Microsoft Dynamics ERP and CRM Software

There are lots of ERP companies in the market & of the leading among them is ERP by Microsoft. Here, in this editorial, they will discuss in brief about Microsoft ERP products: Microsoft Dynamics GP, NAV, AX, SL & CRM.

Microsoft Dynamics GP ERP was initially architectured by Great Plains Program in earlier & middle 90's.

GP/Great Plains versions five.5, 6.0, 7.0, 7.5 are obtainable for Pervasive & Ctree, & version 8.0 Microsoft Great Plains is obtainable on MS SQL Server/MSDE platform only. Microsoft Great Plains 9.0 is offered in USA, UK, Latin America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, South East Asia & other countries where official language is English.

Microsoft Axapta/ AX is the rising star for Microsoft & it competes with mid-upper & upper segment. Axapta has modern design & its ability to expand. Integration with MS Office, Web Fronts/Business Portal/eConnect/eCommerce is the great feature in Dynamics AX.

Microsoft Navision/ NAV comes to its own shell - C/SIDE, database proprietary platform: C/SIDE, etc. Navision is flexible & grows along with your business. It supports to little, mid & upper-mid segment. Navision has nice market in Europe, UK, & USA. Now they are expending in Gulf & South East Asia. Enterprise resource planning  Microsoft Solomon/ SL is made for project-driven organizations. SL has nice features to handle all project related activities. If organization does not have project management program then project tracking is complicated task for them. Lots of ERP are failed to provide project management facility along with other functional modules.

Microsoft CRM three.0/ CRM three.0 solutions from Microsoft is a great innovation. CRM three.0 is integrated with Microsoft Dynamics GP 7.5, 8.0 & 9.0(with service patch). Microsoft Exchange, Active Listing, XML Web Services driven MS CRM SDK with C# & VB.Net sample code are part of the Microsoft Dynamics CRM.

SAP Business, Oracle E-Business Suite/Oracle Financials ERP products are competitor of Microsoft ERP applications in SME segment.