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More Dynamics ERP Partners Look for Ways to Bring Dynamics Data to the iPad

by Linda Rosencrance
Contributing Writer, MSDW

Microsoft Partner Sikich LLP, a public accounting and consulting firm, is hoping to get in on the buzz surrounding Apple Inc.'s iPad by offering customers a solution to run Microsoft Dynamics ERP on their iPads.

"Lately, it is rare that I go into a meeting and someone doesn't pull out his iPad," said Sikich partner Jim Drumm in a blog post. "Apple's iPad is stirring up a lot of enterprise interest... Many of our Microsoft Dynamics ERP clients have expressed an interest in extending their Microsoft Dynamics investment by running it on their iPads."

It appears that Drumm is correct in his assessment of the business uses for the iPad.

In fact, according to user responses at this week's Dynamics AX User Group Summit 2010, the Apple iPad is taking the Microsoft Dynamics universe by storm.

In a presentation on "Dynamics AX and the iPad," nearly half of the 60 attendees at the demonstration by Sunrise Technologies senior consultant Brandon George said they're using the iPad to access or develop applets that enable the users to carry out functions within AX. 

And Sunrise's president, John Pence, told MSDynamicsWorld.com that about half of the Dynamics AX partner's clients are either using or in the process of developing applets for the iPad.

Sikich feels that having mobile access to their Microsoft Dynamics ERP systems on the iPad will help employees to:

  • Respond faster to customer requirements
  • Generate workflow approvals
  • Generate/post new requirements

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About Linda Rosencrance

Linda Rosencrance is a freelance writer/editor in the Boston area. Rosencrance has over 25 years experience as an reporter/investigative reporter, writing for many newspapers in the metropolitan Boston area. Rosencrance has been writing about information technology for the past 16 years.

She has covered a variety of IT subjects, including Microsoft Dynamics, mobile security issues such as data loss prevention, network management, secure mobile app development, privacy, cloud computing, BI, big data, analytics, HR, CRM, ERP, and enterprise IT.

Rosencrance is the author of six true crime books for Kensington Publishing Corp.

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