Microsoft Business Central Implementation
Connect all areas of your operations with Microsoft’s ERP software
Trusted Partner For Business Central Deployments At Scale
Microsoft’s Business Central is a comprehensive software solution transforming operations and finance management. Our Business Central implementation services ensure that your solution integrates seamlessly with your business processes.
Our expert consultants will guide you through all of Business Central’s finance, sales, service, inventory, warehousing and operations capabilities. They’ll then tailor your Business Central solution to enhance your business and the way you work.
Contact us to discover the potential of a Business Central implementation for your organisation:
How Can Business Central Transform Your Operations?
Business Central can transform operations management thanks to the following functionality:
Finance & Invoicing
Automate billing and invoicing, track financial performance data and deliver up-to-the-minute P&L data
Supply Chain
Predict demand based on your sales pipeline and ensure your organisation has the resources it needs to
Inventory
Assess requirements for resources based on demand prediction and manage labour to prevent bottlenecks
Project Management
Track and manage all aspects of a project, from initial sale through to final billing to maximise profitability
Sales Management
Manage prospect and customer contacts, track opportunities and automate sales processes to win business faster
Warehousing
Strategically manage warehousing, with adaptable use of space and predictive changes based on incoming and outgoing goods
Akita’s Approach To Business Central Development
As an experienced Microsoft business applications developer, our consultants have assisted organisations worldwide with Microsoft Business Central deployment. Through the following approach, we help them to maximise their operations, reduce costs and achieve their business objectives.
Scoping
We begin by understanding your business and its aspirations. We’ll then map out common processes within your organisation to assess how they can be improved upon in Business Central.
Development & Customisation
Based on requirements our developers will tailor Business Central’s broad-reaching features to match your needs. This includes configuring reporting to meet common requirements.
Data Migration
Transitioning from another system? We‘ll ensure data is migrated seamlessly, and with utmost accuracy and integrity, so you’re ready to go live without interruption to your operations.
Integrations
We ensure Business Central communicates flawlessly with wider business systems, such as CRM systems, eCommerce platforms, or wider applications.
Deployment & Testing
Once configured, we deploy your solution in a test area. Following rigorous testing to ensure everything works as intended, we’ll then move it to your environment.
Training & Go-Live
Once deployed, we’ll conduct training sessions to ensure all your users are confident in using your new Business Central solution. Training will be tailored to role, and we’ll provide you with relevant reference resources.
Ongoing Support
We’ll provide immediate post-go live support to ensure your system operates as you desire.
Operational Benefits Of A Business Central System
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is a highly regarded cloud-based ERP system. Alongside powerful financial management capabilities, it offers supply chain operations management tools that support tasks from procurement to end retail.
It also offers a comprehensive view of customer relationships and can assist with the efficient management of sales opportunities from ‘quote to cash’.
Business Central also excels in project management, ensuring projects remain within budget and time constraints. And when integrated with Power BI, it offers powerful analytics and reporting, empowering data-driven decisions within your organisation.
Intuitive & Scalable Operations Solution
Business Central is easy to adopt within your organisation. Mirroring other Microsoft products, user functionality will be familiar to those already acquainted with the Microsoft ecosystem, with the intuitive user interface helping reduce the learning curve typically with ERP systems.
The integration capabilities are another plus, with seamless synchronisation with other Microsoft solutions such as Dynamics 365, Office 365 and more, providing a unified experience that increases productivity and simplifies data flow across platforms.
And as Business Central is designed to be a centralised operations solution, integrations with third-party applications are widely supported, allowing you to expand functionality as your success grows. In this way, your ERP system can deliver great ROI
Why Choose Akita As Your Business Central Implementation Partner?
With over 25 years of experience supporting organisations with their business technology, Akita brings extensive technical and best-practice understanding to every one of our projects. Wider benefits of our approach include:
Security & Compliance: Your data is our priority. As a Cyber Essentials Plus holder, we ensure all implementations are compliant with industry standards, safeguarding your business information. We’re also highly experienced in configuring Microsoft security measures to deliver a balance of assurance and convenience.
End-to-End Support: From initial consultation to post-go-live support, we’re with you at every step. Our consultants ensure your Business Central implementation is smooth and the solution meets your needs. We’ll continue to empower your team with the necessary training, ensuring they harness the full potential of the platform.
Expertise: Our seasoned professionals come with deep industry knowledge, ensuring your Business Central implementation meets your specific sector needs.
Approach: We deliver solutions, not software. So, we’ll tailor Business Central to exactly meet your business needs – both now and in the future – rather than simply giving you off-the-shelf software that doesn’t align with your goals.
Training & Skill Transfer: We partner with organisations long term, so our responsibility doesn’t end at implementation. And we’ll keep you up to date with relevant developments that could benefit you.
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How long does a Business Central implementation take?
Business Central implementation project timeframe will vary based on the complexity of the requirement. A new deployment without the need to integrate migrated data from other platforms can easily be completed in less than two weeks. More advanced solutions requiring wider software integrations will take longer but can be approached in a phased manner to allow elements of functionality to go live faster.
Can Business Central be customised?
Business Central is highly customisable to business needs. With a range of finance and operations modules available, it's designed with flexibility in mind. Some customisation can be undertaken by users, while others do requirements development time. Additionally, there's a large marketplace of extensions and add-ons available, allowing organisations to integrate additional features or third-party applications as required.
Can you integrate Business Central with other systems?
Yes. Business Central integrates effortlessly with wider Microsoft 365 solutions to introduce enhanced working efficiencies. It can also be integrated with a broad range of other software and applications, becoming a centralised hub for all your operational requirements.
What industries have you implemented Business Central for?
Our highly experienced developers and consultants have worked on large-scale projects for sectors including finance, manufacturing, automotive, the steel industry, defence, energy, furniture, construction, service, textiles and more.
How does Business Central handle updates and upgrades?
As a cloud-based solution, Business Central handles updates and upgrades seamlessly. Security patches typically associated with other Business Central software are undertaken automatically by Business Central. Any updates potentially impacting operations can be manually approved by users. Twice a year Microsoft provides new features and significant improvements to the platform that can be deployed at a user’s convenience.
What reporting is available in Business Central?
Out of the box Business Central offers a range of ad hoc and real-time financial and operational report options that can then be easily tailored to organisational requirements. Reporting can be further enhanced using Power BI, allowing data to be pulled from multiple sources simultaneously to enhance business decision making.
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With a 25-year heritage of digital success solutions, we design, develop, manage and support Microsoft Dynamics solutions for some of the leading organisations across the UK and internationally.
Our Microsoft ERP services help organisations transform their operations, streamlining processes and taking data out of silo.
Beyond Business Central, our expertise spans wider Microsoft business applications including Dynamics 365 CE applications, SharePoint and the Power Platform applications, as well as wider third-party solutions. So, whatever the trajectory of your business transformation, we meet your technology needs.
