A Bright Future

Accounting Technology, May, 2006

Portals are going to become increasingly important, if, for no other reason, Microsoft is making Sharepoint a part of a platform that ties together Office applications and its Outlook contact manager. In fact, the term "roles-based" was repeated many times by many different Microsoft executives in discussing the future of the software line at the Microsoft Convergence user conference in Dallas.

The roles-based experience involving portals and collaboration was part of Wave I of the planed product development for the four Dynamics financial applications and Dynamics CRM, noted Doug Burgum, the senior vice president who heads Microsoft Business Solutions. Burgum made the point that those two elements have been achieved when he delivered a keynote speech at Convergence. Indeed,...

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