Microsoft’s ERP Wave Hits Shore

March 15, 2007 written by Michael Burns of 180 Systems – When Microsoft Corp. acquired Great Plains Software Inc. in 2001 and Navision in 2002, the force about to be unleashed in the ERP marketplace was not well understood. Many people wondered what Microsoft was up to. How could they expect to be successful in the ERP space, which is so different than all their other markets?...