Microsoft Business Solution Apps

Microsoft Business Solution is getting ready with strategies to position their business solution products in view of the emerging web 2.0 mashup ecosystem. Microsoft plans to integrate their ERP, CRM and Office suits as new web service add-ons under various Microsoft's Shared Source Licenses.

"Mashing up Web services with on-premise applications is something we're evangelizing today," said James Utzschneider, general manager of Microsoft Dynamics marketing. He said this kind of mixing is how Microsoft will likely extend its CRM and ERP applications to make them part of the company's overall "Live" strategy. Source [1]

This shows how Microsoft - the market leader - values the relevance of mashups in view of emerging market possibilities.