Benefits of migrating to Dynamics online from on-premise:

• Up-to-date features: Migrating to cloud will let you access latest and greatest features offered by Microsoft. You could use these features to expand your digital transformation footprint to support your business.
• Cost savings: By migrating to cloud, you only pay for the resources you use, which can result in significant cost savings compared to maintaining on-premises hardware, software and storage.
• Scalability: Depending upon business you are in there could be peak/low business periods in a year. Dynamics infrastructure can be easily scaled up or down to meet the changing needs of your business, allowing you to quickly respond to changes in demand.
• Flexibility: Cloud-based resources can be accessed from anywhere with an internet connection, giving you and your employees greater flexibility to work from anywhere.
• Reliability: Microsoft invests heavily in the infrastructure to ensure high uptime and reliability.
• Security: Another area where Microsoft invests heavily is security and compliance measures to protect your data and applications. This will ensure that your client's data is secure and private.
• Reduced IT burden: Migrating to the cloud can reduce the burden on your IT staff, as the maintenance and management of the infrastructure is handled by the cloud provider.

Approaches you can leverage to migrate online:

Data migration: With this approach, your on-prem data will be pushed via 3rd party tools or custom built tools.

Pros:

• This approach works better when you are re-architecting your Dynamics implementation and you just need old data to be moved online.

Cons:

• If data volume is high, it may take several weeks to complete the migration. API calls in the Dynamics Online is throttled, this could result in overall migration delays.
• Audit logs cannot be migrated with this approach.
• Last modified dates could be updated to date of migration resulting in losing historical context.

On-Prem to Online migration:

We need to partner with Microsoft to get the database migrated online with this approach.

Pros:

• All of your on-premises data will be migrated online without the need for you to invest in third-party tools or custom methods. Audit logs and customizations will be safely migrated online.
• Audit logs and customizations will be safely migrated online.
• Last modified Date and time remains unchanged.

Cons:

• If there are deprecated features in the online world, you need to re-write certain customizations.

How can we help:

Itact is highly experienced in Power Platform, Dynamics on-prem/Online and Azure cloud platform. Backed by strong and experienced team, we will recommend you the right implementation approach that suits your business.