Fellow Irregular Josh Greenbaum offers a reality check regarding Microsoft Dynamics:
The prospect is clear: when you take the ubiquity of Office – 450 million users – and tie it to the enterprise applications functionality of Dynamics, you’ve got a pretty potent competitive weapon.
Score one against SAP BusinessOne.
The emergence of Dynamics into the realm of complexity is one of the main obstacles the company has created for itself, and it’s going to be hard for it to stop digging this hole.
That’s a monster issue for mid-market vendors. The mid-market is much more aggressive when evaluating bang per buck. Keeping it as simple as possible is a lot more appealing than lots of moving parts. And Dynamics is becoming complex. In the UK, dumping the Navision brand has not helped. A bad move in a region where Navision has traditionally been a strong competitor.
Practitioners acting in the consulting field tell me Microsoft is fading off the radar. Increased complexity will only exacerbate that trend. All part of not understanding the market they’re playing in I’m afraid to say.
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