Reduce capacity costs

Every company faces a common challenge – e-mail attachments consume significant amounts of file storage, leading to expensive purchases of Capacity Add-Ons and difficulty in locating attachments.

AttachmentExtractor offers a cost-effective solution by automatically extracting e-mail & note attachments to inexpensive storage platforms like SharePoint or Azure Blob, without affecting the user experience. This saves up to 80% on capacity costs and improves the overall performance.

Calculate your potential savings

1. Your Dataverse Capacity Consumption:
Where do I find these values?
ActivityPointerBase:
 
GB
Attachment:
 
GB
AnnotationBase:
 
GB

in GB*
in US$**
Data Capacity Savings:
24
$11,520 per year ($960 per month)
File Capacity Savings:
212
$5,088 per year ($424 per month)
* Based on our experience the achievable reduction is: Data Capacity: up to 40%. File Capacity: up to 80%. (Get Details
** Calculation based on the following pricing for Capacity Add-Ons: Data Capacity: 40 USD/GB and month. File Capacity: 2 USD/GB and month.
1 Microsoft's data migration process only transfers emails that are older than 12 months. Newer emails are migrated once they reach this age, with the migration job running periodically every 30 to 60 days per tenant. AttachmentExtractor allows for the immediate extraction of emails, reducing data capacity in real-time without the need to wait for the 12-month threshold.

How does it work?

Instructions: Enter the current size of your ActivityPointerBase, Attachment and AnnotationBase table and hit “Calculate” to see your potential savings (Where do I find these values?)

550+ customers  have been able to reduce data capacity1 up to 40% and file capacity by up to striking 80% and benefit from the reduction of ongoing storage costs.

Move e-mails and files to SharePoint
or Azure Blob

Did you know that sometimes up to 70 percent of the Dataverse database consists of e-mail content and documents stored as notes or attachments?

Thanks to AttachmentExtractor there is a simple way to reduce your  capacity consumption. The tool copies or moves attachments & notes to either SharePoint or Azure Blob Storage releasing valuable space in your Dataverse data storage. The extraction process is fully transparent so users will not see a difference when accessing the files!

Save up to 80% of your capacity costs

Once the AttachmentExtractor service is running, you will see a a significant decrease of your capacity consumption:

  • File capacity: Attachment and AnnotationBase reduced by up to 80%
  • Data capacity: ActivityPointerBase reduced by up to 40%


AttachmentExtractor is our go-to solution

Attachment Extractor is our go-to solution when a customer has files stored in Dynamics 365. It’s simple to configure and monitor and provides a seamless solution to move big files to SharePoint.

Heidi Neuhauser, “CRM Heidi”

AttachmentExtractor fits your business model

Start your 14 days free trial

Follow the steps to get started :

  1. Create a free account
  2. Start the AttachmentExtractor service
  3. Connect your AttachmentExtractor service with Dataverse
  4. Save capacity costs

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Frequently Asked Questions

How long does the installation and configuration take?

When using our Online Service Configuration Wizard you are all set in about 30 minutes.

Where will the extracted content be stored?
AttachmentExtractor currently supports Microsoft SharePoint as well as Azure Blob to store attachments and e-mail content.
Is it possible to revert the extraction if necessary?
Yes, AttachmentExtractor comes with a revert-service option that enables you to bring back all extracted contents into your Dataverse.
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