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If your business is still running on SAP ECC 6.0 (Enhancement Package 6–8), the 31 December 2027 mainstream maintenance deadline is no longer a distant concern, it is already shaping migration capacity, budget cycles, and consultant availability across Ireland.

Food recalls are surging. According to Sedgwick’s 2026 State of the Nation report, recalled unit volumes jumped 209% in a single year. The average cost to a retailer? $10 million per incident. And here’s the uncomfortable truth: more than half of those recalls have nothing to do with the food itself. They’re caused by mislabelling, undeclared ingredients, and production errors that should have been caught somewhere along the chain.

If your business is growing and your current systems are struggling to keep up, cloud ERP might be the most important decision you make this year. More companies are moving their enterprise resource planning to the cloud and it is easy to see why. Reduced infrastructure costs, anytime access, and the ability to scale on demand are hard to argue with.

If your construction projects keep running over budget or missing deadlines, it is usually because your tools do not talk to each other. Tendering happens in one system. Procurement in another. Site updates live in spreadsheets. By the time a problem surfaces in your financials, it is already too late.

AX or NAV — it’s one of the most common questions Microsoft partners get asked, and the answer is rarely straightforward. Both products are built by Microsoft, both have long track records in the market, and both have a business profile they were designed for.

This is part of the Yes Dynamic Build vs Buy series. If you are still weighing up the core decision, start with When to Build a Custom Dynamics 365 Solution (And When to Buy) before reading on.
Most businesses evaluating Microsoft Dynamics 365 will be better served by a certified Add-on than by building a custom solution from scratch. The Dynamics 365 partner ecosystem on Microsoft AppSource currently lists thousands of vertical solutions, and for good reason: they are faster to deploy, maintained by specialists, and built to evolve alongside the platform.

If you are evaluating Microsoft Dynamics 365 for your business, you have probably already heard the advice: buy an industry Add-on rather than build from scratch. It is sound advice, and for most businesses, a proven Add-on delivers faster time to value with less risk.

Every business has assets in motion. Pallets crossing oceans. Trailers sitting idle in layaways. Pharmaceutical shipments moving through temperature-sensitive supply chains. For years, once those assets left the facility, visibility disappeared.

Agriculture has always been driven by observation: checking soil by hand, watching the sky for weather shifts, walking fields to assess crop health. But in an era of climate volatility, shrinking arable land, and rising food demand, observation alone is no longer enough. IoT in agriculture is closing that gap, giving farmers, agribusinesses, and agricultural enterprises the real-time data and automation they need to farm with precision, speed, and confidence.

For HR and finance professionals in Ireland, managing payroll accurately and efficiently is non-negotiable. Yet many businesses still rely on disconnected systems that create duplicate data, slow down reporting, and leave finance teams scrambling at month-end.