Vision 8 – Performance Management 2025

What will change for our customers and all those who would like to become customers in the future?

Many of our customers plan to upgrade an existing Dynamics NAV or Business Central solution to a new release, such as Business Central 2024 Release Wave 1 (version 24) or later, in 2025. Some customers are moving to the Business Central Cloud version, and others continue to prefer the on-premise versions. Some customers have just introduced a newer version of their BC industry solutions on an older release level (e.g. BC 14) and plan to continue it for a few more years.

Diese Änderungen in der Business-Central-Politik führen für uns als DynamicsProject Team zu einer Neuausrichtung unserer Vision 8 Performance-Management-Strategie für SQL Server und Business Central. Wir haben bisher in unserem Analyse-Tool V8 Search XE die Möglichkeit geboten, die gesamte NAV/Business-Central-Versionspalette von NAV 2013 bis Business Central 2024 Release Wave 1 (Version 24) auf Probleme wie Deadlocks und Tabellensperren zu prüfen. Egal, ob der Sourcecode der verwendeten Kundenlösungen in Business Central C/AL oder AL geschrieben wurde. V8 Search XE konnte beide Arten der Programmiersprachen analysieren und interpretieren.

To serve all versions of Microsoft Business Central/NAV using the V8 Search XE analysis tool, our resources are simply not enough. For this reason, we have decided to discontinue V8 Search XE in its current form.

 

 

End of Life – V8 Search XE

Important information!
Please note that “End of Life & End of Support” for V8 Search XE in 2025.
Detailed information can be found under the following link: Product Lifecycle Policy Software
Questions about extended support can be found under the following link: FAQ

Every piece of software has a life cycle. This begins with the software release and ends with the End of Life (EOL), when the software is no longer supported.

Der EoS/EoL von V8 Search XE „On-premises“ Version ist für den 31. Dezember 2025 geplant. Dabei beenden wir am 01. Januar 2025 die Distribution der V8 Search XE „On-premises“ Software, indem wir die Option für Neuinstallationen aus allen Dynamicsproject.com-Websites/Portalen entfernen. Kunden können die V8 Search XE „On-premises“ Version bis zum EOL-Datum bzw. Ablauf der gültigen Lizenz weiter nutzen. Jede Nutzung nach diesem Datum ist nicht mehr möglich, da das Produkt in dieser Form nicht mehr erhältlich ist. V8 Search XE wird zukünftig nur noch im Rahmen des V8 Care – komplettes Leistungspaket (Dienstleistungsprojekt) zur Verfügung gestellt. Sollte V8 Care keine Option für Sie sein, empfehlen wir Ihnen, sich rechtzeitig über ein alternatives Softwareprodukt zu informieren.

A successor product to V8 Search XE is planned for the second quarter of 2025. The new software will be released with the name "V8 Five". V8 Five is the fifth generation of our performance analysis software for Business Central and SQL Server.

 

 

V8 Five

A successor product to V8 Search XE is planned for the third quarter of 2025. The new software will be released under the name V8 Five. V8 Five is the fifth generation of our performance analysis software for Business Central and SQL Server. Much of what you know from V8 Search XE will also be found in the new product. Not all functions are adopted. The focus of V8 Five is on the new technologies of Dynamics Business Central.
The switch from the Windows client to the Dynamics 365 Business Central modern clients brings with it a number of innovations. Not only have new functions been added, and existing ones improved, but the role-tailored client (also Windows client) has also been completely replaced by the new modern clients.
In line with the discontinuation of the Windows client (Business Central Spring 2019 - version 14), the second release wave of Business Central 2019 marks a milestone as the first version without the legacy development environment (also known as C/SIDE). The modern developer experience based on Visual Studio Code and the new AL language requires different workflows in the area of performance optimization (e.g. table locks or deadlocks) than was previously possible with the C/AL code. For this reason, V8 Five will not cover all versions of Business Central On-premises like its predecessor V8 Search XE.

We continue to support all customers on the subject of performance management who have not yet carried out / planned the changeover / upgrade to e.g. Business Central 2024 Release Wave 1 (Version 24).

The basic module of V8 Five is available in two different extension modules:

The “CAL” module continues to support all solutions based on C/AL code. However, only version 14 (Business Central Spring 2019), the latest release, is supported with Roletailored Client. If you are using a Business Central / NAV version 13 or earlier, you have the option of using a customized configuration (custom module) from V8 Five. However, this module is associated with considerably higher costs, as the software is specially adapted to the customer's version.

The “AL” module supports Business Central from 2023 Release Wave 1 (Version 22) and later release waves. In the AL module, the extended Business Central telemetry data with the XEvents architecture (Extended Events) of SQL Server will in future provide even more detailed information on any performance problems that have their cause in the AL code. The Telemetry AL module simplifies the monitoring of deadlocks, table locks and queries with a long duration. Many new workflows have been developed in V8 Five to simplify analysis and are presented graphically for better understanding.

Details on the new product V8 Five new modules / workflows, licensing and innovations will be described in detail in various blob articles over the next few weeks.

We will be happy to answer any further questions you may have on this topic in person.

Your dynamicsproject.com Team