How a Hybrid Cloud Strategy Smooths the Road for Microsoft Dynamics Customers and Partners

The term hybrid is stirring up a lot of hype in the Microsoft Dynamics ecosystem and IT in general, along with plenty of confusion in its wake.  But as I discussed in my last article, there are already sensible, if not exciting, ways that a hybrid approach can quickly demonstrate value if your organization has the tools to integrate cloud solutions with the older on-premise applications that you don't want to scrap. 

Another common hybrid scenario - one that my company, Scribe, has faced directly in recent times - is the case where an organization has outgrown the capabilities of a particular business system and needs to replace it.

Picking the Best for your Business

Our second scenario is the case of the financial system that simply didn't fit our growing business. We had to replace the system with a new one - there were no alternatives. In this case, we did a thorough evaluation of both cloud and premise ERP vendors.

What was interesting to note about the selection process was that at no time was the delivery platform - cloud, hosted, or premise - a part of the discussion or impacted the decision. Why? Because we knew whatever we picked we could integrate with our existing business applications. Having integration at the ready freed us to focus absolutely on the best vendor for our business needs. We ended up selecting an on premise ERP system and it is fully integrated into both our cloud and premise applications.

In this case, if we already had a robust integration approach, we didn't have to limit our options. All of these ERP vendors we looked at had APIs or direct ...