The Advantages of Using a Microsoft Cloud Hosting Device

Introductions

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Bill Vicino

►Senior Technical Consultant

►[email protected]

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212-502-3933

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Tom Kostis

►Senior Technical Consultant

►[email protected]

Before We Begin

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Q&A – Please don’t hesitate to ask questions any time during

the session. We also have dedicated Q&A time at the end of the

session

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Scribe – There is a scribe in the room to record questions and

action items that we cannot address in this timeframe.

What is Cloud Computing?

In the simplest terms, cloud computing means storing and accessing data and programs over the Internet instead of your computer or local network.

What is Azure?

In short, it’s Microsoft’s cloud platform: a comprehensive set of integrated services, virtual machines, storage, data, networking, and applications. Using the various Azure components AKA is able to configure a secure, scalable and highly available GP deployment in the cloud.

AKA’s Dynamics GP Azure hosted solutions leverage IaaS, building out an

Azure hosted infrastructure to support your ERP needs. The environment can be extended to integrate with your on premises resources like File

Shares/Document Management Solutions and Databases.

Azure offers a 99.95% availability SLA, 24x7 tech support, and round-the-clock service health monitoring. That’s why more than 57% of Fortune 500

The end-user experience

• Anyone familiar with browsing the web can easily transition to using our Azure hosted solutions.

• Your application user community will get an address and login information.

• Your people login and are presented with ERP and any other applications you've chosen to deploy and make available to them.

• Launching the applications are as easy as clicking and logging in!

• To your end-users, the application functions the same as if it were a locally installed, on premises application.

What About Communication and Collaboration?

If you were starting a business today, it’s fairly certain that you would not

even consider putting an Exchange Email Server in your server room, (you may not even build a server room!).

Office365 offers the full Exchange/Email functionality, including the Outlook client and Outlook Web client. Meaning that your communication platform is always available, from anywhere, with the very latest updates.

SharePoint Online and Yammer

For document collaboration, there really is no better application than

SharePoint

. With easy to use security, workflows, document libraries and lists, it is easy to create Team Sites and Company Libraries and Forms that allow for efficient sharing. You can also enable features that allow users to collaborate simultaneously, check in/out documents, or require approvals.

And since SharePoint is also online, your IT folks can configure your domain so that you use your network login one time to access all Online sites. And all online sites are updated on the back end, meaning the end of upgrades for your Systems Team!

CRM Online

Just to come full circle, it is worth mentioning that

CRM Online

, like

Office365 and SharePoint, is a fully functioning web-based application that exists in Microsoft’s Cloud of Services.

Updates happen on the back-end, at your schedule. But no longer does your IT team have to figure out the upgrade path.

The new Dynamics AX

• Microsoft recently released their biggest ERP space change in years with the new Dynamics AX.

• Unlike traditional Client/Server applications, the new Dynamics AX is a true HTML5 environment.

• This means that AX users simply open their favorite browser, go to the Dynamics AX web address and login!

• No more need to install client applications to every user's computers or invest in RDS/Citrix infrastructure to deploy applications.

• The initial release of Dynamics AX is purely Azure based with Microsoft themselves managing the underlying infrastructure and availability.

Reason 1: High Availability

Your data is hosted in a state of the art Microsoft data center with built in redundancy.

Reason 2: One Stop GP Support

One phone number/email address for Dynamics GP support with AKA’s Azure hosting.

Reason 3: Dedicated GP Environment

Each Client gets a fully dedicated/isolated

environment with AKA’s hosted Dynamics GP Solution. There are no shared resources like SQL Servers, RDS Server, Cloud Storage….

Reason 4: Fixed Monthly Cost

AKA’s cloud hosting solution is based on a fixed monthly fee which includes hosting fees, GP application and infrastructure support.

Reason 5: Integrate to On-Premises

AKA can integrate your hosted Dynamics GP cloud environment to on-premises systems

VPN connectivity between Cloud and your local office. We can support document management systems,

Reason 6: Highly Scalable

You are not stuck with a fixed, expensive to expand on-premises infrastructure.

With Azure AKA can quickly resize servers, add

Reason 7: On Demand Environments

Azure allows AKA to rapidly build out DEV/TEST/DR environments as needed

Reason 8: Your Data is Safe

AKA creates, monitors and tests a backup plan to meet your specific needs and data retention

requirements.

Reason 9: Dynamics GP Upgrades Included

Core Dynamics GP upgrades included in your monthly hosting fee.

Reason 10: Everywhere Availability

All your users need is Internet Access to use Dynamics GP across the globe.