New Packaging and Licensing for Dynamics ERP

The new packaging plan Business Ready Licensing defines two product bundles common to all Dynamics ERP products and a pricing scheme based mainly on concurrent users. In addition, Microsoft will charge one price globally for the Dynamics ERP maintenance contract, called the Enhancement Plan, and will offer discounts on Dynamics CRM to ERP customers.

Two Editions, Per-User Pricing

Historically, customers have licensed Dynamics products module-by-module (module pricing differs for each product), working with MBS partners to determine the specific modules they required. On top of this a la carte pricing, GP, NAV, and SL offered distinct product editions-Professional and Standard. The Professional and Standard editions for a given product were similar functionally, but the Standard editions were intended for 10 or fewer users.

Business Ready Licensing simplifies this complex and disjointed landscape and largely does away with per-module pricing. The program defines two product bundles common to all Dynamics ERP products. Bundles are differentiated functionally instead of by user-limits, and pricing is based mainly on the number of concurrent users.