A Fresh Start with Business Central

We recently upgraded one of our clients from a very old version of NAV to Business Central. Part of our process in upgrading are to hold design meetings where old customizations are identified as no longer needed or applicable. Many features that were absent in the old version were now present in the latest version. Business has changed as well and prior customizations were no longer applicable and therefore could be discarded.

In this particular instance, we were able to discard 90% of the customizations, leading to a clean new system.

Because of the structure of Business Central in the cloud, customizations are no longer limiting factors to apply automatic updates and upgrades. This is due to customizations are now able to be installed or uninstalled at will in a packages called extensions. You can think of an extension as an app that can be installed or uninstalled.

Cleaning out the garage or the closet can be a liberating experience. Throwing stuff away can be therapeutic. The same could be said with ERP software. Throwing out outdated solutions and processes and embracing efficient processes can be a lifechanging experience and when the technology is designed to facilitate this, well, that’s a marvel of engineering.

A client guided by a competent partner to make the appropriate design decisions regarding the direction of one’s ERP system will lead to a superior system, configured and tailored specifically to that business.