Dynamics 365 Business Central Consulting
Business Central consulting is the discovery work that happens before an implementation starts: mapping how your business actually operates, deciding which parts of Dynamics 365 Business Central fit, sizing the licences honestly and producing a costed plan you can hold us to.
Most failed ERP projects were lost at this stage, not during the build. A rollout goes wrong because nobody wrote down how month end close really works, because a licence count was guessed, or because a critical integration surfaced in week nine instead of week one. We front load exactly those questions.
We are not resellers with a quota. If Business Central is the wrong fit for your business, this phase is where we say so, and you keep the process documentation regardless.
What Business Central Consulting includes
Process discovery workshops
Structured sessions with finance, sales, purchasing and operations to document how work moves through your business today, including the spreadsheet steps nobody mentions in the first meeting.
Fit gap analysis
Every documented process is marked as standard Business Central, configuration, or genuine development. That split is what makes a budget defensible instead of hopeful.
Licence sizing
A user by user breakdown across Essentials, Premium and Team Member licences. Most quotes we review have overspecified Premium seats for people who only ever approve a requisition.
Integration surface mapping
An inventory of every system that will need to exchange data with Business Central, with the direction, frequency and volume of each flow noted up front.
Data quality assessment
A review of the master data you intend to bring across. Duplicate customers and orphaned inventory records are far cheaper to fix before a migration than after one.
Costed roadmap
A phased plan with deliverables, dependencies, effort estimates and the assumptions each number rests on, so you can see immediately what would change the total.
Certified for business central consulting
The Microsoft certifications our team holds for this work.
MB-920Dynamics 365 Fundamentals (ERP)Fundamentals
MB-800Dynamics 365 Business Central Functional Consultant AssociateAssociate- PL-400Power Platform Developer AssociateAssociate
How the engagement runs
Kickoff and scope
We agree which entities, departments and processes are in scope, and who owns sign off on each.
Workshops
Two to four weeks of sessions with the people who actually run the processes, not only the managers who describe them.
Analysis
We turn the findings into a fit gap matrix, an integration map and a licence model.
Roadmap review
We walk you through the plan, the risks and the alternatives, then revise it with you in the room.
What you end up with
A written process catalogue you own, whoever implements
A licence count you can defend to finance
A fixed scope quote for the implementation phase
Integration and data risks identified before they cost money
Who this is for
Businesses evaluating Business Central for the first time, teams whose current ERP quote feels like guesswork, and organisations that started an implementation with someone else and need an independent read on where it stands.
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