How unfilled tech jobs impact the U.S. economy
By: Sharon Florentine With IT industry unemployment hovering at around 2.8 percent (as of Q3 2016) and organizations struggling to find talent, many companies find themselves with open, unfilled jobs. That’s a problem not just for individual companies, but for the U.S. economy as a whole. “Filling open jobs doesn’t just help workers. It also […]
12 leading ERP vendors in competitive head to head battle
On 7th & 8th of March 2017 at the MK Dons Stadium in Milton Keynes, 12 of the UK’s leading ERP vendors will go head to head in a battle to demonstrate their ERP solutions to attending businesses. The event, the Lumenia ERP HEADtoHEAD™, is the brainchild of Sean Jackson, MD of Lumenia Consulting. “One […]
NAVUG Summit EMEA 2017: Learn more about digital transformation and Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2017
By: Dann Anthony Maurno Summit EMEA 2017 will be where users outside of North America might see Dynamics NAV 2017 for the first time, and Microsoft Senior. Product Marketing Manager Anantha Ramachandran is eager to hear their reactions. Ramachandran is managing the presence of Microsoft’s Dynamics NAV team at Summit EMEA, and he promises plenty […]
Preparing for Microsoft Dynamics 365: What CRM partners can expect from eXtreme365
By: Guus Krabbenborg Being a Microsoft Dynamics CRM partner today is like dancing on a volcano – far from boring. And the recent announcements around the Dynamics 365 solution suite makes this effect even stronger! eXtreme365, formerly eXtremeCRM is the annual event for Microsoft Dynamics CRM partners, and the EMEA edition this year will be […]
Partners react positively to Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Operations (AX 7) on-premise plans
By: Linda Rosencrance Last week, Microsoft announced that it will be offering Dynamics 365 for Operations (formerly AX 7) as an on-premise solution or in partner-hosted environments, outside of Azure, sometime this summer. Reaction to the news from partners has been positive. “This is big news for many of the customers that are not yet […]
Healthcare firms plan to increase security spending
By: Maria Korolov After several high-profile breaches over the past couple of years, the healthcare industry plans to increase its spending on IT security more than other sectors. According to a survey released this Tuesday, 81 percent of U.S. healthcare companies plan to increase security spending this year, compared to an overall industry average of […]
Government workers fight Trump on his own turf — Twitter
By: Matt Kapko When government employees decided to fight back against the Trump administration’s crackdown on scientific research, they took to Trump’s favorite and most effective outlet President Donald Trump has effectively commandeered Twitter as his personal megaphone and federal employees who feel slighted or threatened by his policies have taken notice. Within days of […]
Battle of the clouds: Amazon Web Services vs. Microsoft Azure vs. Google Cloud Platform
By: Brandon Butler Amazon Web Services is the consensus leader of the IaaS public cloud computing market according to industry watchers, but they credit Microsoft for closing the gap with Azure and say Google with its Cloud Platform has made considerable strides as well. Gartner says as much in its annual in-depth comparison of these […]
Hybrid ERP matures as companies develop better strategies
By: Michael Nadeau Developing new strategies to ensure that cloud and on-premises ERP systems play nice together is just one part of the hybrid challenge. It’s hard to find a company that does not have some form of a hybrid (cloud and on-premise) ERP system. For most, that happened by accident. Someone in the organization […]
Yesterday´s ERP Future is Today´s Reality
By: Sven Denecken Yesterday´s Future is Today´s Reality – why running SaaS ERP is a game changer in the Industry. In the area of Business applications, cloud seems to be all over the place. But it has many facets which all have its right to exist, though it´s a fatal misunderstanding to see cloud simply […]