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Make Business Central fast again.

Slow reports, system timeouts, and frustrated users aren't normal. We profile, diagnose, and tune your BC or NAV environment for dramatic performance gains — often 10x or more.

80%

Faster report generation

10x

Query performance improvement

Proactive

Performance monitoring

What we do

What a performance engagement involves

We don't guess. We profile your real workload, find where time is actually being lost, fix it with documented benchmarks, and keep it fast with proactive monitoring.

Performance Audit

Profile the live environment to find the queries, processes, and pages actually costing your users time.

Database Optimization

Index tuning, statistics maintenance, and query plan analysis on the SQL layer where it matters most.

Report Tuning

Restructure slow report logic and data flows so month-end reporting takes seconds, not coffee breaks.

Custom Code Review

Find inefficient loops, locking, and N+1 patterns in customizations that quietly cripple performance.

Architecture Review

Assess server sizing, configuration, and topology to remove infrastructure-level bottlenecks.

Proactive Monitoring

Ongoing monitoring that catches degradation before your users feel it — not after they complain.

Report Generation

Before
42 min
After
8 sec

Posting Speed

Before
3.2 sec / doc
After
0.4 sec

Real results, documented and benchmarked

  • Most optimizations applied without system downtime
  • Measurable results in days, not months
  • Documented before-and-after benchmarks you can verify
  • Optional ongoing monitoring to keep it fast

Challenges & solutions

The hard parts — and how we handle them

The challenge

Reports that take 30+ minutes — month-end becomes a waiting game and the team works around the system.

How Qixas solves it

Query optimization, index tuning, and report logic restructuring that turns 30-minute reports into seconds.

The challenge

System timeouts during peak hours — the platform buckles exactly when the business needs it most.

How Qixas solves it

Lock contention analysis, server profiling, and workload scheduling to keep peak hours stable.

The challenge

Growing data volumes degrading performance — what was fast two years ago now crawls.

How Qixas solves it

Data archiving, partition management, and statistics maintenance so performance scales with your data.

The challenge

Poor user experience — sluggish pages and slow posting frustrate users every single day.

How Qixas solves it

Page load optimization, client-side tuning, and workflow streamlining for a responsive everyday experience.

Why implementations fail

Why your system slowed down — and why it isn't normal

"That's normal for your data volume" is the most expensive sentence in ERP support. Slowness is almost always a fixable engineering problem, not an inevitability. These are the root causes we find — and remove — most often.

01

Accepting degradation instead of profiling it

Performance erodes gradually, users adapt, and 'it's a bit slow' becomes the baseline. Without profiling the real workload, nobody knows that month-end reports have quietly gone from minutes to hours — or that the fix is a single missing index.

02

Custom code written without performance in mind

Inefficient loops, record-by-record processing, and N+1 query patterns in customizations work fine on small data and cripple the system as you grow. The code was never the problem at go-live — it became one as volumes climbed.

03

Treating it as a hardware problem

Throwing bigger servers at a slow system masks the symptom and delays the cure. Most slowness lives in queries, indexes, report logic, and lock contention — layers that more hardware barely touches and that proper tuning fixes for a fraction of the cost.

How Qixas is different

We measure first — then fix what actually matters

Guessing at performance wastes money on changes that don't move the needle. Our approach is evidence-driven from the first hour to the last benchmark.

Profile the real workload, not a guess

We instrument your live environment to find the queries, processes, and pages actually costing your users time — then rank fixes by real impact, not assumptions.

Deep SQL and AL optimization expertise

Index tuning, statistics, query plan analysis, and code-level fixes from people who have spent 15+ years inside Dynamics SQL and AL — not generalists reading a checklist.

Documented before-and-after benchmarks

Every change comes with measurable, verifiable numbers. You see exactly what improved and by how much — no vague promises, no unprovable claims.

Optimizations that hold over time

Optional proactive monitoring watches key indicators and flags degradation early, so the gains you pay for stay in place instead of slowly eroding again.

Get started

Find out exactly where your time is going

Start with a performance assessment. We'll profile your environment, show you the real bottlenecks ranked by user impact, and quantify the gains available — before any commitment.

What's included

  • Live profiling of queries, processes, and report logic
  • Bottlenecks ranked by real user impact
  • Custom code review for inefficient patterns
  • Server sizing and configuration review
  • Projected gains with documented baselines

Trusted by leading organizations across North America

Health Canada
RCMP
Pet Valu
Bulk Barn
The Beer Store
Motion Specialties
BC Hydro
Hydro One
Longos
Winebow
Fujitsu
CPTO

Why Qixas

15+ years of Dynamics. One focused team.

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Dynamics clients served

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Faster report generation

Microsoft

Cloud Solutions Partner

Response times went from days to hours. It feels like having an in-house ERP team.

IT Director, Food & Beverage Manufacturer

Slow ERP is a tax on every workday

Book a performance assessment. We'll profile your environment and show you exactly where the time is going.

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions, Answered

What does a performance audit include?
We profile your live environment — SQL queries, execution plans, locking, custom code, report logic, and server configuration — to identify exactly where time is being lost, ranked by real user impact.
What are the most common causes of slowness?
Usually a mix of missing or stale indexes, inefficient custom code, unoptimized report logic, lock contention at peak hours, and data volumes that have outgrown the original configuration.
How long does optimization take?
Most engagements show measurable improvement within days. A typical end-to-end tuning effort runs roughly two to three weeks, with the highest-impact fixes applied first.
Can it be done without downtime?
The majority of optimizations — index tuning, statistics, code and report fixes — are applied with no downtime. The few changes that need a maintenance window are scheduled around your quiet periods.
Do you offer ongoing monitoring?
Yes. We offer proactive monitoring that watches key performance indicators and flags degradation early, so problems are caught and resolved before your users ever feel them.

Find out exactly what's slowing your ERP down

Get a free performance assessment. We'll profile your system, pinpoint the bottlenecks, and show you where tuning delivers the biggest gains.