Cloud and on-premise/local business data salient features in Microsoft Dynamic 365 Finance and Operations One version
Area/Deployment |
Cloud |
On-Premises |
Key Differentiators |
Complete cloud subscription from Microsoft |
Complete on-premises installation (like AX 2012 and prior versions), only manage code deployments thru LCS (cloud) |
Environment Management |
Microsoft managed subscription |
1. business data and install - customer managed 2. LCS - code deployments |
Licensing and CAPEX |
Subscription: Per month per user cost
Low CAPEX |
Perpetual: Buy server & user licenses upfront and pay annual software assurance (SA) fees. HIGH CAPEX – Upfront Licensing and Infrastructure costs |
User count |
Min 20 users |
no min user requirement (min hardware is scoped based on 250 users, 9 + 2 VMs) |
Availability |
Available since 2016 |
June, 2017 Retail – Late 2018 |
Reporting |
Analytics available |
Planned for H2 CY2018 |
Differentiating features |
CDS, Power Apps and other innovations available with cloud (and will be available sooner). |
CDS, Power Apps and other innovations not planned. |
Upgrade path |
Available from AX 2012 |
Not yet available |
Updates and health monitoring |
Customer can schedule when to deploy Regulatory: immediate (by Microsoft) Service updates: Quarterly window Application: Continuous updates from One version
Health monitoring: Proactive monitoring by Microsoft and richer tools available through LCS |
Customer responsible for deploying updates Critical: immediate Platform: monthly release, 1-year window Application: 3-year window Health monitoring: Customer to monitor with limited tools available in LCS |
Setup and Deployment time |
Within hours |
few days to weeks* * Microsoft improving this experience |
Sandbox and non-Prod environments |
One production and two non-production environments included with the Enterprise offer. Add-on non-production environments may be purchased.
Ability to deploy one-box environments on Customer subscriptions available. |
Licensing based on number of Servers. Number of environments limited only by the number of Server licenses. Does not include Hardware cost. |
Deployment considerations |
Multi-instance deployments possible. No integration. Ability to scale out. |
Multi-instance on-premises deployments possible. No integration.
Hyper V virtualization on Windows Server 2016. Not supported: VMWare virtualization, AWS, Azure |
High availability (HA) and Disaster recovery (DR) |
Included in Enterprise offer and managed by Microsoft |
Customer managed
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Internet connectivity |
Must (except few scenarios using mobile app) |
Periodic connectivity for deployments and servicing |
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