How Gulf Data Hub automated intercompany consolidation with a custom Dynamics 365 solution
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- Use Cases: Intercompany Automation, Financial Consolidation, Reporting
- Platform: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
- Delivered By: SQIT (Custom Intercompany and Consolidation Module)
Case Overview
Gulf Data Hub ran intercompany transactions and consolidation on Tally, leading to duplicate manual entries and slow, error-prone reporting. SQIT moved GDH to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central with custom automation for intercompany entries and group consolidation. Consolidation now runs with one click, and the finance team has shrunk from 5 to 2 while accuracy has improved.
About Company
Gulf Data Hub is the largest colocation provider in the MENA region, with 40MW of operational data centers and 90MW more under construction. Based in Dubai Silicon Oasis, GDH helps businesses improve uptime and reduce costs, offering colocation services for private organizations, government, and internet service providers.
The Background
Gulf Data Hub operates as a multi-entity group across the GCC region, which means every transaction between companies in the group has to be recorded, matched, and reconciled correctly. For a business managing multiple entities, getting a clear consolidated view of the group’s financial position isn’t a monthly nice-to-have, it’s core to how leadership makes decisions.
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For a while, Tally handled the basics of each entity’s books. But Tally had no real concept of intercompany transactions across separate companies, and no way to consolidate them into a single group view. As Gulf Data Hub’s structure grew more complex, that gap between the tool and the business became harder to work around.
The Challenge
Gulf Data Hub’s growth outpaced what Tally could support, forcing the team into manual workarounds.
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- Every transaction required duplicate manual entry across separate companies, leading to high reconciliation errors
- Financial reports were assembled manually in Excel, making group-level oversight slow and prone to mistakes
- Reports in Tally were unorganized and couldn’t be filtered or exported efficiently for management
- Invoices and POs had no custom print formats, resulting in unprofessional and inconsistent client documents
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Together, these gaps meant the finance team spent more time re-entering and reconciling data than reviewing it. As the group added entities, the manual load only grew heavier.
The Solution
SQIT migrated Gulf Data Hub to a fully integrated Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central platform, configured specifically for multi-entity operations and real-time financial transparency.
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- Intercompany automation — transactions entered once automatically generate matching entries across entities, removing duplicate data entry
- 1-click group consolidation — instantly generates consolidated Trial Balances and P&L statements, fully bifurcated by business unit
- Branded document templates — custom print formats for invoices and POs, giving clients consistent, professional documents
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Each piece targeted a specific bottleneck, but together they gave Gulf Data Hub one connected system for intercompany operations and group reporting.
The Result
The intercompany module now generates matching entries across entities automatically, cutting reconciliation work and shortening month-end close significantly. Management can generate consolidated Trial Balances and P&L statements instantly, with full bifurcation by business unit, directly within the system.
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By automating 60 to 70% of manual data entry, the finance team has shrunk in size while accuracy and professional output have both gone up. Work that once needed 4 to 5 people to manage now runs with 1 to 2, covering the same scope.
By migrating Gulf Data Hub from Tally to a custom-built solution on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, SQIT delivered real-time group visibility and automated financial close.
We used to spend days reconciling intercompany entries and building consolidated statements by hand. Now it's one click, and we trust the numbers because the system builds them, not us.
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