Move from Sage to Business Central without breaking month-end

Migrating Sage 50 or Sage 200 to Business Central isn't a software problem. The hard part is keeping finance confident in the numbers while VAT returns, bank recs and month-end still have to run on schedule.

If you're scoping one of these projects, this is where the effort actually goes:

• Decide what data needs to move: customers, suppliers, nominal codes, opening balances, dimensions and only the transaction history you'll really use.
• Reconcile the migrated figures back to Sage before anyone signs off go-live.
• Time the cutover to the finance calendar, with a test migration and parallel running where it earns its place.
• Redesign a messy chart of accounts instead of dragging old workarounds across.
• Get users testing their own real processes, and trained, before go-live rather than a tidy demo script.

The full article also walks through realistic timelines by project size, cost bands and the migration risks worth planning around up front.

Read the full article on the All My Systems website