Partner Hosted
The hosted model is the utilization of cloud technology. With the partner-hosted model, you pay a monthly or annual subscription fee to a Microsoft partner such as xRM in exchange for accessing Microsoft software as a service. You essentially rent the software from xRM in order to utilize it. Contrast that with the on-premise model. A given business application, if you were to purchase it directly and run it on your own servers, would require a substantial upfront investment for software and hardware. An on-premise model would also entail the ongoing cost of time and money for your IT team to maintain that software and hardware effectively. You can avoid these expenses by subscribing to the application as a service via the internet. In this case, xRM hosts and maintains the application while you focus on your business.
There are a few differences between the partner-hosted model and the Microsoft-hosted model. xRM offers month-to-month subscriptions while Microsoft typically requires a 1-year commitment. xRM offers a 1-seat minimum in order to sign up for a hosted service, whereas Microsoft requires a 5-seat minimum. For example, compare
xRM-hosted Microsoft CRM with CRM Online.
As a Microsoft partner and application service provider, xRM hosts a number of Microsoft services that businesses can utilize through cloud technology. xRM, as a software-development house, is able to integrate these services together and provide value-added software modifications and customizations to arrive at a complete business solution.
The following is a list of Microsoft services we host:
For more information about signing up for an xRM-hosted solution, please
contact us.