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RELLER ON STAGE AT WPC
- Friday, 16 July 2010
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Whether or not the CFO of the Windows division would be expected to keynote the Worldwide Partner Conference is something I’m not sure of. But for Great Plains alums, it’s worthwhile noting that Tami Reller, once key sidekick to Doug Burgum, got a spot on the big stage. It certainly demonstrates that Reller remains in good stead at Microsoft. I keep getting back to the issue of the magazine, Red Herring, a few years ago, that featured what it called mini-Bills, the potential successors to founder Bill Gates when he was still active in the company. Reller was the only female among the group. Looks like she still has a shot of heading higher.
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WAITING FOR OLCD
- Friday, 16 July 2010
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Few technologies immediately impress me, but while tooling around the Louvre last month, I kept seeing monitors on cameras, largely those held by Japanese tourists, that displayed photos that had spectacular colors that were produced under very dim lighting conditions. A quick check with Randy Johnston of K2 Enterprises brought the info that the monitors were probably using OLCD (organic LCD) technology. Unfortunately, the high-quality images are available only on the monitors, not yet in the photo output.
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TRIBRIDGE TOPS DYNAMICS CHANNEL
- Friday, 16 July 2010
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Tampa, Fla.-based Tribridge has been named as Microsoft Dynamics Outstanding Reseller of the Year. The award was made during this week's Worldwide Partner Conference, at which members of the Inner Circle and President’s Club were also revealed. The Inner Circle looks more than ever like a list of larger resellers: Tectura, Columbus IT, ePartners, Tribridge, Hitachi Consulting, Fullscope were all on the list. Among the smallest are Ibis and InterDyn AKA.
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MICROSOFT’S ERP SKIES CLOUDLESS
- Friday, 16 July 2010
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
The outlook was for Microsoft’s Dynamics ERP line, as given at this week’s Worldwide Partner 
Conference, was not a cloud in the sky. In fact, if you listened to keynotes or read transcriptions, you would barely know Microsoft markets financial software. Kirill Tatarinov, head of Microsoft Business Solutions, did make a keynote and there was a Dynamics track. But Tatarinov's speech wasn't posted to the Microsoft Web site. The closest other executives got to mentioning the accounting products was Steve Elop, president of the Business Management Division, who noted “we've seen 8,000 new individual specialists becoming certified on the latest Dynamics solution …
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Conference, was not a cloud in the sky. In fact, if you listened to keynotes or read transcriptions, you would barely know Microsoft markets financial software. Kirill Tatarinov, head of Microsoft Business Solutions, did make a keynote and there was a Dynamics track. But Tatarinov's speech wasn't posted to the Microsoft Web site. The closest other executives got to mentioning the accounting products was Steve Elop, president of the Business Management Division, who noted “we've seen 8,000 new individual specialists becoming certified on the latest Dynamics solution …
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SAGE NAMES NEW CEO
- Friday, 16 July 2010
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
A Frenchman, Guy Berruyer, will take over the job of Chief Executive of the Sage Group after Paul Walker steps down after 16 years in the job. Berruyer, CEO of Sage’s Mainland Europe and Asia business, has worked for Intuit and Bull, the French software group and spent 13 years with the company and will take over with the start of the new fiscal year on October 1. And he’s not an accountant.
INTUIT COMPUTUS INTERRUPTUS, AGAIN
- Friday, 16 July 2010
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
A commercial power outage knocked out Intuit’s Internet service for service hours on Wednesday, July 14. I am probably missing something in the technical issues here, but I thought that backup systems at big companies were supposed to prevent things like this when commercial services are interrupted. Intuit had a more than 24-hour outage early in June when routine maintenance took down primary and secondary backup systems. If this keeps up, Intuit could do for cloud computing what the Hindenburg did for blimp travel. I think I figured it out—some guy in accounting keeps trying to plug in an element to boil water in a cup and it keeps knocking out the system and nobody can find the circuit breakers.
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DANGER OF BLOGS—ONE OF A SERIES
- Friday, 16 July 2010
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
SAP has followed in the path of many other companies whose executives have decided that a blog is a good thing. That path is one that shows few results. The company’s Home Page has links for three blogs, listed as social newsrooms, One of these newsrooms, Jim and Bill, is from the German company’s co-CEOs. Unfortunately the only entry is the one posted about the company’s Sapphire conference, which was held in May. In fact, all three blogs, which include Innovation Now and Sapphire, touched on the news for Sapphire which was held in May.
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TWO DYNAMICS RESELLERS COMBINE
- Thursday, 15 July 2010
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
InterDyn BMI (Business MicroVar) and InterDyn Progressive Group, two Dynamics GP resellers, have announced they are combining as InterDyn BMI. And if that’s a sign of things to come, we’re going to see not just small resellers consolidating, but regional businesses as well. The two together are $12 million with BMI having contributed $8.5 million and Progressive $3.6 million. There was a period when BMI routinely topped $10 million a year.
COLUMBUS IT BUYS OUT FOUNDER
- Thursday, 15 July 2010
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Columbus IT, the Dynamics VAR based in Denmark, has ended a flurry of activity that ended with the company buying out the holdings of a company that owned by founder and former Columbus IT CEO Michael Gaardboe. A series of stock exchanges filings started rolling at the end of June when a bid was recieved for all Columbus IT shares from EG Holdings. Consolidated Holdings which owned 34 percent of the reselling company’s stock wasn’t interested and directors saw no reason to explore the offer.
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MACDONALD LANDS AT INTACCT
- Friday, 09 July 2010
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Taylor Macdonald, the former Sage channel champion, gets a new opportunity to build a channel in his new position with SaaS vendor, Intacct, following his short stints at Deltek, Promethean and Infor. For Macdonald, it's the first chance to do this with a completely Internet-based company and this will be a test of just how ready traditional VARs are for cloud-based computing (a term I still hate).
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