Microsoft quietly rolls with Dynamics technology platform
eWeek | at | by Mike
At its annual Convergence conference in San Diego March 11-14, Microsoft will make a plethora of announcements around its Dynamics brand of enterprise resource planning and customer relationship management suites, from the release of Titan, its multitenant version of Dynamics CRM, to something called Sure Step, a family of model-driven configuration, implementation and migration tools that make system migration and configuration easier for users to manage, across all four ERP suites.
But what's really being previewed at Convergencea Dynamics platform strategymay go officially unannounced. "The big news at Convergence is that Microsoft is standardizing the platform and converging down to a couple products that will become the primary platform for Dynamics. But you won't hear them say that," said Yvonne Genovese, an analyst with Gartner Group.