For months, industry experts have been waiting for Microsoft to debut Madeira, the small business ERP solution that was linked to Dynamics NAV, one of its key business planning offerings.
On Wednesday (April 13), reports emerged that Microsoft had finally released Madeira, which was once used synonymously with Dynamics NAV, and is working to highlight the differences between the two solutions.
Madeira is a small business ERP solution for firms that “need more than the simple financial and accounting tools they started with but aren’t yet ready to make a big investment in a customized enterprise resource planning system,” said Microsoft.
Reports said the tool allows businesses to access financial tools, procurement, CRM and other processes from within Microsoft Outlook; the company also said it hopes that third-party software vendors will build extensions for Madeira.
According to reports by ZDNet, a spokesperson for Microsoft said that Madeira apps “aren’t the client apps for the next release of Dynamics NAV” and that Madeira is not simply the next version of Dynamics NAV.
“Project Madeira is a new multi-tenant public cloud business management service (SaaS),” the spokesperson told the site. “Project Madeira is a new offering built on the Microsoft Dynamics NAV platform and several other Microsoft technologies.”
Madeira will run on the Azure platform and, starting Wednesday, will be available only in preview form for U.S. businesses. The service will see a full rollout later this year, reports said, and other geographical markets will see the product after a full launch in the U.S.
The spokesperson added that the next version of Microsoft Dynamics NAV is expected for release in the second half of the year.
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