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MICROSOFT ENGINEER OUTLINES DYNAMICS DIRECTION

Mike EhrenbergIt's not a road map, but perhaps it's better to say Microsoft is dropping bread crumbs, not behind it, but to lead to the future in outlining some of the direction for the Dynamics line. There aren't a great number of specifics in the areas outlined in the Dynamics Community on the company’s Web site this week by Mike Ehrenberg, identified as Distinguished Engineer, Microsoft Dynamics.

But there's enough there to make it useful. It's safe to say that Dynamics is going to end up a long way from a GL-fits-all model of accounting software. Ehrenberg's comments show that the path indicated by role-based computing will be developed further with Dynamics getting a Context Aware user interface. Ehrenberg's example is that the system could recognize that a user has entered a conference room with a wall-sized display, or know that it’s the last week of the quarter. Microsoft has also prototyped systems tailored for single tasks, such as "a touch-screen warehouse experience" and Ehrenberg predicted there will be many task-specific experiences in production. One of the most important and vaguest descriptions involved the cloud. So maybe NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson is correct in stating Microsoft isn't very far along in SaaS. The task-specific orientation seems to go well with an increasing service orientation transforming Dynamics from a singular product into a composition of services that could accommodate a variety of different business structures such as outsourcing of processes, joint ventures and almost virtual companies. The ERP applications will also incorporate more workflow features, giving users the ability to track documents as they move through a company.
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