Navigating the New Cloud Opportunities of Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 R2

February 23 2011

While technology progresses at a seemingly unstoppable pace and the opportunities of cloud computing and SaaS enterprise solutions seem limitless, Microsoft Dynamics NAV partners and customers have been left, to some degree, scratching their heads.  For small and mid-sized businesses, Dynamics NAV has historically offered little in terms of solutions not delivered on-premise.

About Vjekoslav Babic

Vjekoslav Babić is an independent Microsoft Dynamics NAV consultant, trainer, author and blogger, with 10 years of experience in NAV and 16 years of experience in IT.

As a solutions architect and a project manager with a leading Microsoft Dynamics President's Club service provider company, as a Microsoft Dynamics NAV consultant with Microsoft Services, and as an independent consultant, he has been working on Microsoft Dynamics NAV implementations ranging from tiny one-man-bands to international mega-corporations, delivering services and trainings all over the world.

In 2008, Vjekoslav co-authored the acclaimed book "Implementing Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009". Vjekoslav runs an active blog about NAV implementation, project management and development best practices, acts as a columnist and editorial advisory board member at MSDynamicsWorld.com, and as a columnist in a number of other web or printed periodicals in Croatia and worldwide. Vjekoslav is also a frequent speaker at Microsoft or Microsoft Dynamics conferences.

Since spring 2010, Vjekoslav has been awarded the prestigious Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for Microsoft Dynamics NAV.

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On July 4th, 2011 Avril Howes said:

I don't agree that hosting reduces the cost of IT. It merely moves it - either to some other place in the financial statements, or to some other time. In the long run, it will cost the end user more. The Microsoft SaaS licence model requries the customer to rent every piece of the technology stack installed on the server. When you start adding up the cost of renting not just NAV, but Windows, SQL Server, Terminal Services, perhaps Sharepoint and Office, the costs quickly escalate. And just because the server is sitting somewhere in the Cloud, doesnt mean it is being managed and maintained for free. Somewhere, there are techies sitting running backups, maintaining user rights and managing firewalls (at least we trust so), and someone (ie the customer) still has to pay for them. Companies tend to keep their ERP deployments for at least 5 years. For anything beyond 3 years, outright purchase is cheaper.
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On July 7th, 2011 Chris Ballard said:

I agree. It is not cheaper, and if you cannot host all of your IT, it is even more costly. Maybe prices to host NAV will improve in the next year or two. Chris Ballard

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