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- Microsoft to rebrand 'crm live' as 'CRM Online'
- Microsoft to rebrand 'CRM Live' as 'CRM Online'bye bye crm livehttp://channelmarker.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/03/27/buh-bye-crm-live/RE: Microsoft to rebrand 'CRM Live' as 'CRM Online'I wonder if they've discussed this move with CRM Real Estate Services:www.crmonline.com
- Tags: Customer relationship management (CRM), Advertising & Promotion, Enterprise software, Microsoft Corp., CRM, CRM Online, CRM Live
- Discussion threads 2008-03-27
- Microsoft to take a page out of Salesforce.com's Apex book
- Microsoft used to talk about "Titan" as the codename for its Dynamics CRM 4.0 release. But it's now clear that Microsoft's Titan is more than just Microsoft's next-gen CRM offering in its various guises (on-premise, hosted and Live).Microsoft is using the "Titan" name to refer to a forthcoming CRM application-development...
- Tags: Corporate strategy, CRM Live, Dynamics CRM
- Blog posts 2007-07-11
- Ballmer: Caught between a software rock and a services hard place
- Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is not one to make concessions. He has laughed about Linux's prospects. He has pooh-poohed the iPhone. He has called Google bloated.But on July 10, during his keynote address at Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference in Denver, Ballmer came the closest I've ever heard him to admitting...
- Tags: Xbox Live, Windows Server 2008/ Windows Server Longhorn, Windows Live, Vista, Office Live, CRM Live, Corporate strategy, Channel
- Blog posts 2007-07-10
- Microsoft to its hosting partners: Get ready. Here we come
- At its Worldwide Partner Conference in Denver this week, Microsoft officials are trying to walk the tightrope when it comes to explaining Microsoft's plan to get into the managed services business in a major way.Microsoft officials have made no bones about the fact that Microsoft is planning to offer a...
- Tags: Channel, Corporate strategy, CRM Live, Dynamics CRM, Exchange Server, Network service providers, SharePoint Server, SQL Server, Systems integrators, Web 2.0
- Blog posts 2007-07-10
- Microsoft's crm live: Two versions coming, but not until 2008
- Microsoft is expected to try to use cut-rate pricing to compete with Salesforce.com and other software-as-a-service SaaS players when it finally launches its Dynamics CRM Live service in 2008.(You can check out some screen shots of Microsoft's Dynamics CRM Live here.)At its Worldwide Partner Conference in Denver on July 10,...
- Tags: Corporate strategy, CRM Live, Dynamics CRM, Web 2.0
- Blog posts 2007-07-10
- Microsoft tweaks the Live side of the house
- On July 1, Microsoft's new fiscal year started with a new slate of Live executives -- or at least a bunch of existing execs with new titles and responsibilities.Brian Arbogast, who had been running Microsoft's Windows Live Developer & Communications Platform for the past few years, is now the Corporate...
- Tags: Xbox Live, Windows Live, Office Live, Database, CRM Live, Corporate strategy, Code names
- Blog posts 2007-07-06
- Microsoft buys two datacenters for $200 million
- Just before its fiscal 2007 came to a close last week, Microsoft snapped up two datacenters from Savvis, an infrastructure provider.Microsoft was the sole customer of the Savvis datacenters that it purchased. The datacenters are located in Santa Clara, Calif.Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told Wall Street over a year ago...
- Tags: Xbox Live, Windows Live, Web 2.0, Office Live, CRM Live, Corporate strategy
- Blog posts 2007-07-02
- Microsoft headed for a services show-down with its hosting partners
- Microsoft is on a collision course with its hosting partners.During the past couple of weeks, Microsoft officials have started touting publicly the handful of hosted managed services that Microsoft is selling directly to customers. This week at the NXTcomm 2007 show in Chicago, Microsoft was out hawking its"Microsoft Solution for...
- Tags: Channel, Corporate strategy, CRM Live, Dynamics CRM, Exchange Server, Network service providers, OEMs, Resellers, SharePoint Server, SQL Server, System builders, Systems integrators, Telecommunications
- Blog posts 2007-06-18
- Microsoft readies new managed services
- A few months back, I speculated on how/when Microsoft would field hosted SharePoint Server, hosted Exchange Serverand hosted Live Communications Server products. My best guess was Microsoft would launch Microsoft-managed versions of these services in the late 2007 or later timeframe.I was surprised to learn today at Microsoft's TechEd 2007...
- Tags: Windows Live, Web 2.0, Virtualization, TechEd 2007, SharePoint Server, Office Live, Exchange Server, CRM Live, Corporate strategy
- Blog posts 2007-06-04
- How do BizTalk Services fit into Microsoft's cloud strategy?
- If you want to understand how Microsoft is differentiating its Software=Services (S+S) strategy differs from Software As a Service SaaS, look no further Microsofts recently announced BizTalk Services. BizTalk Services include: BizTalk Identity Services, which provide authentication, access control and federated identity based on the WS-Trust specification and...
- Tags: Corporate strategy, CRM Live, Web 2.0
- Blog posts 2007-04-26
- Ballmer: SaaS to have a major impact on businesses, not just consumers
- Microsoft is expecting Web 2.0 and software-as-a-service SaaS to "have as profound an impact on the business market as on the consumer market," said Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. Ballmer addressed a group of 80 or so Microsoft-identified "IT Pro community leaders" during a day-long Townhall Event on the Redmond...
- Tags: Search, Research, Windows Live, Web 2.0, Vista, Office Live, Google, CRM Live, Corporate strategy
- Blog posts 2007-04-18
- SharePoint: The next big 'operating system' from Microsoft?
- Many industry pundits have speculated as to whether Windows Vista is the last big-bang release of Windows. (The answer, as Microsoft officials have repeatedly stated, is no.) I think theyre asking the wrong question. Instead, why not ask whether Windows will be the center of Microsofts universe going...
- Tags: Corporate strategy, Office, Office 2007, SharePoint Server, Dynamics ERP, Dynamics CRM, CRM Live
- Blog posts 2007-03-14
- Microsoft to release Dynamics CRM 4.0 in phases
- Microsoft is now planning to release its Dynamics CRM 4.0 product in phases during the third and fourth quarters of 2007, rather than all at once in the third quarter of this year, company officials said on March 15. Microsoft plans to get the software-as-a-service version of CRM 4.0...
- Tags: Customer relationship management (CRM), Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Enterprise software, Microsoft Corp., Dynamics CRM 4.0, CRM
- Blog posts 2007-03-14
- Microsoft lays the foundation for ERP software and CRM-Live service integration
- Given the year-and-a-half-old missive from Microsoft Chief Software architect Ray Ozzie that all Microsoft software should include services add-ons, its not surprising that Microsoft is looking to integrate its Dynamics CRM Live service with its on-premise Dynamics ERP software. What is surprising is how rapidly that is likely to...
- Tags: Customer relationship management (CRM), Enterprise software, Microsoft Corp., CRM, Dynamics AX, Dynamics AX 5.0, integration, CRM Live
- Blog posts 2007-03-14
- Not all Microsoft 'Lives' are created equal
- This is another branding rant. But Im not going to belabor Microsofts indecision regarding which services to designate "Windows Live and which to brand "MSN." Instead, its just "Live" thats got me -- and, Id wager, customers and partners -- confused. Consider the myriad ways that Microsoft is...
- Tags: Windows Live, Office Live, Corporate strategy, Dynamics ERP, Dynamics CRM, CRM Live, Xbox Live, Channel, Systems integrators, Resellers, Search
- Blog posts 2007-03-14
- Microsoft shows off its future business-app user interfaces
- For more than a year, Microsoft officials have been talking up the notion of "Office-centric" and "role-based" interfaces as the next big thing for its ERP and CRM wares. At the Convergence conference for its Dynamics customers and partners in San Diego this week, Microsoft showed off working examples...
- Tags: CRM Live, Dynamics ERP, Dynamics CRM, Office 2007, SharePoint Server, Corporate strategy, Office
- Blog posts 2007-03-13
- Microsoft to beat the 'software + service' drum on the ERP front
- Another hot button at this weeks Microsoft Convergence conference is expected to be the whole "software plus services" -- as opposed to "software as a service" SaaS -- push that Microsoft has been espousing, as of late. On the ERP side of the Microsoft house, "S+S" has a couple...
- Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Software as a Service (SaaS), Enterprise software, Microsoft Corp., ERP, Microsoft Windows, CRM, software
- Blog posts 2007-03-12
- Next wave of Microsoft ERP applications tracking on time
- When new versions of Microsoft software are on schedule, its news. At Microsofts Convergence 2007 conference in San Diego on March 12, Microsoft officials confirmed that three (count em, three!) of its forthcoming ERP apps are still tracking on the schedule that the company outlined a year ago. (As...
- Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Enterprise software, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Dynamics, ERP
- Blog posts 2007-03-12
- Microsoft's Dynamics Client for Office: No one's saying the 'D' word
- As rumored, Microsofts biggest announcement at its Convergence 2007 conference in San Diego looks to be the Dynamics Client for Office -- or, as it is known officially "Microsoft Dynamics Client for Microsoft Office and SharePoint Server." What is this ungainly-named monster? First, its an Office front-end for Microsofts...
- Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Microsoft Office, Dynamics Client, Microsoft Corp., Microsofts, Microsoft Dynamics
- Blog posts 2007-03-12
- A (Microsoft) code name a day: Titan
- Even though more and more teams at Microsoft seem to be shying away from christening their fledgling products with good, old-fashioned code names – favoring the ever-so-boring “V.Next” designation instead -- there are still some who are doing so. Microsoft code names always have piqued my interest....
- Tags: Customer relationship management (CRM), Enterprise software, codename, Microsoft Corp., CRM
- Blog posts 2006-12-21
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