Today, business scenarios are changing very rapidly. Turn over in companies has also increased considerably, and job rotation has different rhythms. Business partners then increasingly impose new rules.
Modern companies thus feel the need to be able to be supported by an equally modern, easy-to-use ERP that can follow these changes more easily, and with more effective tools.
To meet these needs, the new ERP platforms are designed to be able to react quickly to all these changes.
Switching from Microsoft NAV Dynamics to Business Central
First choice: Online or On-Premise?
Today many of those companies that had implemented Microsoft Dynamics NAV or Navision in the more or less recent past are seriously considering switching to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.
Once they decide to start this project, however, they are faced with several options for implementing Business Central.
The first concerns the choice of platform:
- Online: Business Central is used as an online service (SaaS)
- On-Premise: Business Central is installed on an infrastructure managed by the company using it
We do not want to dwell here on the convenience of adopting an Online solution for ERP implementations today. We believe that only a careful evaluation of the reasons why an Online solution is not feasible can guide companies today towardOn-Premise. Analyses of the benefits of Online, in terms of security and long-term cost, fill the pages of the Web.
You can learn more about this article Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central: Online SaaS vs. On-Premise
Second choice:
Management environment migration mode: is it better in Clean Start or Upgrade?
Instead, in this article we want to focus on the second choice from NAV to Business Central , which concerns the migration mode of the management environment. Here the two modes of transition can be applied to both Online and On-Prem implementations.
- Clean Start: in Italian “start on the clean,” meaning that it does not include any customizations previously made in the Dynamics NAV environment; should the management needs, for which these customizations were developed, not be reflected in the new procedures that enrich Business Central compared to NAV, standard Apps available on the market can be added, perhaps with some customizations developed natively in the new Business Central environment.
- Upgrade: i.e., Porting of customizations made to the Dynamics NAV or Navision platform. This approach can be uneconomical from a management point of view and generally very costly because upgrading from NAV, or even Navision, to Business Central is not simply a move to a major product release but is a move to a new product based on new technology designed to support a new line of natively integrated products.
Why is Clean Start the best choice?
Experience on several such projects confirms that the Clean Start approach to transitioning to Dynamics 365 Business Central is the best choice because the vast majority of implementations have the following features that support companies that:
- Are redesigning their business model
- want to streamline their processes
- Are forced to revise processes to meet the requirements of business partners
- Have recent, non-customized or poorly customized implementations
- Have very outdated implementations without the ability to define a direct upgrade path
- Have a large percentage of dated customizations that are no longer used because they no longer meet current business needs
- have customizations that are now replaceable with the new standard features found in Business Central
A switch to Clean Start mode means a clean new deployment, and it is now also the best choice for those who want to take advantage of new technologies, the native integrations of Business Central Online with all the Apps in the Microsoft ecosystem, and the endless possibilities to grow and integrate according to a new way of thinking about business solutions.
Customizations that are no longer used are removed, and management constraints (which perhaps prevented people from working differently because they were hampered by old procedures that implemented rules that are no longer valid), are removed, optimizing management.
All of this makes it possible not only to work better but also to be able to more easily and quickly handle any future and inexorable changes to which companies will have to respond in ever shorter time frames.
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