In today’s digital world, most of the businesses are shifting to the Cloud market, but they’re still a few sizeable percentages of industries especially SMB industries that are still debating whether to move to the Cloud or not? So for those segments, it is very crucial why this shift is very important? How can it impact their industries? Perhaps, it is really necessary to understand the dictating factors of the Cloud compared to On-Premise.
The below table emphasizes the key comparative study of both Microsoft Dynamics 365 Online and Microsoft Dynamics 365 On-Premise to help you in making the correct choice for your business.
| KEY CAPABILITIES | ONLINE/CLOUD | ON-PREMISES |
| Licensing | Monthly Subscription Basis | License with Software Assurance/BREP or Subscription |
| Software Upgrades | Managed by Microsoft | Managed by Customer |
| Hardware Requirement | There is no need to maintain infrastructure | Need to maintain infrastructure |
| Power BI | Available | Not Available |
| Maintenance Cost | None | Equals to server maintenance cost |
| Deployment | Quick and simple | Complicated |
| Security | Microsoft owned and managed data center, which is highly secured | On-Premise is generally less secured |
| Data Backup | Regular system backup is done by Microsoft | Managing data integrity and backup is more complex |
| Sharepoint integration | Server-side with Sharepoint online | Client-side integration |
| Sandbox Environment | Microsoft provides one non-production environment as part of your subscription | Non-production environments would need to be set up and maintained by the customer |
| Disaster Recovery | Managed by Microsoft | Managed by customer |
| Scalability | New users can be activated instantly without any new infrastructure | New users may need new infrastructure to support |
| Common data platform | It is really easy to connect with to create new data models and apps with connected data | It is more complex to integrate into other apps |
| Data Storage | Only whenever it is required, we can expand and purchase additional storage | There is a limitation with storage base due to the size of the servers |
In conclusion, Companies can choose Deployment models grounded on their core objectives to achieve and how digitalization helps in achieving the stated goals. Cloud model Deployment is quick, adaptable, scalable, and economical, whereas On-Premises Deployment takes care of complex processes and integration involved with disparate systems.
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Global iTS is leading Microsoft Dynamics 365 ERP and CRM Partner with offices all over GCC (Bahrain, Saudi Arabia KSA, Oman “Muscat”, UAE “Dubai”, and Kuwait), with domain expertise in Financial Services Sector Digital Transformation like” Retail Banking, Commercial Banking, Insurance Providers, Private Equity, and Investment Banking.
