Migrating from NAV to Business Central

Migrating from NAV to Business Central - Benefits & Process

Adopting new changes related to tech is a major part of any business environment. It helps to stay ahead of the competitors. If we specifically talk about ERP solutions, then there are many traditional and modern options available.

Among them, two essential options of Microsoft are Dynamics NAV and D365 Business Central. But in comparison to Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Business Central has now become the popular choice of many businesses because it comes with many advanced benefits.

So today let us know what are the advantages associated with migration from Microsoft Dynamics NAV to D365 Business Central and how it happens.

Benefits of D365 Business Central Over Dynamics NAV

Better Reporting

The type of advanced insight we get from cloud-based technology is not possible on on-premises software. Here you can get real-time data that helps in making more detailed and customized live reports. With these reports, users can make more informed, accurate, and right decisions.

Inbuilt intelligence

Dynamic 365 comes with modern technology like Artificial intelligence and Machine learning which is not present in NAV. Integration of Business Intelligence with D365 enhances its capabilities even more. It also helps in predicting future sales trends based on historical data.

Unified Work Framework

In comparison with Microsoft Dynamics Navision, D365 provides a more unified system. Here you can find all types of data related to sales, finance, marketing, and many others on one platform. Because of that you only have to rely on a single source to find any type of data. It helps you to make your workflow easy, fast, and automated.

Developed Integration

You can make use of Business Central from everywhere using your preferred device and incorporate many Microsoft tools including Power BI, Outlook, Teams, Office 365, etc. This helps you to get a more detailed view of key performance indicators (KPIs) through built-in analytics and reporting features.

Guide for Migration Process

Make Your Goal Clear

By getting opinions from every department’s team member decide what types of features you require in your feature software. In this step, you have to know what problems are arising in the existing system for running the business operation and apart from that in which area you can bring improvement. These answers will help you to easily define the objective.

Upgrading Process

The Upgrade process mainly depends on which NAV software you are using currently. For any user who has NAV 2015 or later, this process will take 2 steps. In the first step, you have to upgrade your existing system to Business Central v14.0 and in the second step, you can migrate to the cloud version. If you have an older NAV version then additional steps may be required to complete the migration.

The technical upgrade process to run it in the cloud is a bit complex and involves many conversions and configurations. Here are some common steps from this process:

Resolve codepage conflicts: This prevents specific characters from arriving in captions that cannot access the upgraded database. Here by taking help from Microsoft, you can solve this problem and use translated strings.

Transform V1 extensions into V2 extensions: By using a conversion tool you can transform the code from V1 to V2. Here you can develop and test different extensions.

Upgrading the application code: In this step the codes of different versions of the application are merged and, in such a manner, different configurations are migrated to Business Central.

Conclusion

Dynamic 365 proves a very beneficial system for all types of business. It provides benefits like better reporting, inbuilt intelligence, a more unified work environment, and advanced integration in comparison with Dynamics NAV. Due to this, many businesses are now migrating towards Dynamic 365 Business Central. This migration process contains many steps and some of them are complicated and cannot handle by non-technical individuals. So, to make your migration process effective, take help from Triperaltech, the best Microsoft Dynamics NAV partner India.