Research and Markets: Microsoft Converges its ERP Portfolio - Will the Grass be Greener on the Other Side?

Research and Markets has announced the addition of Microsoft converges its ERP portfolio - Will the grass be Greener on the other side? to their offering.

Dublin (PRWEB) July 29, 2005 -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c21521) has announced the addition of Microsoft converges its ERP portfolio - Will the grass be Greener on the other side? to their offering.

Up against ERP veterans SAP and Oracle, among others, Microsoft is battling to establish itself as the volume-based SMB ERP market leader. A vertical partner enablement strategy is its first step to secure customers demanding more industry aligned solutions in a market where price can make or break a deal.

Partner network is crucial to the success of Microsoft's current ERP strategy whereas Microsoft's future ERP strategy has a strong focus on vertically aligned solutions.

It is unlikely that Microsoft will establish a footprint in the enterprise space through its hub-and-spoke approach. While Microsoft may be able to win subsidiary contracts, transforming them into enterprise wide implementations is a far harder task to achieve and requires substantial know-how to carry out.

Due to the vast incidence of the Microsoft Windows operating system and Microsoft Office, and their high level of day to day usage, integration with both suites of applications is a key requirement for ERP vendors. Microsofts ability to integrate its ERP products with Office and various Server platforms will distinguish it to many in the SMB market.

Learn the facts behind Mircosoft's current and future ERP strategy. Discover the need of integration for ERP products and how Microsoft is going to deal with integration issues and find out all about scalability as a must-have for solutions in the mid-market space.

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Laura Wood

Senior Manager

Research and Markets

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