Business Central Cloud in non supported countries.

 

 

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:

Country/Region	Localized by	Availability
Australia	Microsoft	Available
Austria	Microsoft	Available
Belgium	Microsoft	Available
Canada	Microsoft	Available
Colombia	Partner	Available
Croatia	Partner	Available
Czechia	Microsoft	Available
Denmark	Microsoft	Available
Estonia	Partner	Available
Finland	Microsoft	Available
France	Microsoft	Available
Germany	Microsoft	Available
Hong Kong SAR	Partner	Available
Hungary	Partner	Available
Iceland	Microsoft	Available
Indonesia	Partner	Available
Italy	Microsoft	Available
Japan	Partner	Available
Latvia	Partner	Available
Malaysia	Partner	Available
Mexico	Microsoft	Available
Netherlands	Microsoft	Available
New Zealand	Microsoft	Available
Norway	Microsoft	Available
Peru	Partner	Available
Philippines	Partner	Available
Poland	Partner	Available
Portugal	Partner	Available
Russia (on-premises only)	Microsoft	Available
Serbia	Partner	Available
Singapore	Partner	Available
Slovenia	Partner	Available
South Africa	Partner	Available
South Korea	Partner	Available
Spain	Microsoft	Available
Sweden	Microsoft	Available
Switzerland	Microsoft	Available
Taiwan	Partner	Available
Thailand	Partner	Available
United Arab Emirates	Partner	Available
United Kingdom	Microsoft	Available
United States	Microsoft	Available
Vietnam	Partner	Available

Development of custom localisations