Dynamics 365 Business Central on Premise

Business Central On-Premise Licence information

As with the previous NAV licensing, there are two options perpetual and subscription. Unlike previous perpetual licenses, perpetual licensing will be on a named user basis rather than concurrent users. Whereas previously it was necessary to buy starter packs (and extended packs where required), there is no base product license - either purchase essentials users for the starter pack or premium users for the extended functionality. It is not possible to mix and match Premium and Essential user licenses. Limited users are now known as Team members, however, it is worth taking note of changes in capabilities. 

Would also state that this is if upgrading from NAV2013-NAV2018, for older versions please speak to us.

Upgrades

If you are upgrading from older versions of NAV with perpetual licenses, your users will be concurrent. With the upgrade to named user licenses, Microsoft has stated that there will be multiple user licenses created for certain user types. The licensing guide shows:

SAAS and Hybrid

As well as the on-premise version, Business Central will continue to be available through the software as a service model, priced as monthly user prices hosted in the cloud. For new customers, it is possible to have a hybrid deployment utilising on-premise and synchronisation to a SAAS instance to allow on-premise customers to gain access to many of the cloud features. Hybrid is only available for CSP licences and is therefore unavailable to existing NAV users who are upgrading their existing on-premise deployments. 

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