>Great article here:
>http://www.zdnet.com/blog/howlett/microsoft-to-become-erp-arms-dealer/3016
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>I agree, good article, thanks.
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>That's another area where MS has made huge progress in the last few years. Navision as recently as 2007 was crap - I had to use it for a project, had to get trained on it, and hated it. Some contractors charged twice their normal rate when contacted for Navision work, partly as "extra nuisance pay".
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>Well, today, there are companies making a huge amount of coin in this area.

I'm a certified SAP consultant and nowadays going AX Developer courses and I hope will a MS AX certified consultant.

First MS internally uses SAP as ERP... :)

SAP worlds #1 ERP. It has huge and a lot lot of solutions. AX and NAV are really small players.

SAP:
-there are thousands solution for different industries.
-bad user gui, bad screen designer
-can run with sapgui for web. sapgui for win, mac, unix, linux ...
-sap server for win, unix, linux ...
-powerful development environment, excellent for team working and deployment.
-limited OOP


AX:
-for small and mid-size companies. I'm sure you'll say some a few big company names use AX, but sure SAP very dominant for big-size companies.
-good user gui, it's grid screens like WPF excellend (I'm not talking about grid control, I don't know if I could explain, you know english is not my main language).
-just run with win
-powerful development environment, good for deployment.
-powerful OOP

I don't know so much about NAV but I know there isn't a good project/deployment architect with NAV. It's just for small companies. I know IKEA uses NAV, that's interesting. I think so it's just about it's good retail solution.