Business Central - Sharperlight

Sharperlight® is the self-service reporting solution that enables the powerful and flexible analysis your business needs over your Business Central data.

Key Benefits

Your data in real time, across singular or multiple enterprise applications, in a modular design, using a common interface.

Financial Reporting in the application you know

The Sharperlight Excel Add-in enables powerful and flexible reporting and analysis over your Business Central data. Sharperlight saves hundreds of hours for teams and empowers them to deliver essential reports, in a timely manner, for your business to thrive.

Get the best out of the API with our Datamodel

Uses D365BC web server ODATA V4 end-points to GET records and can POST, PATCH and DELETE, with no reliance on CDATA. The Database has the most optimal delta loads possible, based on the system modified date time fields.

Secure Self Service Reporting

Sharperlight has been developed to be truly self-service. With row level security over your Business Central data, your users can only access what they should, without the overhead and costly reliance on technical services, consultants and already stretched IT teams.

Access Business Central plus other solutions and data sources

The ‘secret sauce’ in Sharperlight is our multi-directional connectors or Datamodels. These are what ‘humanise’ the complex systems that we are all using on a daily basis. Users are able to build custom Datamodels over existing data sources or even create entirely new operational solutions and enable truly intelligent reporting across the enterprise.

Connect from Anywhere with a Range of Visualization Options

In addition to the power of Excel, Sharperlight also leverages the power and flexibility of the web, the high level capabilities of Power BI plus the technical freedom and versatility of standardised data formats. It utilises a web service architecture that can have separate configuration for internal and external users. Enabling secure access for your team members and distribution of reports and analysis where ever they are, at the right time, in the best format for them.

Writeback Data into Business Central

Sharperlight Datamodels are multi-directional. We allow users to ‘write back’ data into their Business Central instance through the API, upload, update and reload journals, and much more directly from Excel or a web browser.

Modern Standards and Frameworks

Sharperlight is a native solution built using modern coding standards and frameworks (.NET). Excel Add-in supports Excel 2007 through to the local installation of Oice 365, both 32 bit and 64 bit. The Business Central Datamodel uses D365BC web server ODATA V4, a genuine Datamodel built from the ground up.

Remote access is a breeze with Sharperlight

Sharperlight is secure and optimised and has been empowering businesses across multiple verticals with remote access to their data since 2008. From mine sites and offshore rigs, to offices and home offices all over globe there is no need for Citrix environments or remote desktops, we make securely connecting to your data an advantage for your business rather than a challenge that has to be overcome.

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Introducing Sharperlight 8: your datamodels, opened to your AI

Every AI vendor is racing to build a semantic layer. Sharperlight has run one in production for twenty years. Version 8 opens it two ways:

An MCP server your assistant connects to for live, governed answers. (October 2026)
A metadata export for organisations that can’t connect an AI to anything. (Available now)

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