Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online to Open Up as Office 365 Add-On in Q4 2011

With the Q4 2011 service update, Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online will be offered as an add-on to Office 365 customers, Microsoft's Kirill Tatarinov announced Tuesday at Worldwide Partner Conference 2011. Dynamics CRM Online will be an option for customers that becomes part of the same billing and provisioning agent as Office 365.

And while no Dynamics ERP products are yet available on Windows Azure (the next release of Dynamics NAV is planned to be the first in 2012), Tatarinov announced plans for a RapidStart Services for Dynamics ERP, an Azure-based service planned for release around the same time as Dynamics AX 2012 in the later part of 2011.  The service will run on Azure and will "help partners deploy cloud-based systems quickly."  

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