Dynamics AX: The Hybrid Cloud - Enterprise 2.1?

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Источник: http://dynamics-ax.blogspot.com/2007...rprise-21.html
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Right now a lot of companies and services are popping up around the effort to offer what is called Enterprise 2.0 services for companies. One thing to realize is a lot of these companies and their services are subscription based models for software, and are hosted away from the user's office. What's upsetting to see if service like Zing which was out on Aug. 11th. Now for sure services will go down, and so that is why for most medium to large sized businesses the best model for Enterprise 2.0 services and technologies is a Hybrid mess or cloud approach.

Basically, the subscriptiong model can work, and can be hosted via a Web 2.0 interface. What most companies would rather go for in this subscription based would be a hybrid in that though it is subscription based, the hosting is doen still on site at the customer level. This means that when a package update happens, the customer's site is setup to get that latest package deployment in a pull down to update their subscription. This serves the better model, and so the customer maintains and controls their own destiny for owning and maintaining their own data, and hardware, but has a subscription to the software. This is how I see Microsoft's Software + Services working in the Dynamics AX future. This is the Hybrid cloud in that the software + Services is hosted on the customers hardware, would links possibly to outside web services for non-critical applications. The software becomes subscription modeled, and the underlying core is updated when pushed out, and the customer still has the ability to adapt and change that software at a higher level. This serves the purpose of the subsciption modeled software, and also serves the customer's interest in that they host it and therefore can be up when Microsoft possibly goes down. [Or the VAR that is hosting it for them]

This will feel even more comfortable with the latest release of Office 2007 and SharePoint 2007. And then in the next releases of Dynamics AX and Office, when they release in sync, and office becomes the front end for Dynamics AX, via SharePoint the Hybrid cloud will be extended to the customers desktop / information workers, but still hosted in a hybrid way with the customer itself. Again this would solve the current problems that plague SalesForce.com's, Zing.com's, and Google.com's Enterprise 2.0 offerings. This is why it is Called: Software+Services vs. Software as a Service. The big difference, will make all the difference, and that's why the future of Dynamics AX keep getting brighter and brighter as well look forward to the full offerings of what software+services will be bringing to Dynamics AX customers!

Let me end ins saying maybe Microsoft is offering Enterprise 2.1, as they see the issues with the current Enterprise 2.0 offerings from SalesForce.com, Google.com, and so forth? So I should start calling Microsoft's Software+Services and Enterprise 2.1! :-)

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Источник: http://dynamics-ax.blogspot.com/2007...rprise-21.html