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Why Microsoft Expects to Change Minds on The Future Dynamics AX and Azure

by Jason Gumpert
Editor, MSDynamicsWorld.com

While Microsoft remains committed to shipping on-premise ERP software, senior managers for Dynamics AX told over 1,200 users last week at AXUG Summit 2015 that they see cloud adoption moving even faster than most organizations realize.

Dynamics AX customers and prospects are beginning a rapid turnaround in outlook about public cloud deployment, Microsoft managers believe. And those changes could be influenced at least in part by the AX team's own efforts to demonstrate cloud-first, and sometimes cloud-only, product choices that makes Azure a component of every AX solution going forward.

"Microsoft is absolutely committed to a hybrid strategy," Dynamics AX general manager Dan Brown told the AXUG Summit audience last week in response to a question about whether AX will continue to be developed for on-premise users. But, he continued, hybrid is quickly becoming less relevant for many organizations.

Brown described a conversation with a CIO of an extraction company eighteen months ago who had been "petrified" of Microsoft's cloud messaging and feared being left behind because of their resistance to the cloud. As Brown explained it:

"That company is now looking at an AX 7 deployment on the cloud for an extraction site right now. So within eighteen months, that CIO has gone from a very dogmatic view about not going to the cloud - we like our data, taking things slowly - to [changing] his mind. I suspect that those of you who believe that on-premise or private cloud is the only model could easily change your mind in the next eighteen to twenty four months.

"But more important is that the cloud gives us the ability to innovate faster. That is the essential component of cloud. We can ...

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About Jason Gumpert

As the editor of MSDynamicsWorld.com, Jason oversees all editorial content on the site and at our events, as well as providing site management and strategy. He can be reached at jgumpert@msdynamicsworld.com.

Prior to co-founding MSDynamicsWorld.com, Jason was a Principal Software Consultant at Parametric Technology Corporation (PTC), where he implemented solutions, trained customers, managed software development, and spent some time in the pre-sales engineering organization. He has also held consulting positions at CSC Consulting and Monitor Group.

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