How Companies Are Managing and Adapting Supply Chain Disruptions to Thrive
The disruptions of the past several months have forced companies of all sizes to look closely at how they conduct business. Perhaps no other part of the economic engine has faced more uncertainty than supply chains. From toilet paper and cleaning products shortages that led to empty shelves and desperate consumers, through numerous travel and […]
Kali Audio Adjusts to Customer and Supply Chain Changes, Even While WFH
When Kali Audio launched in 2018, its entire team worked from home. Granted, the group was small: John Melikyan and a few former colleagues had left a multibillion-dollar audio company to start their own company, a manufacturer of audio equipment. Today, they’re a team of nearly 20. Kali Audio—which makes professional-style loudspeakers and monitors for […]
Microsoft tests hydrogen fuel cells for backup power at datacenters
In a worldwide first that could jumpstart a long-forecast clean energy economy built around the most abundant element in the universe, hydrogen fuel cells have powered a row of datacenter servers for 48 consecutive hours, Microsoft announced Monday. The feat is the latest milestone in the company’s commitment to be carbon negative by 2030. To […]
Urgent tech overhaul speeds efforts to get surplus food to millions of people who need it
Lori Nikkel was enjoying a promising start to her three-year plan for expanding her Ontario-based nonprofit’s newest program, an online matchmaker that connects food donors with charities to feed hungry people and reduce waste. Then the pandemic hit. And Canada shut down. “COVID-19 forced us to do in three weeks what we’d planned to do […]
From hackathons to new products, Northwest neighbors T-Mobile and Microsoft team up to innovate
The project wasn’t going as planned, and the team at T-Mobile realized it needed a different approach. The team had worked with two different companies over a three-year period to develop a pet-tracking device T-Mobile wanted to bring to market. But team members weren’t happy with any of the three versions the companies developed. They […]
Century Business Solutions Partners with Captiva to Deliver Credit Card Processing within Microsoft Dynamics Business Central
Century Business Solutions is excited to announce its partnership with Captiva, a software and information technology consulting firm, to allow credit card processing directly within Microsoft Dynamics Business Central. The credit card integration will use Century’s proprietary payment gateway, EBizCharge, to provide credit card processing for thousands of merchants across the country. The powerful EBizCharge […]
Qorus Software announces Microsoft Dynamics 365 integration update
Qorus, the sales enablement and proposal management platform for remote sales and proposal teams, announced today that, in addition to its Salesforce integration, it now connects into Microsoft Dynamics 365 so that sales teams can find and use content customized to every stage in their customer engagements – directly from their CRM. Built on Microsoft […]
Microsoft Inspire 2020: Empowering partners to make more possible
Our partner ecosystem is essential to delivering transformative solutions for customers. Each year, we hear countless success stories from customers around the world and across industries who depend on our partners’ innovation, dedication, and service. But in the past year — and in the past few months especially — we’ve seen firsthand exactly what our […]
Urgent tech overhaul speeds efforts to get surplus food to millions of people who need it
Lori Nikkel was enjoying a promising start to her three-year plan for expanding her Ontario-based nonprofit’s newest program, an online matchmaker that connects food donors with charities to feed hungry people and reduce waste. Then the pandemic hit. And Canada shut down. “COVID-19 forced us to do in three weeks what we’d planned to do […]
Land O’Lakes and Microsoft form strategic alliance to pioneer new innovations in agriculture and support rural communities
Land O’Lakes Inc. and Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday announced a multiyear strategic alliance to pioneer new innovations in agriculture and enhance the supply chain, expand sustainability practices for farmers and the food system, and close the rural broadband gap. As one of the nation’s largest farmer-owned cooperatives with 150 million acres of productive cropland in […]