Local Business Data for Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations: Microsoft updates guidance as customers weigh options

Microsoft continues to improve the local business data (LBD), or on-premises, deployment model for Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations (D365FO). And at this week's Summit EMEA 2018 event in Dublin, company officials have explained to the AX and D365FO user audience that LBD remains an approach optimized for organizations that have ruled out Microsoft's cloud hosted model due to data residency or connectivity issues.

But the reality of LBD deployments so far, according to partners who have worked with D365FO customers, is that customers are considering a range of interrelated factors before making a decision. Customers do consider low connectivity and data residency and sovereignty restrictions, partners say, but these organizations have found other factors th...

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