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DYNAMICS REVS UP 12 PERCENT

Microsoft logoDynamics revenue for the second quarter ended December 31 was up 12 percent over last year's second quarter, Microsoft reported this week. That would mark an acceleration for sales by Microsoft, which reported that Dynamics sales were up 11 percent for the half. The company’s 10-Q for the quarter provided no other information about Dynamics.

Usually, Microsoft breaks out the percentage increase for Dynamics CRM but not for the accounting software. I would caution that sometimes more information is given in the earnings webcast. However, either Microsoft does not support Safari or something else is going on as I’ve been unable to play the webcast. Instead of citing strong growth in CRM,  the company said revenue was buoyed by double-digit growth from Lync, SharePoint and Exchange as it reported results for the mythical Microsoft Business Division, which includes Microsoft Business Solutions. (MBD exists only for reporting purposes). The channel scuttlebutt had been that outside of Dynamics AX, the company was not making its numbers for the other accounting software products. It could be that the growth was all CRM and AX. The division had $5.69 billion revenue for the most recently ended period, a 10-percent decline from a year earlier, but that was because of the impact of an Office Upgrade offer which keeps hitting the P&L. Without that offer, MBD revenue was up 3 percent, which is not all that great.

 

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