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Promo Bridge to the Cloud 2: Possible if another subsidiary has licensed BC in the same tenant?
We have a customer who already has a BC SaaS environment in their tenant, but it is for a subsidiary in the US. The Bridge to the Cloud 2 Promotion Guide states the following: - New customer on clo...
Hi JensH20457
(also Nick_Beacroft blakecheek)
I discussed your scenario w/ the ROC here in the US and they confirmed that your German based customer can still be eligible to the BTTC 2 promotion for as long as CSP program is available & they meet all other requirements to enroll.
If this (or someone else's) reply answers your question, please Accept as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly. Otherwise, please let me know if you need further assistance on this topic.
Regards,Microsoft CSP Licensing Concierge
Are they still simultaneously licensing legacy ERP products? I ask because one of the other criteria is that you must be using BTTC2 to migrate from your legacy ERP to Business Central.
Would the customer even be able to meet the annualized pricing by adding another environment in their BC instance?
Even in knowing those items, I'd still question their eligibility since they already have Business Central in the tenant, and I define customer as tenant not as separate entities that may be sharing a tenant.
The spirit of the promotion is to help customers migrate to the cloud, which it sounds like your customer is in the process of; not just to get cheaper licenses which seems to be more the desire/ask in this case.
Would the customer even be able to meet the annualized pricing by adding another environment in their BC instance?
Even in knowing those items, I'd still question their eligibility since they already have Business Central in the tenant, and I define customer as tenant not as separate entities that may be sharing a tenant.
The spirit of the promotion is to help customers migrate to the cloud, which it sounds like your customer is in the process of; not just to get cheaper licenses which seems to be more the desire/ask in this case.
- The US subsidiary does not license legacy ERP products. They started with BC SaaS and had no older environment in the past. The German company does license Dynamics NAV with active enhancement plan, so from this point of view they should be eligible to use BTTC2. And no, they would not meet the annualized pricing by adding another environment.
- I think that gives you your answer then, right?
Even if the definition of customer stretched to "Company A and its subsidiaries" instead of tenant, that additional environment would have a difficult time maintaining the annualized total spend to be appropriately eligible for BTTC2. For those reasons alone, the ROC would probably deny it.- The license boundary is the tenant, and I believe this means the customer and its affiliates as a single licensing entity.
Whilst it may be technically possible to purchase the BTTC2, I do not think this would meet the terms of the offer as the customer's tenant is not new to BC licenses.
Worth asking ROC the question though.
