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Why It’s Time to Plan Your ERP Migration.
Microsoft has set clear timelines for legacy Dynamics products. Dynamics NAV 2018 extended support ends in January 2028. Dynamics SL 2018 extended support ends in July 2028. Dynamics GP product support, enhancements, and regulatory updates end December 31, 2029, with security updates continuing through April 30, 2031.
That gives you a window to plan, but not a reason to wait.
The closer these dates get, the less flexibility you have to assess Business Central fit, clean up legacy complexity, test properly, and schedule migration around business priorities.
For GP, NAV, and SL customers, Dynamics 365 Business Central is the recommended cloud path in many midmarket scenarios.
Don’t Let the Deadline Dictate the Migration
Plan early enough to decide what should move, what should change, and what should be left behind.
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What Could Business Central Change for Your Business?
Simplify Finance
Reduce manual reporting, reconciliation, and disconnected financial processes.
Connect Operations
Bring finance, purchasing, inventory, sales, projects, and operations onto a more connected platform.
Improve Visibility
Give teams more timely access to financial and operational information.
Reduce Legacy Complexity
Move away from aging infrastructure, workarounds, and customizations that no longer justify their cost.
Build for What Comes Next
Create a Microsoft cloud foundation for Power Platform, analytics, automation, Copilot, and AI.
What Does the Move Mean for You?
CFO
Modernize Finance Without Losing Control
Protect financial history, reporting continuity, reconciliation, and auditability while creating opportunities to reduce manual work and improve visibility.
Key questions: What financial data should move? What happens to reporting? What will the migration cost? How do we protect the close?
COO
Improve Operations Without Disrupting Them
Modernize workflows across inventory, purchasing, fulfillment, projects, and operations without unnecessarily recreating inefficient legacy processes.
Key questions: What processes will change? How much disruption should we expect? What can be automated? How will users adapt?
CIO / CTO
Reduce ERP Complexity Without Creating New Technical Debt
Evaluate customizations, integrations, ISVs, data, security, and architecture before rebuilding years of technology decisions in Business Central.
Key questions: What should we retain? What needs rebuilding? What can standard functionality replace? How will the new environment scale?
CEO / Business Leader
Turn an ERP Transition Into a Business Modernization Opportunity
Use the move to simplify operations, improve decision-making, reduce legacy risk, and build an ERP foundation that can support future growth.
Key questions: Is Business Central the right long-term platform? What business value should the migration create? What are the risks of waiting?
Your Migration Path Starts with Your Current ERP
What Happens to Your Data, Customizations and Integrations?
Moving to Business Central does not mean everything in your existing ERP should be recreated. Each component should be evaluated based on business value, future requirements, and migration complexity.
Business data
Migrate, clean, or archive?
Historical transactions
How much needs to move?
Customizations
Keep, replace, or redesign?
ISVs
Retain or replace?
Integrations
Reconnect or modernize?
Reports
Recreate or rethink?
Manual workflows
Replicate, automate, or eliminate?
Don't Move Legacy Complexity to the Cloud
Retain
Keep what continues to serve the business well.
Replace
Use standard Business Central or Microsoft capabilities where they can do the job better.
Redesign
Preserve the business requirement without recreating the legacy solution.
Retire
Remove processes, reports, integrations, or customizations that no longer add enough value.
What Real Migrations Have Taught Us
Don’t recreate every legacy process.
Our NAV migration replaced manual claims and pricing processes with automated workflows rather than simply reproducing them in Business Central.
Treat reporting as part of the migration.
For an SL customer, moving to Business Central also meant replacing spreadsheet-heavy reporting with multidimensional financial analysis and real-time insights
Design around the business, not just the old ERP.
Data, customizations, integrations, and workflows should move only when they still support how the business needs to operate.
Plan the Cost of Your Move to Business Central
Moving to Business Central involves more than migration costs. Your license mix, required capabilities, users, and plans for Copilot and agents can all affect the investment.
Eligible legacy Dynamics customers may also qualify for Microsoft migration incentives or promotional offers. Availability and terms can change, so Korcomptenz can check current options during your migration assessment.
Understand Business Central Licensing Before You Move
Compare Essentials vs. Premium, current pricing, user options, Copilot, and Business Central Agents.
Choose the Migration Approach That Fits Your Business
Full Migration
Move the required data, businesses, and processes in one planned transition.
Phased Migration
Move entities, locations, or processes in stages to reduce disruption.
Reimplementation
Redesign processes and configuration rather than recreating the legacy ERP.
How Do You Migrate Without Disrupting the Business?
Assess
Understand your ERP, business processes, data, dependencies, and migration risks.
Simplify
Decide what should be retained, replaced, redesigned, or retired.
Migrate
Configure Business Central and move the required data, integrations, and functionality.
Validate
Reconcile financials, test critical processes, prepare users, and plan cutover.
Optimize
Improve workflows, reporting, automation, analytics, and AI after go-live.
Assess
Understand your ERP, business processes, data, dependencies, and migration risks.
Simplify
Decide what should be retained, replaced, redesigned, or retired.
Migrate
Configure Business Central and move the required data, integrations, and functionality.
Validate
Reconcile financials, test critical processes, prepare users, and plan cutover.
Optimize
Improve workflows, reporting, automation, analytics, and AI after go-live.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes, but the migration path differs by product, version, data requirements, customizations, integrations, and business complexity. An assessment should determine what can move directly, what needs redesign, and whether Business Central is the right target platform.
Not all historical data necessarily needs to move into Business Central. Operational, reporting, audit, and compliance requirements should determine what is migrated, retained in an accessible archive, or retired.
They should be assessed individually rather than automatically rebuilt. Some may remain necessary, while others can be replaced with standard Business Central functionality, extensions, Power Platform, or a redesigned process.
Migration planning should identify business-critical processes, dependencies, reconciliation requirements, testing needs, and cutover risks early so disruption can be controlled rather than discovered at go-live.
The timeline depends on factors such as the source ERP, number of companies, data history, customizations, ISVs, integrations, reporting, testing, and change-management requirements.
The biggest cost drivers typically include migration scope, data complexity, customizations, integrations, third-party applications, reporting, testing, user readiness, and the amount of legacy functionality that needs to be recreated or redesigned.
