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Whats wrong with Microsoft??? Why is it too little … too late?? There are Open Source ERP packages going around now.. and what does it do? Go and create its own! Bill Gates has really lost it now!
Microsoft Corp. announced Tuesday the first iteration of its next-generation ERP suite, Dynamics GP 9.0, that brings roles-based user interfaces—and a growing integration across Microsoft’s infrastructure—to Windows, SharePoint Services portal and Visual Studio.
In addition to roles-based user interfaces, the GP 9.0 applications take on an Office look and feel, capitalizing on the familiarity—and ubiquity—of Microsoft’s Outlook e-mail software.
The GP 9.0 release is the first product installment in the company’s Dynamics road map, which looks to bring all four of Microsoft’s ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) suites into a single code base that sits on top of Microsoft’s .Net platform. Each of the suites, Great Plains—now GP—Axapta, Solomon and Navision, has been renamed under the Dynamics umbrella.
Formally known as Project Green, Dynamics has a several-year-long development cycle that Microsoft has broken down into two “wave” cycles.
Wave One, which forms the foundation for enhancements in GP 9.0, will share common client technology and be integrated with Office. It will include some roles-based user experiences, Sharepoint integration, and SQL-based BI (Business Intelligence) functionality that enables reporting from a contextual user interface. There will also be some Web services-based application components included in Wave One, which will roll out between now and 2007.
The second wave, due around 2008, will converge the business logic of all four suites and Microsoft CRM (Customer Relationship Management) into a single product. It will include models of all the business processes Microsoft intends to focus on, along with customization capabilities based on upgraded Visual Studio and .Net tools. A process model that combines the best processes from each separate release is also planned.
What GP 9.0 brings to the table from the overall Dynamics roadmap are four core components of Wave One: roles-based user experiences; portal and collaboration capabilities; SQL-based BI; and adaptive processes and Web services.
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