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Creating a new company with data vs with no Data

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I am new to Business Central Dynamics 365. I created two companies, one with data only and second with no data. Currently, we don't have our own data therefore company with data only shows sample company data. 

Challenge:

Company with no data, very much has nothing. If I wanted to setup that company that means , every single table needed to be populated. For Example, under company address no list of country appears. That means, I will build that table either on fly or import data in. 

Or is it better to work in data only company and than overwrite the data with our company data? That will not require to populate every table. I am not clear which route to take. any suggestion and recommendations would be highly appreciated. 

Mansoor

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    Stefano Demiliani Profile Picture
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    It depends by you or by your consultants. Normally we create a blank company that we populate with our setup data by using predefined configuration packages with the setup data we need.

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    Mohamad Vajid Profile Picture
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    You can start with no data and populate data using Rapidstart configuration packages. If you are coming from another ERP, they likely have data export possibilities to for e.g. Excel. Rapidstart config. packages are very good, you can bring in data for 1 or multiple tables. Hope this helps.

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