Can you remember when you set up the data in your current NAV or Business Central system? Whether this happened many years ago or more recently, an important part of the process was to include master data and opening balances. Hopefully, you did not enter this large volume of data manually! Instead, you would have populated Excel spreadsheets with your data and then used the data migration functionality within Business Central to simply validate and import that data into your system.
This powerful set of functionalities are mundanely described as configuration packages, but they previously had the wonderful name of RapidStart.
Configuration packages were able to simplify that early data migration exercise. However, don’t forget about this functionality - it may prove to be useful even after the process of ‘going live’ is a distant memory.
One final thought, during the data migration process, you may have used configuration templates in conjunction with configuration packages.
These templates allow standard information associated with a table or a group of records in a table to be defaulted into fields on new records for that table. It is strongly recommended that configuration templates are used to simplify the creation of new records and to enforce consistency in new records in, for example, the customer, vendor and item tables.