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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 cloud product. Customer must not have previously purchased the same online product via legacy CSP or NCE.
I do not understand this sentence 100%. Is "customer" equivalent to "tenant"?
Would it be possible for this customer to use the Bridge to the Cloud 2 promotion even though there is already a BC SaaS environment (subscriptions without promotion) in the same tenant? The customer would like to create a new separate environment for BC for their German branch on the same tenant with the Bridge to the Cloud 2 promotion. (I already tested if it would be possible to order the additional BC subscription with the promo and yes, this is possible.)
It would be great if you could help here. Thank you very much.
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.- 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.
LicensingConcierge1Microsoft
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
- Thank you very much for your answer and your confirmation.
- The customer now wants to add another BC environment for a Swiss subsidiary on the same tenant and wants to know if this changes the fact, that they can use BTTC2 for the German BC environment. I would suggest, that this does not change the situation and BTTC2 can be used. Could you please confirm this?
- LicensingConcierge1
To clarify, you're asking if the scenario mentioned above is applicable to a company based in Switzerland, in addition to the US & German based companies?
If so, the response is the same as long as CSP program and promotion is available in the country where the company is located& they meet all requirements to enroll.
If this 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
- LicensingConcierge1
Hi JensH20457
I'm researching this scenario since a licensed user can potentially access all the environments associated with the tenant, I'm not sure how this is handled.
It's really a question for your local ROC (which is the MBSOrders team if in the US).
Please stand by and thank you in advance for your patience.
Regards,
Microsoft CSP Licensing Concierge
