Traditionally, extending Business Central required hiring AL language developers or purchasing expensive ISV solutions. Today, (Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, and Power Pages) offers a low-code alternative that empowers both professional developers and citizen integrators.

Create a Center of Excellence (CoE) Starter Kit for Power Platform. 8. Conclusion: The Hybrid Future Extending Business Central with Power Platform is not a "lesser" alternative to AL development—it is a complementary strategy . Use AL for deep, transaction-heavy logic that runs inside BC. Use Power Platform for agility, user experience, cross-system workflows, and analytics.

Use Postman to call https://api.businesscentral.dynamics.com/v2.0/tenantId/api/v2.0/companies and confirm your key BC tables are exposed.

| Component | License Required | Typical Cost (USD/user/month) | |-----------|------------------|-------------------------------| | Business Central Essentials/Premium | BC license | $70 - $110 | | Power Apps (for BC data) | Per App Plan Per User Plan | $5/app/user/mo (Per App) OR $20/user/mo (Per User) | | Power Automate (with premium connectors) | Per User Plan with attended RPA | $15 - $40 | | Power BI (to view dashboards) | Pro license | $10/user/mo | | Dataverse storage | Included (base) + additional storage | $40/GB/mo (overages) |