Trustmarque Microsoft Dynamics 365 Product Set
The Microsoft Dynamics 365 product sets (see Pricing) from Microsoft Partner (7 Designations). Our subscription plans offer cost effective options providing ultimate flexibility for users to have access to any Dynamics 365 product including but not limited to, Dynamics 365 for Sales, Field Service, Customer Service, and Project Service Automation.
Features
- Access to all of the Dynamics 365 product sets (non-exhaustive/below)
- Microsoft Partner (7 Designations) and MS Azure Expert MSP
- Planning and merchandising
- Effective case and process management out of the box
- Chat helps agents engage in real-time with customers.
- Sales Enterprise, Customer Service Enterprise, Field Service
- Work orders, Schedule and dispatch capabilities
- Automatically schedule work orders
- Financial management - General Ledger, AP/AR, budgeting/forecasting, financial reporting
- Core Organisation & HR management functionality
Benefits
- Benefits depending on the Dynamics 365 product sets (non-exhaustive/below)
- Create immersive shopping experiences across channels
- Personalised citizen service via any channel
- Multiple users can access Dynamics 365 applications through shared device.
- Greater flexibility of appointments and resource scheduling
- Automatically schedule work orders
- Assess your business, improve financial controls, optimise cashflow
- Complete enterprise resource planning solution
- Transform employee experiences with modern experiences to enable self-service
- Increase production speed, efficienct and product quality
Pricing
£0.70 a user a month
- Education pricing available
- Free trial available
Service documents
Request an accessible format
Framework
G-Cloud 14
Service ID
9 5 8 5 6 0 6 1 3 4 8 0 5 9 8
Contact
TRUSTMARQUE SOLUTIONS LIMITED
Lorraine Spence
Telephone: 01904 924089
Email: tenders@trustmarque.com
Service scope
- Software add-on or extension
- No
- Cloud deployment model
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- Public cloud
- Private cloud
- Community cloud
- Hybrid cloud
- Service constraints
- Full details of the Microsoft Dynamics 365 service can be found here - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/customer-insights/data/service-limits
- System requirements
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- Processor - 1.9GHz x86- or x64-bit dual core processor
- Memory - 2-GB RAM
- Display - Super VGA with a resolution of 1024x768
- Bandwidth greater than 1Megabit per second (125 KBps/Kilobyte per second)
- Latency under 150 ms
- Windows 10 - Internet Explorer 11, Microsoft Edge
- Windows 8.1 - Internet Explorer 11
- Windows 8 - IE10, Windows7 -IE10, IE12
- Support for Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Apple Safari
- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/dynamicscrm-2016/administering-dynamics-365/
User support
- Email or online ticketing support
- Email or online ticketing
- Support response times
- Subject to an agreed SLA
- User can manage status and priority of support tickets
- Yes
- Online ticketing support accessibility
- WCAG 2.1 AA or EN 301 549
- Phone support
- Yes
- Phone support availability
- 24 hours, 7 days a week
- Web chat support
- Web chat
- Web chat support availability
- 24 hours, 7 days a week
- Web chat support accessibility standard
- WCAG 2.1 AA or EN 301 549
- Web chat accessibility testing
- None
- Onsite support
- Yes, at extra cost
- Support levels
-
Technical support options come in various costs and benefits, depending on the needs of the customer. Further details regarding the support plans can be found here - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics-365/support
Also Premier Support is available at further cost. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/unifiedsupport/overview - Support available to third parties
- No
Onboarding and offboarding
- Getting started
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"Microsoft Dynamics 365 makes available comprehensive guidance, help, training and troubleshooting materials as part of the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Service. Within the Administration Portal, there are links to many of the resources available, including:
Help articles for users and administrators who need to manage Microsoft Dynamics 365.
Community forums/wikis where help articles and white papers are published
Service Health dashboard for information regarding outages/issues. Microsoft offers a range of services to organisations, eg FastTrack to aid onboarding to the service, and the Dynamics Learning Portal to help partners and organisations optimise the use of the service.
" - Service documentation
- Yes
- Documentation formats
- HTML
- End-of-contract data extraction
- At any point user can export data from Microsoft Dynamics 365. This use the Software Development Kit (SDK), manually export data using the data export functionally.
- End-of-contract process
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No more than 180 days after expiration or termination of Customer’s use of an Online Service, Microsoft will disable the account and delete Customer Data from the account.
Transfer of Customer Data. Unless Customer has opted out of the Standard Contractual Clauses, all transfers of Customer Data out of the European Union, European Economic Area, and Switzerland shall be governed by the Standard Contractual Clauses. Microsoft will abide by the requirements of European Economic Area and Swiss data protection law regarding the collection, use, transfer, retention, and other processing of personal data from the European Economic Area and Switzerland. For more see http://trustoffice365.com/
Using the service
- Web browser interface
- Yes
- Supported browsers
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- Microsoft Edge
- Firefox
- Chrome
- Application to install
- Yes
- Compatible operating systems
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- Android
- IOS
- Linux or Unix
- MacOS
- Windows
- Designed for use on mobile devices
- Yes
- Differences between the mobile and desktop service
- Dynamics 365 allows access and functionality to be provided via mobile devices with via a web browser or mobile application. The solution supports a model that only requires configuration to be carried once regardless of how the solution is accessed.
- Service interface
- No
- User support accessibility
- None or don’t know
- API
- Yes
- What users can and can't do using the API
-
The Web API provides a development experience that can be used across a wide variety of programming languages, platforms, and devices. The Web API implements the OData (Open Data Protocol), version 4.0, an OASIS standard for building and consuming RESTful APIs over rich data sources. Further details can be found here -https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/dynamicscrm-2016/developers-guide/mt593051(v=crm.8)
The web API is part of the Dynamics 365 Software Development Kit (SDK). The SDK contains a wealth of resources, including code samples, which are designed allow powerful vertical applications to be built using the Microsoft Dynamics 365 platform. It is a guide for developers writing solutions, server-side code, client applications and extensions, custom business logic, plug-ins, integration modules and custom workflow modules. - API documentation
- Yes
- API documentation formats
- HTML
- API sandbox or test environment
- Yes
- Customisation available
- Yes
- Description of customisation
- Microsoft Dynamics 365 is a highly customisable and flexible business application. The bulk of the customisations can be carried out without requiring custom development. This inclused amending and creating new entities, forms, view and workflow processes. For cases that do require custom development, Microsoft provides a software developer kit (SDK).
Scaling
- Independence of resources
- The service operates multiple scale groups in each data centre and automatically provisions new customers into a scale group. The architecture of scale groups is designed to meet the many needs of operating a service at scale, including security, scalability, performance, tenant isolation, serviceability, and monitoring. Each customer has their own individual database, separate from other customers’ databases. Data processing is logically segregated through capabilities specifically developed to help build, manage, and secure multitenant environments.
Analytics
- Service usage metrics
- Yes
- Metrics types
- Organization Insights provides quick view of key Dynamics 365 metrics such as the number of active users and page requests. The Dynamics 365 Administration Portal provides an overview of each instances 'service health' including service degradation and storage capacity
- Reporting types
- Real-time dashboards
Resellers
- Supplier type
- Reseller providing extra support
- Organisation whose services are being resold
- Microsoft
Staff security
- Staff security clearance
- Other security clearance
- Government security clearance
- None
Asset protection
- Knowledge of data storage and processing locations
- Yes
- Data storage and processing locations
- United Kingdom
- User control over data storage and processing locations
- Yes
- Datacentre security standards
- Complies with a recognised standard (for example CSA CCM version 3.0)
- Penetration testing frequency
- At least once a year
- Penetration testing approach
- ‘IT Health Check’ performed by a Tigerscheme qualified provider or a CREST-approved service provider
- Protecting data at rest
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- Physical access control, complying with CSA CCM v3.0
- Physical access control, complying with SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
- Encryption of all physical media
- Other
- Other data at rest protection approach
- For data at rest, the service deploys BitLocker with AES 256-bit encryption on servers that hold all messaging data, including email and IM conversations, as well as content stored in SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business. BitLocker volume encryption addresses the threats of data theft or exposure from lost, stolen, or inappropriately decommissioned computers and disks. Your organization’s files are distributed across multiple Azure Storage containers, each with separate credentials, rather than storing them in a single database.
- Data sanitisation process
- Yes
- Data sanitisation type
- Deleted data can’t be directly accessed
- Equipment disposal approach
- Complying with a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v.30, CAS (Sanitisation) or ISO/IEC 27001
Data importing and exporting
- Data export approach
- Data can be exported from Microsoft Dynamics 365 through the Export to Excel feature and using web service APIs documented in the Dynamics 365 SDK. Data can also be exported using the data export service.
- Data export formats
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- CSV
- Other
- Other data export formats
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- Data in various open formats be exported from Dynamics365
- Use the web service APIs documented in Dynamics 365 SDK.
- Files in XML Spreadsheet, TXT, CSV, XLSX
- Data import formats
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- CSV
- Other
- Other data import formats
-
- Data in various open formats be imported into Dynamics365
- Use the web service APIs documented in Dynamics 365 SDK.
- Files in XML Spreadsheet, TXT, CSV, XLSX
Data-in-transit protection
- Data protection between buyer and supplier networks
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- TLS (version 1.2 or above)
- Legacy SSL and TLS (under version 1.2)
- Other
- Other protection between networks
- For data in transit, all customer-facing servers negotiate a secure session by using TLS/SSL with client machines to secure the customer data. This applies to protocols on any device used by clients, such as Skype for Business Online, Outlook, and Outlook on the web. See also http://aka.ms/Office365CE
- Data protection within supplier network
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- TLS (version 1.2 or above)
- IPsec or TLS VPN gateway
- Other
- Other protection within supplier network
- Please see http://aka.ms/Office365CE
Availability and resilience
- Guaranteed availability
- https://www.microsoft.com/licensing/docs
- Approach to resilience
- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/dynamicscrm-2016/developers-guide/hh547453(v=crm.8)
- Outage reporting
- Via the service status portal, Email, Alerts or Mobile Application
Identity and authentication
- User authentication needed
- Yes
- User authentication
-
- 2-factor authentication
- Identity federation with existing provider (for example Google Apps)
- Username or password
- Other
- Other user authentication
-
Modern authentication brings Active Directory Authentication Library (ADAL)-based sign-in to Office client apps across platforms, enabling sign-in features such as Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), SAML-based third-party identity providers with Office client applications, and smart card and certificate-based authentication.
Cloud identity authentication - Users with cloud identities are authenticated using traditional challenge/response.
Federated identity authentication - Users with federated identities are authenticated using Active Directory Federation Services 2.0 or other Security Token Services.
MFA for the service - users are required to acknowledge a phone call, text, or an app notification on their smartphone after correctly entering their password.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/admin/m365-feature-descriptions?view=o365-worldwide&tabs=User-account-management - Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels
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The service comes with a set of administrator roles that you can assign to users in your organization. Each admin role maps to common business functions, and gives those people permissions to do specific tasks the the service admin center.
https://support.office.com/en-gb/article/About-Office-365-admin-roles-da585eea-f576-4f55-a1e0-87090b6aaa9d?ui=en-US&rs=en-GB&ad=GB
https://support.office.com/en-gb/article/Assign-admin-roles-in-Office-365-eac4d046-1afd-4f1a-85fc-8219c79e1504?ui=en-US&rs=en-GB&ad=GB - Access restriction testing frequency
- At least once a year
- Management access authentication
- Username or password
Audit information for users
- Access to user activity audit information
- Users have access to real-time audit information
- How long user audit data is stored for
- Between 6 months and 12 months
- Access to supplier activity audit information
- Users receive audit information on a regular basis
- How long supplier audit data is stored for
- Between 6 months and 12 months
- How long system logs are stored for
- Between 6 months and 12 months
Standards and certifications
- ISO/IEC 27001 certification
- Yes
- Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001
- BSI
- ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date
- 26-Feb-18
- What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover
- None
- ISO 28000:2007 certification
- No
- CSA STAR certification
- Yes
- CSA STAR accreditation date
- 29/04/2016
- CSA STAR certification level
- Level 1: CSA STAR Self-Assessment
- What the CSA STAR doesn’t cover
- None
- PCI certification
- No
- Cyber essentials
- Yes
- Cyber essentials plus
- Yes
- Other security certifications
- Yes
- Any other security certifications
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- EU Model Clauses
- EU-U.S. Privacy Shield
- ISO 27001
- ISO 27018
- SOC 1, SOC 2
- FIPS 140-2
- HIPAA/HITECH
- CCSL (IRAP)
- Cyber Essentials Plus
Security governance
- Named board-level person responsible for service security
- Yes
- Security governance certified
- Yes
- Security governance standards
-
- ISO/IEC 27001
- Other
- Other security governance standards
- FISMA/FedRamp, EU Model Clauses, HIPAA/HITECH, ISB 1596, ISO 27018, SASE16 SOC1 & SOC 2
- Information security policies and processes
- The Microsoft Cloud Security Policy is available via the Service Trust Platform aka.ms/stp
Operational security
- Configuration and change management standard
- Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
- Configuration and change management approach
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The service has developed formal standard operating procedures (SOPs) governing the change management process. These SOPs cover both software development and hardware change and release management, and are consistent with established regulatory guidelines including ISO 27001, SOC 1/SOC 2, NIST 800-53, and others.
Microsoft also uses Operational Security Assurance (OSA), a framework that incorporates the knowledge gained through a variety of capabilities that are unique to Microsoft. OSA combines this knowledge with the experience of running hundreds of thousands of servers in datacenters around the world. - Vulnerability management type
- Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
- Vulnerability management approach
- In support of the Information Security Policy, the service runs multiple layers of antivirus software to ensure protection from common malicious software. Servers within the the service environment run anti-virus software that scans files uploaded and downloaded from the service for viruses or other malware. Additionally, all mails coming into the service run through the Exchange Online Protection engine, which uses multiple antivirus and antispam engines to capture known and new threats against the system. Microsoft has its own Security Response Center (MSRC) that also supplies information to all our customers covering the whole range Microsoft products.
- Protective monitoring type
- Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
- Protective monitoring approach
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The service employs sophisticated software-defined service instrumentation and monitoring that integrates at the component or server level, the datacenter edge, our network backbone, Internet exchange sites, and at the real or simulated user level, providing visibility when a service disruption is occurring and pinpointing its cause.
Proactive monitoring continuously measures the performance of key subsystems of the the service services platform against the established boundaries for acceptable service performance and availability. When a threshold is reached or an irregular event occurs, the monitoring system generates warnings so that operations staff can address the threshold or event. - Incident management type
- Conforms to a recognised standard, for example, CSA CCM v3.0 or ISO/IEC 27035:2011 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
- Incident management approach
- Please see http://aka.ms/DynamicsSIM
Secure development
- Approach to secure software development best practice
- Independent review of processes (for example CESG CPA Build Standard, ISO/IEC 27034, ISO/IEC 27001 or CSA CCM v3.0)
Public sector networks
- Connection to public sector networks
- No
Social Value
- Social Value
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Social Value
- Fighting climate change
- Covid-19 recovery
- Tackling economic inequality
- Equal opportunity
- Wellbeing
Fighting climate change
Trustmarque's Environmental Policy and Carbon Reduction Plan include delivering and supporting actions on reducing our carbon footprint and our impact on climate change. We have set a target to achieve net zero by 2035. Our policies include 'Virtual First 'meetings, energy reduction plans, flexible working, green software solutions and associated services from innovative suppliers to promote digital environmental innovation, promoting sustainable procurement. Please contact Trustmarque to discuss the provision of Social Value. Any Social Value deliverable must be agreed with Trustmarque and be proportionate to the contract value and scope.Covid-19 recovery
Trustmarque can provide re-training for those left disadvantaged by Covid-19 through skills training, CV and interview workshops. We promote employment and skills by working with Buyers to identify individuals who can benefit from our incentives, which can include workshops to develop and help those who face barriers to employment and increase digital accessibility for communities and hard to reach groups. We can also provide access to apply for apprenticeship and work experience opportunities. Please contact Trustmarque to discuss the provision of Social Value. Any Social Value deliverable must be agreed with Trustmarque and be proportionate to the contract value and scope.Tackling economic inequality
Trustmarque tackles economic inequality through operating a diverse supply chain including many SMEs and micro businesses. Our access to a broad range of suppliers ensures both resilience and capacity. Trustmarque is continuously refining our supply chain to meet the ever-changing needs of our customers and to ensure we can always offer the best solution through capability, capacity and resilience at the best price. Our vendor agnostic approach among suppliers allows us to support innovation and disruptive technologies to deliver lower cost and/or higher quality goods and services to customers. Please contact Trustmarque to discuss the provision of Social Value. Any Social Value deliverable must be agreed with Trustmarque and be proportionate to the contract value and scope.Equal opportunity
Trustmarque operates an Equal Opportunities policy that outlines our commitments including creating a workforce that reflects the diversity of our communities. Other initiatives include supporting disabled people to develop skills and supporting in-work progression. Trustmarque is a Level 1 Disability Confident employer, demonstrating our commitment to employing a diverse workforce so all can flourish. We are committed to a policy of treating all its employees and applicants equally. We are committed to creating an environment where diversity is valued and respected and where our people can bring their different perspectives, and whole selves to work. Inclusivity and equal opportunities for all colleagues are paramount. Trustmarque is a Living wage employer, and we offer 14–18-month apprenticeships. In February 2024 we launched Encircle our DEI network – made by colleagues, for colleagues to support Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the workplace. Please contact Trustmarque to discuss the provision of Social Value. Any Social Value deliverable must be agreed with Trustmarque and be proportionate to the contract value and scope.Wellbeing
We align our approach to mental wellbeing to the six standards in the Mental Health at Work commitment, including staff work and wellbeing sessions, flexible working, speak-up policy, etc. We have a dedicated team of qualified Mental Health First Aiders who offer support to all Trustmarque Group Colleagues to offer advice regarding how to support and signpost – this is linked to the ALGEE mental health action plan. The Work+Wellbeing team also facilitate workshops or share resources to support wellbeing within the workplace, this can be found on our Work+Wellbeing team via the Trustmarque Hub. We have an Employee Assistance Programme which is available 24/7 to all Trustmarque Group Colleagues. Please contact Trustmarque to discuss the provision of Social Value. Any Social Value deliverable must be agreed with Trustmarque and be proportionate to the contract value and scope.
Pricing
- Price
- £0.70 a user a month
- Discount for educational organisations
- Yes
- Free trial available
- Yes
- Description of free trial
- Yes https://dynamics.microsoft.com/en-gb/dynamics-365-free-trial/
- Link to free trial
- https://dynamics.microsoft.com/en-gb/dynamics-365-free-trial/