The Real Cost
What Disconnected Finance Systems Cost Firms
When your practice management and financial systems don’t talk to each other, the gaps compound. Partners lack a real-time view of firm profitability. Finance teams spend days on manual reconciliation. Multi-entity consolidation becomes a quarterly fire drill. And leadership makes decisions on reports that are already outdated. Business Central eliminates these gaps—directly connected to IRIS.
Why Business Central
Enterprise ERP Built for IRIS Practice Management Solutions
How It Works
From Client Work to Financial Reporting. Connected.
IRIS and Business Central exchange financial data between front-office operations and back-office finance, creating a synchronized financial backbone for your firm.
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Invoices, WIP, and billing activity generated in IRIS synchronize automatically with Business Central’s GL and AR modules for accurate, real-time revenue recognition. No manual journal entries.
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Business Central manages general ledger postings, AP workflows, multi-entity consolidation, budgeting, forecasting, and cash receipting—providing complete financial control alongside IRIS.
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Financial updates flow back into IRIS, giving partners and leadership real-time visibility into profitability, utilization, and firm performance—without waiting for month-end reports.
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Build Power BI dashboards on your combined data, automate workflows through Power Platform, and connect to Microsoft 365—extending the value of your IRIS and Business Central investment.
Supported Products
Works Across IRIS Practice Management Solutions
IRIS Firm Management
Connect IFM’s client work, billing, and WIP directly to Business Central’s GL, AP, and financial reporting for a unified view of firm profitability and performance.
IRIS Star Practice Management
Synchronize Star’s time, billing, and WIP data with Business Central for real-time financial visibility across every office, entity, and service line in your firm.
IRIS Practice Engine
Extend Business Central’s financial management to Practice Engine for cloud-native firms that need scalable, connected back-office finance as they grow.
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FAQ
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IRIS Star Practice Management, IRIS Firm Management, and IRIS Practice Engine each offer a supported integration with Business Central. Billing, WIP, and invoicing data from IRIS synchronizes with Business Central’s general ledger, accounts receivable, and accounts payable modules in real time. Financial updates flow back into IRIS, creating a single source of truth across front-office and back-office operations.
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Practice management systems handle client work, time tracking, and billing. But as firms grow—especially across multiple offices or entities—they need robust general ledger, AP, budgeting, and financial consolidation capabilities that go beyond what a practice management system provides. Business Central fills this gap, integrating directly with IRIS to unify front-office and back-office finance.
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Yes. Business Central supports multi-entity, multi-office, and departmental financial structures. Firms can manage separate legal entities, consolidate financials across offices, and report at the group level—all while maintaining entity-level detail. This is particularly valuable for PE-backed firms, regional networks, or groups growing through acquisition.
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IRIS offers consulting-led implementation for Business Central, including project management, data migration, configuration, training, and go-live support. Both IRIS Star Practice Management and Business Central can be deployed on-premise or in the cloud. The integration is a supported, tested connection—not a custom build—which reduces implementation risk and ongoing maintenance.
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With IRIS and Business Central sharing financial data, firms can build Power BI dashboards that combine practice management metrics (utilization, WIP, billing realization) with corporate financials (revenue, profitability, cash flow). This gives leadership a real-time, firm-wide performance view without manual report assembly.
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Both options are available. Business Central is a cloud-first platform built on Microsoft Azure, but it also supports on-premise deployment. IRIS Star Practice Management works in either configuration, and IRIS provides a managed cloud service for firms that want a fully hosted solution. This flexibility lets firms choose the deployment model that fits their IT strategy.