Are you seeking a solution to lower your Dynamics 365 data storage costs?
Allow us to offer a practical and affordable solution that uses Azure Blob storage for efficient archiving, ensuring secure and easy access to your legacy data.
This frees up storage capacity in your Dynamics 365 environment but also reduces the cost per GB.
Managing CRM Data Storage
Dynamics 365 is the go-to solution for many organisations to enrich customer experiences and enhance operational efficiency. But, with expanding data volumes comes the challenge of mounting storage costs.
For instance, receiving emails with large attachments can significantly strain storage capacity. Organisations must choose between deleting data or paying an additional cost for increased Dataverse capacity.
Efficiently Archiving Emails and Attachments
Our solution activates custom rules using Microsoft Power Automate to automatically identify and move archive data into Azure Blob storage.
For example, this could apply a rule that archives notes, emails, and attachments older than two years.
This process will shunt legacy data into secure archived storage in accordance with your data retention policy while keeping it accessible within the Dynamics user interface.
Benefits of Using Azure Blob Storage
Compared to using the default Dataverse storage for legacy data, there are several benefits to using Azure Blob storage, including:
- Cost-effectiveness: Azure Blob storage provides equivalent functionality at a fraction of the cost of Dataverse data storage.
- Seamless accessibility: Your archived data remains accessible within the Dynamics interface without interrupting workflows. Real-time data is pulled from the stored blob to ensure that your data behaves as if held in Dataverse.
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Key Points
- Custom rules: Define rules to activate an automated data migration, customising the process to match your requirements and data retention policy.
- Power Automate integration: flows streamline and automate the entire archiving process.
- Security: Azure Blob storage provides robust encryption and security features to ensure your data remains secure.
- Compliance: Our solution will help you maintain compliance with data retention policies by archiving, not deleting, older email data, attachments and notes.
What is Azure Blob Storage?
Azure Blob Storage is integral to Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform for managing unstructured data.
Using the concept of “blobs” (Binary Large Objects) enables organisations to store large volumes of unstructured data efficiently. This can include documents, images, audio files, and videos.
Its design emphasises high scalability, robust security, and cost-effectiveness, aiming to optimise data management.
Discover Azure Blob Storage
Our flexible solution, which combines the strengths of Azure Blob storage and Microsoft Power Automate, can help you overcome rising Dynamics storage costs.
This can afford you significant savings and the peace of mind that your data remains easily accessible.
Boost your storage capacity and reduce costs at the same time. Contact us today to explore how this solution could work for your organisation.
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