MICROSOFT DYNAMICS 365 BUSINESS CENTRAL

PARTNER INITIATIVE

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Faster Business Central solutions. Happier customers.
A team that builds performance in by design.

OptimAL is a Microsoft-coordinated, 12-week engagement that helps Business Central ISVs and resellers find the performance issues hidden in their AL code, fix what matters most first and embed agentic engineering in the way they work.

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/ / WHY PERFORMANCE, WHY NOW

Better performance isn't just an engineering outcome — it's a growth opportunity.

Business Central solutions are increasingly complex: apps, PTEs, integrations, Copilot and agents. Customers expect speed — always — yet performance is often assumed and rarely measured or proven. The good news: the biggest problems aren't rocket science.

Increase capacity

Reliver morw with the same team.

Protect margins

Reduce rework and support cost.

Unlock growth

Win complex deals and migrations with confidence.

/ / TARGET AUDIENCE

Who OptimAL is for

OptimAL is built for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central partners who own and maintain AL code — and who want to move from reactive firefighting to proactive performance management. One program, two tracks: you choose the one that fits your business.

ISV TRACK

Independent Software Vendors

You ship Business Central apps to many customers — often with years (or decades) of legacy code.

Code scan of your solution
Use case review and recommendations
Learnings and measurable performance gains

VAR TRACK

Resellers & implementation partners

You build customer-specific extensions and integrations and need them to scale.

Co-development of 2 use cases
Learning and code review
Measurement of the impact

You're a great fit if…

Your customers are feeling slow pages, long batch jobs or timeouts — or you want to get ahead of it.
You have a technical team (developers, architects, tech leads) who can commit time during the 10 weeks.
You have leadership backing to turn learnings into a prioritized backlog — and act on it.
You want to adopt agentic engineering in a safe, guided way, starting with performance.

/ / WHAT YOUR COMPANY GETS

Inside OptimAL: assess, discuss, learn, improve, transform

A focused 10-week engagement, coordinated by Microsoft in collaboration with Ciellos, Business Central MVPs and the Business Central product team.

1. Agentic engineering kickoff

Learn how to use agentic engineering and BCQuality to build and optimize better code.

2. Codebase assessment & backlog

Scan your legacy code, identify the highest-impact opportunities and turn findings into an actionable, prioritized backlog.

3. Expert architecture guidance

Review your solution with experienced architects and get hands-on advice on where and how to improve.

4. Best practices & learning

Learn proven engineering practices directly from Business Central SMEs and MVPs in practical "OptimAL Mondays" sessions.

5. Community & peer learning

Work alongside other partners, share experiences, compare approaches and learn from real-world solutions — including an in-person workshop at Microsoft in Copenhagen.

6. Structured execution

Leadership commitment, focus, time and rhythm to turn learning into measurable improvements.

/ / WHO'S BEHIND OPTIMAL

Microsoft, Ciellos and MVPs — working with your team

OptimAL is coordinated by Microsoft in collaboration with Ciellos, a Microsoft partner and ISV accelerator. Ciellos is your day-to-day engagement partner and technical coach throughout the program.

MICROSOFT

Coordinates the initiative

Runs the OptimAL program and cohorts
Gives direct access to the Business Central product team and engineers
Hosts the in-person workshop at Microsoft Development Center Copenhagen

CIELLOS

Your engagement partner & coach

Your primary contact: you sign your OptimAL agreement with Ciellos, and they coordinate participation with everyone involved
Code scan & assessment: AI-driven analysis of your codebase that finds anti-patterns and index gaps and produces a prioritized backlog
1:1 code & architecture reviews: deep dives into the scenarios you choose
Hands-on coaching: your team implements and validates the improvements, with Ciellos as coach
Sessions: co-leads trainings and workshops, sharing learnings from working with 21+ partners

BUSINESS CENTRAL MVPS

Community expertise

Share proven patterns and practices in OptimAL sessions
Bring real-world experience on telemetry, tooling and proactive performance management

Your code stays protected. Your IP is protected by contract and NDA, and all code reviews and recommendations happen 1:1.

/ / THE JOURNEY

From code optimization to agentic engineering

STEP 1 · OPTIMIZE

Fix today's challenges

Identify and eliminate the most impactful anti-patterns in existing code. Faster code, measurable customer impact.

STEP 2 · LEARN

Better code by design

Build better engineering practices with proven patterns — with BCQuality as the foundation.

STEP 3 · TRANSFORM

Embed agentic engineering

Continuously assess, refactor and improve solutions across the full lifecycle.

Typical anti-patterns OptimAL uncovers

Thousands of these hide across decades of legacy code:

Count() instead of IsEmpty() | missing SetLoadFields() | FindFirst() in loop



CalcFields()

in loop | sum in loop vs. CalcSums() | unbuffered

 Insert()

missing bulk operations | nested FindSet() loops | N+1 lookups | filters on unindexed fields

Optimize What You Have. Modernize How You Build.

Proven Performance Gains. Smarter Engineering. Greater Impact.

CATCH UP

Customers expect speed. No excuses!

As code and data grow, performance bottlenecks compound.
OptimAL has repeatedly proven its impact, delivering significant performance gains across Business Central code bases.

MOVE FORWARD

Agentic engineering delivers. Embrace it today!

Build better software, faster. Use agentic engineering and BCQuality to boost productivity and code quality.
Scale your delivery capacity. Embed proven engineering practices into daily development, freeing time for innovation.

Ready to optimize and modernize? Join OptimAL → aka.ms/OptimAL

/ / PROVEN RESULTS

ISVs and resellers brought real partner code to OptimAL — not lab scenarios.

Turning around a legacy solution

1 million lines of code, a decade without optimization, key product expertise gone — and customers feeling the impact. The OptimAL code scan produced a prioritized, actionable backlog; agentic engineering turned findings into fixes.

// response time, before → after

+54%

performance after 1 hour of agentic engineering — measured in telemetry

"We reduced a critical batch job run time from 5+ hours to under 20 min."

ISV

"We improved a page load time by 93%."
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ISV

"We cut execution time by 76% in some of our app functionality."
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ISV

"We optimized slow running code and cut execution times by 40–65%."
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ISV

"Our overall processing time improved by 30%."
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RESELLER

"The pick creation process in our warehouse app is now 2.4x faster."
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ISV

"It enabled us to move from reactive to proactive performance management."
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ISV

"We learned to trust AI-powered code optimization — combining intelligent agents and data insights to deliver real impact."
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ISV

"OptimAL boosted our confidence, quality and reliability."
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RESELLER

/ / PREVIOUS PARTICIPANTS

What partners say about the experience

Feedback from participants at the OptimAL Performance in-person workshop at Microsoft Development Center Copenhagen, September 2026.

9.1/10

average likelihood to recommend OptimAL to another partner

10 of 11

rated the workshop 4 or 5 out of 5

21

partners whose performance learnings were shared

"I really liked the practical approach, the open exchange of knowledge, and the opportunity to discuss real-life examples … valuable insights that we can apply in our daily work."
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DEVELOPER, ISV

"How small things can make a big difference."
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SOFTWARE DEVELOPER, ISV

"Meeting IRL. Even more suggestions of how to increase performance. Testimonials from the other partners, that prove the fact."
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SYSTEM DEVELOPER, RESELLER

"I believe I learned the right tooling — now it's about teaching the rest of my organization and continuing our performance optimizations in all of our projects."
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DEVELOPER, RESELLER

"The friendly and pleasant atmosphere shared with the hosts and guests."
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SENIOR DEVELOPER, PARTNER

Most valued: talks with Microsoft experts, input from the MVPs and direct contact with the Business Central product team.
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DEVELOPMENT LEAD · CEO/CTO · TEAM LEAD

OptimAL alumni include

Ready to join OptimAL?

Embrace agentic engineering with your team — starting with performance.

1. Identify the team

Who will own performance?

2. Get your telemetry

Know where you stand today.

3. Set up BCPT

Business Central Performance Toolkit.

4. Plan the budget

Time and co-investment.

Learn more and talk to the team → aka.ms/OptimAL