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Convergence 2011 Atlanta

UBAX04 – Cloud Computing Overview for the Dynamics AX Company

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Introduction

Richard HendricksIT Director, Tanner Companies LLC

Established in 1931, Tanner Companies pioneered the concept of selling high-end women's fashions directly to the consumer through a carefully selected and trained network of private wardrobe consultants.

Today, the company's signature Doncaster brand has become the industry standard for elegance, style and quality.

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Agenda

• What is Cloud Computing?• SaaS Overview & Examples• IaaS Overview & Examples• PaaS Overview & Examples• Dynamics AX Today and Cloud Computing• Future of Dynamics AX and the Cloud• Q & A / Open Discussion

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What is Cloud Computing?

• Cloud computing can be viewed as three separate offerings.: SaaS, IaaS & PaaS.– SaaS – Software as a Service– IaaS – Infrastructure as a Service– PaaS – Platform as a Service

• Just because it’s on the internet does not mean it’s cloud computing. ie: “CloudWashing”

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What is Cloud Computing?

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SaaS Overview & Examples

• SaaS is software or services consumed and made use of in a multi-tenant format. Metered use, hosted within the providers data centers.

• Examples:– Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online– Microsoft Office 365 (BPOS)– Microsoft Online Services– Salesforce.com CRM– Google Apps

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IaaS Overview & Examples

• IaaS is infrastructure consumed and made use of in a multi-tenant format. Metered use, with finite set resources of hosted virtual images.

• Examples:– Amazon Web Services– Microsoft Azure VM Role (Runs on Azure PaaS)

– OpenStack.org

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PaaS Overview & Examples

• PaaS is a true platform, with sets of services for relational data / object storage, software runtime and channel / end point connections. Can be multi-tenant or isolated-tenant modes.

• Examples:– Microsoft Azure Platform– Force.com vmForce Platform– Google AppEngine– OpenStack.org

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Dynamics AX Today and Cloud Computing

• What can be done today?– Microsoft Dynamics AX on-premise, with services

and other cloud based LOB / Composite apps interacting. (Hybrid)

– Microsoft Dynamics AX Hosted via IaaS offering through Partner Hosting, Amazon AWS or Azure VM Role.

– This is true for Dynamics AX 2009 & 2012

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Dynamics AX Today and Cloud Computing

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Future of Dynamics AX and the Cloud

Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012• Federated Security Trust• Native Integration with .Net 4.0 & Improved

AIF means greater possibility for Composite / Mashup Applications

Microsoft Dynamics vNext (Educated Guess)• 100% SaaS & On-Premise possible, same code

base and build for both.

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Q & A / Open Discussion

• Q & A – open for discussion

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Convergence 2011 Atlanta

Brandon George Sunrise Technologies, Inc.

Brandon.George@SunriseConsult.com