Performance problems in Business Central rarely come from infrastructure alone. They usually emerge from design decisions, mixed workloads, and limited visibility into system behavior. This session shares real-world lessons from stabilizing a heavily loaded on-prem Business Central environment that struggled with recurring performance incidents over a long period.

Rather than focusing on deep SQL internals, the talk distills transferable performance patterns that remain relevant for Business Central SaaS. Topics include identifying early warning signals, separating reporting and operational workloads, designing batch processes responsibly, and improving observability before users feel the pain.

Each lesson is mapped from an on-prem symptom to its SaaS equivalent, helping cloud teams avoid repeating familiar mistakes under a different hosting model. The session also touches on the human side of performance work. How engineering decisions, prioritization, and ownership models influence whether teams stay stuck in reactive mode or move toward predictable delivery and stability.

This is a practical experience report aimed at users, partners, and ISVs who want fewer incidents and a calmer operating model.

What attendees will learn

Common root causes behind recurring Business Central performance issues

Which on-prem performance lessons still apply to SaaS environments

How to recognize reporting and batch workload risks early

How team decisions affect system stability and response times