12 Microsoft Power BI success stories
By: Thor Olavsrud Self-service BI is on the rise among forward-thinking organizations, enabling business users to obtain up-to-the-minute business information in graphical form on demand — with little to no IT intervention. Since the release of Microsoft Power BI, organizations around the world have been turning to the cloud-based service for self-service business intelligence tools that […]
Salesforce certification: Your guide to a lucrative Salesforce career
By: Sharon Florentine Salesforce certification can be a one-way ticket to a lucrative career. Salesforce is fully entrenched as the CRM platform of choice at many organizations, making it one of the fastest-growing, most in-demand skill sets today. From software developers, solutions architects and designers to project managers and marketing and sales professionals, Salesforce certification […]
NetSuite Partners Explore Consulting and Bi101 Join Forces
Leading NetSuite Solution Provider Partners Explore Consulting (Bellevue, WA) and Bi101 (Livermore, CA) announced today that they will join forces and operate under the Explore Consulting brand starting May 1, 2017. By combining these practices, Explore Consulting will leverage some key NetSuite resources from Bi101 and begin offering a broadened set of service offerings to […]
7 hot new IT jobs — and why they just might stick
By: Paul Heltzel Unusual job titles aren’t new in the IT world. Before the Twitter ninja and social media rockstar, before the webmaster was hired to conjure up HTML sorcery, there was the software evangelist, an IT job title that merged the worlds of sales and religion. In the early ’80s an Apple executive coined […]
Cloudera Reports $79.6M in First Quarter Revenue After IPO
By: Sean Michael Kerner Big Data vendor Cloudera had its Initial Public Offering (IPO) on April 28 and on June 8 reported its first quarterly earnings as a public company. For the quarter, Cloudera reported revenue of $79.6 million, which is a 41 percent year-over-year increase. Cloudera didn’t generate a profit on that revenue, instead […]
8 CRM Trends and Predictions
By: Drew Robb What’s going on in CRM? What are the big trends that appeared in 2016 and what can we expect in 2017? 1. Old Guard Losing Ground The latest stats from Gartner show the continuation of a trend — the old guard losing ground. Once upon a time, Siebel was the big name […]
Microsoft Dynamics Partner Roundup: EDI for D365O; CRM for law; Beauty brand implementation; B2B relationship marketing
By: Linda Rosencrance Data Masons Earns Certified for Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Operations Accreditation Data Masons Software LLC, a provider of integrated EDI and XML solutions for Microsoft Dynamics customers, has announced that its Vantage Point EDI solution is now Certified for Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Operations. The Vantage Point EDI and eCommerce platform offers […]
Salesforce Updates Its Next-Gen Customer Service Cloud
By: Shirley Siluk Just named to Forbes’ list of “The World’s Most Innovative Companies” for the seventh year in a row, Salesforce recently updated its cloud-based CRM (customer relationship management) offering to make it easier for businesses to quickly launch customer communities, knowledge bases, and other advanced services. The next generation of Salesforce Service Cloud […]
Microsoft And The Dynamics Of Enterprise Software
By: Beulah Meriam Summary The success of Office 365 was the role model for Microsoft’s new growth engine. Dynamics 365 is hot out of the gate and growing faster than the industry average in both the CRM and ERP markets. With Microsoft now reporting Dynamics 365 growth percentages, the upside is clearly visible. If you […]
xTensegrity Joins NetSuite Alliance Partner Program to Deliver NetSuite Cloud ERP Tailored for Advertising, Media and Publishing Firms
xTensegrity builds on strong track record of implementing and supporting ERP solutions for agencies by expanding its relationship with leading cloud ERP provider NEW YORK, Aug. 3, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — xTensegrity, a leading ERP consulting and integration firm for advertising and media firms, and Gold level member of the Oracle Partner Network (OPN), announced today […]