There have been a number of articles on the future of Microsoft Dynamics GP with the change to the Modern Lifecycle in 2021 and the announcement about ceasing new customer site sales in April 2023.
[Edit] GPUG All-Star, SQL Guru and good friend Kerry Hataley has consolidated all the information from Microsoft into a single article and also produced a Dynamics GP Consolidated Timeline based on the official Microsoft Roadmap, product lifecycle information and the April 2023 announcement.
To get all the information on the Modern Lifecycle Policy, how it relates to the future of Microsoft Dynamics GP development, how new customer sales are affected and how existing customer licensing is NOT affected, have a read of Kerry’s article:
If you haven’t seen Kerry’s article on the surveys he organized on the future of GP, click on the link below:
For your quick review, here is the Dynamics GP Consolidate Timeline chart and a download link for the full PDF, if you need to show it to your management.
Download the Dynamics GP Consolidated Timeline chart using the link below:
More Information
For more information, see the source materials as published by Microsoft:
- Microsoft: Understand the Lifecycle Policies for Dynamics GP
- Microsoft: Dynamics GP Lifecycle page
- Microsoft: Simplifying licensing across our SMB ERP solutions: don’t miss new DPL announcements!
- Microsoft: Updates to Dynamics on-premises (DPL) policies and offers (PartnerSource Business Center – access required and links to more subsequent articles)
Please see other related articles in the Future of Microsoft Dynamics GP section on the Microsoft Dynamics GP Links page on this blog:
Hope you find this information helpful.
David
20-Jan-2024: Article edited for clarity. The Consolidated Dynamics GP Timeline is based on information published by Microsoft and does not provide more information or contradictory information.
20-Jan-2024: Added links to source materials published by Microsoft.
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Unfortunately, the move to Modern Lifecycle is part of the plan to discontinue the product. With the legacy lifecycle, they were releasing a new version every few years and then committing support for 10 more years. It would be difficult to release a new version and then say “this is it – in 10 years the product is done.” With Modern Lifecycle, they only need to give 18 months notice that support is ending. the “Beyond” part of the roadmap likely stops mid 2030 in the internal versions.
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Microsoft have already given a date for when no more sales to new customers will be allowed. We already know that GP is a legacy product, but it still has a large customer base of which many are still paying annual enhancement plans.
It is in Microsoft’s interest to keep the cash cow alive while trying to transition the customers to other products. It would work better if the move to other products was a migration and not a reimplementation and if the customers would not end up losing functionality they had with GP.
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