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Integration the theme for Microsoft Business Solutions

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25th Dec 2005
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Corporate reorganisations at Microsoft Business Solutions have geared the applications wing up to focus on the potential gains from integrating financial and operational systems with productivity tools and the Microsoft .NET platform.

"We'll be briefing visitors around the benefits that come when businesses get to grips with integration," said MBS UK general manager Simon Edwards. "Our belief is that the value of our software solutions comes from the breadth of integration we can bring."

At the March Softworld Accounting & Finance event, MBS was still in the process of absorbing Navision. A company reorganisation in July established MBS as a distinct business unit within Microsoft. The sales and marketing teams have been integrated and Microsoft set up a new business unit to handle all the relevant Microsoft products for SMEs.

At the same time, the Great Plains and Navision product development teams have been more closely linked to push towards the "next generation" product suite that will ultimately cater for the entire MBS user base. Among the areas that the lead developers are looking at in Washington is ways of using SQL Server's Analysis Services module to build online analytical processing (OLAP) tools with inherent financial understanding - something that is missing from many "spin the cube" OLAP applications, Edwards suggested.

Since March, MBS has launched an updated version of Microsoft Navision 3.7. The long-awaited Microsoft CRM application is almost ready, and is expected to be launched to the UK public in early October.

"Softworld is an opportunity for people to get to know us again," said Edwards. "At Birmingham, you will see a lot more evidence of the synergies you can get from the business solutions and the platform. It's a good opportunity for people to kick the tyres."

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