Let's welcome - Microsoft's Dynamcis 365.
On November 1st 2016, Microsoft has officially released Dynamics 365 , which in my view is a very good futuristic and innovative move. D365 unites ERP, CRM and Office365 using a concept called Common Data Model (CDM). It is a true cloud service on Microsoft Azure platform - https://home.dynamics.com/ How D365 relates to AX7, The NEW Dynamics AX: Dynamics 365 brings together a suite of Microsoft products, like CRM online, the NEW Dynamics AX (AX7), PowerBI, Office365, Cortana Intelligence and several hundreds of Apps from AppSource . Now with D365, Dynamics AX is integration together with other applications - which means that you can access the data stored in Dynamics AX from various applications and is called as Dynamics 365 for Operations (D365O). Common data model: One of the core concepts behind D365 is the use of Common Data Model. CDM basically is intended to surface data that is stored within Dynamics 365 across all the different business apps (Sales, Marke...