Microsoft reaches ERP milestone
eWeek | at | by Mike
Microsoft has reached the halfway point in its three-year march to converge four enterprise resource planning suites into a common technology platform.
But it's still an open question whether the campaign will deliver a fully converged suite that will hold its own in the midmarket that SAP and Oracle also covet, and whether customers still care.
The Redmond, Wash., company's Business Solutions unit released on June 18 the next iterations of two of the company's four business application suites: Dynamics GP 10 and SL 7. Both suites feature a new Office-like user interface, integration with Office 2007, Web services enablement and a common business portal architecture with a move over to SharePoint Server code. The upgrades complete Wave 1 of the two-wave process of converging Microsoft's four ERP suites.