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In 2000 Solomon Software was bought out by Great Plains Software, who had been developing their own ERP program since the early 90s.
In 2000, PC&C, now known as Navision Software, merges with its competitor, and fellow ERP-makers, Damgaard Data.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced the revamp on LinkedIn, stating that creating a unified, next-gen business solution had been “a dream of the industry, but also for me personally since 2000 when Microsoft acquired Great Plains.
In 2001, Microsoft purchased Great Plains, and with it came Great Plains’ recent acquisition, Solomon Software, bringing both Solomon IV and what was by then Dynamics Release 8.0 under the Microsoft umbrella.
With technological revolution underway, in 2002 the ERP industry began a dramatic shift toward web-enabled platforms.
To further expand the Dynamics package, in 2002 Microsoft bought the European software company Damgaard Data.
In 2003, “Project Green” was announced.
In 2004, SOA (service-oriented architecture) was integrated into ERP software by vendors, allowing communication between different programs.
The aim of the software developers was to launch the package onto the market in 2004, and people from the market were invited to test a beta version.
Microsoft rebranded Navision (along with Microsoft CRM, Great Plains, Axapta, and Solomon) in 2005 as Microsoft Dynamics NAV.
In 2006 the first cautious steps were taken towards the current Dynamics package.
In 2007 the Cloud was introduced within Dynamics CRM. With this, Microsoft took its first steps towards a more flexible future.
The brand-based fusion was as close as Microsoft would get to executing Project Green for the moment; by 2007, Project Green was dead.
In 2007, hot on the heels of Dynamics CRM 4.0, the North American market was treated to a glimpse of what would become the future of the enterprise software industry when Microsoft released its first online business solutions client.
Acumatica launched its first product, Acumatica ERP, in November 2008, alongside an accompanying financial demo.
Acumatica's distribution software came a year later in April 2010.
2011 heralded the start of a more Agile approach with two-yearly updates and, gradually, the other Dynamics products were also given a web client.
In 2011, Microsoft announced another move towards its new agile approach when it introduced a bi-annual update schedule for its Dynamics products, allowing for faster development and more innovation than the traditional 2-3 year schedule for business software.
So in 2013, vendors began to expand mobile applications for increased functionality.
In 2014, Gartner coined the term "postmodern ERP" to describe integrated ERP suites consisting of applications from different vendors.
Mobile apps for some Dynamics platforms arrived in 2016, making the programs even more accessible and easy to use on the move, but the greatest leap in Microsoft’s design for its Dynamics division was yet to come.
Announced in mid-2016, and finalized shortly after Dynamics 365 went live, Microsoft paid around $26.2 billion for LinkedIn; an acquisition that left many speculating about what Microsoft planned to do with it.
The Dynamics AX brand was officially retired in July 2017, but the software itself will continue to be developed under the Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations title.
Development of the GP program will continue at least until 2019.
Dynamics GP, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central | February 13, 2020
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