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What Can Go Wrong?
Without experienced implementation teams who know your industry and strong project management skills, Dynamics 365 projects, often a company’s largest technology investment, can quickly spiral out of control. Delays and misalignment compound over time, making early intervention critical to minimizing risk, regaining control, and ensuring a successful outcome. If your Dynamics 365 project is falling behind schedule, over budget, or facing escalating risks, it’s time to assess your direction and the team.
ERP Projects Made Predictable, Rewarding, and Successful
At Ascent Innovations, we believe that success—both short- and long-term—depends on getting the fundamentals right. When you focus on the business foundations, everything else becomes easier. ERP projects don’t have to be overwhelming; with 16 years of experience and hundreds of successful implementations, we make them predictable, rewarding, and ultimately successful.
Our D365 Rescue Services Include:
Comprehensive Audit Report
We conduct a rapid yet thorough analysis to identify and document key problem areas, including:
- Forgotten Business Goals – Unclear or undefined business objectives.
- Overlooked Requirements – Missed, misunderstood, or incomplete business requirements lead to major project gaps and deviations.
- Project Delays – Root causes behind setbacks, including planning, resource, and mismanagement issues
- Gaps in System Design & Customization – Mismatches between system configuration and business processes, unintuitive user interface as well as overcomplicated functionality
- Testing & QA Gaps – Areas where poor testing has missed critical technical or functional issues
- Integration Challenges – Weak or missing system connections impacting data and workflow
Risk Assessment & Mitigation Plan
- Identify Risks – Gaps that could jeopardize project success (e.g., incomplete design, scope creep, flawed data migration)
- 3rd party Integrations – Assessing the 3rd party integration configurations, level of interaction, automation, and audit logs.
- Best Practices – Evaluating the deviations from the best practices and if such design decisions are justifiable and assessing the cost of maintenance.
- Mitigation Recommendations – Clear action steps to reduce and manage risks moving forward.
Corrective Action Plan
- Addressing Missed Requirements – Ensuring overlooked requirements are properly captured and integrated
- Revised Project Plan – A realistic timeline with achievable milestones, aligned with business priorities
- Resource Allocation – Recommendations for additional expertise (e.g., consultants, internal SMEs) to accelerate progress
- Testing & QA Enhancements – Strengthening UAT and regression testing to ensure system readiness
- Training & Change Management – Strategies to improve user adoption and ensure teams fully leverage the system
Updated Go-Live Strategy
- Defined Milestones & Decision Points – Ensuring project stability and alignment before go-live with appropriate stakeholder checklist and approvals.
- Agile Deployment – Identifying business critical functions, inter-departmental collaboration, training needs and coming up with a plan that suits the business goals.
- New Go-Live Timeline – A realistic and achievable launch date for all departments to work towards and aligns with business cycles.
Ongoing Governance & Stakeholder Engagement
- Weekly Status Meetings – Clear updates on progress, risks, and next steps
- Milestones & Progress – The progress of the project against the milestones established, causes of deviations, adjustments to the plan or staff engagement, etc.
- Deliverables – Identifying and tracking deliverables at every milestone, to establish clear expectations and signoffs.
- Stakeholder Engagement – A formal briefing for senior leadership to ensure alignment, transparency, and executive buy-in from all stakeholders. Tracking progress against the budget for clear direction and full visibility.
If Your Horse Can’t Finish the Race, Change Horses
You shouldn’t accept missed deadlines, budget overruns, and a lack of transparency. Waiting in hope that things will improve only increases the cost of time, capital, and executive support. With Ascent Innovations’ D365 Implementation Rescue Services, you can regain control, rebuild confidence, and put your project firmly on the path to success.
Our team has seen many such engagements and steered those projects back to their planned outcomes. The sooner the project assessment, the better it is on the project budgets.
Why Businesses Trust Ascent Innovations
Ascent Innovations is a trusted Microsoft Solution Partner, delivering scalable, business-driven D365 solutions that optimize operations and drive game-changing growth.
Why Businesses Trust Ascent Innovations
Ascent Innovations is a trusted Microsoft Solution Partner, delivering scalable, business-driven D365 solutions that optimize operations and drive game-changing growth.
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