrade to Dynamics NAV 2013 before it is upgraded to Business Central. And if you are moving from Dynamics 2009 then it can either get a direct upgrade to Dynamics 2015 or can step up to Dynamics 2013.

In every upgrade tasks that you do for Dynamics NAV, the most common tasks ranges from converting database to upgrading application code and data.

If you upgrade from Dynamics 2019 release wave 2, then you are empowered by Independent Software Vendor (ISV) ecosystem that makes it possible for the new and existing users to move to Business Central Online.

New Client and developer tools

With the new Dynamics 2019 release wave 2, it is now possible to just access the Business Central without traditional windows client. It can open in browser, or in a Windows 10 desktop app. Additional for improved mobility it is also available in mobile version that runs on Android and iOS.

This new client has the ability to offer more productivity features that the Windows client, although Windows Client is still supported until the April 2019 update.

If you are planning to move from a DynamicsNAV environment to Business Central, it is always useful to see the version you are upgrading from, and data migration practices to make you shift to Business Central smooth and least expensive.