History of Microsoft Dynamics AX

Microsoft Dynamics AX is one of Microsoft's enterprise resource planning software products. It is part of the Microsoft Dynamics family.

Microsoft Dynamics AX was originally developed as a collaboration between IBM and Danish Damgaard Data as IBM Axapta. Axapta was initially released in March 1998 in the Danish and U.S. markets. IBM returned all rights in the product to Damgaard Data shortly after the release of Version 1.5. Damgaard Data merged with Navision Software A/S in 2000 to form NavisionDamgaard, later named Navision A/S. Microsoft acquired the combined company in July 2002.

In September 2011, Microsoft released version AX 2012. It was made available and supported in more than 30 countries and 25 languages.
The newest version was released in February 2016.

Version	Release	Company
Axapta 1.0	March 1998	Damgaard A/S
Axapta 1.5	November 1998	Damgaard A/S
Axapta 2.0	July 1999	Damgaard A/S
Axapta 2.1	January 2000	Damgaard A/S
Axapta 2.5	December 2000	Navision-Damgaard
Axapta 3.0	October 2002	Microsoft
Microsoft Dynamics AX 4.0	March 2006	Microsoft
Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009	June 2008	Microsoft
Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012	August 2011	Microsoft