Are you, as an ISV, ready to move into the world of Dynamics 365?
1ClickFactory, as an ISV Development Center, is ready to help you build your competences and make the right investments for your future. We have your full Dynamics add-on product lifecycle covered from development to go-to-market strategies and ongoing support.
The ISV Activate and Accelerate program
Moving from an On-premises to a Cloud-based business requires change and investment to develop new technical skills, competencies, resources and solutions.
The Activate and Accelerate Program Powered by 1ClickFactory and QBS is designed to activate Dynamics ISVs by closely collaborating with you in developing your Business Central online offering (Business Central App on AppSource) and to accelerate your SaaS success.
As your coach in this program, we provide services to help you:
- Transform your On-premise Dynamics GP, SL, or NAV IP into a Dynamics 365 Business Central offering for Microsoft AppSource.
- Create a migration path for your existing On-premise customers to Business Central.
- Assist in building yours and your resellers Cloud practice both from an operational and commercial perspective.
From concept to growth in 4 simple steps, with tailored expert support each step of the way:
1. Prepare
What are the rules?
- The Validation Workshop aims to minimize your initial investment through shared experiences. It provides context to define your journey to AppSource from the commercial and technical perspectives.
What would it take to transition?
- C/AL to Extension Analyzer – online tool that helps to scope the transition. It automatically identifies all C/AL to AL conflicts, indicates the exact conflict location in the object, and provides resolution recommendations.
Which skills do I need?
- Extension development training and Azure DevOps training lift productivity within a new set of development tools, technologies, and methodologies.
2. Develop
Is design right?
- C/AL to Extension Analyzer or Extension strategy workshop and scoping workshop helps to understand the key risks and transition to Extension strategies, to plan and scope an efficient project.
Do we have enough capacity/skills?
- Extension development training and Azure DevOps training lift productivity within a new set of development tools, technologies, and methodologies.
- We provide development resources for Microsoft Dynamics 365/NAV partners since 2009 to develop customizations, integrations, add-ons, Extensions, automated tests, and data migration tools.
Are we ready for the AppSource?
- Technical App validation readiness provides recommendations and finds the gaps that need to be filled before submitting your app for validation.
3. Sell and Deploy
How to expand the sales channel?
- QBS Marketplace with the built-in ExtensionAgent provides a secure and flexible way to offer IP to the 700 reselling partners and their customers.
How to migrate existing customers?
- Upgrade Analyzer (Free of charge)
- Saves weeks of efforts recalculating and redoing Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central upgrade proposals.
- Provides a fixed project cost for each customer upgrade, taking the risk out of the investment for your customers.
- Helps reduce the duration of upgrades with automated tools and robust processes to consistently achieve high quality upgrades.
- Data migration tools development with minimal partner involvement:
- 1ClickFactory maps C/AL solution vs. AL solution data and identifies non-mapping areas.
- Workshop helps define data migration rules for the non-mapping areas.
- 1ClickFactory develops data migration tools and guidelines.
4. Grow and Maintain
How do I maintain solution in the most efficient way?
- Extension maintenance subscription takes overhead of maintaining solutions in Business Central SaaS.
- Running compilation and automated tests
- Solving technical conflicts
- Deploying the extension on AppSource or implementing it in the customer tenant.
- Translation maintenance supports translations per each evolving App localization: identify new captions, check with internal dictionary.
1ClickFactory has a track record of helping to bring solutions to Dynamics 365 Business Central and Microsoft AppSource, providing guidance in bringing your offerings to market and bringing your first customer live. Let us help you prepare for a smooth solution transition. We’ll help you review all the possible transition models and how to perform the transformation in small steps to have the essential foundations in place to execute a successful project.
How do I start my transition?
Start by scheduling a Microsoft Dynamics Transition Consultation to get help with all the areas you need to complete your project and set your go-to market strategy today!
