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A Brief History of MS Dynamics Axapta

Danish company Damgaard A/S developed Axapta, and the first version was released in March 1998 in Denmark and the US. These days it’s available in 45 languages, and its business solutions, partner, and customer base is growing quickly, making Axapta a major presence in the global ERP market. It’s especially strong in the SME market and is advancing rapidly in the tier-one corporate accounts segment. Its predecessor products, Concorde and XAL, go back to 1983, so although Axapta is a reasonably recent product by ERP standards, it is built on two decades of technology and business experience. It inherits heavily from these products and leverages their code bases, design, and functionality. Axapta became part of the Business Solutions division of Microsoft when Microsoft acquired Navision A/S in 2002. The main steps leading to the current version of Axapta are as follows: • March 1998: Release of version 1.0 in the US and Denmark. Version 1.0 included Finance, Trade, Inventory Manage