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Microsoft talks up Dynamics license revenue growth, CRM 2013 swagger at US FY 2014 kickoff

by Jason Gumpert
Editor, MSDynamicsWorld.com

The US Microsoft Dynamics Field & Partner FY14 Kick Off Event  took place this week in Denver. The event hosted over 800 attendees (including Microsoft), and included updates from both the Dynamics product teams and the US subsidiary leadership. 

The kickoff event includes a lot of sales language - plenty of talk of wins and success, lots of buzzwords like 'aligning', 'driving', and 'execution'. And this year brought a new takeaway catchphrase - "Swagger Time" - related to the upcoming Dynamics CRM 2013 release.

There have also been a few nuggets of news coming out of the event. Microsoft displayed an updated CRM roadmap plan that includes another "marketing update" in Q3 2014 before the "Vega" product update in Q4 2014.

Microsoft Dynamics CRM Roadmap Plan

Microsoft also told attendees that in the US in FY 2013, Dynamics AX license revenue grew 40% and CRM license revenue grew 55%.

Microsoft Dynamics AX CRM license revenue 2013 US

And they reportedly informed the audience that the upcoming releases of Dynamics NAV and GP will offer single sign on with Office 365.

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About Jason Gumpert

As the editor of MSDynamicsWorld.com, Jason oversees all editorial content on the site and at our events, as well as providing site management and strategy. He can be reached at jgumpert@msdynamicsworld.com.

Prior to co-founding MSDynamicsWorld.com, Jason was a Principal Software Consultant at Parametric Technology Corporation (PTC), where he implemented solutions, trained customers, managed software development, and spent some time in the pre-sales engineering organization. He has also held consulting positions at CSC Consulting and Monitor Group.

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