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Thursday
March 24, 2005
The wisdom of Microsoft’s Solomon
MICROSOFT Business Solutions – Solomon 6.0 is in the
crowded field of enterprise software for small and medium
enterprises (SMEs) but its tight links to Microsoft's business
software platform and productivity applications are claimed to give
it an advantage.
Laurent Dedenis, managing director of Solomon Software SEA Pte
Ltd, said Solomon 6.0 is built to dovetail perfectly with the
Windows operating system, office applications like Microsoft
Office, and middleware, so it can be deployed on desktop and
portable computers, as well as small servers.
This, he said, would be useful to SMEs that cannot deploy
solutions such as those developed by SAP AG and Oracle Corp because
those solutions are generally meant for large multinational
organisations running mainframes.
Solomon 6.0 is intended for midsized project, service and
distribution oriented organisations. Used with Microsoft Business
Solutions Business Portal 2.5, it features enhancements to project
management and accounting functionality, as well as to analysis and
reporting options.
Users, ranging from project managers to corporate chief
executives, can now build centralised project desktops with combined
views of project, management, and accounting tasks, claimed Solomon
Software.
In addition, they can store, share and edit Microsoft Word
and Excel documents in Microsoft Business Portal, which
uses Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services as the underlying
infrastructure.
According to Dedenis, Solomon 7.0 will be launched later
this year and will be the first .Net version of the product. .Net is
Microsoft’s Web services strategy, which the Seattle-based software
giant claims provides the ability to quickly build, deploy, manage,
and use connected, security-enhanced solutions with web
services.
More information about Solomon Software, which is a subsidiary of
Microsoft, and its product is available at http://www.solomon.com.sg/. – H. AMIR
KHALID
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