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Optimizing your business in not an easy task and we understand your concerns. As your adviser we never start from scratch but bring our many years’ of experience to the table. We understand your real pain points and special circumstances surrounding your industry and business, so we can recommend perfectly suited solutions.

Dynamics 365 – Your ERP solution

Do you suffer from an unscalable, heavy and financially unpredictable IT organisation? There are clear signs that your business may have outgrown your business system, turning it into a growth-disabling liability which often results in the need for costly consultants and frequent business-disrupting IT implementations.

Your long-term partner

Whether you need to revise your IT environment, implement a new ERP system, or outsource a heavy load of manual maintenance and testing to keep your business system up to date, our foundation is built on long-term partnerships, transparency and trust.

Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 support ends on 9 October 2018

Will your AX 2012 support end on Tuesday?

Posted in News by Jakob Ingemann on October 5, 2018

Microsoft’s AX 2012 support (clean and R2) ends on Tuesday 9 October 2018. While you can safely continue to use AX 2012 you can also purchase extended support, upgrade or implement Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, in order to stay up-to-date and mitigate risks of business disruptions. Read more here about your options.

IZARA has become a Microsoft Gold Partner in Enterprise Resource Planning

IZARA becomes a Microsoft Gold Partner in ERP

Posted in News by Thomas Meede on September 25, 2018

In September 2018 IZARA became a Microsoft Gold Partner in Enterprise Resource Planning. With this, our past many years of collaboration and partnership with Microsoft have been firmly established just as it is a seal of approval that our focus on changing the industry and challenging its standards are appreciated.

The IZARA board consists of Peter Mægbæk, Jakob Ingemann, and Tridip Saha from Sonata

Microsoft partner Sonata Software invests in IZARA

Posted in News by Jakob Ingemann on December 12, 2017

Global software solutions and Microsoft partner Sonata Software has invested in 15% of IZARA. The move strengthens our partnership and cements shared goals for changing ERP and IT into as-a-service industry with customer-value maximization and long-term partnerships. Find links to the Danish press articles (for subscribers) in IT-Watch and Børsen here.

Climate managed to implement D365 in 25 days

Climate: Successful mitigation of the perfect storm – in 25 days

Posted in Stories by Thomas Kragh on June 27, 2018

Following a sudden company split-up, commercial refrigeration experts Climate started over as a “new” company, albeit with a large existing customer base and an organisation to run. This is the story about how we helped decide and implement the best-fit future-proof solution in 25 days – without disruptions to Climate’s exceptionally high heatwave-struck business.

IZARA helped Dynea save millions in potential sales discounts

Deciding on ERP implementation after a divestment decision saved Dynea 2m Euros in potential discounts

Posted in Stories by Carsten Kjelde on September 26, 2017

Preparing for a sale of the entire company while not knowing which facilities would be sold to whom, Dynea became aware that business system inefficiencies could result in large discounts, massive split-up costs and, in worst case, lack of attracted buyers.

IZARA and D365 helped MCI improve communication, transparency, and predictability

Allowing transparency and predictability to drive MCI performance.

Posted in Stories by Jakob Ingemann on September 26, 2017

For Maersk Container Industry, an outdated business system had resulted in a shift towards spreadsheet usage and non-optimal communication across the global operations. This is the story about how Dynamics 365 resulted in improved communication, transparency, and predictability.

You’ve got a business to run. An increasing organisation with big objectives. Your focus needs to be on your business and growth, without constraints. When you think about it, all you want from ERP is peace of mind. No more overspent IT projects and expensive disruptions. No more time wasted on growth-limiting solutions. No surprises. At IZARA we put your freedom first. Freedom from overspent IT projects and disruptions. Freedom through a long-term partnership focusing on reaching your objectives. Because as your ERP partner we give you the freedom to choose a future in which IT is a scalable helping hand, business enabler, predictable monthly budget post, and a mean to a business oriented, leaner and less complicated organisation. IZARA - Peace of mind, as a service.

Thomas Meede – COO, Chief Architect & Partner

COO | Chief Architect | Partner

I lead complex Dynamics AX implementations and save large ERP projects that have gone wrong.

Thomas Meede – COO, Chief Architect & Partner

Jakob Ingemann – CEO, Business Adviser & Partner

CEO | Business Adviser | Partner

I change the IT industry from technical to business orientation.

Jakob Ingemann – CEO, Business Adviser & Partner

Carsten Kjelde – Business Adviser & Partner

Business Advisor | Partner

I build business cases that ensure optimal benefit realization for our customers.

Carsten Kjelde – Business Adviser & Partner

Thomas Jensen – Chief Architect & Partner

Chief Architect | Partner

I turn complex business requirements into sophisticated Dynamics AX solutions.

Thomas Jensen – Chief Architect & Partner

Thomas Kragh – Engagement Manager

Engagement Manager

I build, maintain, and optimize relationships with our customers and business partners.

Thomas Kragh – Engagement Manager

Mikael is a Senior Project Manager and Finance Architect with IZARA

A stepping stone to independence, steep learning and my 2nd career

Posted in Employees by Thomas Kragh on September 26, 2018

After a long and successful career Mikael joined IZARA with a desire to start his next chapter. Read his thoughts about joining a new company and a new industry – and still finding “home” in the values, mutual respect and diverse team of experts.

Senior Business Consultant at IZARA, Mads

Working at IZARA: Independence and trust

Posted in Employees by Thomas Kragh on August 23, 2018

When a friend recommended IZARA to Mads in 2016, it was the chance to learn from the best and a high degree of freedom that really caught his attention. Read Mads’ reflection on what a successful implementation means to him, international travels, and responsibility here.

Transparency and flexibility: Lars Heineke, MCI

Increased transparency and flexibility.

“Dynamics 365 has provided us with increased transparency and flexibility across our businesses, supporting data driven decision across the value chain. IZARA assisted us in analysing and mapping our IT-spend and confirmed that we probably did not spend too much in total, but that a big part of the spend was not really-value adding activities. After a thorough business objective and needs analysis by IZARA, Dynamics 365 in the cloud and surrounding services was shortlisted. During implementation IZARA took charge of project management as well as finance lead to ensure implementation of the agreed project objectives in all corners of the company. Post go-live IZARA is still dedicated to optimizing our implementation and usage, helping us setting the direction and ambition for the usage and integration of the business system as an evergreen solution so we hopefully never have to implement again...unless technology disrupts.”

– Lars Heineke, CFO, MCI Group

Quick and correct decisions.

"Jakob from IZARA is determined, open, honest, has a solution-oriented attitude and is trustworthy. His way of making demands of his own people and the way he motivates us is unique. With his capabilities to manage the project, we have reached the goals that have seemed almost impossible. Focus on due dates has been clear. It has been a pleasure and a very educational experience to work under his leadership. The ability to summarize key information and make quick but correct decisions has been an important capacity. Motivation and willingness to change, adaptation and to implement standardization has been a strong focus in our cooperation."

– Mariann Auglestad, Plant Chemist Dynea North, Lillestrøm, Production Track lead

Clarity and simplicity.

"Jakob from IZARA is a change and transformation agent. He is a disruptive force that will force you to rethink your current working practices. He will bring clarity and simplicity to the way you work and unshackle inefficiencies from your operations. Priceless learning experience gained from the transformation voyage."

– Jussi Raukavaara, Infrastructure Manager, Dynea Group

Customers - Bjørn Rosbach, CIO Dynea Group

Makes things happen.

"Jacob from IZARA extracts information from people and processes and finds what is really relevant. He always seeks simple, good solutions and challenges routines and procedures to make sure we can implement them. In projects he is demanding, both for internal and external team, but he makes things happen."

– Bjørn Rosbach, CIO Dynea Group

Customers - Jari Sihvonen, CFO Dynea Finland

Rewarding, but also challenging.

"Working with you was all the time rewarding but also challenging. Your approach is at the same time giving but also taking. Personally I appreciate straight forward approach, which is maybe the most visible thing when working with you. Basically at all the times everybody can trust that if you see something which is not going in the right direction, you say it out loud with no ill-will but just to get things done. I also appreciated your business process knowledge and that helped the implementation a lot."

– Jari Sihvonen, CFO Dynea Finland, Finance Track lead

Brutally honest and dead right.

"I have worked with Jakob from IZARA in various companies over the past 13 years. I have on several occasions tasked him with investigating complex business process/IT System issues and he has always been able to pinpoint the problems and provide simple and pragmatic solutions as well as drive change where change has been required. I would hire Jakob again anytime."

– Henrik Vildenfeldt, Senior VP CFO Dynea Group