tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87449652425789574982011-07-31T01:04:51.221-06:00About Microsoft Great Plains, Microsoft CRM and Small BusinessILVintnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3171100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-34056332387020555682010-09-20T07:32:00.000-06:002010-10-05T07:33:18.095-06:00

InterDyn AKA, one of the most distinguished Microsoft Partners globally has been recognized by Accounting Technology magazine and it’s online counterpart WebCPA as one of the country’s top 100 value-added resellers of enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM) business solutions. VARs are selected for the list and ranked based upon company and revenue size and

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NetSuite Helps Microsoft Dynamics GP and Sage VARs Achieve Success in the Cloud EconomyVARs Turn from Stone-Age Software to Cloud-Age NetSuite for Integrated ERP, CRM and EcommerceDownload imageSAN MATEO, Calif., Sept. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- NetSuite Inc. ( NYSE: N), the industry's leading provider of cloud-based financials / ERP software suites, today announced the latest North American channel

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-77845860372778030852010-07-22T08:17:00.000-06:002010-09-17T08:32:03.734-06:00

Quite a while ago, Eynav Azarya, CEO of Panorama, and I had a really interesting discussion about business intelligence tools and how they could be of more use to business decision makers. The bottom line is that business decision makers are often too busy to take time to learn complex business intelligence tools and so they ring IT when they need something. I’m sure this is very frustrating to

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-37993826038391800942010-06-24T08:19:00.000-06:002010-09-15T08:20:38.875-06:00

The latest CRM software suite rankings from Forrester still show SAP and Oracle-Siebel leading the pack, but the distance is not that great.In fact, as the CRM market has matured, some of the software products in the market have become very difficult to differentiate, said William Band, principal analyst with the Cambridge, Mass.-based research firm and an author of the report."That's the

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-82563356449387284862010-06-23T08:18:00.000-06:002010-09-15T08:19:31.320-06:00

Infor, the leading provider of business software for mid-market companies, today announced that it will closely align its key business applications with a wide range of complementary Microsoft products, forming software solutions that are easier for mid-market companies to deploy and use.News * Next-generation Infor software solutions that use Microsoft tools and technologies will be designed

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-6844615416834648382010-06-17T03:21:00.000-06:002010-09-15T03:22:06.000-06:00

Partners have had their hands on Office 2010 for a while now, but the massive productivity suite just rolled out to consumers on Tuesday. It's not cheap -- depending on the version, it runs from about $150 to nearly $500.Five hundred dollars? (It just looks so much more dramatic spelled out.) Granted, that's for the highest-end version of the software (Office Professional 2010), but your editor

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-6276160770754416782010-06-11T03:09:00.000-06:002010-09-15T03:20:25.910-06:00

The market for ERP software is highly competitive and it’s most definitely a buyer’s marketLooking for the best ERP solution for your company is not an easy task in today’s market with all the providers, systems and applications to choose from; there is so much potential for distraction and it’s hard to make the right choice. But don’t be put off. Yes, the market is highly competitive, but, by

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-72710785498830959132010-06-10T02:30:00.000-06:002010-09-14T02:31:25.057-06:00

The 2010 FIFA World Cup gets underway on Friday, and it will bring hundreds of thousands soccer fans to South Africa over the next month. To cope with an anticipated ten-fold increase in visitor calls and online contacts, South African Tourism has turned to Salesforce.com for a rapidly scalable and social-network-connected CRM environment.South Africa is used to hosting visitors to its wildlife

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-2512190028933070732010-06-09T02:31:00.000-06:002010-09-14T02:32:44.529-06:00

Microsoft hinted at some amazing new capabilities coming to its BI products in yesterday’s Business Intelligence Conference keynote, including an "engine of the devil" that allows instant analysis of more than 2 billion rows of data.Microsoft BI engineer Amir Netz joined senior exec Ted Kummert to demo new technology the company is working on to go beyond current capabilities of its recently

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Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff used strong language during a recent earnings call to describe a patent-infringement lawsuit leveled against his company by Microsoft, which he equated with "alley thugs." Microsoft alleges that Salesforce infringed on nine of its patents related to cloud-based applications. Benioff also hinted that Microsoft’s lawsuit could grievously affect other cloud vendors.

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-90598457988481611052010-05-24T02:27:00.000-06:002010-09-14T02:28:39.419-06:00

by Timothy Prickett MorganA lot of areas in the IT business were slammed last year, with double-digit revenue declines, but the market for business intelligence, analytics, and performance management (meaning the performance of the business, not the underlying systems) software was not one of them.According to the bit and money counters at Gartner, these three interrelated software products

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-5345124764076161102010-05-20T01:31:00.000-06:002010-09-12T01:32:58.508-06:00

Oracle has agreed to acquire database firewall-solutions provider Secerno. The move keeps Oracle competitive with IBM, which acquired Guardium in December. Secerno will be Oracle's first line of defense against threats from outside and inside as more people access databases through analytics and business intelligence tools.Oracle is still integrating Sun Microsystems into its fold, but that

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-48040535726275029002010-05-12T01:27:00.000-06:002010-09-12T01:30:43.255-06:00

Microsoft this week is releasing the 2010 versions of its Office and SharePoint applications. Sure, there are a range of new and exciting features, but unlike previous Office versions, that is not where this launch is making the most noise. Microsoft’s strategy for competing with Google and owning the cloud is coming more into focus, and that is where this release will make or break Microsoft’s

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Ponte Vedra-based MDI Holdings Inc. said the company has been endorsed as a “Gold Certified Partner” by Microsoft.The Microsoft program recognizes companies with the highest levels of reliability, experience and capabilities in various technological fields. MDI has earned the certification in business intelligence, custom web development, data management solutions, software-oriented architecture

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-21700668438151429812010-04-28T09:34:00.000-06:002010-04-28T09:35:01.509-06:00

Birst Inc., a leading provider of on-demand solutions for business intelligence (BI) and analytics, recently announced the availability of Birst 4 Spring Release. Birst 4 Spring Release is the latest update to Birst 4, a comprehensive business intelligence solution that features rapid deployment and high ROI. The new features made available in the Birst 4 Spring Release include more powerful,

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-62955399850297431442010-04-27T10:03:00.000-06:002010-04-27T10:04:01.904-06:00

US partners to benefit from GP2010-ready BI software to deliver additional revenue streams Microsoft Convergence, Atlanta, USA April 27, 2010: Phocas, the global provider of simple, intuitive Business Intelligence software (BI), today launched its first channel program for the North American market, aimed at Microsoft Dynamics resellers. “Because Phocas is built on Microsoft technologies

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-45509137174697111102010-04-26T10:00:00.001-06:002010-04-27T10:02:46.928-06:00

By Dian SchaffhauserMichael Barrett came to Florida State University in 2003 to manage a conversion to a new enterprise resource planning suite that was being implemented as a joint project among Financial Operations, Human Resources, and ITS. The university's move off of IBM's DB2 and onto Oracle's PeopleSoft software was driven by a 2002 Florida state constitutional amendment that mandated

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-37743524189880386362010-04-23T09:59:00.000-06:002010-04-27T09:59:49.694-06:00

SEATTLE, April 23 - Ascentium, The Experience Agency™, today announced a formal agreement to sell its U.S. Microsoft Dynamics CRM business to Avanade Inc. Terms of the transaction are undisclosed.Ascentium CEO and Co-founder Curt Doolittle said the sale reflects the firm's growing focus on using emerging technologies to develop new creative strategies for clients and build powerful and lasting

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-47504132964436012022010-04-22T03:42:00.000-06:002010-04-22T03:43:04.001-06:00

Microsoft has updated its Dynamics GP enterprise resource planning application for medium-sized businesses, adding features to streamline day-to-day tasks.In addition, Dynamics GP 2010, introduced on Tuesday, is the first to include integration with Dynamics CRM, the company said.A number of the new streamlining features allow processes to be set up more easily. For example, the software includes

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-32155827467130063072010-04-20T12:04:00.000-06:002010-04-20T12:05:34.672-06:00

The Health IT market is consolidating. E-Clinical Data Management demands all but force R&D, as well as post-market prescription and OTC product surveillance, into digital domains. Robust database applications are needed to support these applications and systems. Oracle, Microsoft, and SAP are the three dominant players in the space.Oracle has been on a steady acquisition spree for some time and

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-26800147806110434782010-04-19T12:02:00.000-06:002010-04-20T12:04:00.716-06:00

LAS VEGAS, NV, Apr 19, 2010 -- Altosoft, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and a leading provider of process-aware business intelligence solutions, today announced its Insight Dashboard for System Center. With this introduction Altosoft extends its suite of solutions for System Center and Opalis to provide a comprehensive Business Service Management (BSM) solution for users of Microsoft's /

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-53463845489303909612010-04-12T06:37:00.000-06:002010-04-16T06:38:28.286-06:00

Basis Technology Corporation announced today that it has entered in an extensive, long-term licensing agreement with Microsoft Corp. to provide advanced linguistic technology for Bing web search. The company's Rosette(R) Platform is used in Bing search to identify and analyze text in several languages, enabling the creation of a high quality index, which in turn contributes to a high quality

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-50614379358557537332010-04-12T06:34:00.000-06:002010-04-16T06:36:54.451-06:00

DENVER, April 12 -- Decentrix, Inc. today announced their new Master Data Management tool called BIAnalytix™ MDM Mapper, which targets mapping large amounts of historical data within a warehouse to master data lists. For corporations with large amounts of historical data that has been collected in a data warehouse, the BIAnalytix™ MDM Mapper software is truly a major breakthrough to transform

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-23381245085746296572010-03-24T06:33:00.000-06:002010-04-16T06:34:10.185-06:00

TORONTO, March 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Panorama Software, a global leader in proactive Business Intelligence (BI) solutions, today announced a major partner initiative that will revolutionize the world of BI on Microsoft. In response to a high volume of partnership inquiries following the platform's tight technological alignment with the upcoming launch of Microsoft Office/SharePoint 2010, Panorama

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-11673497166553430092010-03-23T06:32:00.000-06:002010-04-16T06:32:57.079-06:00

Although BI (business intelligence) is one of the hottest areas of enterprise IT, college professors around the world say they face a variety of challenges in training the next generation of BI workers, according to a new study.Study author Barbara Wixom, an associate professor at the University of Virginia, received responses from 85 institutions worldwide. Wixom is also co-executive director of

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-54329480380410485532010-03-15T06:30:00.000-06:002010-04-16T06:31:38.311-06:00

Collaboration and social networks are more important than ever, but despite their popularity, businesses are still struggling with how to use them effectively. In fact, according to recent research from Microsoft Corp., half of enterprise content management (ECM) deployments fail, which is clearly a low success rate.In many cases these solutions are built in a vacuum, without the end-user in mind

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-9556023431881743182010-03-06T06:26:00.000-07:002010-04-16T06:28:43.698-06:00

The Independent Development Trust (IDT) has made a strategic decision to implement Microsoft Systems Center, with the assistance of IT services and solutions provider, Datacentrix.“The primary objective of this project was to design and implement Microsoft System Center in order to empower IDT to proactively manage its Windows server infrastructure,” says Agnat Makgoale, Business Unit manager at

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-53905846030075087652010-02-19T04:35:00.000-07:002010-02-22T04:36:25.066-07:00

For going on five years now, Forrester Research CEO George Colony has been calling for a name change for the IT function, from information technology to business technology. Colony contends this change would signal IT's intent to focus on business goals. Here's an excerpt from a 2009 interview Colony did with Forrester colleague Connie Moore: ... I believe by changing the name to BT, and

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-64355366659035580102010-02-17T05:46:00.000-07:002010-02-17T05:47:25.136-07:00

Today business intelligence may only reach 15 to 20 per cent of an organization's users, but that will explode to 65 per cent in the next five years, said an executive with IBM Canada Ltd.And as users increasingly get acquainted with these analytic systems, IT pros will have no choice but to deal with the massive flood of queries and data requests that will undoubtedly follow, said Jason Gartner,

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-43389161400212104822010-02-17T04:33:00.000-07:002010-02-22T04:34:48.339-07:00

NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) today reported results for the third quarter of fiscal year 2010, which ended January 29, 2010. GAAP revenues for the third quarter of fiscal 2010 were $1.01 billion, compared to GAAP and non-GAAP revenues(1) of $746 million and $874 million, respectively, for the same period one year ago.For the third fiscal quarter of 2010, GAAP net income was $108 million, or $0.30 per

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-970857705752770612010-02-16T06:56:00.000-07:002010-02-16T06:57:53.666-07:00

The final nominees for the inaugural ITWeb Business Intelligence Excellence Awards are in. The three finalists are Metropolitan Life, The South African Revenue Services (SARS), and Engen Oil.The awards, sponsored by BI Practice and Microsoft, will run alongside the ITWeb BI Summit, being held at The Forum, in Bryanston, from 23 to 25 February. The winner and runner-up will be announced at the

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-37711454749803640992010-02-10T03:18:00.000-07:002010-02-10T03:20:30.065-07:00

Getting access to sales information, store margins and gross performances hasn’t always been straightforward for retailers. With new technologies, this information can be available at the click of a button. Lindsay James reports.The role of business intelligence (BI) in retail is more important now than it has ever been. Embattled retailers are finally starting to realise that they need to gain

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-2526800561080224862010-02-09T01:23:00.001-07:002010-02-09T01:23:40.853-07:00

QlikTech, a leading business intelligence company, today announced it's been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the challengers Quadrant in the Enterprise Business Intelligence Suites (EBIS) Magic Quadrant' report(1) for based on review of its QlikView product."It's great to be positioned by Gartner as a Challenger," said Anthony Deighton, Senior Vice President of Products for QlikTech. "As the

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-54913959693139995652010-02-07T06:46:00.000-07:002010-02-07T06:47:04.150-07:00

(Media-Newswire.com) - MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Feb. 5, 2010 – For many software developers—particularly those focused on social computing—the world of deep enterprise computing seems far removed from a world of widgets and tweets. But social computing has become a driving force behind “Enterprise 2.0” – aimed at making large companies more collaborative and agile. Next-generation social computing

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-19205748787592248012010-02-06T08:01:00.000-07:002010-02-06T08:02:57.150-07:00

Today is another first for us. We are proud to announce our intention to acquire Inform Business Impact. The company is a global leader in business analytics and workforce planning, and it is a pure play Cloud company and has world-class consulting capabilities, kind of like the McKinsey of this industry. As you know, we are aggressively building out our BizX road map. We have a three-pronged

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-38619625712166648602009-05-21T00:25:00.000-06:002009-05-21T00:26:06.018-06:00

Our (so far) modest BI undertakings at Westminster have very much been joint efforts between IT and everyone else. I’ve helped to define the overall project while individual departments have partnered with an IT person to implement what they need. I have personally handled some of the dashboard development as well, but again, this is in partnership with others. As the CIO, I do have a very

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-31828719045217218722009-05-20T00:21:00.000-06:002009-05-21T00:25:16.700-06:00

It seems you can’t pick up an IT magazine, read a technical or business blog or attend a business intelligence (BI) conference without hearing about software as a service (SaaS) and the new model of software delivery. SaaS was used initially by small to medium businesses, but it is now being adopted more and more by large multinational corporations. Today we have a plethora of examples of SaaS

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-13412920713102439032009-05-15T04:49:00.000-06:002009-05-19T04:50:22.275-06:00

Great collaboration. It means eliminating boundaries of time, place and technology so that people can work together effortlessly.Today's business environment demands that people are able to communicate and share information effectively in any situation. That means eliminating the typical constraints of location and technology so employees can remain productive in or out of the office.Microsoft

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-74682319225461055282009-05-14T13:40:00.002-06:002009-05-14T13:45:43.308-06:00

You don't need new tools to gain insight into your business -- here are eight ways to make the most of what you've got.That adage from the Great Depression is making a comeback these days among corporations that are digging deep to maintain profitability using business tools they already have in-house.One of those companies is Creativity Inc., which found itself two years ago facing a serious

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-42771761764606138222009-05-11T07:15:00.000-06:002009-05-12T07:19:10.866-06:00

When I sat down with Bill McDermott, president of SAP (NYSE: SAP)'s Global Field Operations, all I wanted to talk about was whether software-as-a-service is upending traditional self-hosted software. So it almost went by me when he mentioned that SAP would soon have some Business Intelligence news. We also discussed mobile apps, plus Bill had some tough words for competitor Oracle. Click on to

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-8040324282834199572009-05-06T04:03:00.000-06:002009-05-07T04:05:11.829-06:00

By Phil WainewrightPW: Well Rand, of course, we've been having these conversations for more than ten years, since back to the dark old days of SaaS — when it was called ASP, and no one really believed that you could run software and applications in the cloud.RS: That's right. Well certainly, all of our heads were sort of in the cloud, all the early guys' heads were in the clouds back then. And

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-58916124345550125482009-05-05T09:48:00.000-06:002009-05-05T09:49:05.022-06:00

by Alex WoodieQuadrant Software last week unveiled a new release of its flagship IntelliChief document management and workflow product at the COMMON conference in Reno, Nevada. IntelliChief 2.5 brings a smattering of relatively minor enhancements, such as automatic document matching and performance metrics, which demonstrate that customers are using the product and giving Quadrant feedback on how

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-5360732480980226092009-05-05T09:34:00.000-06:002009-05-05T09:44:41.106-06:00

Canadians attend college or university not only to learn about a certain subject, but also to prepare for the workforce. So why are companies developing in-house training programs for their employees? And why are employees eagerly taking them?Because as valuable as post-secondary education is, it can never be geared entirely to training individuals for a specific job within a particular

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-18251513305613319392009-04-28T06:00:00.000-06:002009-04-29T06:01:58.923-06:00

NetWeaver Business Warehouse (BW) will run on Teradata databases, a move that analysts say is great news for SAP NetWeaver BW customers.The move shores up SAP NetWeaver BW's deficiencies, which include a reputation for slow query responses, limited data volume scalability, and limited visibility into non-SAP data, according to Philip Russom, senior manager of research at The Data Warehousing

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-50216809217027218512009-04-27T05:53:00.000-06:002009-04-29T05:59:49.192-06:00

With Oracle ready to annex Sun Microsystems, there may finally exist a true, full and global counterweight to IBM's hegemony. Who else loses? Microsoft, SAP and Cisco -- and maybe even Amazon. If HP plays along and aligns with Sun and Oracle, together they could create a full-service IT powerhouse.The reported acquisition of Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: JAVA) More about Sun Microsystems by Oracle (

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-53582870966677561992009-04-23T05:03:00.000-06:002009-04-29T05:04:27.347-06:00

As analysts predicted it might, Microsoft on Thursday reported the company's first ever year-over-year sales decline for the quarter ended March 31.The software maker said fiscal third-quarter sales totaled $13.65 billion, down 6 percent compared with $14.45 billion in the same quarter a year ago. Its per-share earnings were 33 cents per share, although that included severance and investment

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-86805757932929341032009-04-21T05:50:00.000-06:002009-04-29T05:51:10.469-06:00

Oracle's corporate org chart is starting to look like one of those maps of the Roman Empire or of Alexander the Great's conquests or something. It already covers great swaths of the technology industry, and it just keeps spreading in every direction.Consider for a second this paragraph, courtesy of Bloomberg: "Oracle is entering new markets as it seeks to reach $50 billion in revenue by 2012.

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-55537464805346829442009-03-13T07:24:00.000-06:002009-04-27T07:25:19.186-06:00

Good day, good morn and a good eve to one and all, and when's the last time we had two months in a row with a Friday the 13th, huh? To the astrology charts, everyone, and stay off the roads today. Yes, this is Radio CBM 98.6, all Coleman Hawkins all the time, your nose for Nooz.EGain Communications has introduced a new offering called Solution-as-a-Service (SLaaS), which company officials believe

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-41623525285525785332009-03-09T07:24:00.000-06:002009-04-27T07:24:37.590-06:00

New Delhi, March 9' 09: B.L. Kashyap, one of India’s most respected construction and infra- structure development company’s engaged All-e Technologies (Alletec)- a leader in providing Enterprise Business Solutions, as their technology partners to implement Microsoft (MS) Dynamics NAV (ERP solution from Microsoft) across their offices & project sites. The solution is based on the Alletec vertical

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-58062783354588317132009-03-03T07:05:00.000-07:002009-04-27T07:06:48.084-06:00

Financial analysts attending the Morgan Stanley Technology Conference on Tuesday questioned Stephen Elop, president of Microsoft's Business Division, on Microsoft's various business plans. Elop oversees Microsoft's Business Solutions and Unified Communications Groups, which include such products as Microsoft Office and Microsoft Dynamics.The Business Division has been particularly profitable for

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-71206472597599632842009-03-02T07:04:00.000-07:002009-04-27T07:05:40.751-06:00

New, affordable UI control set offers business intelligence and rich data visualization capabilities to the massesPRINCETON, N.J. and ELSTREE, England, March 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Infragistics, the world leader in user interface development tools and experts in the User Experience (UX) market, today announced the immediate availability of NetAdvantage for Silverlight Data Visualization 2009 Volume 1.

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-57674027217276939102009-02-27T06:52:00.001-07:002009-04-26T06:59:18.532-06:00

It takes a lot to get different parts of Microsoft to really work together. But the current economic turmoil might just be the thing to do it.At least that's the working theory for Stephen Elop, the former Macromedia CEO who joined Microsoft a year ago to take Jeff Raikes' place running the software maker's business unit, which includes Office."It's remarkable how some of those hairiest issues or

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-42851074655786362682009-02-23T06:48:00.000-07:002009-04-26T06:52:10.256-06:00

As one of the most widely used document collaboration tools, it is no wonder organizations want to understand how to build better business processes in SharePoint. Of course, not all documents are electronic. Organizations still deal with a vast amount of paper-based information. So you look for document imaging software to help you get those documents into SharePoint easily. But once they are

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-47322508043249638902009-02-18T06:45:00.000-07:002009-04-26T06:48:18.788-06:00

Not long ago, the words "BlackBerry" and "software" didn't belong in the same sentence. Sure, your BlackBerry smartphone was capable of running software; it even came with a few applications installed. But if you were looking for a wide selection of third-party productivity apps, you were out of luck.Fortunately, things have changed. Today, people want more out of their smartphones, and phone

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-33112870539660479682009-02-17T01:34:00.000-07:002009-02-17T01:36:05.624-07:00

Leading business intelligence and analysis software company QlikView signed 15 new South African clients in January, its best month since entering the local market in 2004. The new clients include one of South Africa's biggest retailers.“January is typically a slow month, so we're enormously pleased by the number of new clients who have come on board,” says QlikView South Africa MD Davide

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-41654582870902072502009-02-12T01:35:00.000-07:002009-02-13T01:36:14.582-07:00

So we tried a Democrat, we tried a Republican, how about we try a businessman to run the Commerce Department and see what he can do with an $8 billion+ budget to help turn around the business of America.I nominate Bill Gates to be the next Secretary of Commerce and I base my nomination on three things.First, he is a rags to riches, start-up businessman who clearly has an understanding of not only

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-26352926805606762192009-02-11T01:33:00.001-07:002009-02-13T01:34:39.237-07:00

Microsoft has finally laid out its plans for the search technology acquired with the $1.3bn (£906m) purchase of enterprise search vendor Fast last year, announcing that it will integrate the Fast ESP platform with its highly popular SharePoint offering.The software giant unveiled Fast Search for SharePoint at the annual Fastforward event in Las Vegas. The new search server will add the high-end

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-36249836417445763792009-02-06T00:13:00.000-07:002009-02-12T00:14:13.738-07:00

By Michael DortchA single warehouse can be a monstrously massive management challenge, on multiple levels simultaneously. Goods, vehicles, conveyor belts, people, hardware, software - a massive juggling act on a good day.Therefore a great crucible and proving ground for business processes, and a great source of "real-life" business intelligence (BI). Which I'm defining as "knowledge that helps to

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-20599967390725666982009-02-06T00:10:00.000-07:002009-02-12T00:11:11.325-07:00

Microsoft surprised the market by announcing its intention to stop selling PerformancePoint Server (PPS) as a standalone product, just 17 months after its original launch. The fallout from the announcement is immense, marking a withdrawal from the enterprise performance management (EPM) software market and a retreat back to developing business intelligence and analytic tools (rather than

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-441740053152161142009-02-01T01:48:00.000-07:002009-02-09T08:05:42.461-07:00

To maintain its developer ecosystem and protect its apps business, Microsoft has no choice but to loosen its grip on the Windows source code and drive down costs.Suggest that Microsoft's Windows operating system will one day become open source, and knowledgeable observers will give you a baleful look--maybe even laugh in your face. "I had to chuckle," says Forrester Research analyst John Rymer,

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-22449344780997658382009-01-27T10:21:00.001-07:002009-01-27T10:24:17.374-07:00

Small and mid-sized organizations seem to get the short end of the stick when it comes to their software needs. Until recently, business intelligence solutions were largely targeted at the enterprise market. These solutions required solid IT infrastructures to support the deployment and maintenance of data warehouses, data marts, OLAP and the like. Consequently, even many upper-mid market

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-75487159941427198892009-01-27T01:10:00.000-07:002009-01-27T01:11:29.730-07:00

I was disappointed to find Apple missing from the IE Editors' Choice list. There's a "perfect storm" brewing that just might elevate the iPhone as the tool of choice for corporate types, not just for e-mail but for BI on the go.Apple has, of course, long been the consumer's delight and the corporation's despair. Apple leads digital convergence in our personal lives – the iPod, iPhone and Mac work

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-63353698732314701302009-01-14T05:50:00.000-07:002009-01-22T05:52:23.392-07:00

Netezza's interoperability play with Microsoft is either a big deal for Netezza or an even bigger deal for MicrosoftBy Stephen SwoyerNetezza Inc. last week appeared to close the loop on one of its perceived competitive shortcomings when it unveiled a new interoperability strategy for Microsoft Corp.'s business intelligence (BI) platformUntil now, Netezza's data warehouse (DW) appliances have

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-32306778741669889852009-01-08T05:46:00.000-07:002009-01-22T05:50:33.468-07:00

Microsoft Dynamics CRM has become a key product for the company, according to CRM division general manager Brad Wilson--and it's an area the software maker plans to invest in further.According to Wilson, when Microsoft earlier this year committed itself to investing US$1 billion annually in the construction of new data centers to support the Microsoft Live portfolio of on-demand software, some of

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-16333164410683380752009-01-04T02:47:00.000-07:002009-01-21T02:51:52.577-07:00

Open source software, rich, dynamic interfaces and column-store databases: these are just a few of the trends that will reshape business intelligence and information management in the year ahead. Get ready for the next waves that will help you ride out a tough economy.By David Stodder The world may be flat, as author and New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman has observed: but these days, it

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-7662152879560427402008-12-20T11:18:00.001-07:002009-01-20T11:19:28.062-07:00

I have had a secret love affair. Yes, I have - with Aplicor. They are a company that does SaaS smartly and well. They understand how SaaS works in the commercial realm, yet play strongly in the public sector with one of the largest SaaS user implementations in the federal government. They have power house feature sets in both sales and customer service applications though not much to speak of

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-55024588730170010092008-12-20T11:18:00.000-07:002009-01-20T11:18:37.043-07:00

Silverpop has already been a leader in the world of innovative email marketing which, needless to say, falls in the CRM space - especially because the marketing model that they’ve developed their applications and services for is built around customer engagement. But rather than rest on their laurels as a leader in this space, they’ve instead decided to take the next step to fall in lockstep with

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-19008484518306028182008-12-20T11:17:00.000-07:002009-01-20T11:18:01.878-07:00

Neighborhood America is smart, strategic, and has an evangelist, Kim Kobza, who thinks big at the helm. Their ELAvate platform is probably one of the best developed social networking platforms in the industry. It has a number of standout features - a highly attractive interface, a video chat function that can handle what is effectively private (or public) videoconferencing for up to six users -

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-65192138796893591782008-12-20T11:16:00.001-07:002009-01-20T11:17:13.788-07:00

Jigsaw not only has a really good product - but they have the “I’m going to seize the initiative” leadership smarts too. The latter first. In June 2008, they announced the Jigsaw Open Data Initiative which gave members of the initiative free access to integrate Jigsaw data, which includes over 10 million business contacts and over a million company records into their applications data stores.

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-37778125148946351192008-12-20T11:16:00.000-07:002009-01-20T11:16:37.150-07:00

This is one that jumped onto my radar in midyear and that I’ve been following ever since. This is tailored specifically for the small end of the small business market, and, as its name implies it is designed to be simple for small business. Not only is the interface an easy one to use, but the pricing model, business model and technology model (SaaS) are entirely coherent with simplicity and

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-55361573228763013402008-12-20T11:15:00.000-07:002009-01-20T11:15:55.747-07:00

Infusionsoft is hardcore marketing automation…so they say. They don’t have a lot of social bells and whistles. They do have a complete suite of marketing and sales tools in the realm of CRM, despite their best efforts to distance themselves from CRM earlier this year. They are absolutely solid when it comes to companies in the below 75 employees range. Probably no one better that I know in the

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-13421531500942889452008-12-15T02:40:00.000-07:002009-01-21T02:42:10.779-07:00

By Bhavana NavuluriHow will the customers receive real-time information?Mobile resource management company Masternaut Three X has integrated its satellite-tracking system with Microsoft Dynamics CRM software so that its clients can provide real-time information to their customers.Claimed to be the first online CRM system with integrated satellite resource tracking, the hosted service is deployed

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-56263239109974820632008-12-10T11:14:00.000-07:002009-01-20T11:15:02.339-07:00

Founder Ken Rudin and CEO Rob Reid are both CRM industry veterans with combined Oracle, Siebel, Upshot and salesforce.com senior management experience. So when they developed the SaaS business intelligence product they provide, needless to say, CRM was never far from their minds. That’s why, if you see what they provide, they give you lead, pipeline and order insight - all CRM related analytics

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-14270570404966846332008-12-10T11:13:00.000-07:002009-01-20T11:13:59.051-07:00

Technically, this isn’t a CRM company. But it is a SaaS-based billing and payments service developed by Tien Tzuo, the former Chief Strategy Officer at salesforce.com. So, after consultation with a team of lawyers and engaging a research team of hundreds, I’ve concluded that its within my rights to focus on them as one of the companies to watch in 2009. What they do is something that has even

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-60857619849445124252008-12-10T11:11:00.000-07:002009-01-20T11:12:43.853-07:00

Somehow, which I will explain, Connectbeam has been successful yet stayed under the radar and remained cutting edge at the same time - roughly akin to me trying to juggle even one ball. Since they’ve been under the radar more or less for their existence, I’ll bring out my sonar instead and enlighten you as to what they do and who they are and why they are so important to the CRM 2.0 space. They

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-44429819769365763362008-12-10T11:10:00.000-07:002009-01-20T11:11:41.480-07:00

This is my paradigm company for a CRM 2.0 feature set. Para-digm. They seem to have it all together. They are the ones that I use as the example of the difference between CRM 2.0 and Web 2.0. They are my numero uno for explaining the difference between CRM 2.0 and Web 2.0 Their focus is customer service. They incorporate the social functionality needed to involve the customer community in

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-63439691132373934382008-12-10T11:09:00.000-07:002009-01-20T11:10:45.899-07:00

This is a company that just figured out how the world of CRM and business knowledge (not BI) intermingle when it comes to traditional competitive intelligence and the social information needed to know the customer. They have this kick-butt product called SalesView in three editions (the basic one is free, the other two are $99.00 per month per user) that draws competitive and profile information

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-8996959822187224042008-12-10T00:54:00.000-07:002009-01-20T00:54:50.620-07:00

Zoho - I’ve been a long standing fan of Zoho and saw their potential back in 2006 when they were first coming on the market. Before I get into them a little, I need to myth bust. They are viewed constantly as this startup making good. In truth, they are part of Adventnet, a nothing-like-a-startup and there are 600 engineers devoted to Adventnet products. This is a highly skilled company with a

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-19199832431052194372008-12-10T00:53:00.000-07:002009-01-20T00:53:49.123-07:00

RightNow - This company is a company that’s there and yet…almost there and have been that way for several years. I think 2009 is their breakout year if certain initiatives they’ve undertaken fall into place and they make sure that they manage their positioning around these initiatives well. They have been long established as the go-to guys for on demand customer service for quite some time. In

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-48380951310808959882008-12-10T00:52:00.000-07:002009-01-20T00:52:55.155-07:00

NetSuite has had a consistent strategy that is unlike any other of its ilk in the industry. Led by the charismatic and hip CEO Zach Nelson, and the uberbrilliant co-founder and CTO Evan Goldberg, NetSuite hasn’t attacked the market with social features or been focused around innovation as its core. Its basic hardcore strategy has been to improve functionality so that you can do enterprise related

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-11215012013521208782008-12-10T00:51:00.000-07:002009-01-20T00:52:02.172-07:00

I have to presume you know who SugarCRM is. But if you don’t, they are the most successful (by far) open source CRM platform. They have a lot going for them. They have a smart business model - one that engages a 30,000 plus developers community called the Sugar Network (which appropos of nothing, is also the name of a network of 16 entertainment and beauty properties for women) to develop on the

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-6319512941213216012008-12-10T00:49:00.000-07:002009-01-20T00:49:55.239-07:00

For years, Sage former Sage Software formerly Best Software formerly SalesLogix was perplexing. They had a good product in SalesLogix for the small and midsized world - especially the lower to mid -end of that. No one doubted its functionality. They had a strong partner program - in fact as far back as 2000, their partners drove 86% of their SalesLogix revenue. They were attempting to provide

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-21135636415774775792008-12-10T00:48:00.000-07:002009-01-20T00:49:12.855-07:00

This is the company that’s the biggest surprise and the least surprise. For the last two years, the company positioning itself as “the human network” - and using one of my favorite songs in the world - Baba O’Riley by The Who (also used on CSI:NY) for the marketing - has been placing itself into position of being an all purpose end to end set of applications, hardware, software and process

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-45364505221953231622008-12-10T00:47:00.000-07:002009-01-20T00:48:03.035-07:00

As large as the privately-held SAS is ($2.15 billion in revenue in 2007) and as great a place as they are to work (always among the lowest turnover rates in any industry and voted among best places to work by everyone), I had to hesitate before including them here - which might seem a little churlish. This is a company whose revenue went up 15% last year, more driven by partners than ever before

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-88260830449425995332008-12-10T00:46:00.000-07:002009-01-20T00:47:03.276-07:00

IBM has always been a player in CRM - but through IBM Global Business Services, their consulting arm, not their software or applications groups. Their CRM applications built on Lotus Notes, were, to be charitable, so-so. That’s really charitable. But, I think we’ve pretty well established that CRM has changed dramatically - at least in my Hollywood-stricken eyes. We’ve moved from customer

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-25797362742025155232008-12-10T00:43:00.000-07:002009-01-20T00:44:41.653-07:00

Case #1: Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 was a major, important and smart step forward for Microsoft. When they announced it at the Worldwide Partner Conference in Denver in 2007, they also announced their software + services initiative and their “single code base” approach for the on premise and on demand version of Dynamics CRM. Additionally, at the same time, they announced aggressive pricing for

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-89765885406600303092008-12-10T00:41:00.002-07:002009-01-20T00:43:24.316-07:00

For very different reasons, this was another company that 1.5 years ago, I would never have included in a CRM leadership category despite their announced sales of CRM applications software. The application was kludgy, an afterthought to SAP ERP R/3 iterations of one form or another and it was ugly as sin. But I always liked the company, despite some notable tightness in their approach to

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-65847050614517388752008-12-10T00:41:00.001-07:002009-01-20T00:42:42.048-07:00

They have been genre-benders, innovators, and a marketing machine par excellence for the past eight or so years. They’ve planned on being the “Business Web for all your application needs” since 2003 and they have rigorously followed that path with their recent emphasis on Force.com a.k.a Platform as a Service and their drive around cloud computing. They win awards for what they do with incredible

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-16612564644886982432008-12-10T00:36:00.002-07:002009-01-20T00:43:48.690-07:00

One of my new years resolutions is not to start everything on Oracle with “I never would have thought I’d be saying this but Oracle….” and then saying something good about them. They’ve now been good for a long time and don’t really (at least when it comes to CRM) need the qualifer. But, then this is still 2008, so… if this were a year and a half ago, I wouldn’t have made Oracle one of my top “

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-80939248384725536832008-12-09T01:06:00.001-07:002009-01-19T01:09:24.157-07:00

No one would call business intelligence (BI) a new star in the technology lineup like, say, cloud computing. But technical advancements that let users build their own reports without the mediation of IT experts, an explosion in data and, yes, an economy in recession, have conferred a-list status on BI systems. In fact, Gartner Inc. put BI on its list of "Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2009."

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-4436624174194988522008-12-03T09:35:00.003-07:002008-12-03T09:42:31.639-07:00

NL Hosting Internet bv is onafhankelijk, vanaf 1997 actief als ISP en registreerde in deze periode voor diens relaties zo'n 20.000 domeinnamen in vele extensies.Door onze jarenlange expertise garanderen wij u een snelle afhandeling van uw aanvraag, daarnaast is het mogelijk om uw domeinnaam direct te koppelen aan een webhosting account.Naast dot NL vragen wij graag andere extensies voor u aan,

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-1790038691709441712008-11-28T01:02:00.000-07:002009-01-19T01:04:29.682-07:00

Microsoft Dynamics CRM has become a key product for the company, according to CRM division general manager Brad Wilson--and it's an area the software maker plans to invest in further.According to Wilson, when Microsoft earlier this year committed itself to investing $1 billion annually in the construction of new data centers to support the Microsoft Live portfolio of on-demand software, some of

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-3536886431291598782008-11-24T01:00:00.000-07:002009-01-19T01:01:18.444-07:00

One might think that as a CIO, it would be tough to have someone else running all of your desktops and many of your servers.Not so, says Randy Benz, CIO of Energizer. For more than three years, Energizer has handed off much of those duties to Microsoft. And he'd be fine with Microsoft running just about everything, save perhaps for the company's iconic battery-powered bunny."If I never run

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-29360033154302797942008-11-19T00:55:00.000-07:002009-01-19T00:58:44.121-07:00

Microsoft unveiled Dynamics NAV 2009 Wednesday, a long-awaited upgrade of one of the vendor's key midmarket ERP application suites, and will begin shipping the product on Dec. 1.Kirill Tatarinov, who as corporate vice president of Microsoft Business Solutions manages the vendor's Dynamics application lines, made the announcement in a keynote speech this morning at the Convergence 2008 Copenhagen

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-14802547530205542812008-11-13T04:20:00.001-07:002008-11-13T04:21:24.426-07:00

Salesforce.com opened the second day of its annual conference with even more splash as it focused on its applications for business. Earlier this week I highlighted the energy that salesforce.com is bringing to cloud computing. Now let's examine the company's applications strategy. Salesforce.com's focus on managing business information, sharing applications and providing a platform for building

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-21318952544099012052008-11-12T00:53:00.000-07:002009-01-19T00:55:17.610-07:00

NORCROSS, Ga., Nov 12, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- I.B.I.S., Inc., the Southeast's premier Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, announced a new partnership with Strategy Companion Corporation to provide Microsoft Dynamics CRM and ERP clients with Business Intelligence solutions. Strategy Companion is a leading provider of intuitive Business Intelligence solutions with products focused on the Microsoft

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-49063810140549041932008-11-02T23:26:00.000-07:002008-11-02T23:27:42.788-07:00

PowerObjects, a provider of Microsoft Dynamics CRM (Customer Relationship Management) solution, has announced the addition of four new CRM projects this month, growing its customer base and expanding the value of this CRM solution. These new customers are within the not-for-profit, financial services, technology and education/training industries and include developing and implementing CRM

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-61889884913742685332008-10-27T23:25:00.000-06:002008-11-02T23:25:57.207-07:00

Microsoft has introduced Azure, a cloud computing platform. Interesting, but what does it comprise, and what is Microsoft offering that isn't already out there from the likes of Amazon and Google?The Microsoft Azure Services Platform consists primarily of Windows Azure, together with Microsoft.Net, SQL and Microsoft Live Services, to be followed in the (presumably near) future by SharePoint and

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-41317756912563346742008-10-27T23:23:00.000-06:002008-11-02T23:25:00.619-07:00

Last autumn, Financial Director interviewed Chris Liddell, CFO of Microsoft, during a particularly frenzied period of industry consolidation. The news at the time was that German software giant SAP had just agreed to buy Business Objects, a business intelligence (BI) software company. That news came hot on the heels of Oracle’s agreed purchase of Hyperion, another business intelligence software

ILVintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8744965242578957498.post-37975736676841925652008-10-27T23:22:00.001-06:002008-11-02T23:25:21.179-07:00

As expected, Microsoft rolled out its cloud computing vision during the opening keynote of PDC 2008 this morning, and I have to say, there were surprisingly few, um, surprises.Don't get me wrong -- the services-based cloud operating system known formerly as "Project Red Dog" isn't a small deal. Far from it, the ultimate scope of Windows Azure should dwarf that of Microsoft's latest client OS

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