Microsoft Dynamics AX-GP-NAV-CRM: international trends and recommendations

The Microsoft Dynamics project, or formerly known as Project Green, should unify and modulate all the ERP applications of Microsoft Business Solutions: Microsoft Great Plains/Microsoft Dynamics GP, Microsoft Navision (formerly Attain) Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Microsoft (Navision) Axapta/Microsoft Dynamics AX. The unification challenge will likely result in a quality change to the unified interface, such as Web/Business Portal/Microsoft Outlook and MS Office integration, implementation of new technologies, such as Microsoft Sharepoint with workflow automation. Also, the development platform for Microsoft Dynamics products should change from proprietary tools like Microsoft Dexterity, C/SIDE, MorphX (no confirmation for Axapta yet, but we assume it should follow) to C# and VB.Net with VisualStudio. In this short article we will try to guide IT administrators in the selection of Microsoft Business Solutions MRP products for international and regional markets.

or Microsoft Dynamics GP. Regional markets for Great Plains 9.0 and the next version of Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0 will be reduced: United States, United Kingdom, Canada – both English and French speaking, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and other English speaking countries in Asia, Africa and all over the world. plus Spanish-speaking Latin America. Microsoft Dynamics GP 10 will not be available for Germany, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Poland; the last localized version for these European countries will be 9.0, June 2006

or Microsoft Dynamics NAV. Currently Navision has a very good presence in Europe, including Eastern Europe: Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Czech Republic, Slovakia. Microsoft also localized Navision for new markets, where it just moved: Brazil, for example, was an interesting development in Brazil: first Microsoft tried Solomon, then Microsoft Great Plains 7.5 and in 2004 replaced it with localized Navision

or Microsoft Dynamics AX. Microsoft Axapta, unlike Navision or Great Plains, where market share is won/divided and competition is based on product refreshes and enhancements, Axapta has great potential yet to be realized, coming from its modern and innovative system design and architecture. very futuristic. Targeting corporate and upper-middle-market customers, Axapta shows very good progress in emerging markets: in Russia, for example, the number of Axapta installations is similar and comparable to the number of Navision installations. Additionally, in 2005, a large number of Microsoft Business Solutions Gold Certified Partners jumped into the Axapta consulting arena; this is seen in the US, UK, Australia, and continental Europe. In Brazil, currently MBS in Axapta release mode in local Portuguese, localized for the Brazilian tax code

or Microsoft Dynamics CRM. It is planned as a front-end CRM solution for the majority of the Microsoft Dynamics ERP system: Microsoft Dynamics GP integration is available for GP 7.5, 8.0, 9.0 and CRM 1.2 and 3.0, Microsoft Navision, through third-party integrations, is planned for integration with Axapta. Microsoft has Microsoft CRM as a product worldwide, so you should not have any doubts regarding your regional market.

or Competition. Oracle is well underway with the Oracle Fusion project, with the goal of integrating Oracle Financials/Applications/E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, JDEdwards, and potentially Siebel. SAP with the purchase of a new ERP for the small and medium market: SAP Business One and Mendocino, because SAP R/3 is catching up

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