ERP Upgrades · GP to Business Central

Leave Dynamics GP Behind. Step Into the AI Era.

Dynamics GP served you well, but it was built for a different decade — on-premise, offline, and closed to AI. Business Central is its natural successor: the same financial rigor GP is known for, now in the cloud with Microsoft Copilot, AI agents, and the full Power Platform built in. Qixas moves your history over intact and turns the upgrade into a leap forward.

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Microsoft

Solutions Partner

20+ yrs

of Dynamics experience

Zero

data-loss guarantee

AI-native

Copilot from day one

Sound familiar?

The Cracks Are Showing in Dynamics GP

Microsoft has stopped selling Dynamics GP to new customers and put it on a published end-of-support path — no new features, security-only maintenance, and a shrinking pool of people who still know it. The day-to-day frustrations are already here.

Stuck on-premise and offline

GP lives on a server in your building. No real mobile access, no anywhere-access for a hybrid team, and a rising bill for hardware, backups, SQL licensing, and the people who keep it all running.

The roadmap has ended

GP is in maintenance mode. There are no meaningful new features coming — while the rest of the Microsoft stack races ahead with AI. Every year you stay, the gap to modern ERP gets wider.

Reporting means exporting to Excel

Management Reporter, SmartLists, and endless Excel exports. Leadership makes decisions on data that's already stale, and nobody has a live, trustworthy picture of the business.

A patchwork of third-party bolt-ons

Workflow, document management, EDI, and web access were all bolted on with separate ISV products GP couldn't do natively — each one another license, another integration, another thing to maintain.

No AI, no automation, no Copilot

Bank reconciliation, invoice entry, collections, and reporting are still manual. GP has no path to Microsoft Copilot or AI agents, so the productivity gains everyone else is capturing pass you by.

GP talent is getting scarce

The consultants and staff who know Great Plains are retiring or moving to Business Central. Finding help — and hiring finance people who want to work on legacy software — keeps getting harder.

The platform

Business Central Is GP's Successor — Rebuilt for the AI Era

Business Central is Microsoft's direct successor to Dynamics GP: the same double-entry financial discipline and depth GP is trusted for, re-engineered as a cloud SaaS platform with Microsoft Copilot, AI agents, Power BI, and the Power Platform woven in. Your team gets a system that feels familiar on day one and gets smarter every month — with Microsoft shipping two major AI-rich releases a year instead of a frozen roadmap.

A bridge from legacy Dynamics GP to cloud Business Central — a safe, structured upgrade path.

Cloud SaaS, Not a Server in the Closet

No servers to patch, no SQL to license, no overnight backups to babysit. Business Central runs on Microsoft's cloud with anywhere access, mobile apps, and always-current versions.

Microsoft Copilot Built In

Copilot is native to Business Central — draft sales lines, reconcile the bank, capture invoices, summarize data, and answer questions in plain English, right inside the finance workflow.

Live Reporting with Power BI

Retire Management Reporter and Excel exports. Power BI reads your ERP data directly for live, drillable dashboards — one trusted picture instead of a dozen conflicting spreadsheets.

Power Platform & Microsoft 365

Automate approvals with Power Automate, build custom apps with Power Apps, and work natively inside Outlook, Teams, and Excel — no bolt-on products required.

Continuous, Automatic Updates

Two major releases a year, applied automatically, each packed with new AI capability. You're never stranded on an unsupported version or facing a painful re-implementation again.

Familiar to GP Users

Dimensions, the chart of accounts, batch posting, and the finance concepts your team already knows all carry forward — so adoption is an evolution, not a fresh start.

Core capabilities

The Microsoft AI Stack You Unlock

Moving off GP isn't just a version change — it plugs your ERP into Microsoft's entire AI and data platform. Here's what becomes available the moment you're on Business Central.

Copilot in Business Central

AI woven directly into everyday finance and operations work — grounded in your own data, inside the screens your team already uses.

Natural-language chat to find records, explain fields, and navigate the system

AI-assisted bank account reconciliation that proposes matches and transfers

Sales and purchase line suggestions from historical documents and patterns

E-document and invoice capture that reads incoming PDFs into ready-to-post entries

Copilot-generated product descriptions, marketing text, and data summaries

Outcomes

What Leaving GP Behind Delivers

The move off Dynamics GP isn't just risk avoidance — it changes how fast your team works and how much of it AI can carry.

servers to maintain

Cloud SaaS replaces on-prem hardware, SQL, and backups.

Copilot

on day one

AI assistance built into finance and operations from go-live.

2x / yr

automatic updates

Continuous AI-rich releases instead of a frozen roadmap.

Real-time

reporting

Live Power BI dashboards replace Excel exports and Management Reporter.

Why Qixas

Why Qixas for Your GP Migration

A GP move is a finance transition, not a file copy — and doing it well takes people who genuinely know both the system you're leaving and the AI platform you're moving to. Qixas has spent 20+ years in the guts of Dynamics, from Great Plains and NAV through modern Business Central. We know how GP posts, where its data-quality landmines hide, and how to set you up so Copilot and the AI stack actually pay off after go-live.

Genuine GP expertise — we read the system you're leaving, so customizations, add-ons, and history are judged correctly, not guessed at

Finance-led migration with reconciliation gates — trial runs with automated reconciliation prove balances, subledgers, and dimensions tie out before anyone relies on the new system

AI-ready by design — we structure your data and configuration so Copilot, agents, and Power BI deliver real value, not just a checkbox

Rationalize, don't lift-and-shift — most clients retire 40–60% of legacy GP bolt-ons by mapping them to native Business Central or modern AppSource apps

Safe cutover — parallel running and a documented rollback plan mean you move with confidence, around your quiet periods

Client stories

From Great Plains to an AI-Ready Cloud

How mid-market companies replaced aging Dynamics GP with Business Central — and put the Microsoft AI stack to work.

Finance team working in cloud Business Central after migrating from Dynamics GP

Zerodata loss migrating off GP

“We ran GP for over fifteen years and were terrified to move our history. Qixas migrated everything with zero data loss, and now Copilot handles bank rec and invoice capture that used to eat entire afternoons.”

Controller

Mid-Market Distribution Company

Leadership reviewing live Power BI dashboards that replaced GP Management Reporter

Real-timereporting, not Excel exports

“Management Reporter was our ceiling for years. On Business Central with Power BI, leadership finally has live dashboards instead of Monday-morning Excel exports. It changed how fast we make decisions.”

VP of Finance

Manufacturing Company

Operations unified on Business Central and the Power Platform after leaving Dynamics GP

40–60%of GP add-ons retired

“The bolt-ons we'd stacked on GP for workflow and web access just disappeared — Business Central and the Power Platform do it natively now. Fewer vendors, one platform, and AI on top of it.”

CFO

Professional Services Firm

GP's Roadmap Has Ended. Yours Doesn't Have To.

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FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions, Answered

Is Dynamics GP really going away?

Microsoft has stopped selling Dynamics GP to new customers and published an end-of-support timeline. GP is now in maintenance mode — it receives security and compliance updates for a limited window but no meaningful new features, and it has no path to Microsoft Copilot or the AI capabilities being added across the rest of the stack. Staying on GP means rising security, talent, and opportunity-cost risk with no roadmap forward, so moving to Business Central is the lower-risk, future-proof path.

Is Business Central the official successor to Dynamics GP?

Yes. Business Central is Microsoft's designated successor product for Dynamics GP in the mid-market. It carries forward the financial depth GP is known for — general ledger, AP/AR, cash management, dimensions, and multi-entity accounting — while re-engineering it as a cloud SaaS platform with Copilot, the Power Platform, and continuous updates. For most GP customers it's the natural next step rather than a sideways switch to a different vendor.

What happens to our years of GP history?

It comes with you. We migrate historical general ledger, open AP and AR, master data, and the balances you need, with a full audit trail. We run multiple trial migrations with automated reconciliation so the numbers provably tie out before go-live, and you get a documented rollback plan. Where deep transactional history isn't migrated line-by-line, we can retain it in an accessible archive or in Microsoft Fabric for reporting.

How does AI and Copilot actually help our finance team?

Copilot is built into Business Central and grounded in your own data. In practice that means AI-assisted bank reconciliation, invoice and e-document capture that reads incoming PDFs into ready-to-post entries, sales and purchase line suggestions, plain-English answers about your data, and generated summaries and descriptions. Beyond Copilot, autonomous agents (like the Sales Order Agent) and custom agents built in Copilot Studio can carry out multi-step tasks — always with human review before anything posts.

What about all our third-party GP add-ons?

Many things GP needed bolt-on products for — workflow and approvals, document management, web and mobile access, EDI — are native in Business Central and the Power Platform. As part of the migration we inventory every add-on and map each to native Business Central functionality, a modern AppSource app, or a Power Platform solution. Most clients retire 40–60% of their legacy add-ons, cutting licensing, integration, and maintenance overhead.

Ready to Move From GP to an AI-Ready Business Central?

Start with a free GP migration readiness assessment. We'll inventory your system and add-ons, map your history, and show you exactly what Business Central and the Microsoft AI stack can deliver — before any commitment.