Microsoft Corp. is preparing several announcements about its Dynamics brand of enterprise application suites. The company plans to release Titan, a multitenant version of Dynamics CRM, a customer relationship management product in March 2007. And it will introduce Sure Step, a family of model-driven configuration, implementation, migration, and configuration tools for all four enterprise resource planning suites as well. Analysts say that what is really being introduced, however, is the Dynamics platform strategy, which may not be announced officially. According to Yvonne Genovese, analyst at Gartner, the real news is that Microsoft is standardizing the platform and consolidating into a few products that are designed to become the primary platform for Dynamics. The platform involves a combination of core technology already found in AX, NAV, and Office, but the company is unlikely to say so. According to Genovese, the vision of Microsoft has been to have an application product line that will leverage all of the firm's products. Although Microsoft has made some two dozen announcements, the one with the greatest impact on platform strategy involves Dynamics Client for Office and SharePoint. This is a collection of some 12 self-service applications built in Office and SharePoint with access points that allow users to get into any Dynamics documentation or process using these technologies.