{"id":2157,"date":"2016-07-13T13:02:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T13:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/dynamics-365\/blog\/2016\/07\/13\/innovating-with-business-apps-in-the-cloud\/"},"modified":"2023-05-31T15:18:48","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T22:18:48","slug":"innovating-with-business-apps-in-the-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/dynamics-365\/blog\/business-leader\/2016\/07\/13\/innovating-with-business-apps-in-the-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovating with Business Apps in the Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"

Microsoft\u2019s annual Worldwide Partner conference<\/a> (WPC) is always an energizing event for us as it gives us an opportunity to broadly engage with our partner community, share innovations as well as learn from each other to better serve our customers.<\/p>\n

This event comes on the heels of a significant announcement that introduced our next generation of business applications, Microsoft Dynamics 365<\/a>.\u00a0 I\u2019m excited about this new offering as it delivers the best of productivity and business processes in the cloud. Dynamics 365 also introduces new common data model<\/a>\u2013 a single platform for building new solutions across all your business apps (sales, service, operations, marketing, finance) giving people a unified view of their business data to figure out the right actions, maximize productivity and deliver amazing experiences for their customers \u2013 we are making this real and it is truly ground breaking.<\/p>\n

Dynamics AX, Microsoft\u2019s enterprise cloud ERP service built on and for Azure, powers the complete operations business process as Dynamics 365 for Operations – it is a core component of Dynamics 365 that will be available in the fall of this year.<\/p>\n

The new Dynamics AX has seen a tremendous response from our customers and partners. The adoption of Dynamics AX in the cloud is the fastest we have ever seen for this product with customers such as AccuWeather<\/a>, Hagler Systems<\/a>, Umbra Group<\/a>, Carglass, Renault Sport F1 Team<\/a> and other leading organizations in nearly every region across the world deploying the new service to run their business. \u00a0For Canadian organizations we announced the availability of the service in preview from the Canadian datacenter regions<\/b><\/a>. <\/b><\/p>\n

Cloud computing is gaining momentum with 88% of organizations using the public cloud today[i]<\/a>. To meet this growing need for cloud solutions we are committed to further strengthen the cloud capabilities of Dynamics AX.\u00a0 One of the key requirements of our customers when it comes to ERP business applications is a need for a mixture of cloud and on-premises solutions \u2013 in fact, according to a IDC report more than 80% of enterprise IT organizations will commit to hybrid cloud strategy by 2017[ii]<\/a>.<\/p>\n

From an ERP perspective, the notion of a solution that is purely disconnected from the cloud in any way, shape or form is not a realistic view in today\u2019s business environment. It is business continuity that is critical and a priority for organizations. This continuity is enabled by a \u201chybrid cloud\u201d that gives our customers the ability to run business processes and store data across the cloud and their own data centers.<\/p>\n

For example, a retail store can\u2019t afford to be down for even a minute\u2026 they need to ensure that they\u2019ll be able to run even if they lose connectivity for just a few seconds. Another example \u2013 customers with extensive analytics needs \u2013 can\u2019t and shouldn\u2019t just rely on data that resides in their own data centers for intelligence \u2013 the cloud is now a rich and necessary source of information and to get the best analytics, businesses need to leverage all available data sources.<\/p>\n

A true hybrid cloud, is pragmatic and combines the best of cloud and on-premises environments. We are committed to delivering a solution that supports that hybrid cloud strategy; from customers that want a pure cloud ERP system to customers that want to run their ERP system in their own data centers complemented with cloud services.<\/p>\n

To deliver on the promise of hybrid cloud, the key investments we are making in the new Dynamics AX include:<\/p>\n