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In September 2005, Microsoft announced a major shift in its branding of current Microsoft Business Solutions products, as Microsoft Business Solutions was renamed to Microsoft Dynamics™.

The new brand represents Microsoft’s strategy to align its products with its R&D roadmap formerly referred to as “Project Green”. Microsoft Dynamics will replace both “Project Green” and Microsoft Business Solutions going forward as the family of business solutions that help small and midsized businesses, large organizations and divisions of global enterprises automate and manage financial, operational, and customer relationship functions.

· Microsoft® Business Solutions–Axapta® becomes Microsoft Dynamics™ AX

· Microsoft® Business Solutions–Great Plains® becomes Microsoft Dynamics™ GP

· Microsoft® Business Solutions–Navision® becomes Microsoft Dynamics™ NAV

· Microsoft® Business Solutions–Solomon becomes Microsoft Dynamics™ SL

· Microsoft® CRM becomes Microsoft Dynamics™ CRM. (Note that the CRM offering will use Microsoft Dynamics™ CRM on first reference in marketing materials to leverage the equity that will be built in the new brand and to distinguish the CRM capabilities of the business suite. The CRM offering will continue to be sold standalone and will be referred to as Microsoft CRM on subsequent references.)

Learn more as Microsoft Corporate VP Tami Reller discusses the new brand

Microsoft Introduces Microsoft Dynamics Brand

Increasingly tighter integration across familiar products

Today, Microsoft business products work like and with productivity software that most of us are used to working with—Microsoft Office System applications. As these products come together under one brand, development across all of them will continue to enhance capabilities for supporting contextual business intelligence, delivering increasingly higher value from business portals, and connecting Web services. The result—increasingly efficient business processes. Developers and IT professionals working with separate products today will be able to collaborate even more effectively when contributing to Microsoft Dynamics business-management solutions. That means that software innovation is likely to bring benefits to your business faster than ever.

Increased value for your technology investment

Microsoft is committed to maintaining and extending the value of your investment in technology. For current Microsoft Business Solutions products, the new product names will be introduced with each upcoming release. As a customer, you can adopt the Microsoft Dynamics name at your own pace. If you participate in the Microsoft Business Solutions Enhancement Program today, you can change to programs branded as Microsoft Dynamics when you're ready to upgrade, while keeping all the software functionality that you already own. As they do now, Microsoft partners will assist you in implementing optimally-configured business management technology, adding their deep industry expertise and integrating applications they've created to satisfy specific needs.

Software that grows with you

One of Microsoft's goals for a unified technology experience is to make it continually easier for you to run a successful business and outperform the competition. If you're already using or considering implementing Microsoft Business Solutions, you can rest assured that your investment is sound. Current business applications are already developed for tight integration across Microsoft technologies. As today's business solutions become one unified business management suite, you can focus more than ever on what you want technology to help you accomplish in different lines of business—manufacturing, distribution, sales, financial management, customer relationships, and more. By letting you focus more on your business and less on technology details, Microsoft Dynamics can get you closer to your business goals more effectively, no matter where you're starting from. As your business grows, you can simply extend your Microsoft Dynamics implementation with more advanced capabilities.