Oh yeah, those were held December 4 through 6. Well, it has been a quiet time for Dynamics, although it hasn't been uneventful since sales seem to be going quite well. Reading the Blog Posts that are featured on the press page for Dynamics products, there does seem to be quite a bit of activity and oh, it's almost entirely for Dynamics CRM. The news as we end 2013 is also fairly thin. The last press release was November 21 - a customer win for Dynamics for Retail - before that was November 5 for Dynamics EMEA, featuring the still-fresh roll out of Dynamics CRM (341 words), AX R2 (180 words) and NAV (91 words). These just the sections of the release devoted entirely to the one product. There is a consistent picture here. Remember back to the CRM roll out where company executives largely avoided mentioning that there are Dynamics ERP products. There's been a lot of talk about Microsoft's commitment to Dynamics since the 2002 purchase of Great Plains. But for the first time this year, I've had people suggest Microsoft is shopping the accounting packages. I don't know anything (I think the company should sell them), but on a slow news week, it all makes for a fun way to end the year with speculation.
DYNAMICS PARTNER BLOG: ALL QUIET Featured
The Microsoft Dynamics Partner Community Blog was once constant source of news. Started four years ago under Kevin Machayya, who kept at until he left the company three months ago, it was very active. The job was taken over by Peter Jensen, director of Dynamics U.S. partner programs, who started out promisingly enough. But since then, things have slowed down. The last post was a month ago about the Enterprise Sales & Marketing Excellence Workshop for AX VARs.
