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Dynamics SL to Business Central Migration Services
Dynamics SL 2018 is now in Extended Support, with no new feature development and security updates continuing through July 11, 2028.
For organizations still relying on SL for finance, project accounting, historical data, customizations, integrations, and reporting, modernization requires more than simply moving data to a new ERP.
Korcomptenz's Dynamics SL to Business Central migration services help you assess your current environment, determine whether Business Central is the right fit, and build a practical migration roadmap around your business requirements.
Is Business Central Right for Your Dynamics SL Environment?
Business Central is a strong modernization path for many Dynamics SL organizations, but it is not the right fit for every environment. We assess your current requirements and future needs before recommending a migration.
What we assess
Organizations with highly complex project accounting, revenue recognition, allocations, or enterprise requirements may be better suited to Dynamics 365 Finance and Project Operations.
The goal is to choose the platform that best supports your business, not simply replace SL.
What Happens to Your SL Project Accounting, Data, and Customizations?
Project Accounting
Business Central supports core project budgeting, costing, invoicing, and WIP. More complex SL requirements need closer review.
| SL Requirement | Typical Approach |
|---|---|
| Standard project costing, invoicing, and WIP | Use native Business Central Projects |
| Specialized billing, burden, overhead, or allocations | Configure, redesign, or extend |
| Highly complex project or revenue requirements | Assess Business Central vs. Dynamics 365 Finance + Project Operations |
Goal: Preserve the financial control you need without recreating every SL-specific process.
Project Accounting
Business Central supports core project budgeting, costing, invoicing, and WIP. More complex SL requirements need closer review.
| SL Requirement | Typical Approach |
|---|---|
| Standard project costing, invoicing, and WIP | Use native Business Central Projects |
| Specialized billing, burden, overhead, or allocations | Configure, redesign, or extend |
| Highly complex project or revenue requirements | Assess Business Central vs. Dynamics 365 Finance + Project Operations |
Goal: Preserve the financial control you need without recreating every SL-specific process.
Dynamics SL vs Business Central: What Actually Changes?
| Area | Dynamics SL | Business Central |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Primarily on-premises and SQL Server-based, with customer-managed infrastructure | Cloud SaaS delivered through the browser with Microsoft managing the underlying service |
| Chart of Accounts | Subaccount segments often embedded in the account structure | Dimensions separate reporting structures from the chart of accounts |
| Project Accounting | Deep SL Project Controller functionality | Native Projects supports common costing, invoicing, and WIP requirements; complex scenarios require fit validation |
| Historical Data | Large amounts of history often remain inside the active SL environment | Migration strategy can separate operational data from historical information |
| Customizations | Custom screens and code often closely tied to the SL environment | AL extensions sit outside the base application, reducing upgrade friction |
| Reporting & Integration | Crystal Reports, SSRS, Quick Query, Excel, SQL, and ODBC are common | Power BI, APIs, Power Automate, and modern integration patterns |
| Automation & AI | Primarily manual or custom automation | Power Automate, Copilot capabilities, and the wider Microsoft cloud ecosystem |
How Korcomptenz Approaches the Migration
Assess
We review your SL environment, including modules, companies, project structures, data, reports, integrations, customizations, and future business requirements.
This establishes whether Business Central is the right target and identifies the major migration risks.
Design
We define what moves, what changes, and what gets left behind.
The target environment is designed around your chart of accounts, dimensions, project structures, security, reporting, workflows, and integrations.
Prepare and Migrate
Data is cleansed, mapped, and migrated using Microsoft tooling and additional migration processes where required.
Agreed configurations, extensions, reports, and integrations are built alongside the data migration.
Validate
Financial balances, project data, reporting, integrations, security, and critical transactions are reconciled against the existing SL environment before go-live.
Go Live and Support
Korcomptenz supports cutover, stabilization, issue resolution, user adoption, and ongoing optimization after the move to Business Central.
Assess
We review your SL environment, including modules, companies, project structures, data, reports, integrations, customizations, and future business requirements.
This establishes whether Business Central is the right target and identifies the major migration risks.
Design
We define what moves, what changes, and what gets left behind.
The target environment is designed around your chart of accounts, dimensions, project structures, security, reporting, workflows, and integrations.
Prepare and Migrate
Data is cleansed, mapped, and migrated using Microsoft tooling and additional migration processes where required.
Agreed configurations, extensions, reports, and integrations are built alongside the data migration.
Validate
Financial balances, project data, reporting, integrations, security, and critical transactions are reconciled against the existing SL environment before go-live.
Go Live and Support
Korcomptenz supports cutover, stabilization, issue resolution, user adoption, and ongoing optimization after the move to Business Central.
Dynamics SL Migration Assessment
Before committing to a migration, get a clear view of fit, complexity, cost drivers, and risk. Korcomptenz reviews your SL environment across:
Finance and project accounting
Data, reporting, and history
Customizations, integrations, and ISVs
Users, security, and companies
Business Central requirements and future plans
What You Receive
Retain / Replace / Redesign / Retire Map
What happens to current processes, reports, integrations, and customizations.
Data Migration Strategy
What moves to Business Central, what stays as history, and what gets archived.
Project Accounting Fit & Gap Review
Where SL requirements map cleanly and where changes may be needed.
Why Korcomptenz for Your Dynamics SL Migration?
Dynamics Migration Experience
Experience helping organizations modernize from Dynamics SL and other legacy ERP platforms to Business Central.
SL and Project Accounting Expertise
Migration experience across project accounting, billing structures, chart-of-accounts and dimension mapping, historical data, and project reporting.
End-to-End Business Central Capability
Assessment, migration, implementation, integration, reporting, optimization, and managed services through one Microsoft-focused team.
Support Beyond Go-Live
Korcomptenz provides stabilization, ongoing Business Central support, and continuous optimization rather than treating migration as a one-time handoff.
Frequently Asked Questions
Mainstream support for Dynamics SL 2018 ended on January 9, 2024. Extended Support runs through July 11, 2028, with no new feature development during this phase.
No. Business Central is a strong option for many SL customers, but the right choice depends on project accounting complexity, number of entities, customizations, integrations, scale, and future business requirements.
Supported migration tooling can move company and financial information, customers, vendors, transactions, selected historical data, subaccount information, and relevant project master data. The exact migration scope should be defined during assessment.
Standard project costing, invoicing, and WIP requirements may fit Business Central's native Projects capabilities. SL-specific burden allocation, billing, revenue recognition, or highly complex project requirements may need additional configuration, extensions, or evaluation of another Dynamics 365 platform.
An SL-to-Business Central migration often takes several months. The timeline depends on data volume, project-accounting complexity, customizations, integrations, companies, testing requirements, and the amount of process redesign required. A structured assessment provides a more reliable timeline for your environment.
