Previously, the Dynamics percentages had been reported under the Microsoft Business Division, which did not exist other than as a reporting entity. The only tidbit by Chris Suh, general manager of investor relations, during the earnings webcast this week was that two thirds of new customers of Dynamics CRM are opting for the cloud. There was a big push to highlight cloud results, although presumably some of the high growth reported is on a small base. Suh said that revenue from commercial cloud services, which include Office 363, grew by 103 percent. Microsoft also reported strong growth in SQL Server sales with what it calls SQL Server premium revenue up by more than 30 percent. Just to show how much the company buried results from many of its operations, the commercial segment had revenue of $11.2 billion
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Microsoft has rearranged its financial reporting. And with that switch, the little we have learned about Dynamics sales has disappeared with the first quarter ended September 30. For several years, Microsoft has given the percent change in Dynamics revenue. But even that has been taken away as the software giant lumped revenue in two major categories – consumer and devices, and commercial revenue.
