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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

Into the SMB Breach -- This Time with Feeling

Into the SMB Breach -- This Time with FeelingMicrosoft ? Dynamics AX ?It's funny, that the writer of this chose to talk about the lacking ability of both SAP and Orcale for the Mid-Market range, but said nothing about Microsoft's great gains in beating both Orcale and SAP time and...

Tags: SMB/SME, Dynamics AX, small and medium business, Orcale, SAP AG

Discussion threads 2007-02-16

Microsoft Dynamics' Growing Pains

Just settling in at 35,000 feet after an exhausting two-day Microsoft Dynamics analyst conference, there’s more than a few highlights to try to distill in one lone blog. But the main theme is easy: Microsoft’s enterprise applications are challenging not just the top of the market – SAP and Oracle...

Tags: Dynamics AX

Blog posts 2006-10-20

See Ya Later Doug: Burgum Leaves Microsoft Much the Wiser

When I saw Doug Burgum at the Microsoft World Partners Conference last summer, there was an air of the short-timer about him. Not the kind who mails it in every morning with his feet on his desk, but more the short-timer who's done all he can and is waiting to...

Tags: Doug Burgum, Dynamics AX, Dynamics GP, Microsoft Corp.

Blog posts 2006-09-12

Additional Resources

Microsoft: How we'll take on VMware

The software maker believes it has the tools and the right price point to beat VMware in the battle for the virtualisation market. Microsoft has a three-pronged strategy to beat VMware in the virtualization market, according to the company's senior director for virtualization product management, Zane Adam. ...

Tags: Hypervisor, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Colin Barker ZDNet.co.uk, virtualization, Microsoft, VMWare

News items 2008-10-10

Entellium executives arrested by FBI for making up revenue figures

Entellium executives arrested by FBI for making up revenue figuresThe FBI can have themInflating revenue figures is fraud, plain and simple.What a coincidence!Over the past 3 months I had been engaged in evaluating CRM software for my company. Entellium was one of the frontrunners alongside Maximizer CRM. And after...

Tags: Customer relationship management (CRM), Advertising & Promotion, Federal government, Software as a Service (SaaS), Enterprise software, revenue, Entellium, CRM, revenue figure, FBI

Discussion threads 2008-10-09

AudioProc (exe)

AudioProc is a high-quality, linear-phase multiband audio dynamics processor for Winamp, utilizing 10-band compression/expansion/limiting technology that emulates expensive professional broadcast hardware. Intended to achieve a competitive 'on the air' sound signature resembling that of modern audio broadcast processors used by major market FM radio stations, AudioProc will normalize the volume...

Tags: Clay Hellman, AudioProc, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components

Software downloads 2008-10-09

Will Windows 7 get a new name for its release?

Will Windows 7 get a new name for its release?Following Steve's PhilosophyAs you so accurately noted, Steve has a knack for whole numbers as we know from his Microsoft Office reign. Office 12 (2007), Office 11 (2003), Office 10 (XP or version 2002), Office 9 (2000) and these were the...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Vista R2, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, new name

Discussion threads 2008-10-07

MagicScore Maestro 6 (zip)

MagicScore Maestro professional music notation software, offering the most advanced capabilities for working with music. It lets you precisely tune up the notes sounds and their timing features, process the effects and the dynamics. In this program, you may use both general and extended sets of musical symbols and as...

Tags: Symbol, DGSoft, Tools & Techniques, Management

Software downloads 2008-10-03

14 ways IT screws up projects

14 ways IT screws up projects128k image?The image is 128k in size with 100dpi resolution. Why is that too big even on a dial-up connection? Thanks for your thoughts.# 15 - Play loose and fast with bandwidthAttach needlessly large images to blog posts. Make sure image's size is inversely...

Tags: Strategy, Upper Management, information technology

Discussion threads 2008-10-02

Socialtext enters Twitter for the enterprise sweepstakes

Socialtext enters Twitter for the enterprise sweepstakesTwitterIt'll be interesting to see how well Twitter integrates with society in the long run, if at all.RE: Socialtext enters Twitter for the enterprise sweepstakesFound this video this morning shot several weeks ago where Ross Mayfield presents SocialText 3.0Interesting!http://www.atelier-us.com/e-business-and-it/article/socialtext-brings-key-web-20-features-to-the-workplaceRE: Socialtext enters Twitter for the...

Tags: Channel management, Socialtext, Twitter, enterprise sweepstake

Discussion threads 2008-09-30

Microsoft Dynamics® CRM Online

Give us three minutes. See how fast you can get your people using CRM. Will you look back on this moment as the turning point? The moment when you took your customer relationship management to the next level? To find out, just sit...

Tags: Microsoft Dynamics, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Microsoft Corp., CRM, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software

Presentations 2008-09-30

Ballmer needn't fear the Mac...just yet

Boutique analyst firm Freeform Dynamics took a run at standardizing on Macs but the switch was not worthwhile. They're now back in the Windows fold. Their report starts by posing a series of questions about business benefit. They found that when pressed, business users were hard put to come up...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-09-29

Stainless (zip)

Disclaimer: At this point, Stainless is really just a technology demo and is likely to stay that way (though we might add some novel ideas we have for bookmark, history and download management). Stainless is an independent multi-process browser for Mac OS X that is inspired by the Google browser...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Web Browser, Mesa Dynamics, Apple Mac OS X, Web Browsers, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Internet

Software downloads 2008-09-29

PR blunders or "mystery meetings"

From time to time, I receive a note from a public relations person who represents one company or another that is clearly a disaster in the making. These notes appear to designed to pique my interest without giving me any information about the product or service to be discussed. As...

Tags: Public Relations, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-09-26

IBM move reopens Open Office XML debate

IBM move reopens Open Office XML debateWhich side attacked?I have the impression that requiring Microsoft to go through the standards process was an attempt to make it more difficult to sell Office. The strategy: governments and perhaps other organizations could mandate that formats used for saving documents had...

Tags: Vertical industries, XML, IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp., government, Microsoft Office, Open Office XML debate, OpenOffice

Discussion threads 2008-09-24

Ax Falling At EDS - HP

24,600 Folks to Get Their Papers When HP acquired EDS, you had to wonder whether they did it for the talented employees, the EDS data centers, the customer base or the outsourcing contracts. Mark Hurd's move this week pretty much says it wasn't for the...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Mark Hurd, Electronic Data Systems Corp., Professional Development, Data Centers, Career, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2008-09-21

News to know: Windows 7; Tech economy; Samsung eyes SanDisk; NetSuite

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: Windows 7 hits Milestone 3 Microsoft and Cray to unveil $25,000 Windows-based supercomputer VMware's Datacenter OS: Windows isn't the competition ...

Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, SanDisk Corp., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., NetSuite Inc., VMware Inc., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-17

ActiveX Registerer (zip)

ActiveX Registerer is a small utility that allows you to register activeX DLL, OCX, & Directshow AX on to your computer. Now you have the solution to register/ unregister dll or ocx in Vista. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Tags: ActiveX, iTech System, ActiveX Registerer, ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, Middleware, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software

Software downloads 2008-09-17

Microsoft Dynamics Goes for the Mid-market (Again)

Microsoft Dynamics Goes for the Mid-market AgainPartner + Vendor lead approach better all roundI think a partner-led (or partner+vendor) approach is much more credible than a vendor-led sale. A partner can talk about cross-platform integration, compatibility and value added services like support and training. Sometimes a vendor could be prejudiced...

Tags: Customer relationship management (CRM), Advertising & Promotion, Enterprise software, Microsoft Corp., CRM, Microsoft Dynamics

Discussion threads 2008-09-16