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MICROSOFT’S ERP SKIES CLOUDLESS

The outlook was for Microsoft’s Dynamics ERP line, as given at this week’s Worldwide Partner Steve ElopConference, was not a cloud in the sky. In fact, if you listened to keynotes or read transcriptions, you would barely know Microsoft markets financial software. Kirill Tatarinov, head of Microsoft Business Solutions, did make a keynote and there was a Dynamics track. But Tatarinov's speech wasn't posted to the Microsoft Web site. The closest other executives got to mentioning the accounting products was Steve Elop, president of the Business Management Division, who noted “we've seen 8,000 new individual specialists becoming certified on the latest Dynamics solution …
" Naturally, some, like who was the Mobile exec shouldn’t be expected to mention it. But Steve Ballmer used to and Elop, whose unit Microsoft Business Solutions might be expected to make a passing nod that he’s proud of the products. Instead it was Dynamics CRM, CRM and CRM which got all the attention which Elop says has 23,000 customers. During Elop's speech, Kirk Koenigsbauer, corporate vice president of the Office Business Platform Group, used the phrase, "ERP" but that was in the context of PerformancePoint using "ERP data, data from CRM Dynamics" to create score cards and dashboards. Well, growing lines get attention so the less robust financial products aren’t hot and the lack of any attention shows it. What’s more difficult to understand is the lack of any mention of how Dynamics AX, GP, NAV and SL will move to the cloud in a conference in which there was a mass of news about Windows Azure, the Microsoft platform for cloud computing. The ERP resellers ought to sue for lack of emotional support.
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