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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 begins shipping two new Dynamics ERP releases: Microsoft begins shipping two new Dynamics ERP releasesERP Systems or Business Oriented Dev Tools?...why is it that the MS business oriented products always stress their ability to integrate with other middleware services that have nothing to do with solving the problem at hand accounting in this case. Seems like a...; Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Enterprise software, Dynamics ERP, Microsoft Corp.; Discussion threads 2007-06-18
Microsoft begins shipping two new Dynamics ERP releases: Microsoft made available for shipping on June 18 two new ERP releases: Dynamics GP 10.0 and Dynamics SL 7.0.In March, Microsoft officials said these new updates would be available starting in June."We're on time and on delivery," said Jon Pratt, a Microsoft Business Division senior director.GP 10.0 includes the role-tailored...; Tags: .Net Framework, Dynamics ERP, Office, Office 2007, SharePoint Server; 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
Microsoft tweaks its overall product-support timing, delivery: As part of its April update to its Microsoft Support Lifecycle Web site, Microsoft made a couple of adjustments to its security and overall product-support policies. On the security front, Microsoft is moving more of its security fixes and updates under Microsoft Update. As explained on the companys support...; Tags: Windows server, Support, SQL Server, Dynamics ERP, Development tools, Corporate strategy; Blog posts 2007-04-03

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 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 to slow the pace of Dynamics ERP releases: While almost every Microsoft division is seeking ways to pick up the pace and turn out new product releases more rapidly, the Microsoft Business Solutions MBS unit is preparing to do the opposite by slowing the rate at which its rolling out new ERP releases. For the past couple...; Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Enterprise software, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., ERP, ERP release, Microsofts, Microsoft Business Solution; Blog posts 2007-03-14
Microsoft's Project 'Green': Still alive and kicking: Microsoft must rue the day a few years back that the company hatched the Project Green idea. Green was Microsofts plan to unify its four ERP applications. Initially, Microsoft officials said Green would culminate in a single, Microsoft-branded ERP product that would take the best features of the existing...; Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Enterprise software, Microsoft Project, ERP, Microsoft Corp., James Utzschneider, ERP product; Blog posts 2007-03-13
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's software + services strategy takes shape: The news emerging from this weeks Convergence conference and elsewhere shows that Microsofts servers+services strategy for surviving the shift to on-demand computing is crystallizing. Whether it will work is another matter. But here are the strands that seem to be coming together: Office running on web services (ie XML and...; Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Web services, Enterprise software, software, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Dynamics ERP, Tellme Networks Inc., on-demand, strategy; 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
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
Another Microsoft team looks to end 'hot-fix hell': Youve heard of DLL hell. What about hot-fix hell -- the case where multiple Microsoft fixes and/or service packs dont play nicely together? Starting with the 2007 release of Microsoft Exchange, the Exchange team decided to take on the problem of incompatible fixes. Their solution: A new "servicing model,"...; Tags: Corporate strategy, Exchange Server, Dynamics ERP; Blog posts 2007-01-25