Comparison of cloud and on-premises features

This article shows a comparison of features available in cloud vs. on-premises for the following applications:

• Dynamics 365 Finance
• Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management
• Dynamics 365 Commerce
• Dynamics 365 Human Resources

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.

Dynamics 365 Finance

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)

Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management

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

Dynamics 365 Commerce

To see a list of capabilities that are available in on-premises deployments, see Commerce capabilities that are available in on-premises deployments.

Dynamics 365 Human Resources

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.

Development and administration features

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.