Last spring, Microsoft announced that, beginning this fall, it would start to release updates for its Dynamics Customer Relationship Management (CRM) package twice a year instead of once every two or three years as it has in the past. Now…
Microsoft this week released the latest update to its Dynamics AX enterprise resource planning (ERP) package to general availability worldwide, on schedule. Dynamics AX 2012 is shipping in 25 countries and 23 different languages, according to a Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT)…
Portions of Microsoft’s Office 365 cloud computing suite were down for several hours in the U.S, including some unrelated services, on Wednesday, the company confirmed. However, the outage didn’t last very long and the services are now restored, according to…
Microsoft this week announced a set of tools for its Windows Azure public cloud computing platform meant to simplify programming the environment to process large data sets for scientists. Dubbed “Project Daytona,” Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) toolset is meant to free…
Microsoft announced general availability of its next-generation online suite at an event in New York on Tuesday. Although Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer spent most of his time onstage emphasizing Office 365’s benefits for the small to medium-sized business…
Microsoft released a new roadmap for its customer relationship management (CRM) products this week that will ultimately lead to much more frequent updates. According to a post to the Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) Dynamics CRM Blog yesterday, one important change will…
“Big data” is exploding as more and more information is collected and stored daily, and both businesses and governments need to prepare if they’re not going to be completely overwhelmed, according to a new report. Just in the U.S., there…
The enterprise software market grew by a surprising 8.5 percent worldwide in 2010, at least partly based on strong sales in Latin America and Asia/Pacific markets, according to a new report. Total revenue for enterprise software hit $245 billion last…
Microsoft announced Monday it has begun widespread public beta testing of its Office 365 cloud-based online business application subscription service. The service combines cloud delivery of the latest versions of Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) enterprise services — Exchange 2010, SharePoint 2010…
In less than 20 years, the Web has changed many industries from top to bottom, hardly any as much as in the areas of sales and marketing. Consumers today frequently browse for the best deals online and purchase products using…