Dynamics Ax on Cloud

SaaS – Software as a Service

IaaS – Infrastructure as a Service

PaaS – Platform as a Service

Multi-tenant (Serving multiple customers in the same instance of the software)

Today Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 & 2012 are not designed to be multi-tenant, 100% SaaS offerings.

This applies for Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 and Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012.

Microsoft does plan to have a total SaaS offering in the future for Microsoft Dynamics AX. Until then, Microsoft Dynamics AX will exist in the Cloud as sitting on top of IaaS, or in a Hybrid cloud mode.

The next release of AX, version 7, will be developed to run on Azure First!

Moving forward to Microsoft Dynamics AX 7.0, it is being developed to run 100% on Microsoft Azure, PaaS offering. It's being developed first, for the cloud, but still the same applies that it can 100% run on-premise.

This flexibility because not everyone wants to run 100% of their total business solution on the cloud, and companies want options.

For some it's all-in, everything, while others, it will be a hyrbid, best of breed for their case mix of SaaS, IaaS & PaaS cloud offerings that makes up their total overall solution.