During the Microsoft World Wide Partner Conference 2008 the topic of the week was Software + Services.
Software + Services is Microsoft’s answer to the upcoming Saas market.

To put it simple, Microsoft wants to offer their customer the freedom of choice by offering their products in 3 versions, On-premise, Hosted and Online(Saas).
Microsoft claims to offer exactly the same products in 3 version to make hybrid solutions and switching between version very easy.
This sounds nice, but seeing is believing.

Yesterday I read a Microsoft whitepaper about switching between a Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online deployment to a Microsoft Dynamics CRM On-premise deployment.
Basically the steps are requesting a copy of your Online database from Microsoft and redeploying this database On-premise. With the redeployment, you not only move your data, but also your configuration and your workflows.
This really convinced me: their claim is a promise and that they can deliver it !!!

In my opinion Microsoft has got a strong proposition with their Software + Services strategy.

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