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Business Central partner for the switch from any Navision and NAV version

Your Navision is running. For now.

As a Business Central partner we bring companies from Navision and Dynamics NAV to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. We migrate in one step, without the usual intermediate versions. Until the cutover date DataMigrate Pro keeps syncing your data, your legacy system stays productive. You know the price before the project starts.

At some point “still running” turns into a risk, at the latest when support ends, the e-invoicing mandate requires new formats or the server reaches the end of its life. With us the switch usually takes four weeks.

“With DataMigrate Pro the move from BC14 to BC28 was done in a few weeks – with no downtime for our production line. A clear recommendation to anyone still hesitating.”
Olivier Brandes ERP Business Consultant · Designwerk Technologies AG (Member of the Volvo Group) Read the case study →
20+ years of experience of our founders50+ migrationsFixed price before the project starts

Another ERP

From other ERP systems to Business Central.

The vendor does not matter to us, the database has to be a Microsoft SQL Server.

SageSelectLineAPplusSAP B1

For start-ups and tight budgets

Business Central new implementation on a monthly subscription.

Pre-configured for the SKR03 or SKR04 chart of accounts, with licence, onboarding and support in one rate.

from449 €per month

Trusted by mid-sized companies & corporate groups
Designwerk
HRS GmbH
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
MyBusinessCentral.de
Business Central partner

What a Business Central partner does

A Business Central partner supports you with the purchase, the introduction and the ongoing operation of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. That includes licenses, setup, data transfer, training and support from one source. For companies running Navision or Dynamics NAV, what matters most is the route by which data and grown custom code reach the new version.

The classic upgrade path leads through every intermediate version. From NAV 2009, four of them lie before Business Central v28, each with its own data transfer including testing and code adaptation. For heavily customized NAV, many partners therefore recommend a fresh start on a greenfield.

But it also works with your data. DataMigrate Pro reads directly from your NAV database and writes into the current Business Central version, from Navision Attain onward and in a single step. We review your C/AL customizations one by one. What the standard can do by now stays standard, the rest becomes an extension in AL.

Example Dynamics NAV 2009

From NAV 2009 to Business Central v28

Switch between the classic upgrade path and the direct route with DataMigrate Pro.

  1. NAV 2009
  2. NAV 2013 R2 Data transfer · testing · code adaptation
  3. NAV 2015 to 2018 Data transfer · testing · code adaptation
  4. Business Central v14 Data transfer · testing · code adaptation
  5. Business Central v25 Data transfer · testing · code adaptation
  6. Business Central v28
4Intermediate versions
5Upgrade steps
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Go-live

Switch in a lunch break with live and delta sync

Many cutovers put the data transfer on a weekend. Whether everything arrived shows on Monday morning, when the whole company starts booking again.

We transfer the bulk data weeks in advance. After that DataMigrate Pro syncs the changes from the running NAV operation, for example every five minutes or live. Your team tests and practices in Business Central with real, current data while work in the legacy system continues as normal.

On the cutover date only the last sync remains. In practice that means lunch break, re-sync and then carrying on in Business Central.

Schematic

How long does your business stand still during the switch?

Classic weekend cutover or continuous sync with DataMigrate Pro.

Weeks before Initial transfer

The bulk data is transferred, the legacy system keeps running as normal.

Until the cutover date Continuous sync

Changes follow every five minutes or live, your team tests with current data.

Cutover date Re-sync in the lunch break

The last sync, after that Business Central is running.

Afterwards Carry on working

Your team keeps working directly in the new system.

Downtime the lunch break
No risk

Your legacy system stays unchanged

DataMigrate Pro accesses your NAV database in read-only mode. Your team keeps working there as usual. The switch only happens once your key users approve.

  • Read-only access, the source system stays unchanged and productive
  • Parallel operation for days or weeks, without locks and without downtime
  • Switch on the cutover date with a final data sync shortly before go-live
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Choosing a partner

What you can measure us by

When choosing a partner, our customers care most about speed, trust, advice and price. That is what we want to be measured by.

Speed

One step from any Navision and NAV version, starting at Navision Attain. We plan the migration in four weeks, the switch itself fits into a lunch break.

Trust

References that match your starting point, such as Designwerk from the Volvo Group going from BC14 to BC28 or a gaming company from North America going from NAV 2013 R2 straight to the cloud. Every run counts records in source and target before you approve.

Advice

Your questions go straight to the migration engineers who carry out your project. You get an answer within 24 hours. After go-live we stay with you for 30 days in the hypercare phase.

Price

The migration check costs you nothing. After that comes the fixed price for the data migration, together with the schedule up to the cutover.

Switching partner

Switching partner when the upgrade has been planned for years

Over 70 % of our new customers come from a partner they were unhappy with. Often the upgrade to Business Central has been planned for years. Still, nobody has seen their own data in the new system.

Being well looked after feels different. A switch to us starts with the free migration check. After that you know schedule and fixed price and decide in peace.

If you are already in the middle of a project, nobody has to change partner. The question about the data migration usually comes up last. Your partner then uses DataMigrate Pro themselves or leaves that part to us.

Over 70 % of our new customers were not happy with their previous partner.
Working together

Self, full or hybrid mode for companies and Microsoft partners

How much you take on yourself is your decision. The three modes apply to companies with their own IT just as much as to Microsoft partners who use DataMigrate Pro in their projects.

How much would you like to take on yourself?

Pick a mode and see who is responsible for which step.

You steer the migration yourself.

You license DataMigrate Pro and steer mapping, test runs and delta sync yourself. Onboarding and documentation come from us, and we help if questions come up.

Start the free migration check
Onboarding and documentationIOI
Build the mappingYou
Test runs and delta syncYou
Review of the mappingIOI if needed
CutoverYou
Tests and sign-off by key usersYou

We take over the switch.

We take over the switch from the migration check to the hypercare phase. You provide the key users for testing and sign-off.

Start the free migration check
Onboarding and documentationIOI
Build the mappingIOI
Test runs and delta syncIOI
Review of the mappingIOI
CutoverIOI
Tests and sign-off by key usersYou

You build, we review.

Your team or your previous partner builds the mapping, we review it and accompany the cutover.

Start the free migration check
Onboarding and documentationIOI
Build the mappingYou
Test runs and delta syncYou
Review of the mappingIOI
Accompany the cutoverIOI
Tests and sign-off by key usersYou

More migrations with the same crew.

For Microsoft partners DataMigrate Pro is a question of capacity. Migrations are the bottleneck for many partners.

Request a demo for partners
Onboarding and documentationIOI
Build the mappingPartner
Test runs and delta syncPartner
Review of the mappingIOI if needed
CutoverPartner
Tests and sign-off by key usersCustomer
Our services at a glance

Services from IO Integrated as a Business Central partner

IO Integrated combines its own migration software with consulting on Business Central and the project experience of our founders from more than 20 years with Microsoft ERP systems.

Direct migration to Business Central

From Navision Attain straight to the current Business Central version, with live and delta sync.

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Delta-Sync

Whatever is still booked in the legacy system arrives in Business Central automatically. You test with real data without disturbing day-to-day business.

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Check of your NAV customizations

We review C/AL customizations, add-ons and special processes. What the Business Central standard can do today does not have to stay a custom development.

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Migration from other ERP systems

Sage, SelectLine, APplus, SAP Business One and other systems, as long as the data sits on a Microsoft SQL Server.

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Business Central new implementation

A fresh start without legacy data, preconfigured and with license, onboarding and support from €449 per month.

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Licenses and extensions

Business Central licenses from €72.77 per user and month, plus extensions such as Continia, SIEVERS DATEV, FORNAV and NxM EDI.

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CloneMyCompany

Copy individual Business Central companies or restore them from backups. For sandbox, production, tenant changes and carve-outs.

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Migration check

We analyze your database and give you a fixed price and a schedule up to go-live.

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Documentation and support

Quick overviews, prerequisites, configuration and personal support from Business Central specialists.

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Predictable costs

What the switch with IO Integrated costs

For the data migration you sign nothing before the price is set. In the free migration check we analyze data volume, companies and objects of your database. From that come the fixed price and a schedule with clear phases up to the cutover.

Migration check

€0

kostenlos

Analysis of data volume, companies and objects. After that you know fixed price and schedule.

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Fixed price

Data migration with DataMigrate Pro

ab€4,500

einmalig

Straight from any Navision and NAV version, with delta sync up to the cutover date.

To the migration

New implementation as a monthly subscription

ab€449

per month

Preconfigured for SKR03 or SKR04, with license, onboarding and support in a single rate.

To the new implementation

Business Central license Essentials

ab€72.77

per user and month

Net on an annual contract, price list as of September 2026. Premium from €100.07.

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All prices net plus VAT.

A customer from the North American gaming industry had quotes in the six-figure range. What they saved with us is shown in the case study. For the modernization of your ERP system, KfW funding under programs 511 and 512 may also come into question.

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New in DataMigrate Pro

Local files, printers and scripts from Business Central in the cloud

What was a matter of course in NAV falls away when you move to the cloud: access to directories in your own network, printing to the label printer on the shop floor, calling local scripts. DataMigrate Pro brings these three functions back.

Local file access

Read, write, move and archive files on your own network.

Local printers

Print to label printers and office printers directly from Business Central.

Scripts on the local machine

Trigger PowerShell from Business Central, automated and logged.

BC Cloud to BC Cloud with CloneMyCompany

Copy individual Business Central companies with CloneMyCompany

CloneMyCompany is made for teams that need to restore individual companies from backups, move them between sandbox and production or across tenants. The rest of the environment stays untouched.

  • Backup and restore: restore individual companies instead of resetting complete environments

  • Switch environments: sandbox to production or production to sandbox

  • Tenant change: useful for M&A, a company sale, a carve-out or a restructuring of the group

Source PROD · Company A
Sales / Customers
Inventory / Items
Posted Documents
G/L Setup & Dimensions
Target SANDBOX · Company A
Sales / Customers
Inventory / Items
Posted Documents
G/L Setup & Dimensions
About us

The founders behind IO Integrated

Our founders were brought in as freelancers on NAV projects that had got stuck. They were meant to pull the cart out of the mud and in doing so developed the approach with continuous data sync. That became DataMigrate Pro and, in 2024, IO Integrated GmbH & Co. KG, based in Leverkusen near Cologne.

We are a small, owner-managed team. Which industry we migrate for makes no difference.

Our customers include Designwerk Technologies AG from the Volvo Group and HRS GmbH. You will find further voices, for example from EWTechnology and eepos, on the page about switching partner.

The two founders of IO Integrated in dark blue polo shirts with the IO logo

Ready for the move to Business Central?

Book the free migration check. We review your source version including data and customizations and show you the direct route to Business Central, with schedule and fixed price.

Answer within 24 hours
Fixed-price quote without obligation
Directly with our migration engineers
Self, full or hybrid mode on request
FAQ

Frequently asked questions about Business Central and choosing a partner

Who uses Business Central?

Microsoft develops Business Central for small and mid-sized companies. According to Microsoft the focus is on trade and services. The system also covers assembly, manufacturing, service management and warehouse management (as of November 2026). With us, companies from every industry migrate, the dental lab just as much as the aircraft builder.

What does Business Central cost?

The Essentials license costs from €72.77 per user and month with us, Premium from €100.07, each net on an annual contract (price list as of September 2026). The new implementation as a monthly subscription with license, onboarding and support starts at €449 per month. For the data migration from NAV you get a fixed price from €4,500 after the migration check.

How does Business Central work?

Business Central is an ERP system for finance, sales, purchasing, warehouse, projects and production. It runs as a cloud service from Microsoft or on-premises on your own servers. In the cloud Microsoft rolls out a major update every April and October and smaller updates in the other months (as of November 2026). We implement your own customizations as extensions in AL so that they keep running after these updates.

How long does the switch from NAV to Business Central take?

The migration check is finished after one to two weeks. For the migration itself we typically plan four weeks. It takes longer if many interfaces have to be converted or larger customizations have to be rebuilt. You get the concrete schedule together with the fixed price.

Can we change partner in the middle of a project?

Yes. Often it is enough to solve the data transfer differently. Either your current partner uses DataMigrate Pro in self or hybrid mode or we take over just that part. For a complete switch we start with the migration check.

Are there still Gold and Silver partners at Microsoft?

No. Microsoft retired the Gold and Silver competencies on 30 September 2022 and replaced them with Solutions Partner designations. ERP partners fall under the “Business Applications” designation (as of November 2026). A Gold logo on a partner page therefore describes an old status. Also ask for references that match your source version.