| Following the direction of Project Green Microsoft | | | | against non-Microsoft systems: Oracle eBusiness |
| Business Solutions renamed its products: Microsoft | | | | Financials, PeopleSoft, IBM Lotus Notes/Domino, JD |
| Great Plains, Navision, Axapta, Solomon and MS CRM | | | | Edwards - who do not have simple unification for user |
| into Microsoft Dynamics GP, Nav, Ax, Sl, CRM. | | | | interface |
| Microsoft Dynamics will be supposedly final product of | | | | - MS SQL Server db platform. If you look at such |
| the Project Green, when user will have access to all | | | | products as Great Plains Software Dynamics - it was |
| the business components through similar interface. At | | | | intended for multiplatform databases. Now it is on MS |
| this point (fall of 2005) we do not know exactly how | | | | SQL Server only. Also - the way of Navision - it was |
| interface will look like, but some directions could be | | | | designed on its own C/Side database platform, which |
| predicted. | | | | was solid rock. Now Navision is available on MS SQL |
| - Microsoft Outlook interface. In September 2005 | | | | Server |
| Microsoft released Small Business Accounting, entry | | | | - Microsoft Business Portal. Microsoft Dynamics GP is |
| level accounting application, written from scratch. | | | | simplifying its user interface (still being Microsoft |
| Obviously now it is not a time to reinvent the wheel | | | | Dexterity application) to look like Microsoft Office |
| create new accounting package... however if you are | | | | Outlook interface. At the same time Microsoft is |
| Microsoft... Microsoft has its users and professionals | | | | moving more functionality to Microsoft Business Portal: |
| legions who are very comfortable in Microsoft Office | | | | Employee self service, Fixed Assets, Customer Order |
| products and who spend a lot of computer time in MS | | | | Management (former eOrder). Microsoft Business |
| Outlook. Small Business Accounting allows users to | | | | Portal will have open SDK, available for C#.Net |
| create and synchronize accounting documents in MS | | | | programmer - and Microsoft Business Portal is .Net |
| Outlook (not all of them, but the innovation way is clear | | | | application. Probably in the future all the proprietary |
| - user should be able to work with business application | | | | customization tools, such as Microsoft Dexterity will be |
| from MS Outlook). This might be very good argument | | | | replaced with Microsoft Visual Studio. |