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Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

As a trusted Microsoft Solutions Partner (MSP), we offer Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, a cloud-based, end-to-end solution designed to help your business grow. Trusted by over 30,000 small and midsized enterprises globally, it seamlessly connects finance, sales, customer services, and operations.
With Business Central, you can work smarter, adapt faster, and perform better – qualities that earned it the title of the best ERP system 2024 by Forbes Advisor.
This all-in-one business management solution features automated processes, global mobility, easy accessibility, and robust security, ensuring your business is protected and optimised for success.
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What can Microsoft Business Central do for your organisation?

01

Centralised Management

Microsoft Business Central centralises management, streamlining various business processes into one cohesive system. This integration allows for a more organised approach to managing financials, sales, service, and operations.
02

Improved Insights

With real-time data and analytics, Microsoft Business Central provides businesses with improved insights. This enables more informed decision-making, leveraging accurate data to drive business strategy and performance.
03

Scalability

As businesses grow, their needs evolve. Microsoft Business Central offers scalable solutions that can easily adapt to increased demands, ensuring that businesses can expand their capabilities without outgrowing their management systems.
04

Seamless Integration

Microsoft Business Central's seamless integration with other Microsoft products, such as Office 365, enhances productivity and collaboration. This interconnectedness ensures that businesses can operate more efficiently, with all tools working in harmony.

How Business Central can help you in your job role:

Operations

Managing your operations at a fast-growing business is unpredictable – especially if the technology you use doesn’t support you. Business Central changes that. BC integrates all your operational needs into one system; by eliminating data silos, providing real-time visibility into your processes, and using the tools you already know like Outlook, Excel and Teams. Business Central allows you to automate routine tasks using next-generation AI freeing up your time for more strategic initiatives. As your business operations grow, Business Central easily scales, ensuring your operations remain effective without the need for major overhauls.

Sales and Customer Success

Close more deals and improve sales efficiency. Customer relationships are the foundation of any successful sales and service team but they depend on your systems communicating properly. Business Central’s integrated CRM capabilities provide a complete view of customer interactions, simplifying lead management, sales pipeline tracking, and access to real-time customer data. This visibility enables you to deliver a personalised customer experience, enhancing long-term satisfaction and loyalty. By addressing these processes, BC helps you focus on what matters most – building and maintaining strong customer relationships.

Financial Management

In Finance, accuracy, compliance, and transparency are non-negotiable. BC provides financial management tools that offer real-time insights into your financial performance, simplifying tasks such as accounting, budgeting, and cash flow management. The automation of financial processes reduces the risk of errors and ensures compliance with regulatory standards. Advanced reporting and analytics capabilities enable finance professionals to generate detailed financial reports quickly, supporting data-driven decision-making. This improved visibility allows finance teams to manage resources more effectively and drive business growth.

Project Management

How unified tools can simplify project management. Project managers often juggle multiple tasks, from coordinating resources to maintaining schedules and staying within budget. Business Central’s project management functionalities streamline these processes by facilitating efficient project planning and resource allocation. Real-time progress tracking, coupled with tools for time tracking, expense management, and budget monitoring, ensures that projects stay on course and within financial constraints. Detailed project reports provide transparency and help identify potential issues before they escalate. With Business Central, project managers can deliver projects on time, within budget, and to the highest quality standards.

Supply Chain

Supply chain managers face the daily challenge of balancing inventory levels, coordinating with suppliers, and ensuring timely delivery of goods. BC’s supply chain tools optimise inventory management by automating reordering processes and ensuring optimal stock levels. It provides real-time visibility into supply chain operations and allows managers to track the movement of goods, monitor supplier performance, and respond swiftly to any disruptions. BC’s integration with procurement processes streamlines purchasing activities, reducing lead times and costs. This end-to-end visibility and control over the supply chain help managers ensure that products are delivered efficiently, meeting customer expectations and business objectives.

Why choose String to take care of your Microsoft Business Central?

Full Spectrum Microsoft Expertise

Our end-to-end Microsoft expertise means that we can ensure that your Microsoft Business Central implementation closely integrates with your wider Microsoft 365 environment, optimising efficiency, reducing complexity, and maximising your investment.

Business Process Automation

Whilst Microsoft Business Central provides an extraordinary range of features and capabilities, we are able to further tailor your solution using Microsoft Power Apps, Power Automate, and other Power Platform products.

Security-First Approach

As with all of our Microsoft solutions implementations, we place security at the heart of everything we do. This ensures that your users can work and collaborate efficiently in Business Central, without compromising organisational security.

Tailored Solution

Our expertise of using Microsoft Power Apps, Power Automate, and other Power Platform products allows us to close the gap between what you need, and what Business Central can deliver 'out of the box'.
The Sporting House – Microsoft 365 Cloud

Microsoft 365 Cloud Technologies Help Drive Olympian Levels of Success

Challenge

Whilst Sporting House had enjoyed rapid growth, their strategy was to significantly accelerate this. They were also acutely aware that their then IT service model was inadequate to support their ambitious plans for a number of reasons.

Solution

String worked with Sporting House to develop a new Microsoft cloud-centric IT strategy, that would leverage Microsoft 365 to support their wider business strategy.
“ We selected String because of their clear understanding of our strategic requirements, and were able to articulate how they, and Microsoft technologies could help us to achieve these. Our relationship with String has proven an extremely rewarding one, and we look forward to continuing to work closely with them moving forwards.”
Lee Cunliffe
Finance Director, The Sporting House
Jones Harris Chartered Accountants

Microsoft Hybrid Cloud Technologies Drive Paperless, Secure & Remote Office

Challenge

Jones Harris wanted to move to a fully paperless operation, without any interruption to the business. The company had a major dependency on a local Microsoft SQL Server database for their line-of-business applications, which limited their choices in terms of a potential cloud-only solution.

Solution

String worked with Jones Harris to help them adopt a hybrid-cloud solution, providing the optimal blend of Microsoft 365 cloud services, with the high performance computing power required by their LoB. Jones Harris now make full use of Microsoft's Power Platform, utilising Power BI for business intelligence, and Power Automate for business process automation.
“ String worked very closely with our internal guys, planning it out, mapping it out. There was absolutely no break in service, we were expecting there to be a few bugs, but it was a really smooth and impressive operation to get everything across and migrated. Absolutely top notch work, the String team!”
Martin Wigley
Director, Jones Harris Chartered Accountants
Ludlow Wealth Management - Azure Virtual Desktop

Access to Key Line of Business Applications Hosted on Microsoft Azure

Challenge

The increasing demand for online meetings, driven by the Covid crisis, meant that the Remote Desktop Solution was unable to provide an acceptable user experience. When the time came to refresh their IT infrastructure, we worked with the Ludlow team to ensure that the next upgrade cycle would address the changing end-user requirements, while further enhancing their cyber security and providing a high degree of scalability to cope with their ongoing growth.

Solution

Working with Ludlow, we produced a business case that showed that moving to Microsoft's Azure Virtual Desktop solution, and hosting their LoB application on Microsoft Azure would provide a more secure, cost-effective alternative to purchasing a physical server cluster. Their LoB application was migrated to Azure, and presented to end-users as a Published Application, removing the need for them to connect to a separate virtual desktop to access the app. Azure Backup was used to provide backup and business continuity and to further enhance Microsoft's already robust resilience measures.
“ String has consistently provided us with innovative IT solutions, without compromising our cyber security. The whole team are a pleasure to work with, and we consider them a trusted extension to our own team.”
Rob Brown
Chief Operating Officer, Ludlow Wealth Management Group
One Fylde - Microsoft Modern Workplace

Identifying Microsoft Modern Workplace as the Best Choice for the Client

Challenge

Following a merger between two organisations, our client found themselves with a disjointed IT service that comprised two large on-premise data centres, various security technologies, and a variety of remote access solutions. The result was a costly, difficult to manage IT infrastructure, with a poor user experience due to a lack of standardisation in the way IT was used. Of concern was that, as a large care provider, the client was responsible for the safe-keeping of a large amount of personal medical and financial data. Plus, users had become used to creating work-arounds to allow them to access and share sensitive information. The complexity of the IT infrastructure also meant they were suffering frequent service outages.

Solution

We discussed the opportunity for them to move away from their large, unwieldy on-premises infrastructure and instead to move to a wholly Microsoft cloud-based IT service. From our early discussions it was clear that such a move would allow us to radically re-imagine their approach to document and information management, business processes, and information security. The concept was embraced enthusiastically by the client, and it was agreed to move on to an initial business case analysis exercise. Firstly, however, we were engaged to stabilise the existing infrastructure, and to address the inadequate business continuity provision. The move to Microsoft Modern Workplace has allowed One Fylde to ensure data is more secure and improve workplace processes. All 400 users were able to access all relevant documents securely from any location. And the client can now enjoy the very latest in innovations from Microsoft on almost a weekly cycle.
“ One Fylde started to work with String at a time where our IT infrastructure was causing problems almost on a daily basis. The problems were meaning staff couldn't do their job to support people with learning disabilities in the way we wanted. String became involved with us and worked as a 'real' partner, feeling like part of the team to solve the immediate problem and with an eye to a longer-term more sustainable solution. We are now in a position where I can sleep at night and our staff are seeing the benefit of the huge amount of work that has gone on. And on a seperate note the whole team at String are really friendly, personable and supportive, working with us and continuing to support us to look at the future. ”
Tracey Bush
CEO, One Fylde

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