At the Tech•Ed 2006 conference, Microsoft Corp. today announced the general availability of Microsoft Dynamics™ AX 4.0, an adaptable, global business-management solution that works like and with familiar Microsoft® software and helps organizations gain a competitive advantage. Through the use of Web services and other enhancements, the highly anticipated new release delivers a complete enterprise resource planning (ERP) package to automate and streamline processes across a company’s financials, customer relationships, business services, human resources and the supply chain.

As highlighted by Ray Ozzie, Microsoft’s chief technical officer, in last night’s keynote address, Microsoft Dynamics AX 4.0 is a composite application, using Web services to span the boundaries between structured and unstructured data from different sources and tying together formal processes with ad hoc workflows. This capability enables Microsoft Dynamics AX to work across multiple systems to show a complete view of a customer’s business processes, enabling more confident and informed decision-making by users.