Updated: July 9, 2020 (July 7, 2008)
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Major developments for Microsoft’s business applications roadmap since the Apr. 2008 Enterprise Software Roadmap include the following:
- Exchange Hosted Services, Microsoft’s hosted gateway services for e-mail, was updated in May 2008 with new mail filtering features.
- Microsoft’s acquisition of Norway-based Fast Search and Transfer gives the company an entry in the high-end enterprise search market occupied by vendors such as Autonomy and Endeca.
- Office 2007 SP2, planned for 2009, will bring PDF and XPS export to the main Office products and add import and export of Open Document Format (ODF) 1.1 files.
- PerformancePoint Server 2007 SP1 shipped in June 2008, adding support for Windows Server 2008.
- A pair of add-ons released in the first quarter of 2008 improve PerformancePoint Server’s data integration and management reporting features.
- The most recent version of Dynamics AX, AX 2009, shipped in June 2008.
- CRM Online Microsoft’s hosted customer relationship management
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