In episode 95 of the Leadership Minute, practitioner analyst and CIO Kenny Mullican discusses Microsoft‘s new archive feature in Dynamics 365 for Finance. He explains how it should help enterprises reduce costs for moving cloud-based data.
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Highlights
00:53 — With cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, getting information into business intelligence (BI) and reporting applications works differently than when using on-premises systems.
01:01 — For example, with Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Supply Chain, you don’t have direct access to a SQL database. If you need to move data from the cloud into your SQL Server for BI and reporting, you’ll get charged based on how much you move. You could be paying several thousand dollars a month just to keep your data synchronized, Kenny says.
01:55 — Microsoft will soon release a new archive data feature for Dynamics 365 for Finance that allows you to move older records into a separate historical table. It looks just like the main table but doesn’t have the same indexes, so it takes up less space. “More importantly, it keeps the main table slimmed down to just the current active records,” Kenny says. This should help save on data movement costs.
03:02 — The archive data feature will be available as a preview prerelease in July, but Kenny says you can try it out early, and he outlines the steps to do so.
