You acquire fast. Your ERP partner should too. Fixed-price Dynamics 365 implementations, rescue, and consolidation — delivered by ex-Microsoft consultants on PE timelines.
When a PE firm acquires a company, the ERP is rarely ready. The target is running on Sage, Xero, spreadsheets, or a half-finished Dynamics implementation that the previous owner never completed. Finance cannot produce reliable numbers. Operations are manual. Reporting to the board is a monthly scramble.
Veriland exists to solve this problem — fast, at a fixed price, and without the open-ended consulting engagements that drain your value creation budget. Our team are ex-Microsoft consultants who have delivered Dynamics 365 implementations across manufacturing, retail, distribution, and professional services. We understand PE timelines, board reporting cadences, and the pressure to show operational improvement within the first 100 days.
Every acquisition is different, but the ERP challenges fall into predictable patterns. Here are the scenarios we solve most often for PE-backed portfolio companies.
The acquired company is on Sage, Xero, QuickBooks, or a custom-built system that cannot scale. You need a modern cloud ERP — fast.
The previous owner started a D365 implementation that stalled or was abandoned. The system is half-built and nobody trusts it.
You are making bolt-on acquisitions and need to bring each new entity onto a common ERP platform for consolidated reporting.
The acquired business is being carved out of a larger parent and needs its own standalone ERP before the TSA expires.
The company has an ERP but finance cannot produce reliable numbers. You need accurate, timely reporting for the board and LPs.
You need a technology assessment of the target before the deal closes — ERP health, integration risk, data quality, and remediation costs.
Most Microsoft Partners take 6–12 months to deliver a Dynamics 365 implementation. They run open-ended discovery phases, over-scope, and staff projects with junior consultants who learn on your budget. We do the opposite.
Repeatable delivery playbooks for common PE scenarios — legacy replacement, rescue, consolidation, carve-out. No reinventing the wheel on your project.
Every project is staffed with experienced consultants — no graduate consultants learning D365 on your budget. Our team built F&O and BC at Microsoft.
Fixed price forces focus. We scope tightly, deliver in time-boxes, and avoid the scope creep that delays most ERP projects by months.
We report on your cadence — weekly progress, monthly board packs, 100-day plan milestones. No surprises for the operating partner or investment committee.
We offer a focused set of services designed specifically for the post-acquisition ERP challenge. Every service is fixed-price and time-boxed.
Assess the target company's ERP, integrations, data quality, and IT infrastructure before the deal closes. Deliverable: risk report with remediation cost estimates for deal modelling.
Timeline: 1–2 weeks
Rapid, fixed-price implementation of Dynamics 365 Business Central for portfolio companies replacing Sage, Xero, QuickBooks, or spreadsheets. Finance, purchasing, sales, inventory, and UK localisation.
Timeline: 5 weeks · View accelerators →
Streamlined Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations for portfolio companies that have outgrown Business Central or need multi-entity, manufacturing, or advanced supply chain capabilities.
Timeline: 8–12 weeks · View pack →
The acquired company has a broken or stalled D365 F&O implementation. Free discovery analysis, written report with root-cause and resolution path, then fixed-price, time-boxed rescue (4 / 8 / 12 weeks).
Timeline: 4–12 weeks · View rescue tiers →
Bring each new bolt-on acquisition onto the same D365 platform — shared chart of accounts, consolidated reporting, intercompany transactions, and standardised processes across entities.
Timeline: 4–8 weeks per entity
Stand up an independent D365 environment for a carved-out entity. Extract master data and historical transactions from the parent system. Manage TSA dependencies and ensure day-one readiness.
Timeline: 8–16 weeks
Fixed-scope migration from any legacy system — Sage, NAV, AX, SAP Business One, Oracle, Infor, Access, or custom-built systems — to Dynamics 365 Business Central or F&O.
Timeline: 6–12 weeks · View migration packs →
After go-live, ongoing support, monitoring, and continuous improvement on a predictable monthly retainer. Maps cleanly to PE fund reporting and portfolio company budgets.
Timeline: Ongoing · View managed services →
We engage at the fund level and deliver at the portfolio company level. Here is the typical engagement pattern.
Day 1
We meet the operating partner or portfolio ops team to understand the fund's technology strategy, reporting requirements, and pipeline of portfolio companies needing ERP work.
Week 1–2
We assess the target portfolio company — current systems, data quality, integrations, pain points, and readiness. Free for rescue engagements; fixed-price for due diligence.
Weeks 3–12+
Implementation, rescue, or migration delivered on a strict time-box with weekly progress reporting. No hourly billing, no scope creep.
Ongoing
Hypercare, knowledge transfer, and optional managed services. Predictable monthly cost for the portfolio company, clean reporting for the fund.
Our leadership team are former Microsoft employees (Blue Badge) who built and supported Dynamics 365 from the inside. We have seen every failure pattern and know the platform at a depth most partners cannot match.
Every engagement — implementation, rescue, migration, consolidation — is fixed-price and agreed upfront. This is not a policy; it is how we operate. Your value creation budget is protected.
We work to your 100-day plan, not a 12-month consulting roadmap. Greenfield BC in 5 weeks. F&O rescue in 8 weeks average. We are built for the pace PE demands.
Certified information security management. Important when you are handling financial data across multiple portfolio companies and reporting to institutional LPs.
“Veriland understood our timeline from day one. They got the portfolio company onto Business Central in five weeks — on budget, no drama. That is exactly what we need from an ERP partner.”
Operating Partner, Operating Partner at UK Mid-Market PE Fund
Every portfolio company implementation is built on Microsoft's enterprise platform — giving your investments institutional-grade infrastructure that buyers recognise, auditors trust, and future acquirers expect.
Multi-entity financials, supply chain, manufacturing, and project accounting for portfolio companies that have outgrown entry-level systems.
Rapid ERP for portfolio companies replacing Sage, Xero, or QuickBooks. Finance, purchasing, sales, and inventory — live in 5 weeks.
Board-ready dashboards, LP reporting packs, and real-time portfolio visibility across every entity — on a cadence your fund controls.
Custom apps, automated workflows, and Copilot-assisted process automation to drive operational improvement across the portfolio.
It depends on the starting point. If the company has no ERP or a basic system (Sage, Xero, QuickBooks), our Business Central Accelerator goes live in 5 weeks at a fixed price. If they are on a broken D365 F&O environment, our Managed Rescue tiers run 4, 8, or 12 weeks. Multi-entity consolidations typically take 8–16 weeks depending on the number of entities and integration complexity.
Both. We typically engage with the PE operating partner or portfolio ops team at the fund level, then work hands-on with the portfolio company management team for delivery. We provide board-level reporting and progress updates in the format your fund requires.
Yes. Our delivery model is built around repeatable playbooks and parallel team allocation. We regularly run concurrent implementations across portfolio companies within the same fund, using a shared governance model that gives the PE firm visibility across all engagements.
We migrate from any system. We have moved companies from Sage 50, Sage 200, Xero, QuickBooks, Access databases, custom-built systems, SAP Business One, Oracle, Infor, and legacy Dynamics NAV/AX. If data exists, we can extract, transform, and load it into D365.
Carve-outs are one of our specialities. We work to the separation timeline, standing up an independent D365 environment for the carved-out entity while extracting master data and historical transactions from the parent system. We manage the transition services agreement (TSA) dependencies and ensure day-one operational readiness.
Yes. Every implementation includes hypercare, and we offer managed service plans for ongoing support, monitoring, and continuous improvement. Many PE portfolio companies transition to our Dynamics 365 as a Service offering for predictable monthly costs that map cleanly to your fund reporting.
Fixed-price means the scope, deliverables, and cost are agreed upfront before work begins. If we discover something during delivery that changes the scope, we raise it transparently and agree any adjustment before proceeding — no surprise invoices. The only variable costs are Microsoft licence fees, which are purchased separately.
Yes. We offer a pre-acquisition technology due diligence service where we assess the target company's ERP, integrations, data quality, and IT infrastructure. You get a report with a risk assessment, estimated remediation costs, and a recommended post-acquisition technology roadmap — useful for deal modelling and the first 100-day plan.
Book a call with our PE team. We will assess the portfolio company, recommend the fastest path to a working ERP, and give you a fixed-price quote within 48 hours.
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