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This article shows a comparison of features available in cloud vs. on-premises for the following applications:
Information about the development and administration features is included, as well.
The following tables list the application areas. Cloud and on-premises support is listed for the feature as a whole. Where specific features differ from the area overall, the features are listed on a separate line in the Feature column.
Area | Feature | Cloud | On-premises |
---|---|---|---|
Compliance and certifications | Yes | Yes | |
SOC 1 Type 1 certification | Yes | No | |
Data management and integration | Yes | Yes | |
Export data to your own data warehouse | Yes | Yes | |
Enable the export of incremental updates to a data entity | Yes | Yes | |
Data integrations | Yes | Yes | |
Document management | Yes | Yes | |
Financial management | Yes | Yes | |
Help | Yes | No | |
Human resources | Yes | Yes | |
Intelligence | Yes | Yes | |
Electronic reporting (ER) | Yes | Yes | |
ER: Integration with LCS | Yes | No | |
ER: Integration with SharePoint | Yes | No | |
ER: Integration with Regulatory Configuration Services (RCS) | Yes | No | |
ER: Uses local file system as storage of ER configurations accessible via ER repositories | No | Yes | |
Integration with PowerBI.com | Yes | No | |
Integration with PowerBI Desktop | No | Yes | |
Analytical workspaces | Yes | No | |
Intelligent business process: Recommendations | Yes | No | |
Authoring Power BI reports with OData using Power BI desktop or Excel PowerQuery tools | Yes | No | |
SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) supports scaling out | Yes | Yes | |
Telemetry is transferred into the cloud | Yes | No | |
Lifecycle services | Yes | Yes | |
Configurable business processes | Yes | No | |
Localizations | Yes | Yes | |
Mobile app, workspaces, and platform | Yes | Yes | |
Office integration | Yes | Yes | |
Organization administration | Yes | Yes | |
Payroll | Yes | Yes | |
Direct deposit | Yes | No | |
Project management and accounting | Yes | Yes | |
Security | Yes | Yes | |
Service management | Yes | Yes | |
Web client | Yes | Yes | |
Task recorder - Save or load task recordings from the BPM library | Yes | No | |
Support | Yes | Yes | |
Access to Support via the Help & Support menu | Yes | No | |
Business events | Yes | Yes (either internet connectivity is required or custom endpoints must be implemented to send/receive business events within intranet) |
Area | Feature | Cloud | On-premises |
---|---|---|---|
Asset management | Yes | Yes | |
Compliance and certifications | Yes | Yes | |
SOC 1 Type 1 certification | Yes | No | |
Cost accounting | Yes | Yes | |
Cost accounting content pack for Power BI | Yes | No | |
Cost accounting workspace for mobile app | Yes | No | |
Cost management | Yes | Yes | |
Cost management content pack for Power BI | Yes | No | |
Data management and integration | Yes | Yes | |
Configuration-driven extension | Yes | No | |
Export data to your own data warehouse | Yes | Yes | |
Enable the export of incremental updates to a data entity | Yes | Yes | |
Data integrations | Yes | Yes | |
Document management | Yes | Yes | |
Help | Yes | No | |
Intelligence | Yes | Yes | |
Electronic reporting (ER) | Yes | Yes | |
ER: Integration with LCS | Yes | No | |
ER: Integration with SharePoint | Yes | No | |
ER: Integration with Regulatory Configuration Services (RCS) | Yes | No | |
ER: Uses local file system as storage of ER configurations accessible via ER repositories | No | Yes | |
Integration with PowerBI.com | Yes | No | |
Integration with PowerBI Desktop | No | Yes | |
Analytical workspaces | Yes | No | |
Intelligent business process: Recommendations | Yes | No | |
Authoring Power BI reports with OData using Power BI desktop or Excel PowerQuery tools | Yes | No | |
SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) supports scaling out | Yes | Yes | |
Telemetry is transferred into the cloud | Yes | No | |
Inventory management | Yes | Yes | |
Lifecycle services | Yes | Yes | |
Configurable business processes | Yes | No | |
Localizations | Yes | Yes | |
Manufacturing | Yes | Yes | |
Master planning and forecasting | Yes | Yes | |
Planning optimization | Yes | No | |
Demand forecasting | Yes | No | |
Mobile app, workspaces, and platform | Yes | Yes | |
Office integration | Yes | Yes | |
Organization administration | Yes | Yes | |
Procurement and sourcing | Yes | Yes | |
Punch-out to external catalog from purchase requisition | Yes | No | |
Purchase spend analysis Power BI reports | Yes | No | |
Product information management | Yes | Yes | |
Product master data | Yes | Yes | |
Production | Yes | Yes | |
Production performance Power BI reports | Yes | No | |
Project management and accounting | Yes | Yes | |
Sales | Yes | Yes | |
Sales and profitability performance Power BI reports | Yes | No | |
Security | Yes | Yes | |
Service management | Yes | Yes | |
Supply chain management | Yes | Yes | |
Transportation management | Yes | Yes | |
Vendor collaboration | Yes | No | |
Warehouse management | Yes | Yes | |
Mobile warehouse app | Yes | Yes | |
Warehousing Power BI reports | Yes | No | |
Web client | Yes | Yes | |
Task recorder - Save or load task recordings from the BPM library | Yes | No | |
Support | Yes | Yes | |
Access to Support via the Help & Support menu | Yes | No |
To see a list of capabilities that are available in on-premises deployments, see Commerce capabilities that are available in on-premises deployments.
This table applies to the Human Resources stand-alone version.
Area | Feature | Cloud | On-premises |
---|---|---|---|
All Human Resources areas | All Human Resources features | Yes | No |
Note
For the comparison of cloud vs. on-premise of a migrated Human resources environment on the merged infrastructure, see Dynamics 365 Finance.
Area | Feature | Cloud | On-premises |
---|---|---|---|
Build and test | Yes | Yes | |
Extensibility | Yes | Yes | |
Monitoring and telemetry | Yes | Yes | |
Platform compatibility | Yes | Yes | |
Servicing | Yes | Yes | |
Servicing environments | Yes | No | |
Trace Parser | Yes | Yes | |
PerfTimer | Yes | Yes* | |
Upgrade | Yes | Yes | |
Upgrade | Yes | No | |
Upgrade and support for previous versions | Yes | No | |
Visual Studio development | Yes | Yes |
* In on-premises environments, PerfTimer only shows results for the client.
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