Business Impact Assessment
The Business Impact Assessment (BIA) is a strategic pre-engagement workshop that equips your team with a clear roadmap, budget, and success criteria—before any tech investment begins. By aligning stakeholders and removing uncertainty, the BIA reduces risk and ensures your technology decisions deliver lasting business value.
Removing the Guesswork from Critical Technology Decisions
Discover how the Business Impact Assessment paves the path to success with a clear roadmap and minimized project risks.
Assessment and Implementation Methodology
The BIA transitions into a strict implementation methodology framework designed to deliver projects on-time and on-budget with minimal risk. This rigorous approach eliminates project risks such as lack of engagement, unclear objectives, scope creep, or changing requirements before they arise.
Repeatable and Proven Process that Delivers Real Results
Whether you are implementing Business Central for the first time, or need to diagnose a failed or challenged implementation, or are simply struggling with your Business Central Partner, each BIA follows a proven 5-step process.
Eliminate the Guesswork and Elevate Your Business Potential with Expert Microsoft Guidance
New Business Central Implementation
Avoiding High-Stakes Risks and Uncontrolled Scope Creep
Every business faces considerable risks and high stakes when making critical investment choices in technology. Without a proper planning engagement, a new project may face significant challenges or even fail due to factors such as unclear objectives, scope creep, lack of engagement from employees and leadership, or changing requirements. For a prospective business, the challenge lies in ensuring that the investment in Dynamics 365 Business Central will be fully leveraged to meet operational requirements and business processes.
The primary goal of the Business Impact Assessment (BIA) for a new implementation is to properly plan and scope the entire engagement upfront, providing a detailed roadmap.
- Who it's for: Organizations planning a new Dynamics 365 Business Central implementation
- What it does: Documents the Vision & Corporate goals and determines gaps in Business Central functionality
- Deliverable: A project scope that can be reasonably implemented within the budget and timeframe for Phase I
Existing Implementation / System Review
Optimizing Underperforming Systems and Addressing Operational Inefficiencies
Organizations already using Dynamics 365 Business Central often face the challenge of having a system that is slow, unstable, or outdated, potentially opening the door to security vulnerabilities and poor utilization. If the system is underperforming, it is often due to poor configuration, customization, or integration. These underlying issues create operational challenges, such as unnecessary manual work and difficulty achieving strategic objectives.
The System Review, a specialized BIA, provides a thorough audit of the current state, priorities, and expectations, focusing on what can be improved.
- Who it's for: Organizations with existing Dynamics systems that are slow, unstable, outdated, or experiencing poor utilization
- What it does: Performs a thorough audit of the current state, priorities, and expectations. It identifies issues resulting from customized objects and modifications
- Deliverable: A report of findings and recommendations to enhance, implement, or reconfigure the upgraded Dynamics 365 Business Central solution
New Partner Assessment
Overcoming Past Failures and Securing Reliable, Trustworthy Support
A critical challenge for businesses is navigating the fear, uncertainty, and doubt that arise when investing in new technology, especially if they have experienced negative outcomes with a previous Microsoft Cloud Partner. Businesses often switch partners due to failed implementations, lack of support, or unresponsiveness. This lack of commitment, expertise, or quality can manifest as slow response times, hidden fees, or scope creep, leaving the business stranded and hindering growth.
The New Partner BIA for a new partner focuses on transitioning the client to a relationship built on transparency, expertise, and guaranteed results.
- Who it's for: Businesses looking to switch their Microsoft Cloud Partner due to lack of support, unreliability, or failed implementations
- What it does: Focuses on how a new partner can improve support, training, relationship, and overall success. It identifies areas where the current partner may not be adding value or helping achieve objectives.
- Outcome: Confidence in the Microsoft investment. A transition to a reliable, transparent, and professional partner that delivers on promises.
The 360 Visibility Difference: Be Confident in Your Microsoft Investment
The commitment to meticulous scoping during the BIA and throughout the project guarantees projects are delivered on-time and on-budget. This assurance is backed by deep expertise rather than sales pitches, ensuring the perfect solution is offered without unnecessary extras. Furthermore, the methodology emphasizes transparency, meaning clients know upfront what is included and excluded, resulting in no surprises or hidden fees.