Today i watched a live web session about BC Cloud Update strategies. The participants had the option to ask questions, which were answered immediatly.

One of the most asked questions was: How can companies get access to BC Cloud in non supported countries? The answers were in my opinion not really satisfying, because the answer was simply “Not now, maybe in the future….”. UK is supported, but not Ireland, the neighbor country, means North Ireland is, Republic Ireland is not. The Microsoft Headquarter Europe is settled in Dublin, Republic Ireland. 😉 Bit strange. Microsoft adds new countries over the time. Support for India is planned, but with no details about the release date. Till then indian companies can use ITAX.

So what can companies and CSPs/ASPs do now, to provide BC Cloud or kind of … ?

• There are workarounds to create tenants for any country. You can get a W1 tenant (no localisation).
  • “How to create a demo account for any country version of Business Central“
  • “How to try Dynamics 365 Business Central from non-supported countries“
• To get a full featured cloud based BC a strategy is to provide BC On-premise in an Azure Cloud virtual server with Azure Active Directory or as a hosted service in a nationwide accessible datacenter. Also small private clouds are possible as environment.
  The CSP/ASP has then the responsibility to provide different releases and care for updates. That is much work, but why not. Otherwise many companies get lost to other Cloud based ERP systems.

Current Availability for BC Cloud:

Development of custom localisations