The cloud has been widely endorsed for its ability to save on upfront licensing and hardware costs when deploying enterprise resource planning software (ERP) like Microsoft Dynamics. Below are some ways you might not have thought of that will help you save in the cloud with Dynamics ERP
Upgrades, service packs and hot fixes
With your Microsoft Dynamics ERP solution you are able to purchase a maintenance plan that includes upgrades to newer versions of the product and lets users access service packs and hot fixes so necessary to purchase additional licenses. The only problem is that Dynamics users are required to stay current on their plan by paying annual maintenance fees that can range anywhere from 16 to 25 percent of the cost of the system. With a cloud hosted system updates, services packs, hot fixes and patches are included as part of your monthly cloud software subscription. So the cloud not only helps users save on the upfront cost of ERP, over time they also save on maintenance plan fees while freeing up IT resources and saving in terms of ongoing management and maintenance of the system.
Scalability
With any on premise software licenses, scaling up and down can be costly. When an employee leaves your company you don’t get refunded for their annual user license, and where security and user access restrictions are concerned, replacing that employee means you have to get a new user licenses so that you are can be paying for two licenses for one role. And if you have let your annual maintenance plan payments lapse, you are required to pay up to three years in back fees before you can add new users, modules and updates to Microsoft Dynamics ERP. With a hosted cloud solution you can quickly terminate the subscription to one user license and add another subscription user license without losing any money, and because you’re cloud provider handles the user onboarding, your IT managers do not have to divert additional resources every time you add or remove a user.
Identical environment wherever you go
Obviously mobility is a great advantage where efficiency is concerned, but how does it save money? Consider the alternative of deploying your Dynamics ERP system in house in which you would have to build, secure and maintain a VPN bridge which requires considerable IT resources and support. What’s more, you may sacrifice functionality and usability of the environment when hosting the solution internally. This slows down remote employees’ productivity and causes frustrations in an era when the top workforce talent is wooed by companies with seamless technology. With the cloud, you can extend a seamless digital workspace to telecommuters with the exact same environment they would find in the office. And because it is maintained and secured by your cloud hoster, you save significantly on IT resources supporting remote employees.
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