4 Microsoft technology advances that Dynamics ERP and CRM could leverage next

Microsoft Dynamics has an active 2014 release schedule planne. When you actually weigh out the sheer scope of new features, tools, and entirely new products that will be rolling out for both CRM and ERP, some might even call it a little too active.

But there is another line of advance in Dynamics R&D, one that looks to capitalize on other core Microsoft technology investments.

In our Convergence 2014 conversation with Microsoft technical fellow Mike Ehrenberg, we learned about four technology changes to watch out for in the Dynamics space. Improvements range from public and private cloud to performance to data management. As Ehrenberg explains, each area could potentially bring significant changes to the way Dynamics solutions are design, deployed, and scaled. What follows are Ehrenberg's statements to us on these different technology changes, in his own words.

Windows Azure-based disaster recovery for Dynamics: Making it easy

"I think there are two key things that have become available. SQL Server on premise can now, in a natural way, backup to Azure storage, and that's a thing that we can make automatic. There are levels of capability. So you can do incremental backup to Azure storage. You can also do high availability across  on-prem and Azure, but I think that's going to be a special case.  But on-prem SQL Server backing up to Azure is one thing.

"Thing two is that we announced that AX 2012 R3 will be certified to run in Azure on production and dev/test. We're doing work to certify ...