Completion of Microsoft Corp."s Project Green initiative to bring its four business application suites together on a single code base is still two years away, but the company is already trying to standardize some features across the line.
At its Convergence conference here last week, officials of the Redmond, Wash., company discussed existing and future application extensions and add-on modules it is calling Surround Applications. Similar to Project Green, Surround Applications such as Microsoft"s Customer Relationship Management and MBN (Microsoft Business Network) provide functionality that spans all four of the company"s suites: Great Plains, Navision, Axapta and Solomon.