A Smarter Business Central Upgrade
MoreLife provides health and wellbeing programmes that help individuals and communities make long-lasting lifestyle changes.
The organisation wanted to move from Microsoft NAV to Dynamics 365 Business Central SaaS, reducing infrastructure requirements, avoiding disruptive upgrades, and addressing specific payroll reporting challenges.
Qi upgraded MoreLife to Business Central SaaS and implemented Sage 50 Cloud Payroll with a tailored integration into Business Central. The result was a modern browser-based system, automatic software updates, reduced reliance on servers, and significant time savings across payroll processing and reporting.
The Challenge
MoreLife had identified the advantages of moving from their older on-premise version of Microsoft NAV to Dynamics 365 Business Central SaaS. Alleviating infrastructure requirements would save time and money and moving to Business Central SaaS would ensure that their software was automatically updated rather than requiring traditional upgrades, which could prove to be disruptive and incur additional costs.
Having contacted their existing Microsoft Business Partner for project costs, MoreLife even briefly considered reviewing the marketplace completely, as the costs they were presented with were like those of a new system implementation. MoreLife also had the additional challenge of relying on a payroll solution written by their incumbent which, whilst not wholly satisfactory, dealt with some specific requirements regarding staff payment. In short, MoreLife needed to find a Microsoft Business Partner that spoke their language with a realistic approach to project costs.
The Solution
Upgrading from NAV 2017 to Business Central SaaS & Sage 50 Cloud Payroll (with some clever reporting from Qi!)
MoreLife contacted Qi Ltd, and it was soon apparent that their NAV upgrade project could be delivered effectively and against a far more attractive budget. Qi recommended that MoreLife moved to Sage payroll and developed a link between that and Dynamics 365 Business Central to enhance how the payroll nominal link shares information to the Business Central employee card, which met their specific needs perfectly.
The Outcome
Improved automation returns welcome time savings!
The migration was completed on time and on budget and life for the payroll team has improved dramatically — with hours of time saved on payroll processing and reporting, due to the Qi Sage payroll to Business Central integration which enables costs to be spread over multiple dimensions.
MoreLife is now using an effective, modern, browser-based incarnation of their time-served Microsoft NAV solution, with automatic software updates, a great user interface and no reliance on servers to host it.
MoreLife also moved Qi Ltd to be their CSP for the entire Microsoft licensing portfolio after their previous supplier let them down.
