Avoid migration projects when you upgrade

Abakion’s solution to this challenge is to move you over to a standard solution:

All of your old customizations should be deleted . We hold a number of workshops to ensure that your work processes fit in with the new solution. You also need to have an overview of how your processes will have to be adjusted a little.

Your specific needs must be supported through the set-up in the new solution. The Master Data module gives you the option of creating your own data structure. The Dynamic Reports module enables you to customize invoices, delivery notes and so on. Customizations in the old version will become settings in the new version.

You can choose which data you want to transfer – and how many years of history you want to include. We transfer your data into the new solution using a data migration tool that makes the process easy. You choose how the data is mapped to the standard chart of accounts in the new solution. The decision is up to you.

Data migration – this is what we do

We need to move your data from your old solution into the new one. The challenge here, of course, is that the data format is not always the same.

Even if you are moving from an earlier version of Dynamics NAV, the data structure will have changed and you may have added a lot of fields in the old solution that contain important data you need to transfer.

If you have an earlier version of NAV, then we set to work in your old solution. We have made our Master Data Information module, which you get in the new NAV, available for all earlier versions of NAV.

This means that you can install the Master Data module in your old solution and then you can start moving the data into the new structure, which makes migration to the new version very easy. It is a really smart and efficient process.

The next step is to move data from the old version to the new one. We have a migration tool that handles that.

It does not really matter whether you are moving from an earlier version of NAV or from another ERP system. As long as the data can be output in a comma separated file, we can map the data in Excel and execute the transfer, as you will see in a minute.

You will have some work to do in Excel if you are coming from another ERP system, since this package is based on being able to retrieve everything in NAV. But it can easily be done – you will just have an extra task to complete.

If you are coming from an earlier version of NAV, Abakion will take care of it all with our migration tool.

Migration with no effort

If you have been working with Dynamics NAV for many years, then you are used to data migration being a difficult process that takes a long time.

So a little scepticism is understandable.

But you will see that our Master Data module and data migration tool make the process quite simple.

You should also hear how we move your historical data from the old solution into the new one. The simplest way is just to start over from the beginning: make an opening balance and then just get started.

That is what a lot of companies choose to do, which is why we have priced the migration of historical data separately. Remember to include this in your business case if it applies to your company.

If you choose to include historical data, then we need to make sure that we only move a select set of high-quality data over to the new version.