Building on its acquisition of mid-market business application vendor Great Plains Software, completed in April 2001, Microsoft has continued its push into the market for business software
Microsoft is targeting small and medium enterprises (SMEs) with its recent acquisitions of Navision, a European mid-market ERP vendor, and Sales Management Systems (SMS), a specialized developer of retail software. Microsoft intends to integrate SMS point-of-sale and retail management applications with the Great Plains e-business software suite.
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