Thinking of migrating to on-premise Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, Enterprise Edition?

Factors driving/affecting decision of using an on-premise ERP as compared to cloud ERP:

• Seamless business operations and continuity.
• Organizations preference to store their data on own infrastructure.
• Leverage existing investment on own infrastructure or partner provided private cloud.
• Legal/country specific compliance for data storage to be local.
• Industry regulations for specific verticals to maintain their data locally.
• Connectivity issues where even Azure ExpressRoute would not be able to help much.
• Organization readiness for cloud not yet there as well as the subscription model pricing and better placed to leverage existing ERP License with SA/BREP.
• The system components comprise of Application Server (AOS) running on Internet Information Services (IIS) on Windows Server 2016
• Backend database based on SQL Server 2016
• Reporting through local SSRS.

Local business data components for hosting your on-premise solution:

Please refer these links for more details:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/unified-operations/dev-itpro/deployment/setup-deploy-on-premises-environments

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/unified-operations/dev-itpro/deployment/on-premises-deployment-landing-page

Overall Microsoft has increased the number of components needed for on-premise usage of your favorite ERP and unless a customer already has most of the infrastructure in place, they should perform a SWOT analysis of benefits and cost between the three choices (cloud only, cloud + edge, local business data).