Microsoft and partner consultancy Avanade have announced deployment of Microsoft’s Dynamics CRM Task Management Tracker (TMT) — an “off-the-shelf” solution — for the U.S. Air Forces in Europe (USAFE). “TMT provides a simple interface for responding to task and process…
Business intelligence software is notoriously complex and can be difficult to use besides being resource-intensive. Tableau Software this week announced the release of version 6 of the company’s business intelligence software of the same name, which was designed for easy…
Microsoft plans to ship the latest update of its Dynamics SL enterprise resource planning (ERP) application in the second quarter of next year, the company said Tuesday. The upgraded version — dubbed Dynamics SL 2011 — will feature improved role-based…
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has announced the promotion of three insiders as presidents of key divisions at the software giant. The appointments, announced Friday, include a replacement for former Business Division president Stephen Elop, who left Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) to…
Microsoft was almost a non-starter in cloud computing just a few years ago — but it has worked hard, built massive data centers worldwide, and come out with what customers apparently feel is a compelling set of offerings, including its…
The state of Minnesota announced Monday it has signed a deal with Microsoft to use the software titan’s cloud computing services for unified communications and collaboration services. Under the terms of the deal, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) will provide the state’s…
Microsoft and Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) settled their competing patent infringement lawsuits out of court on Wednesday, and while little is known about the deal itself, industry observers see the agreement as more about Microsoft notching a victory in safeguarding its…
Microsoft and Salesforce.com have settled their competing patent infringement suits against each other. The competing lawsuits were settled with the two firms agreeing to cross-license large portions of each other’s patent portfolios, including Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) back-end server infrastructure, according…
Two leading analyst firms have rated Microsoft’s customer relationship management (CRM) software as a leader in that market. Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) announced that Gartner has rated its Dynamics CRM package as a leader in its Magic Quadrant for Sales Force…
It seems a bit like Mad magazine’s Spy vs. Spy with each trying to cleverly sabotage the other, only it’s cloud versus cloud in the latest legal tangle between Salesforce and Microsoft. Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) sued Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) for…