Microsoft finds navision is more than apps.
eWeek | at | by Mike
Since it completed its acquisition of Navision in July, Microsoft has been unearthing some of the other hidden nuggets that it bought along with Navision's suite of business apps. Navision offers a family of CRM, human-resource management and manufacturing/distribution wares that Microsoft is rebranding as part of its Microsoft Business Solutions lineup. But Navision also has some under-the-covers .Net-based technologies upon which the Danish software company had been laboring prior to the Microsoft acquisition. Microsoft is moving some of Navision's metadata-store technology from its Axapta enterprise resource planning software into the evolving Microsoft Business Framework (MBF), according to Darren Laybourn, vice president of MBF.