Microsoft Dynamics AX in the Cloud
Dynamics AX is Microsoft’s enterprise-level ERP solution, with broad applications across most every vertical. While an ERP investment can be a costly undertaking for most businesses, our cloud offering for Dynamics AX comes at a much smaller up front and overall cost.
ERP Agility = Cloud
The name of the game in AX (and ERP in general) is “agility,” and by placing Dynamics in the Cloud, you vastly increase the agility of your ERP system to adapt to your business. You may:
- Sell off companies
- buy new companies
- win or lose contracts
- have variable seasonality
- have project based business with variable manning
- reduce staff by automation
So, your licence requirements (and the support costs) and hardware capability should also be able to vary. Organizations become more dispersed, and the size and shape of an enterprise changes quickly in a changing economy, so putting your ERP solution in the cloud simply makes more sense as it delivers true flexibility.
In the Cloud add/subtract users monthly (and adjust costs accordingly), and also deliver ERP power to everyone in the organization, no matter where they be and no matter what kind of device they may be using. Maybe you need 50 extra storemen during annual stock check for one period only. Maybe extra staff for year-end sales, or for an unusually large project, or for the harvest season. Maybe you close for month in the summer, or you decide to outsource or subcontract, or to bring back in house.
What the Cloud Adds to Dynamics AX
The entire point behind an investment in an ERP platform as comprehensive as Dynamics AX is that it can drive value across an entire enterprise, improving how an organization manages financials, people, production, processes, business intelligence and more.
Synergy Software Systems hosting partner was “born” in the Cloud as a pure software-as-a-service (saas) provider more than 14 years ago. The infrastructure is built on the Microsoft stack, with full support for Linux-based applications.
Our offering is used by hundreds of thousands of customers enjoying the true flexibility of the Cloud across the entire world, and we mean THE WORLD. In 2011, Microsoft chose our provider as its Dynamics ERP Hosting Partner of the Year. Why? Because no one does it better.
With staff and data centers across the globe—this is the only Cloud provider with a real global footprint.
We put security first, both internally (being SAS70 Type II certified since 2006) and externally, with infrastructure housed in Tier 3 data centers, offering the industry’s highest physical protection standards.
The service is supplied from a shared platform, and accessed through a small client on each user’s workstation. The application icons simply appear both in the Windows start menu and on the desktop. From there, the Microsoft Dynamics AX client application can easily be launched.
Integration with the Microsoft Office suite (Word, Excel, Access and Outlook) automatically synchronizes. All configuration and customization can be performed through the Microsoft AX interface.
Delivers True Flexibility
Security, reliability, and global reach are definitely concerns for many companies when they think about moving software and/or services to the Cloud. The main driver pushing them to the Cloud has always been flexibility. However, flexibility is not just a technology integration issue: it’s a BUSINESS issue.
A business must be able to scale up, or down quickly, and cannot afford to pay for things it doesn’t use, like software licenses on machines that sit silent, which are critical components in lowering the total cost of ownership (TCO).
With the Cloud and SaaSplaza, lower TCO is assured, because technology is no longer a capital investment; it’s a flexible operating cost.
Some companies offer you freedom and flexibility and then the first thing they do is make you sign a 1 to 3 year contract.! Not us. We offer month-to-month commitments, starting with as little as 1 user and scaling… ‘How “flexible” is a platform when a customer is tied to it for years?’
A Cloud Service, Not a Server
We would like you to understand that the Cloud is not simply a place for hosting a solution, but a necessary component of a solution. Some companies offer you “the cloud” and then, in essence, sell you a hosting server. We ensure that you not only have the physical, and hard disk space and memory you need, but also support and service, 24x7x365.
We provide a full service, not just a server.
Our Service Level Agreement, we proudly place alongside any other in the world.
For the server and application It includes:
- Up time guarantee of 99.9%–not just for the infrastructure, but for application availability
- Capacity management: proactive action for scaling up the infrastructure
- Responsibility for back-up every day/week and month
- Disaster recovery
- Operational management of the infrastructure
- Maintenance of infrastructure (security, operating system management, hardware and software renewal, etc.) and middleware software components
- Technical application management to secure uptime.
- Proactive monitoring availability, security, capacity, continuity and critical business processes
- Annual extended SSAE16 (US) and ISAE E3402 (International) certifications for the fifth year in a row
We also provide office hour telephone support for functional end users of the application and back to back escalation to Microsoft if needed.
The Microsoft Stack is the Foundation for our Cloud Platform. Cloud control is now made easier with all virtualized servers and applications on the Microsoft platform, which delivers better performance and increased—and easy—self-service.
The Benefits of Building on Hyper-V & System Center
With Microsoft Hyper-V, we have a high availability platform that enables us to quickly and smoothly roll out servers and software through an automated process. With Microsoft and Hyper-V, we ensure that your Cloud platform is FULLY supported by Microsoft.
Management and monitoring are comprehensive and stretch from server environment to the application level, specifically pertaining to Dynamics Ax and CRM applications.
With System Center, we simplify management via designated modules. Rolling out a new server or a new application can be done with just a few mouse clicks.
Hyper-V also delivers the added advantage of possessing a more efficient, performance enhancing memory management than other systems. Should one of the virtual servers need more memory space then it can borrow some from other servers on the same bare metal which are have spare capacity. Which means better response and uptime.
Another important advantage lies with the System Center self-service tools, which enables us to monitor environments on a comprehensive online dashboard, print reports, etc.
Building exclusively on the Microsoft stack enables us to give us an extremely powerful cloud environment.
We cna also provide option sot host or a true SaaS model for SharePoint and Exchange Server
