This Month Gartner published the magic quadrant for ERP for Product-Centric Midmarket Companies. Gartner positioned Microsoft Dynamics AX and SAP Business All-in-One as Leaders in this market. Dynamics AX offers broad and robust functionality, and delivers low TCO through integration with other Microsoft products and technologies. Microsoft’s industry strategy for AX results in strong functionality, which is built by Microsoft’s internal resources or acquired from proven partners. Microsoft is continually improving its channel of resellers, which will help to overcome the remaining challenges with gobal implementations.

Gartner positioned Microsoft Dynamics NAV as a Niche Player and believes it is best suited for lower-midmarket companies with single-site operations and those that do not seek deep industry-specific functionality out of the box. Dynamics NAV has a high brand awareness that is constantly expanding beyond its home markets in EMEA. The partner ecosystem provides a wide variety of individual solutions that serve the specific customer needs.  An example is the solution SI Foodware, a Food & Beverage add-on based on Dynamics NAV, which is sold and implemented by 10 Microsoft partners worldwide.

http://www.gartner.com/technology/media-products/reprints/microsoft/vol10/article22/article22.html