Hello all,

I just read a booked called  "The Microsoft Outlook Ideas Book". There's nothing related to AX inside the book,
and my purpose  to read the book was to find what kind of tools I can use with  other Microsoft products (e.g. Outlook).
You have to remember that AX is not tool for everthing. 

The book is short, only about 120 pages, but it includes lot of interesting topics. The book tells
about Outlook Calendar, Contacts and Tasks - features. In addition there have been described
two "whole solutions": Meeting room management and Contact management.

After reading the book, I understood that Outlook solutions (based on this book) may
be good solutions for small companies, but if you are a manager of 100+ employees
organisation this book will not help you. Based on this book, I see that Outlook is not
solution for you.  or small organsations, which have own emi-professional programmer this book
will help to get more out of Outlook.

 You can buy book from Packtpub.com 

Computing At the Core

Picture this: a 2,400-user software engineering services company, which started from a mere 200-users workforce in last five years and is poised to scale up to a 10,000-strong organization quite rapidly...
<read  full article from CIO.com>

 Microsoft began rolling out to customers on June 2 the latest version of its high-end ERP application, Dynamics AX 2009.
The latest Axapta release (also known as AX 5.0) has lots of new bells and whistles: A compliance center dashboard that displays all kinds of key performance indicators (KPIs) in a single view...
<read full article from Zdnet>

Microsoft Releases Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 (official press release)
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Merger of ERP systems implementators

At the end of June Alna Business Solutions (ABS), the Polish subsidiary of a Lithuania-based ERP software supplier, acquired a 100% stake in Polish Enterprise Software Consultants (EnSofCon), specialising in CRM and logistics supporting IT tools. Both entities are medium-sized companies and their main areas of operations are firms of similar scale. The main purpose of the acquisition is to create one of the biggest Dynamics Nav, Dynamics AX and ERP products implementators and producers in the region. 

<read more from PolishMarket.com>

"The Demo Data set for Microsoft Dynamics® AX 2009 is no longer based on the Global Trade and Manufacturing Company. Based on market feedback we have created a new Contoso Entertainment systems group of companies. It comes with 2 fiscal years of transactional data that enable us to demo our stronger Business Intelligence story and Role Center pages, while allowing us to easily expand the demo data story in future releases as we expand Microsoft Dynamics® AX’s functionality footprint..." 

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