Unlike other cloud solutions vendors, Microsoft has taken a broad approach to their cloud development, focusing on a strategy that reflects real business needs by including infrastructure, platform, and application layers. Because of this, Microsoft’s cloud CRM solution, Dynamics CRM Online, extends beyond itself to seamlessly interoperate with Outlook, Office, SharePoint and Lync, as well as cloud services such as Windows Azure and Office 365.
These capabilities, combined with the , have given Microsoft the differentiation it needs to take an aggressive cloud message to the marketplace. Part of that plan includes financially assisting companies interested switching cloud CRM vendors to begin using Dynamics CRM Online.
“There are some hard costs associated for customers that decide to move vendors. As customers are evaluating their options, we want to make it easier for them to make a move should they choose to do so,” said Michael Park, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Business Solutions Sales, Marketing, and Operations.
That is why Microsoft is offering between now and March 31, 2012. Each user license costs only $44 per month! With the cash incentive, an organization that buys 50 seats, gets $7,500; one that buys 500 seats, gets $75,000!
According to Park, this offer is just one aspect of Microsoft’s strategy to “enable our customers to build a cloud on their terms that will deliver improved agility and responsiveness, increased business alignment, and higher ROI for the long term.”
By Socius, a City, and California
