Partner

Hopton Analytics

BC4 and Hopton Analytics have partnered to turn the data inside your Business Central and LS Retail platform into reporting your leadership team can actually trust.

Talk to us about the partnership

Built-in reports only take you so far

Business Central and LS Retail run the operational side of your business well, transactions, stock, tills, loyalty. What they were never designed to do is give a finance director or a commercial lead the cross site trend analysis, consolidated reporting or live dashboard that leadership teams now expect. For most BC4 clients, that gap gets filled the same way, someone exports to Excel every month and rebuilds the report by hand. It works, but it is slow, error prone and does not scale as the estate grows.

Built for
your sector.

Business Central and LS Retail run the operational side of your business well, transactions, stock, tills, loyalty.

Stadiums and sports clubsMatchday and non matchday trading, food and beverage and merchandise by outlet and kiosk.
Major events and pop up retailTrading across temporary sites, stock and margin by outlet.
Trade and multi site retailersBranch performance, margin by category, stock health and customer loyalty.
Multi company groupsConsolidated finance reporting across every company on Business Central.

Two specialists.
One Microsoft stack.

BC4 builds and manages the platform your operation runs on, ERP, POS, stock, loyalty and ecommerce, delivered on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and LS Retail, for sports venues, trade retailers and major events. Hopton Analytics is a Microsoft data and analytics consultancy that turns exactly that kind of data into governed Power BI and Microsoft Fabric reporting, so leadership teams get numbers they can trust rather than a spreadsheet rebuilt overnight.

About BC4

BC4 builds and manages the platform your operation runs on, covering ERP, POS, stock, loyalty and ecommerce. It is delivered on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and LS Retail, for sports venues, trade retailers and major events.

About Hopton Analytics

Hopton Analytics is a Microsoft data and analytics consultancy that turns that data into governed Power BI and Microsoft Fabric reporting, so leadership teams get numbers they can trust.

What Hopton Analytics does

Power BI consultancy and delivery
Microsoft Fabric implementation
Data platforms and data warehousing
Business Central analytics
AI, including AI ready data foundations, applied AI and machine learning, and Microsoft AI and Copilot
Data strategy and leadership
The Analytics Acceleration Programme, Hopton's ongoing service for developing reporting once it is live

Credentials

Pyramid Analytics Partner of the Year 2024
Great Place to Work certified

What the partnership means for your business

One Business Central data estate, reported on properly. Your BC4 platform and your Hopton reporting are built on the same Microsoft foundation, so there is no patchwork of third party tools to get them talking to each other.

No more month end Excel rebuild. Consolidated P&L, cash flow, and multi site or multi company reporting, built once and trusted every time, without someone exporting to a spreadsheet.

Reporting that scales with you. Whether that is a direct Power BI connection today or a full Microsoft Fabric data platform as the estate grows, the architecture is chosen to fit where the business is.

Two specialists, working together. You keep BC4 as the team who knows your operation, with Hopton brought in specifically for the analytics work, not a generalist trying to do both.

Two ways
to get started.

Whether you are already live on Business Central and LS Retail, or planning your platform with BC4, we can show you what proper reporting looks like on top of it.

During a BC4 implementationSo the business goes live with reporting ready from day one.
After go liveStarting from the data the business already has in Business Central and LS Central.

Ready to see what your data can tell you?