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Microsoft offers Dynamics 365 F&O (previously known as Dynamics AX) for medium to large companies.

(Microsoft uses SAP as an ERP).

Absolutely wild to me that MS doesn't dogfood their own offering. That alone would dissuade me from ever considering it.

Are you a 100,000 employee company?

They also don't use Access to store Windows Update catalog. I don't see anything wild here, appropriate tools for different jobs.

To be honest, i think that even if they offering overlaps with SAP R/3 or S/4HANA, they overlap at the lower end (500-5k employees) and not really at the top end (> 100k employees) where MS sits.

Furthermore, AFAIK Microsoft started using SAP well before they acquired Axapta.

I was responsible for a MS dynamics implementation at a public company. I would agree.

(This was also my motivation to start my own financial reporting startup: what if we designed a system in the year 2022 to be able to support big businesses without it being as awful as big business software.)

MS uses Dynamics for a ton of internal processes, just not all of them. I suspect the SAP installation predates the existence of Dynamics as a product.

So that's what Dynamics is...thanks for that; I feel like I never hear about any ERP software other than SAP which I found weird, though not as weird as the fact that I've never met a developer at SAP, only implementation consultants...

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