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Microsoft Dynamics 365 Implementation
From Business Requirement to a Production System People Can Actually Run
A successful implementation is not measured by how many modules were configured. It is measured by whether the solution can reliably run your business — processes working end to end, master data controlled, integrations reconciling, reports that can be trusted and a business that can operate confidently the week after go-live.
End-to-end delivery across Finance, Supply Chain, Business Central, Sales, Field Service, Project Operations and Commerce — with the integrations and data behind them.
We design the business process before we configure Dynamics 365
Many implementations begin with “show us how this module works.” We prefer to begin with “show us how your business works.”
If finance, supply chain, sales, service, projects, commerce, data and integrations are designed independently, the business receives several configured applications. Designed together, it receives one operating solution.
Nine stages. Select any one to see what happens there and what you receive from it.
01
Discover
Understand
Understand how the business actually operates — where controls fail, where spreadsheets fill gaps, which processes differ by entity, and which legacy habits should not be carried forward.
Process catalogue
Requirements register
Fit-gap assessment
Integration catalogue
Data migration scope
Solution risks
What you receive
Deliverables from this stage are listed above and carried into the next.
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Microsoft structures implementation as Discover, Initiate, Implement, Prepare and Operate. Our methodology follows the same principles, adapted to the size, complexity and risk of each engagement — see Microsoft’s implementation guidance.
Our Philosophy
Standard Where It Fits. Extend Where It Matters.
Every requirement is pushed down this ladder before anyone writes code. Development is the last option, not the first.
01Standard functionalityCan Dynamics 365 already support it as delivered?Try this first
02ConfigurationCan setup, parameters, workflow or security address it?Try this first
03Process redesignIs the legacy process itself unnecessary?Try this first
04Power PlatformCan Power Apps or Power Automate solve it more cleanly?Try this first
05IntegrationShould another specialist system own this process?Try this first
06ExtensionDoes a controlled extension deliver genuine business value?Only if justified
Before approving any extension
Is it legally required? Does it create measurable business value? Can standard functionality achieve most of it? Could Power Platform solve it more cleanly? Does another system already own this process? And — the question most often skipped — how will this extension be maintained after every Microsoft release?
Discovery
Understand the Business Before Designing the Solution
Discovery is not collecting a list of requirements. It is understanding how the business operates today, where controls fail, and which legacy processes should not be carried forward at all.
Organisation
Legal entities
Business units
Sites
Warehouses
Stores
Projects
Service locations
Processes
Lead-to-order
Procure-to-pay
Plan-to-produce
Order-to-cash
Record-to-report
Project-to-profit
Service-to-cash
Systems
Current ERP
CRM
Payroll
Banking
Tax
E-commerce
WMS
MES
Portals
Reporting tools
Data
Customers
Vendors
Products
Assets
Employees
Projects
Opening balances
Open transactions
Reporting
Operational reports
Financial statements
Dashboards
Regulatory reports
Management KPIs
Fit-to-Standard
Every Requirement Gets Classified
Without this, a requirement quietly becomes a customisation — then more code, more testing, more maintenance and more upgrade risk.
FitSupported using standard functionality.
Fit with configurationSupported with appropriate setup or workflow.
Process changeSolved by changing the process, not the software.
ExtensionA genuine functional gap requiring development.
IntegrationAnother application should provide the capability.
ReportingBelongs in analytics rather than transaction processing.
Out of scopeNot required for this implementation phase.
The discipline is distinguishing genuine business value from legacy habit — and recording which of the two every decision was.
The Detail That Decides Outcomes
Integration, Data, Security, Testing and Cutover
These five areas cause most implementation failures. Open any one to see how we approach it.
Dynamics 365 rarely operates alone. A real implementation connects it to banks, payroll, HR, payment gateways, e-commerce, tax platforms, logistics providers, WMS, MES, vendor and customer portals, legacy ERP and data warehouses.
How we approach it
Source & target — Where does the information originate, and where must it go?
Frequency & direction — Real time, scheduled or batch — inbound, outbound or both?
Identifier — How is each transaction uniquely identified?
Validation — What makes a transaction valid before it is accepted?
Duplicate prevention — How do we avoid reprocessing the same data?
Error handling — What happens when it fails, and who finds out?
Reprocessing — Can a user safely retry without creating duplicates?
Reconciliation — How do both systems prove their totals agree?
An integration is complete when the business transaction is created, failure can be identified and corrected, and both systems can be reconciled — not when the endpoint returns 200.
Migration is one of the highest-risk parts of any Dynamics implementation. Configuration data and migration data are planned separately, and both are mapped, tested, validated and rehearsed before cutover.
How we approach it
Master data — Customers, vendors, products, chart of accounts, dimensions, assets, resources, employees, projects.
Open transactions — Sales and purchase orders, customer and vendor balances, inventory, projects, production and service orders.
Opening financials — General ledger, receivables, payables, inventory valuation, fixed assets and bank balances.
Historical data — Only where a defined operational, legal or reporting requirement exists.
Cycle 1 — Validate structure and mapping.
Cycle 2 — Validate cleansed business data.
Cycle 3 — Test transaction dependencies and volume.
Mock cutover — Execute migration under expected go-live conditions.
The partner can migrate data. Only the customer can confirm the business data is correct — so ownership stays joint, and sign-off is explicit.
Dynamics security should follow business responsibility: job roles, duties, privileges, company access, segregation of duties, sensitive information, approval authority, administrator access, integration users and service accounts.
How we approach it
Purchasing user — Can create purchase orders.
Purchasing manager — Can approve within a defined authority limit.
Accounts payable — Can process supplier invoices.
Payment user — Can prepare the payment proposal.
Payment approver — Can approve the payment.
Administrator — Deliberately separated from transactional authority.
The same user should not perform every step simply because it is technically possible. Segregation of duties is a design decision, not an audit finding.
Testing belongs in the project from early on rather than as a final activity. Each layer answers a different question, and the exceptions matter more than the happy path.
How we approach it
Unit — Does the individual configuration or development work?
Functional — Does the business scenario work?
Integration — Do connected applications behave correctly?
System integration — Does the complete process work across the whole solution?
Performance — Can expected business volume be handled?
Security — Do users have appropriate — and only appropriate — access?
Migration — Is migrated data complete and accurate?
User acceptance — Can real users run the real business end to end?
In procure-to-pay we do not only test PO → receipt → invoice → payment. We test partial receipt, over and under delivery, price and quantity mismatch, invoice without receipt, returns, credit notes, prepayments, rejected workflow, payment reversal, cancelled orders and integration failure.
A detailed cutover strategy is written, rehearsed, validated and signed off before execution, with responsibilities assigned and production readiness confirmed.
How we approach it
Legacy freeze — Stop transactions in the outgoing system.
Configuration — Promote approved configuration to production.
Data — Run the production migration.
Validation — Reconcile balances and master data.
Integrations — Activate production interfaces.
Security — Enable production users and roles.
Business — Execute smoke-test scenarios.
Approval — Obtain formal go-live confirmation.
Readiness means SIT and UAT complete, critical defects resolved or formally accepted, migration rehearsed, cutover approved, users trained, security ready, integrations validated and the support model already active.
What You Receive
Deliverables, Not Just Activities
Most partners describe what they will do. These are the artefacts you end up owning.
01
Solution blueprint
The approved architecture — applications, organisation model, data, integration, security and environments.
02
Fit-gap register
Every requirement classified: standard, configuration, process change, extension, integration or out of scope.
03
Configuration workbook
Controlled system setup, traceable back to an approved business requirement.
04
Integration catalogue
Every interface with source, target, frequency, identifiers, error handling and reconciliation.
05
Data migration plan
Objects, ownership, mapping, cleansing, migration cycles and business sign-off.
06
Test strategy
SIT, UAT, migration, performance, security and regression scope with acceptance criteria.
07
Cutover plan
The production transition sequence, rehearsed before it is executed.
08
Support handover
The post-go-live operating model, issue classification and escalation path.
Engagement Types
Not Every Implementation Starts from Zero
Greenfield implementation
Implementing Dynamics 365 for the first time, with no legacy Dynamics environment to carry forward.
Legacy ERP replacement
Replacing older ERP, CRM, accounting, warehouse, service or retail systems with Dynamics 365.
Dynamics AX migration
Modernising AX 2009 or AX 2012 environments into current Dynamics 365 architecture.
Dynamics NAV migration
Moving NAV environments to Business Central where that is the right fit.
CRM modernisation
Moving older Dynamics CRM or another CRM platform to Sales, Customer Service or Field Service.
Reimplementation
Redesigning a Dynamics environment made unworkable by excess customisation, weak process design, bad data or poor adoption.
In Practice
Representative Implementation Scenarios
Manufacturing company
CurrentFinance software, a separate inventory system, production planning in Excel and manual approvals.
ScopeFinance, procurement, inventory, planning, manufacturing, warehouse, quality and Power BI on Finance + Supply Chain Management.
Urewa focusEvery physical transaction has a correctly designed financial outcome.
Mid-sized business
CurrentAccounting software plus a wall of spreadsheets.
ScopeBusiness Central across finance, sales, purchasing, inventory, manufacturing and reporting.
Urewa focusLegacy complexity is left behind rather than imported into a simpler cloud solution.
Professional services
CurrentSales commitments and delivery economics live in different places.
ScopeSales + Project Operations + Finance: lead, opportunity, quote, project, resource, time and expense, billing, revenue, margin.
Urewa focusWhat was sold and what gets delivered finally agree.
Service equipment company
CurrentCustomer, asset and service history scattered across systems.
ScopeSales + Field Service + ERP: customer, asset, service request, work order, technician, parts, completion, invoice.
Urewa focusA complete service-to-cash architecture rather than a dispatch tool.
Omnichannel retailer
CurrentStore and online operate as separate businesses with separate inventory.
Urewa focusThe customer promise matches inventory and accounting reality.
Governance & Risk
Clear Ownership Prevents Slow Decisions
Steering committee
Business direction and major decisions.
Project manager
Plan, scope, risks and dependencies.
Solution architect
End-to-end solution integrity.
Functional leads
Business-process design.
Technical lead
Extensions, interfaces and technical architecture.
Data lead
Migration ownership.
Customer process owners
Business decisions and acceptance.
Key users
Validation and adoption.
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Process before configuration
We understand end-to-end transactions before anyone opens a setup form.
02
Architecture before development
Major design decisions are made and owned before code starts.
03
Standard before custom
Customisation requires justification, not just a requirement number.
04
Data early
Migration is not postponed to the final month of the project.
05
Integration with reconciliation
Interfaces ship with monitoring, retry and reconciliation built in.
06
Test real exceptions
Partial receipts, mismatches, reversals and failures — not only the happy path.
07
Cutover rehearsal
Production migration is practised before it is performed.
08
Business sign-off
Key decisions have accountable owners, recorded outside meeting notes.
What we expect from you
Participation in process decisions, master-data ownership, requirement validation, UAT, cutover, training, change management and sign-off. Implementation cannot be fully outsourced, because your organisation has to own the future operating model — we can build it, but we cannot decide how you want to run.
Readiness Assessment
Are You Ready for Dynamics 365?
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Target business processes are documented
2
Process owners have been identified
3
We know which legacy systems will remain
4
Master data is reasonably clean
5
We know which historical data must be migrated
6
Critical integrations have been identified
7
Reporting requirements are documented
8
Roles and approval responsibilities are agreed
9
Business users can participate in testing
10
Key customisations in the current system are identified
11
Senior management can make timely design decisions
12
There is a realistic cutover window
13
Internal resources are allocated to the project
14
Training is included in the project plan
15
There is a post-go-live support strategy
Answer all fifteen to see where your implementation risk sits (0/15 answered).
Common Questions
Implementation FAQs
How long does a Dynamics 365 implementation take?
It depends on applications in scope, legal entities and countries, process complexity, data migration volume, integrations, customisation and how quickly the business can make decisions. A credible timeline comes out of discovery — a partner quoting a duration before understanding your processes is guessing.
Do you follow Microsoft's implementation guidance?
Yes. Microsoft's guidance structures implementation as Discover, Initiate, Implement, Prepare and Operate, with end-to-end business processes as the framework for defining, designing, building and testing. Our methodology follows those principles while adapting delivery to the size, complexity and risk of each engagement.
How much customisation will we need?
As little as genuinely justifies itself. Every requirement is assessed against standard functionality, configuration, process redesign, Power Platform, integration and only then extension. Microsoft's own cloud guidance warns against carrying traditional over-customisation habits into cloud implementations.
Who owns data migration?
It is shared. We profile, map, transform, load and reconcile — but only your business can confirm the migrated data is correct. That sign-off is explicit, and it happens across several migration cycles rather than once during cutover week.
What happens if we already have a failing Dynamics implementation?
We run a reimplementation assessment. Environments become unworkable through excess customisation, weak process design, bad data, poor adoption, failed integrations or weak reporting. Sometimes redesign is more effective than continuing to add fixes.
Can you implement in phases?
Yes, and it often reduces risk where organisational readiness is limited — for example finance first, then procurement and inventory, then manufacturing, then sales, service and analytics. The phasing has to respect process dependencies rather than just splitting modules.
What do you need from us?
Participation in process decisions, master-data ownership, requirement validation, UAT, cutover, training, change management and sign-off. Implementation cannot be fully outsourced, because your organisation has to own the future operating model.
What happens after go-live?
Hypercare first — daily issue review, incident management, data corrections, integration monitoring and reconciliation support, with issues classified as defect, configuration, data, training or change request. Once stable, responsibilities transition into a sustainable managed support model.
Do you handle multi-country rollouts?
Yes. The critical discipline is distinguishing the global template — what should remain common — from genuine local requirements such as statutory, tax and language needs. Without that separation, a rollout becomes several unrelated implementations.
Your Implementation Should Improve the Business
Implementing Dynamics 365 for the first time, replacing a legacy ERP, migrating from AX or NAV, replacing another CRM, reimplementing an unsuccessful Dynamics solution, consolidating systems or preparing a global rollout — we design and deliver it from discovery through production stabilisation.