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Gregory Poole Equipment Company’s Rapid Transition from AX 2012 to NAXT 365
About the Company
Gregory Poole Equipment Company (GPEC) is a leading heavy equipment dealer headquartered in North Carolina, serving the construction, power systems, and material handling industries as a key Caterpillar dealer. With decades of leadership in the U.S. heavy equipment sector, GPEC prides itself on operational excellence and delivering high-value solutions to its customers. To reinforce this mission and modernize its digital core, GPEC embarked on a major transformation: upgrading from Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 to NAXT 365, an industry-tailored version of Microsoft Dynamics 365 for heavy equipment dealerships.
Challenges
GPEC’s legacy AX 2012 environment was heavily customized, accumulated over years of unique business processes, integrations, and operational adaptations. These customizations created significant challenges in separating critical data from outdated structures and unnecessary configurations.
The migration required carefully filtering only the most essential configuration, master and live transactional data, while intentionally excluding obsolete history and unwanted legacy artifacts. GPEC also faced poor data quality, inconsistent structures, and outdated inventory frameworks not aligned to modern Dynamics 365 standards.
A full reimplementation would have demanded extensive time and cost—an approach neither efficient nor feasible for a business operating at GPEC’s scale. The challenge was clear: deliver a high-quality, selective data upgrade to NAXT 365 in record time, without compromising business continuity.
Solution
To achieve this, GPEC partnered with DDPTech and XAPT, leveraging DDPTech’s specialized AX 2012 to NAXT 365 data upgrade solution—a key accelerator in completing this large, complex project in just 15 months, an industry-leading timeline for deployments of this size.
The solution involved a structured, multi-layered migration approach:
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Configuration data migration to preserve essential system settings
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Reference data migration to maintain foundational structures
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Master data migration for customer, vendor, equipment, inventory, and financial master entities
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Transactional data migration to carry forward only live, relevant business activity
DDPTech’s high-precision data engine handled complex filtering logic, ensuring only clean, business-critical data was moved forward. With multi-timezone collaboration across the US, UK, Australia, and India, the combined teams operated in near-continuous cycles—accelerating validation, testing, and load execution.
The result was a migration that balanced speed, quality, and selectivity, supported by seamless teamwork among GPEC, XAPT, and DDPTech.
Benefits
The project delivered a benchmark achievement for large-scale AX 2012 to NAXT 365 transitions:
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600+ configuration and reference data entities migrated
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180+ master and transactional data objects successfully upgraded
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Zero data migration issues post–go live
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High customer satisfaction and strong partner recognition
GPEC now runs on a modern NAXT 365 platform, equipped with accurate data, streamlined structures, and improved operational visibility. This successful go-live sets a new example in the heavy equipment industry, demonstrating how complex AX 2012 environments can transition rapidly and safely to the Microsoft Dynamics 365 ecosystem.
DDPTech and XAPT continue to stand ready to support other customers facing similar challenges—helping organizations modernize, standardize, and unlock the full power of Microsoft Dynamics 365 or NAXT 365 with confidence.