Microsoft's Dynamics ERP to gain new services

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Microsoft said it is readying two new online services, and one updated online service, for its Dynamics Enterprise Resource Planning package -- all to debut next year.

The company also said that its ERP hosting business has more than doubled in the past year as it moves more of its software and services business into its emerging Azure services cloud.

Microsoft's timing is good. Its Azure cloud services platform is scheduled to exit beta testing in early 2010 as well. "Our customers increasingly appreciate the option of moving certain applications and services into the cloud while maintaining an on-premise option for their ERP solution," Crispin Read, general manager of Microsoft Dynamics ERP, said in a statement.