Microsoft's ERP Delays Could Affect Its RFID Efforts

Microsoft Business Solutions says it won't deliver the next version of Axapta until spring 2006 so it can add more features than originally planned. But that means Microsoft could lose ground in the RFID and enterprise-software markets.


The delay of the release of Axapta 4.0 is counterproductive to Microsoft's strategy to ramp up the platform's presence in the small and midsize space, but its reasons are sound, Nigel Montgomery, research director at AMR Research, wrote in a report. "By opening up the application programming interfaces so other products can interface with Axapta, Microsoft is reducing the hurdles for its partners when trying to bid and implement systems," he said. Microsoft wants its software to appeal to more companies that require between 50 and 1,000 licenses, Montgomery says.

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