Microsoft is taking a page from rival Salesforce.com;s guide and it is launching an via the internet retailer for third-party programs and companies that construct on top of its Dynamics CRM and ERP items.Microsoft is unveiling its new app shop strategies around the opening day with the Worldwide Partner Conference on July 12.Microsoft officials also are announcing the ultimate name for Dynamics CRM 5 will likely be Dynamics CRM 2011. CRM 2011 has become in private beta testing for several months. A public beta of the item will be delivered in September 2010,
Office Home And Student, the Softies said.Inside a considerably uncommon move, Microsoft is organizing to release the via the internet edition of its CRM 2011 product before it delivers the software-only version. Microsoft is nonetheless committing to release the internet support version just before the end of calendar 2010. Business officials are still declining to say precisely when the software edition will be out, but from what I;m hearing, it seems like Q1 2011 is the target.The new Microsoft Dynamics Marketplace might be open for company in September 2010,
Microsoft Office 2010, corporation officials said today. Microsoft is calling the Market “an on line catalog” that “will streamline solution discovery for customers and, will provide an easy way for partners to market and distribute solutions to Microsoft Dynamics CRM and ERP customers.”Up until now, Microsoft has guided customers looking for third-party add-ons for its CRM and ERP products to use its Solution Finder search tool. But that site isn;t a destination where customers can actually go download code and install it. The new market will allow partners to post code that customers can buy and download.Microsoft CRM rival Salesforce.com is offering customers the ability to buy, download and install programs from its partners by way of its AppExchange retailer for years. Salesforce redesigned and streamlined AppExchange in 2009. There are at present more than 1,
Buy Windows 7,000 apps available via AppExchange.Google launched a similar over the internet app retailer, the Google Apps Market,
Microsoft Office 2010 Key, in March of this year. Google;s on the net app shop, launched in conjunction with 50 partners, allows developers to establish add-ons to Google Apps and allows users to find and buy those apps, add-ons and widgets through an on the web portal.Microsoft is working on a new on the internet app retailer for the Waindows Phone 7 platform, which is going to be launching this fall. According to a leaked slide deck, Microsoft also is looking to construct an online app store for Windows 8,
Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007, which is expected to launch alongside the operating system in late 2011/sometime in 2012 (depending on whose guesstimates you believe).