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Microsoft released version 5.0 of their Dynamics NAV enterprise resource planning (ERP) offering in March of this year and had promised an improved version 5.1 in 1H2008 (delayed from 4Q2007), but that plan has gone off the rails too. Now the story is that Dynamics NAV 5.1 will be folded into version 6.0 and scheduled for 2H2008 according to Darren Laybourn at the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Team Blog.
Late last week, Microsoft announced that Kirill Tatarinov has been selected as the new head of the troubled Microsoft Business Solutions group that produces a variety of software for small and medium businesses under the Dynamics brand.
As promised back in March, Microsoft today announced the release of Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0 (formerly Great Plains) and Microsoft Dynamics SL 7.0 (formerly Solomon). GP is a full featured accounting package and SL is an enterprise resource planning software system and both are targeted at medium sized businesses as part of Microsoft’s historically sluggish Dynamics family. New features are “increased business intelligence functionality, a more intuitive user interface and the introduction of structured and unstructured search.”
It was not the rumored grand anti-Microsoft alliance, but Google and Salesforce.com announced a joint offering today that links Google AdWords advertising with Salesforce.com’s online CRM service.
