SAP Migration · Microsoft Business Central
SAP Is a Capable System.
Connecting It to Everything Else Is a Full-Time Job.
SAP is a capable system. But if your business runs on Microsoft 365, Teams, Power BI, and Azure, it requires constant middleware, specialist consultants, and unpredictable costs just to connect to the tools you already use. TechWise moves mid-market companies from SAP to Business Central, native Microsoft integration, a finance team that runs the system directly, and a cost structure that makes sense.
SAP B1 & S/4HANA Migrations
Native Microsoft 365 Integration Day 1
Full SAP History Preserved
Former Controllers on Every Project
Tell Us If This Sounds Familiar
SAP Works. Getting SAP to Work
With Everything Else Is the Problem.
The frustration isn’t generally with SAP’s capabilities. It’s with the constant overhead of maintaining a system that operates in isolation from the rest of your Microsoft environment.
“Every time Microsoft pushes an update to 365, something in our SAP integration breaks. We have a standing ticket with our integration vendor. It’s been open for eight months.“
Controller, $70M Manufacturer, Chicago
“We want to add a new approval workflow. Our SAP consultant says six weeks and $18,000. In Business Central, I’m told that’s an afternoon. I’m starting to believe it.“
CFO, $55M Distribution Company, Philadelphia
“We were spun off 18 months ago and inherited SAP from our parent company. It was built for a $3B organization. We’re $85M. We’re paying for architecture we’ll never use.“
VP Finance, $85M Manufacturer
“Our board wants a Power BI dashboard. Our SAP consultant said it would take three months and a custom connector. Our CFO at our last company had that same dashboard in BC in a week.“
CEO, $60M Food & Beverage Company, Los Angeles
Where the Friction Lives
Four Places SAP Creates Drag
That Business Central Eliminates.
These aren’t capability gaps, SAP can do most of these things. They’re friction points that consume time, money, and goodwill every week. Business Central removes them on Day 1.
01
Microsoft 365 Integration
With SAP today
Our technical leads include named Microsoft MVPs with deep NAV expertise, they read C/AL, they wrote AL extensions before most partners knew the language existed, and they have direct Microsoft escalation access when edge cases surface.
With Business Central
Native. No middleware. No connectors. No breakage. Teams, Outlook, Power BI, Copilot, and Azure are built into the platform, because they’re all Microsoft products designed to work together.
02
Configuration Velocity
With SAP today
Every configuration change, a new workflow, a report modification, a field addition, requires a certified SAP consultant, a project scope, and a timeline measured in weeks. Your finance team has stopped asking.
With Business Central
Most configuration changes are handled by your own finance or IT team in hours, not weeks. The system was designed to be operated by the people who use it, not maintained by specialists who do.
03
Cost Predictability
With SAP today
SAP license costs, annual maintenance fees, module add-ons, consultant rates for routine changes, and middleware subscriptions combine into a number that changes every year and is difficult to forecast or negotiate.
With Business Central
Per-user pricing, Essentials at $70/month, Premium at $100/month. Predictable. Scalable. No module add-on billing. No maintenance fee surprises. A number you can put in a budget and trust.
04
Reporting & Visibility
With SAP today
Getting data out of SAP and into Power BI requires connectors, SAP BW, or Crystal Reports, each a separate project with its own cost and maintenance burden. Real-time financial dashboards for the board are a months-long engagement.
With Business Central
Power BI connects natively to Business Central, live data, no connectors, no export cycle. A board-level financial dashboard that updates in real time is an afternoon configuration, not a project.
Your Data Is Safe
Everything Built in SAP
Comes With You. Nothing Lost.
A decade of financial history, master data, and operational records migrates completely, validated against your final SAP trial balance before any user goes live on Business Central.
Full Transaction History
Every posted SAP transaction, FI/CO entries, AR/AP documents, purchase orders, migrated and validated. Historical P&L and balance sheet intact and fully auditable from Day 1 in BC.
Open AR & AP Balances
Every open document migrates with aging intact. AR and AP aging in Business Central on Day 1 matches your final SAP reports exactly, across every company code.
Company Code Structure
SAP’s company code and controlling area structure maps to Business Central’s multi-entity and dimension architecture. Intercompany relationships and consolidation logic migrate intact.
Master Data
Business partners, vendor masters, material masters, and GL accounts, all migrated, cleansed, deduplicated, and validated before cutover. Your team doesn’t start over on years of master data.
Reports, Replaced with Power BI
Every SAP report is inventoried and rebuilt in Power BI or BC’s native engine before go-live. The output is generally more capable and self-service, no export cycle, no SAP consultant required to run a report.
Customizations & Integrations
Every SAP customization is inventoried and categorized, rebuild, replace, or retire. Many exist to compensate for integration friction BC handles natively, so the genuine rebuild scope is almost always smaller than expected.
The customization inventory is produced before any cost commitment. Every object categorized, every disposition documented. Mid-market SAP environments generally have a genuine rebuild scope 40–50% smaller than the total object count suggests, because so many customizations exist solely to manage SAP’s integration complexity with the Microsoft stack.
The Migration Process
From SAP to Business Central.
A Deliberate Migration, Not a Rush Job.
SAP migrations reward patience in the assessment phase and precision in execution. Here’s how we approach it, and why the conversation always starts with the numbers before it moves to the timeline.
01
SAP Assessment
SAP Assessment
Customization inventory, company code structure, integration audit, report catalog, and 3-year TCO comparison. The numbers first, always.
Deliverable: SAP assessment + TCO model
02
Migration Design
Migration Design
BC architecture designed for your SAP environment, company codes, profit centers, cost centers, integrations. Fixed scope and timeline agreed before work begins.
Deliverable: Migration plan + fixed scope
03
BC Build
BC Build
Business Central configured for your SAP financial structure. FI/CO workflows rebuilt natively. Compliance controls built in from Day 1.
Deliverable: Configured BC environment
04
Data Migration & Validation
Every SAP FI/CO entry, AR/AP document, and purchase order migrated and validated. Historical P&L and balance sheet intact and fully auditable in BC from Day 1.
Deliverable: Validated data, zero loss
05
Training &
UAT
UAT
Role-based training for finance and operations teams. UAT against your real SAP data in BC. Sign-off from your team before go-live is scheduled.
Deliverable: Trained team + UAT sign-off
06
Go-Live &
Strategic Support
Strategic Support
Cutover on the agreed date. TechWise present for Day 1 and your first close. Ongoing support and Quarterly Business Reviews. SAP license retired, generally the largest immediate cost saving.
Deliverable: Live in BC + ongoing partnership
The SAP Migration Assessment
Before any commitment, TechWise delivers a complete SAP Migration Assessment, customization inventory, integration audit, company code structure analysis, report catalog, and a 3-year TCO comparison. The conversation always starts here. Delivered within 5 business days for qualified companies.
Why TechWise for This Migration
This Migration Requires Partners
Who Know Both Sides. We Do.
Most Business Central partners have limited SAP exposure. We have consultants who have worked inside SAP FI/CO, which is what makes the assessment accurate and the migration predictable.
01
We Know SAP From the Inside
Our team includes consultants with SAP FI/CO backgrounds. We scope SAP migrations accurately because we’ve worked inside the system, not estimated from the outside. That makes the difference between a realistic scope and a worst-case number.
02
The TCO Model Comes First
We produce a 3-year total cost comparison specifically for your company, SAP license trajectory, maintenance fees, consultant dependency costs, middleware subscriptions, and what Business Central costs at your scale. The economics generally close the conversation.
03
Your Budget Model. Zero Surprises.
Fixed-Fee or Time & Materials, you choose. The assessment we produce before any commitment gives you a precise scope. SAP environments are known for cost overruns at implementation. We’re structured so that doesn’t happen twice.
04
Former Controllers on the Finance Layer
SAP’s FI/CO complexity, chart of accounts design, cost center structures, profit center mapping, consolidation logic, maps to Business Central’s architecture through our former controllers who know what the finance team actually needs, not just what the system can do.
05
Compliance Built In from Day 1
SOX, HIPAA, FDA 21 CFR, CMMC, built into the BC architecture before go-live, not patched on afterward. Your compliance posture improves at go-live. Audit documentation is prepared before your auditors arrive.
06
The Parallel Run Is Non-Negotiable
Both SAP and Business Central run simultaneously until your finance team trusts every number. SAP isn’t retired until they say so. The transition is invisible to operations, no gap, no disruption, no surprises on Day 1.
Migration Results
What SAP Clients Find
on the Other Side.
Numbers from actual TechWise SAP migrations, not projections.
40–60%
Typical reduction in annual ERP cost
License + maintenance + middleware vs. BC
3
Average days to close post-migration
vs. 12–18 days on SAP
Zero
Middleware connectors required after go-live
Native Microsoft stack, all of it
100%
SAP historical data preserved on every migration
Validated by company code pre-cutover
“We were spun off two years ago and inherited S/4HANA from our parent. Our SAP maintenance bill was $420,000 a year. Every Power BI report was a project. Every workflow change was a consultant engagement. TechWise assessed the environment in a week, the genuine scope was a third of what we’d been quoted, and we went live in 18 weeks. Year-one savings paid for the migration twice over, and our finance team runs the system themselves now.”
CFO, $80M Spin-Off Manufacturer, Philadelphia Metropolitan Area
Common Questions
SAP Migration Questions
We Hear Every Week.
Also in Migrations
Not on SAP?
We Migrate From These Too.
Competitive Displacement
NetSuite to Business Central
Escalating NetSuite license costs and a system that fights your Microsoft stack. Full history preserved, 90–120 day go-live, and a TCO model that shows the payback period upfront.
See NetSuite migration →
Tell Us What’s Broken.
We’ll Tell You How to Fix It.
Every managed engagement starts with a free assessment of your environment: no scope surprises. Tell us what’s broken, what’s keeping you up at night, or what you’re trying to build. We’ll tell you exactly what it takes and which model fits.