CASE STUDY
JCS Fish Ltd.
Full data migration from Sage 50c Accounts Professional to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
Who are JCS Fish Ltd.
JCS Fish is an independent, family-owned business, based in Grimsby, with a strong heritage and many years’ experience in sourcing fine fish and producing a variety of top-quality seafood products.
The challenge
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JCS were seeking to improve the interface between their industry specific application and the external accounting application in use. Sage 50c having been used for many years had increasing limitations over more modern, cloud-based solutions and limited the use of more progressive applications.
The vendors of their industry specific software had also discussed a roadmap for their application that could not effectively be supported by Sage 50c in the coming years.
Following discussions with their industry specific software provider, JCS opted to explore Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.
Moving to Business Central made further logical sense as JCS were existing users of Dynamics CRM (Customer Relationship Management).
JCS viewed the project to move them away from Sage 50 to a further commitment to Microsoft technology as a great opportunity to move their business applications infrastructure forward and into modern computing.
JCS wished to explore how to automate processes still further using OCR solutions, allowing text documents to be recognised and created in Business Central without the need for manual input.
The leadership team at JCS wanted to find a business partner that could implement Business Central and develop a link to their industry specific bespoke software. Their ideal business partner would offer comprehensive services to migrate their Sage 50c data in full and intact and display a willingness to tailor a project to the meet the logical needs of their customers.
The solutionFull data migration from Sage 50c Accounts Professional to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
After engaging with several business partners JCS opted to partner with Qi.
Rosie Knight-Coulbeck (FD of JCS) commented:
We approached lots of different potential partners to help us with this implementation, but we felt the offering from Qi was especially attractive due to the amount of information received in advance, which was tailored to our needs as well as being affordable (lots of other companies oversell the amount of consultancy hours required in a project such as this).
The Process
Qi created the necessary link from the industry specific software to Business Central ensuring that data was validated prior to being automatically uploaded to the required Business Central fields.
Using the Qi JustMigrate toolkit, unique to Qi Ltd, Sage 50c data was migrated in full and intact, including full history, thus making the changeover to Business Central to Sage 50c straightforward and without the need to tie into key accounting periods.
Qi partnered with JCS and Continia, an industry leader in OCR technology for Business Central to implement Continia products which automated data entry, accurately.
The outcome
Business Central & OCR return valuable time savings
Rosie commented
The addition of Continia with this project was a massive win for JCS Fish as the automation of our purchase ledger was a key objective. Qi was there to assist and ensure a smooth Go Live.
Qi is currently working with JCS to enable the synchronisation of data from Dynamics CRM to Business Central and looks forward to continuing to partner with JCS as they optimise their use of Business Central moving forward.
Being a family business, we always like to work with other family businesses and feel that worked well in the partnership to get this project completed. We look forward to continuing to develop our use of Business Central with Qi Ltd