Cecile's D365 Business Central Online Blog

I attended the Summit North America - GP to Business Central Pre-Conference last October, and months later, the sessions still stand out. The GP to Business Central pre-conference wasn’t about selling the cloud. It was about reality. What breaks. What surprises teams. And what actually works once GP users move to Business Central. Across multiple sessions, a consistent message came through: this is not an upgrade—it’s a business redesign enabled by a modern platform. If you missed it, here's a practical summary: The Real Pain Points GP Customers Are Living With 1. Too much manual work for skilled people In many GP environments, highly skilled finance staff still spend hours entering invoices, fixing OCR errors, keying sales orders from emails, and managing exceptions. Example: An AP clerk receives invoices as PDFs, photos, handwritten notes, or emails. In GP, every variation becomes a manual problem—reading it, figuring out the vendor, guessing the account, and correcting mistakes ...