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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
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 goes internal for new Business Solutions chief: Microsoft is moving Kirill Tatarinov, currently the head of its Management and Solutions unit, to lead the Microsoft Business Solutions business.The MBS team, which oversees the Microsoft Dynamics ERP/CRM family of products, had been searching for a new chief since March, when Microsoft moved Satya Nadella from MBS to head...; Tags: System Center, Dynamics ERP, Dynamics CRM, Corporate strategy; Blog posts 2007-06-29
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 offers $25,000 for best Office-Oracle mash-up: At next weeks Collaborate 2007 Oracle users group conference in Las Vegas, Microsoft is rolling out a contest to encourage developers to integrate Office 2007 with Oracle applications. The winner of the "O 2 OBA Challenge" gets $25,000 to implement the resulting mash-up. (Microsoft also is convening at...; Tags: Office 2007, Office, Dynamics ERP, Database, SQL Server, SharePoint Server, Dynamics CRM; Blog posts 2007-04-12
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 builds a 'MySpace for financial pros': If you build it, will them come? Microsoft may soon find out. The company launched at its Convergence conference in San Diego this week a new online community site for financial professionals. The site, which has yet to get a formal name, is currently known as the Dynamics...; Tags: community site, Microsoft Corp., MySpace, financial; Blog posts 2007-03-12
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
Arun Nayar for Microsoft Dynamics partner of the year: With my ZDNet blogging colleagues finding ways to mention everyone from Anna Nicole Smith, to porn star Stormy Daniels, in recent blog posts, I figured it was time to find some way to bring some star firepower to "All About Microsoft." Lucky me: I stumbled onto a great...; Tags: Dynamics CRM, Channel, Systems integrators, Dynamics ERP; Blog posts 2007-03-06
Microsoft releases Daylight Saving patches for Dynamics CRM 3.0: Microsoft is continuing to roll out updates needed for a number of its products as a result of the early switch to Daylight Saving Time DST on March 11. The latest product to get the DST treatment is Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0. Microsoft made the DST CRM patch...; Tags: App Compatibility, Dynamics CRM, Exchange Server; Blog posts 2007-03-05
Whatever happened to Microsoft LOBi?: Hold onto your geek party hats. This is one of those confusing Microsoft-roadmap posts full of obscure acronyms that hopefully is worth wading through. LOBi Line of Business Interoperability: A toolkit? A service? Both? Neither? Whatever LOBi is/was, it was supposed to be key to Microsofts quest to make...; Tags: Dynamics CRM, Dynamics ERP, Office 2007, SharePoint Server, Office, Development tools; Blog posts 2007-03-02
Microsoft Dynamics team to take on Microsoft-SAP 'Duet'?: Microsofts Convergence conference for its Dynamics CRM and ERP customers and partners is a little over a week away. That means its time for revised roadmaps, more mashups and maybe even a new product or two on the business-app side of the Microsoft house. ...; Tags: Corporate strategy, Office, Office 2007, SharePoint Server, Dynamics ERP, Dynamics CRM; Blog posts 2007-03-02
My top 10 Microsoft event picks for 2007: Im sure Ill be adding more to this as the year rolls along, but heres my list of must-attend Microsoft events. (Some of these -- like the MVP Summit and MGX -- I am not authorized to attend. But I still consider them key for anyone watching the...; Tags: Housekeeping, Windows Server Longhorn, Windows server, Database, Corporate strategy, Development tools, Office, Management tools, Dynamics ERP, Dynamics CRM, Microsoft Corp.; Blog posts 2007-01-12