NAV In The Cloud: Exploring Options for a Cloud-based Deployment What’s now and what’s next!

Your Presenter Greg Kaupp gkaupp@archerpoint.com

What is Dynamics 365?

What is Business Central? Business Central is NAV plus a new SaaS option

Business Central Deployment & Licensing SaaS Azure Hosted On-Premise Deployed on Dynamics 365 Azure VM Third-Party Client Hardware Managed by Parter or Client Partner or Client Client Database - Azure SQL SQL Server Licensing Subscription Subscription or Perpetual Perpetual

Business Central Road Map

Setting the Stage Who manages their own servers for NAV? Who has virtualized their NAV servers? Who has outsourced their NAV Server administration? Who is hosting their NAV Servers? How much does it cost?

What is Cloud or SaaS? Forrester SaaS Maturity Model Level 0: Outsourcing is not SaaS. In outsourcing, a service provider operates a major application or a unique application landscape for a large enterprise customer. As the outsourcing company can’t leverage this application for a second customer, outsourcing does not qualify as SaaS. Level 1: Manual ASP business models target midsize companies. At level 1, a hosting provider runs packaged applications like NAV. Usually, each client has a dedicated server running its instance of the application and is able to customize the installation in the same way as self-hosted applications. Level 2: Industrial ASPs cut the operating costs of packaged applications to a minimum. At level 2, an ASP uses sophisticated IT management software to provide identical software packages with customer-specific configurations to many SMB customers. However, the software package is still the same software that was originally created for self-hosted deployment. Level 3: Single-app SaaS is an alternative to traditional packaged applications. At level 3, software vendors create new generations of business applications that have SaaS capabilities built in. Web-based user interface (UI) concepts and the ability to serve a huge number of tenants with one, scaleable infrastructure are typical characteristics. Customization is restricted to configuration. Single-app SaaS adoption thus focuses on SMBs. Level 4: Business-domain SaaS provides all the applications for an entire business domain. At level 4, an advanced SaaS vendor provides not only a well-defined business application but also a platform for additional business logic. This complements the original single application of the previous level with third-party packaged SaaS solutions and even custom extensions. The model even satisfies the requirements of large enterprises, which can migrate a complete business domain like “customer care” toward SaaS. Level 5: Dynamic Business Apps-as-a-service is the visionary target. Forrester’s Dynamic Business Application imperative embraces a new paradigm of application development: “design for people, build for change.” At level 5, advanced SaaS vendors coming from level 4 will provide a comprehensive application and integration platform on demand, which they will prepopulate with business applications or business services. They can compose tenant-specific and even user-specific business applications on various levels. The resulting process agility will attract everyone, including large enterprise customers.

Mapping NAV to SaaS Maturity Model Level 0: Outsourcing – Not Cloud  Level 1: Hosting – Small Step up from Outsourcing  Level 2: IaaS & PaaS – Business Central or NAV 2016 or later on Azure SQL Level 3: Single App SaaS – Business Central “SaaS” Level 4: Business Domain SaaS – Business Central “SaaS”, Office 365, PowerBI, & Flow Level 5: Dynamic Business Apps as a Service – Visionary Target where we can use functions from whatever app we want on the Dynamics 365 platform

Licensing & Deployment Options are Completely Different Topics

Licensing Options Perpetual License Concurrent Users Maintenance Separate Easy to Add but not to Subtract Subscription License Named Users Maintenance Included Easy to Adjust each month

Licensing Confusion Licensing and Deployment are totally separate Perpetual License doesn’t mean On Premise Subscription License doesn’t mean Cloud

NAV & Business Central Deployment Options On Premise (Physical or Virtual) Hosted (Rackspace, Amazon, Azure) Single Tenant Azure SQL Multi-tenant Azure SQL Business Central “SaaS”

Deployment Options – Big Differences On Premise & Hosted Requires Licensing SQL Server Single Tenant Azure SQL & Multi-tenant Azure SQL No SQL Server Licenses Required Uses Azure SQL Instead Business Central “SaaS” Database and Infrastructure included but no direct control or access

Why we should never buy another NAV Server How much does a server cost?

How much does it cost to host?

Azure Pricing Calculator

Traditional SQL Enterprise Azure VM Hosting

Traditional SQL Standard Azure VM Hosting

NAV 2016 or later Azure SQL Configuration

Azure Maturity Model

NAV 2016 or later on Azure SQL Advantages Lower Cost On Demand Performance Scaling Redundancy Backup & Recovery Easier Setup of Great NAV Capabilities Custom URL Mapping One Click Deployment Web Client Universal App Client

Questions?