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Business Central Online, the latest offering in the Microsoft Dynamics 365 family has completely changed the way of ‘Customisation development’ for any experienced NAV developer. Coding language has changed from C/AL to AL (i.e. AL-Extension V2.0) with the custom code sitting as a separate extension, not at all interfering with the standard code. The custom code now gets deployed as an ‘app’ on top of the standard code base. Development interface has also undergone a change - earlier development was in C/SIDE, now it is through Visual Studio platform. For further details, refer my previous  blog . Business Central offers a container-based image environment called ‘Docker’ enabling access to both the AL development environment and the C/SIDE development environment. Docker gets installed on a Windows OS machine – creating the Sandbox environment for a developer to work with. Sandbox is a non-production instance of Business Central available for development and testing. ...

Microsoft’s ERP offering for the SMB segment called  Dynamics NAV   has been historically available to customers in an on-premise deployment mode. Customers have had the option to host it either in their on-premise infrastructure or some third party cloud infrastructure. Keeping in line with its vision of Cloud First, Microsoft launched SAAS based Business Central bringing Dynamics NAV to cloud. Till now Dynamics Business Central was available on cloud only. With the October 2018 release an on-premise offering of Business Central is also available. Dynamics NAV customers can now upgrade to Business Central on premise, move to the cloud, or adopt a hybrid approach. We have listed down few Business Central features from the latest October 2018 release. On Cloud, Hybrid & On-Premises   Availability : With October 2018 release Dynamics NAV transitioned to Business Central on Premise. Business Central is no longer a “ cloud only” application. With NAV’s inc...