Apr 11, 2011 13:34 GMT  ·  By

Convergence 2011 acted as the stage where Microsoft’s upcoming enterprise relationship management solution was unveiled to the world. Formerly Dynamics AX 6, Dynamics AX 2012 features a model-driven architecture and a unified business process repository, with the software giant promising that the ERP solution has been designed with streamline usage in mind.

“Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 frees customers from the electronic concrete that has plagued the ERP industry for so long,” noted and Kirill Tatarinov, corporate vice president for Microsoft Business Solutions.

“Customers want flexible yet cost- effective business applications that work the way they do instead of being forced to adapt to the software.”

Earlier today I told you that the Redmond company had made available for download Upgrade, Installation and Implementation Planning Guides for Dynamics AX 2012.

The new resources on the Microsoft Download Center are designed to allow customers to get ready to test drive the new Dynamics AX 2012.

According to Microsoft, early adopters will be able to download and deploy the first Beta development milestone of Dynamics AX 2012 by the end of this month.

The software giant also notes that it’s hard at work to ensure that Dynamics AX 2012 will hit RTM (release to manufacturing) in August 2011.

Microsoft enumerated these features of Dynamics AX 2011:

“- A powerful foundation through prebuilt industry capabilities and comprehensive, core ERP functionality for financial, human resources and operations management.

- A new level of agility through a set of Unified Natural Models, which serves as a library of business processes that reflect real-world situations, and enables customers to easily modify their organizations and processes to meet their changing business needs.

- Simplicity across the board, through the intuitive RoleTailored experience and access to context-sensitive business intelligence (BI) that is relevant to the work at hand.”