Self-Hosting DynamicPoint Applications: Keeping AP, Expenses, and Portals Securely in Your Azure / Microsoft 365 Tenant

by | Sep 29, 2025 | Data Security

For organizations in government, defense, or other regulated industries, data residency and security are top priorities. With DynamicPoint’s applications, EasyAP365 for AP invoice automation, EasyEXP365 for employee expense management, and Portals for customer and vendor collaboration, you can self-host the entire solution inside your own Microsoft 365 tenant and Azure subscription.

Because these solutions are built on the Microsoft 365 framework (SharePoint, Power Apps, Power Automate, Entra ID), self-hosting ensures that your business processes are modernized while data, identity, and integrations stay under your control.

Self-Hosting Benefits Across Business Processes

Benefit

AP Invoice Automation (EasyAP365)

Employee Expense Management (EasyEXP365)

Customer & Vendor Portals

Data residency & sovereignty

Invoices and vendor documents are stored in your SharePoint tenant; ERP integrations stay within your Azure subscription.

Receipts, mileage logs, and personal expense data remain inside your tenant’s document libraries.

Shared contracts, sales orders, POs, and onboarding documents are kept in your ERP & SharePoint, not in third-party SaaS.

Identity & access control

Invoice approvals and financial workflows governed by Azure AD policies.

Expense submission, approval, and auditing managed via your existing authentication rules.

Vendors & Customers access portals under your external sharing and guest policies.

Compliance & audit readiness

Finance teams apply retention labels, DLP, and audit logs to invoice workflows.

HR and finance can enforce conditional access, MFA, and audit trails on expense reports.

Regulatory and contractual obligations supported by built-in Microsoft 365 compliance features.

Integration security

ERP and accounting system connections run through secure Azure services in your subscription.

Reimbursements connect securely to accounting & ERP systems under your network controls.

Portal integrations (ERP, CRM, or document workflows) use your tenant’s connectors and APIs.

User trust & assurance

Vendors know their invoices never leave your environment.

Employees are assured their personal and financial data stays within company boundaries.

Customers and vendors interact with your controlled environment, meeting residency laws.

Why Self Hosting Matters

The common thread between AP invoice automation, employee expense management, and portal collaboration is that each process handles sensitive data tied to finance, employees, or external parties. Self-hosting inside your Microsoft 365 and Azure environment means:

1. Data residency & sovereignty – because the SharePoint/Microsoft 365 tenant and Azure subscription are under your control, you can ensure data remains in a specific geography and under your retention/backup policies.
2. Reduced surface for data exfiltration – credentials, access controls and app registrations are issued and governed by your Entra ID (Azure AD), so you don’t have to trust a third-party identity store.
3. Auditability & compliance – logs, conditional access policies, and Data Loss Prevention (DLP) can be applied at the tenant and Azure levels, giving central security teams visibility and policy enforcement.
4. Certainty for procurement & supply-chain reviews – because deployments happen into customer-owned tenants/subscriptions, security assessments can be done against your environment and architecture rather than an external SaaS provider.

 

DynamicPoint’s development approach, of building applications entirely within the Microsoft 365 framework, is what makes this flexibility possible. Customers can modernize and automate business processes without giving up control of where their data lives or how it is secured.