Dynamics CRM Online

The Highlight of our 12-Month Cloud Migration

I’ve written elsewhere about my company’s recent 12-month migration from a traditional (and dysfunctional!) on-premise IT infrastructure to an  all-cloud one.  The process was about as much fun as a 12-month root canal, but the outcome is lovely: no more server maintenance, no more worries about sites going down.

We migrated a LOT of important services — e-mail, collaboration/document management, blogs, web site, CRM — and the best part of the migration was CRM: to Dynamics CRM Online. This is the hosted version of Microsoft’s fast-growing CRM application, and you can find out more about it (and whip out your credit card and sign up for it, if you like) at http://crm.dynamics.com/

I’ll write a LOT more about our experience with Dynamics CRM Online, but in the meantime I wanted to share out this presentation I gave a while back at the very first meeting, back in December of 2008, of the Dynamics CRM User Group. I uploaded the slide deck to a site called SlideShare.net, and you can view it in its embedded form here, or go to SlideShare and see it there.

The first part of the presentation is a comparison of the Dynamics CRM Online and on-premise versions. About the only thing in the presentation that isn’t correct anymore is the $39/user/month price I included for the Pro version of CRM Online (that was a special, only good through 12/31/2008, and now the price is $44/user/month)