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MICROSOFT GOING MULTI-PLATFORM
- Tuesday, 20 March 2012
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
One of the signs of change was Kirill Tatarinov standing before room full of press people and commenting, "I've never seen so many Apple laptops in one room." Then there was Craig Dewar starting his presentation at about mobility capabilities of Dynamics CRM on an iPad. That highlighted this week's keynote at the Convergence conference by Microsoft COO Kevin Turner that the company is going to support multiple platforms and devices.
E2B PICKS UP SUGARCRM
- Tuesday, 20 March 2012
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
MICROSOFT REAL CLOUD OR NOT?
- Monday, 19 March 2012
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
During a keynote session at the Convergence user conference, Microsoft's COO, Kevin Turner, pointed to his company's ability to serve Dynamics customers via private, pubic and hybrid clouds. At a press briefing about plans for Dynamics NAV, the company's Dan Brown noted the company's more frequent release schedule.
TRIBRIDGE MASTER VAR GOALS MODEST
- Monday, 19 March 2012
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Tribridge, one of three Dynamics Master VARs, has some modest goals for signing sales affiliates under the new channel program. The Tampa, Fla.-based company, which just signed its first affiliate, is interviewing a handful of prospects at Convergence, the Dynamics user conference, according to Jeff Lynn, the VP who leads the program “We are not in the Master VAR game as a volume play,” Lynn said during an interview at the show.
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- Sunday, 18 March 2012
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Microsoft plans to take its fledgling Master VAR program international. That message was delivered at the Convergence user conference in Houston this week by Doug Kennedy, VP of Dynamics partners. Kennedy said that company has identified 15 candidates besides the three already named for the United States.
SIKICH PICKS UP AX VAR
- Sunday, 18 March 2012
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
CPA firm Sikich has acquired Streamline Systems, a Dynamics AX VAR with about $5 million in revenue. Terms were not disclosed. The deal was accomplished as a merger and broadens the Sikich product line to include all four Dynamics financial applications. Steamline, based in Denver, Colo., has an AMR Advanced Industry Certification for Discrete Manufacturing which will amplify the firm's manufacturing practice.
ACUMATICA GETS M'SOFT MARKETING VIP
- Friday, 16 March 2012
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Stijn Hendrikse, who has held global positions with Microsoft, is joining online application vendor Acumatica in April. Hendrikse, who has been with Microsoft for 12 years, has been senior marketing director for a year and has had worldwide marketing responsibility for the Small & Medium Business segment. He has had some other heavy weight jobs at Microsoft including director of MS Office, director of competitive strategy, director of public sector and chief of staff.
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FOUR NETSUITE EXECS GET RAISES
- Friday, 16 March 2012
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark

EUROPEAN RESELLERS AND THE U.S.
- Friday, 16 March 2012
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
The number of European Dynamics reseller news items this week has to do with my belief that we are going to see more European organizations move into this country. However, it is not clear that to all that there is a trend. Did the purchase of First Tech Direct by Columbus mean one is underway? A channel source familiar with European operations said he did not understand this move. But with things tough in Europe because of the debt crisis, it has to be tempting to look for revenue generators in this country where business is better.
SQL SERVER 2012 LOOMING
- Friday, 16 March 2012
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Microsoft has released SQL Server 2012 to manufacturing, but as is usual, the product is already in use in a lot of places. The software giant also said it would release an additional limited preview of an Apache Hadoop-based service for Windows Azure before mid-year. When I saw the word “Hadoop”, I said, “Bless you” and then ran off to Wikipedia to catch up on my geek-ese. A limited preview of the Hadoop-based service was released in December. There is a bunch of data warehousing stuff coming out with the general availability of SQL Server 2010 on April 1. Call for details.
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