Mobile mapping helps field reps close more business using Microsoft Dynamics CRM
By: Linda Rosencrance About four years ago, Kerr Dental, the Dental Division of Danaher Corp., was looking for a way to enable its field sales representatives to more efficiently use the massive amount of data stored in its Microsoft Dynamics CRM system. The combined challenge was to help the field sales team increase their interactions […]
Microsoft Dynamics Partner Roundup: NAV for retail garden center; Omnichannel AX retail; Partner marketplace; New competencies
By: Linda Rosencrance Chessington Garden Centre Expands into Lucrative New Business Areas Supported by Microsoft Dynamics NAV Chessington Garden Centre in the UK is using Microsoft Dynamics NAV integrated with LS NAV POS system from The NAV People to support its business plans. Dynamics NAV integrated with LS NAV has allowed Chessington to launch an […]
Offshore and Immigrant Labor: A Protectionism Conundrum
According to the recently released KPMG 4Q16 survey, there is “measured but growing optimism” regarding global economic conditions in 2017. Compared with last year, fewer respondents cited a weak economy or inadequate IT infrastructure as negative trends. As we relayed in Part 1 of this series, however, there is still concern related to potential policy […]
Facebook aims to let people type from their brain, hear with skin
By: John Ribeiro Facebook revealed Wednesday that it is working on technology to let people type straight from their brains at 100 words per minute. A team of over 60 scientists, engineers and others at its secretive Building 8 research lab are working in the area Facebook describes as silent speech communications. Another project is […]
Surveys show high hopes, deep concerns about IoT
By: Stephen Lawson Industrial IoT’s big future is starting to become a reality, but many companies still don’t think they’re ready for it. Those are some of the findings in surveys released on Tuesday by the Business Performance Innovation Network and the Eclipse IoT Working Group. They reflect the views of hundreds of executives and […]
How startups recruit, hire and retain software developers
By: Sarah White Coding Sans, a software development company, released its State of Software Development at Startups survey looking at 126 tech workers at startup companies. Of those polled, 35 percent cited hiring talent as one of the “biggest challenges in software development,” and 90 percent expect the demand for software developers will only grow […]
Weighing the Cost of an ERP Implementation Against the Cost of Inefficiency
By: Eric Kimberling New enterprise software costs money, consumes time and introduces risk to the implementing organization. Unfortunately – or fortunately, depending on how you look at it – these costs are very tangible, which can scare off an executive team and cause them to delay investing in ERP implementations. The benefits of these implementation […]
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff sure is happy about his big new tower
By: Julie Bort Mirror, mirror on the wall, who has San Francisco’s biggest tower of all? The honor now belongs to Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce. Earlier this month, Salesforce Tower hoisted its final beam into place. The building is expected to be complete in July, and, at a $1 billion price tag, will be the […]
Potential Oracle acquisition of Accenture brings new digital twist
By: Peter Bendor-Samuel This morning’s news in the UK’s leading IT publication, The Register, announced that Oracle has hired specialists to conduct due diligence on synergies and impacts of Oracle acquiring Accenture. Obviously, the feasibility study is at an early stage, and neither of the giant companies is commenting on the news… and it might […]
H-1B visa demand slips; analysts see Trump effect
By: Patrick Thibodeau The U.S. government today said it received 199,000 H-1B visa petitions for the upcoming 2018 fiscal year — 37,000 less than in 2016. The government will issue 85,000 visas distributed via a computer-generated lottery. The winners will be able to use their visas at the start of the federal fiscal year, which […]