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by Jeff Moad, MA Editorial Staff
Posted on Tuesday, June 13, 2006 12:51:00 PM Sign Up to receive Daily News Alerts in your E-mail Inbox    Taking a significant step on the path toward a single, consolidated enterprise application suite, Microsoft yesterday announced general availability of a major new release of its Dynamics AX ERP package. The new release, Dynamics AX 4.0, includes a simplified, role-based user interface and tight integration with key Microsoft infrastructure products such as SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services for analytics and Windows SharePoint Services, Microsoft's portal product. Dynamics AX (formerly called Axapta) becomes the first Microsoft ERP platform to include many of these features. Eventually other Microsoft enterprise application products -- including Dynamics NAV (Navision), Dynamics GP (Great Plains), and Dynamics SL (Solomon) -- will share similar features such as role-based user interfaces based on SharePoint Services. By 2008, as part of the company's Project Green, Microsoft plans to merge its existing ERP products into a single managed code base. (Read about Microsoft's master plan.) [Click to continue] |
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