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The main objective of the service pack announced today is to improve the customer and partner experience by enhancing the overall quality of Microsoft Navision 4.0 and to make the solution more accessible to a broader range of users via the Microsoft Navision Employee Portal. Employee Portal is built from the integration between Microsoft Navision and both Microsoft Windows® SharePoint® Services and Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server.
Staged release starting this month.
Well, this morning’s sneak peek turned out to be a spoiler. There isn’t too much to add other than a link to the overview press release and a Q&A on Centro. One odd note was Bill Gates claiming Office 12 would ship in early 2006.
Update: Microsoft’s web site has a Midsize Business Center.
Microsoft MBS corporate Vice President Satya Nadella gives us a look at what is coming at today’s Microsoft Business Summit:
We have two major announcements. Small Business product – Microsoft Office Small Business Accounting 2006 (SBA) – goes to customers. And today is an important marker for us in terms of delivering “Green” Wave 1 innovations – role specific user experience, Portal technology built on WSS, integrated Business Intelligence, and Web Services across all our ERP and CRM product lines. Coincident with Business Summit, we are unveiling the name of “Green” – Microsoft Dynamics. We will be shipping versions of Microsoft Dynamics starting this Fall.
More on Microsoft Dynamics GP (formerly Great Plains) and Microsoft Dynamics AX (formerly Axapta) by following the link. Windows Workflow Foundation and RSS support in general and in Microsoft CRM are also mentioned.
Update: Mary Jo Foley has more including a letter from Steve Ballmer on the midmarket and a description of the new Midmarket Server (codename Centro):
Microsoft Corp. is recognizing the specific needs of the midmarket with a new infrastructure software solution under development known as Centro, which will be released in 2007 as part of the “Longhorn” wave of products.
Centro is specifically tailored to address the needs of the midmarket segment, which Microsoft defines as those customers with between 25 and 500 PCs connected to the Internet.
Seems like Small Business Server with more seats and 2 years out.
Update: Microsoft Corporate VP Tami Reller elaborates on the new Dynamics brand:
• Microsoft CRM becomes Microsoft Dynamics CRM.
• Microsoft Business Solutions-Great Plains becomes Microsoft Dynamics GP.
• Microsoft Business Solutions-Axapta® becomes Microsoft Dynamics AX.
• Microsoft Business Solutions-Navision becomes Microsoft Dynamics NAV.
• Microsoft Business Solutions-Solomon becomes Microsoft Dynamics SL
This first wave of major releases under Microsoft Dynamics will share common client technology that focuses on a role-based user experience with deep integration to Microsoft Office. Future waves of Microsoft Dynamics releases will focus on common server technology, including a common process model that combines the best business processes from each of the releases.
