After a long-held silence around its next-generation ERP (enterprise resource planning) suite, Microsoft Corp. finally announced details Monday around Project Green, the Microsoft Business Solutions division's effort to align its four ERP suites under a single code base. Initially expected around 2006 and then delayed until 2008, Microsoft announced Monday at its MBS Convergence conference in San Diego that Project Green will now be available in waves—two, to be exact.
The first wave of Green will be available sometime between this year and 2007.
While Microsoft's four suites — Great Plains, Axapta, Solomon and Navision—will not be fully combined into a single system, the first release will include a shared user interface based on 50 common and configurable roles.
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