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by Alan Alper, MA Editorial Staff
Posted on Wednesday, February 22, 2006 5:50:00 PM Sign Up to receive Daily News Alerts in your E-mail Inbox    | Abstract: | Dynamics Snap enables Dynamics ERP and CRM customers to use Office 2003 to access and share mission-critical data and workflows
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Beating partner and competitor SAP AG to the punch, Microsoft Corp. released software that it says will enable customers of its Dynamics AX ERP and CRM packages to use Office 2003 to access and share mission-critical data as well as initiate cross-enterprise collaborative workflows. The software, called Dynamics Snap, "snaps in" to Office 2003 to enable, for example, Outlook calendars to connect with data and business processes managed by Microsoft's Dynamics AX and CRM enterprise software, eliminating the need to jump between the two applications' environments. From Office, for instance, Dynamics enterprise software users can now perform tasks such as scheduling vacations, filling out timesheets, and inserting financial and customer data into spreadsheets and word processing documents that can be shared via email, Microsoft said. Interestingly, Snap is similar to functionality that Microsoft and SAP are jointly developing under the code name Mendocino, which will give Office users access to mySAP ERP data and business processes, according to a statement from Satya Nadella, corporate vice president of Microsoft Business Solutions (MBS), the business unit responsible for the software giant's enterprise computing strategy. SAP previewed Mendocino last year, and expects to make the software generally available in July of this year. [Click to continue] |
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