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CIO.com: The Next Big ERP Innovator: Microsoft

Some key extracts from this CIO.com blog post:

I have also noted with recurring frequency that, besides legitimate threats from SaaS and open-source ERP competitors, SAP and Oracle will have to start taking Microsoft's Dynamics product line much more seriously. Last fall, for instance, I interviewed Microsoft's Chris Caren about its Dynamics strategy and how it was going to topple Oracle and SAP.

Now Microsoft has found another analyst "believer" in Albert Pang, IDC's director of enterprise applications research. In a recent report on Microsoft's Convergence conference (subscription required) , Pang writes that Microsoft revealed many new products, including several still in prototype stage, that will be instrumental in restoring growth to the enterprise applications market. Pang gushed even more:

Pang was equally impressed with the brand-new Dynamics AX 2009 for manufacturing that included some breakthrough modules. He was also encouraged by the new products' ability to allow Microsoft's resellers to compete with the "high end" offerings of other vendors while ensuring ever-important affordability.

To Pang, in the ERP space and in this tight economic climate, affordability of applications is a glaring difference between Microsoft and its fat-cat competition, SAP and Oracle.

"Despite the economic downturn," Pang writes, "Microsoft has reaffirmed its long-term value as the source of technology innovation that its enterprise applications customers can depend on for years to come."

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