Comparison of Business Central hosting options: online SaaS, on-premises and Azure VMs — 2026 guide by INFOC

Comparing Business Central Hosting Options: Online vs On-Premises (2026 Guide)

Before you sign a Business Central contract, one decision shapes everything that follows: where will it run? Microsoft offers Business Central in two officially supported deployment models — online (SaaS) and on-premises — and on-premises itself can be hosted on your own hardware, on your own Azure VMs, or by a partner. Each path changes…

Business Central AL extension project in VS Code showing table extension, page extension and event subscriber codeunit patterns

Business Central Extensions: Patterns, Events & Upgrade Safety | BC Dev Series

You built your first Business Central extension. You know how to set up the AL project, download symbols, write a codeunit, and press F5 to publish. That is the foundation. But building an extension and building it correctly are two different things. In a production environment, with real client data, on a platform that Microsoft…