Microsoft Ships Major New Version Of Dynamics SL 7
Microsoft is shipping today, as planned, major new version of the company's Dynamics SL business management package.
The one is the member of the company's enterprise resource planning (ERP) family – Dynamics SL 7. The updates were first announced at Microsoft's Convergence 2007 conference in mid-March in San Diego.
The package now sport updated user interfaces that will be familiar to users of Microsoft's 2007 Office System, as well as extended support for SharePoint technologies and SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services.
Product also now provides access and menu based on the user's job role, making accounts easier to configure, secure, and administer.
Dynamics SL 7, which is meant for project-driven small and medium-sized businesses, adds Microsoft Outlook-like navigation.
Additionally, SL 7 also runs under Visual Studio 2005 as a native .NET application written in Visual Basic 2005.
"We've migrated the whole product to Visual Studio [so] it's now completely within .NET managed code," Microsoft's director Eric de Jager said. That should help customers and partners attract and retain developers, he said.
Other additions in SL 7 include integrated Windows authentication which associates each user's computer login to his or her SL 7 login. A pay-when-paid feature allows payment of subcontractor invoices only when the customer invoice is paid. And another addition now supports multiple currencies and value-added tax accounting in expense report entry programs.