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by Jeff Moad, MA Editorial Staff Posted on Tuesday, March 28, 2006 6:36:00 PM Sign Up to receive Daily News Alerts in your E-mail Inbox    | Abstract: | Software giant lays out delivery schedule for enterprise software updates; acknowledges that it might not be feasible, as promised, to create a converged product line atop a single, common data model. |
DALLAS -- At this week's annual Convergence conference for users of its Dynamics enterprise application products, Microsoft officials said the company is on schedule with its product roadmap and that no sooner than 2009 will Microsoft's five enterprise products -- Great Plains, Axapta, Navision, Solomon, and Microsoft CRM -- be merged into a single product line. Microsoft Business Solutions (MBS) officials, however, acknowledged that boiling all of those products down to a single, common enterprise applications code base is proving to be a challenge -- one that has caused the company to alter parts of its game plan. Specifically, officials said this week, they no longer feel it is feasible to build a converged product line on top of a single, common data model. It may be necessary, according to Mike Ehrenberg, architect for Microsoft's MBS products, for the software giant to use different data models and different tools for different implementations of the converged enterprise application product to suit customers at different-sized companies with different levels of experience. [Click to continue] |
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