Walmart Tests Delivery by Store Employees To Speed Online Orders
In its latest effort to compete with online giant Amazon, Walmart is testing a delivery service using its own store employees, who will deliver packages ordered online, while driving home from their regular work shifts. The “associate delivery” program would use Walmart’s 4,700 U.S. stores and roughly 1.2 million employees to speed delivery and cut […]
Inside Symantec’s bid to build the Amazon of cybersecurity tools
By: Clint Boulton If Sheila Jordan and the rest of Symantec’s senior leadership team complete their vision they will transform the company into the Amazon.com of cybersecurity, essentially a one-stop shop where CIOs and consumers alike can buy digital tools to protect their data assets. The Symantec CIO is deploying her IT department’s resources to […]
Planning for the end of Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 & 2012 mainstream support: Extend, upgrade, or pray?
By: Stacie Broadway Microsoft has announced that several upcoming support deadlines for Dynamics AX 2009 and AX 2012. All Microsoft products have a lifecycle that begins when the product is released and ends when it’s no longer supported. Dynamics AX products are normally supported for 10 years from the release date. For exact dates of […]
Microsoft Dynamics Roundup: Healthcare engagement; D365 for apparel; Olympic e-signatures; Partner’s new cloud talent
By: Linda Rosencrance Tribridge Expands Healthcare Offerings on Microsoft AppSource with Health360 Engagement Center Tribridge has announced that its Health360 Engagement Center solution is now available on Microsoft AppSource. The Health360 Engagement Center module helps health practitioners better understand their patients’ behaviors, preferences, goals and challenges to create stronger relationships needed to deliver personalized care, […]
Pacejet Named 2017 NetSuite SuiteCloud Partner of the Year
Oracle NetSuite Global Business Unit, one of the world’s leading providers of cloud-based financials / ERP, HR, Professional Services Automation (PSA) and omnichannel commerce software suites, has recognized the multicarrier shipping software solution provider as the 2017 SuiteCloud Partner of the Year. NetSuite awarded Pacejet the 2017 SuiteCloud Partner of the Year honor, explaining, “an […]
Dell Technologies Standardizes on Salesforce CRM
By: Shirley Siluk Under a new strategic agreement, Dell Technologies plans to expand its use of Salesforce‘s cloud-based CRM (customer relationship management) platform and sales and marketing apps to its global sales team of nearly 40,000. Announced Wednesday, the Dell-Salesforce deal extends the relationship the two companies have had for years. It will also give […]
How Well Is SAP Competing With Salesforce For The Future Of CRM?
The global Customer Relationship Management market has been growing at a phenomenal pace over the past few years. According to Gartner, the CRM software market reached $26.3B in 2015, with an annual growth of nearly 14% between 2010 and 2015, and is expected to cross $36 billion by the end of 2017. Salesforce has been […]
Australia-based Empired – absolute front-runner on Dynamics 365 –joins the ever-growing Pipol Alliance
We’re delighted to welcome market leader Empired to the Pipol Partner Alliance.” – Pipol Like all its other partners, Pipol seek only leading, committed Dynamics partners who add superior value to Pipol international clients. The addition of Empired is a perfect fit, having demonstrated exceptional levels of capability, innovation, and core competent expertise in Microsoft’s […]
Microsoft Dynamics Partner Roundup: Rentals for Dynamics 365; Fresh food partnership; P2PE for Dynamics ERP; Finnish D365 win
By: Linda Rosencrance Sycor.Rental for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Available on Microsoft AppSource Sycor.Rental, a provider of solutions for the rental, trade, service and maintenance of mobile goods is available for Microsoft Dynamics 365 on Microsoft AppSource. The solution is Certified for Microsoft Dynamics 365. “With Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Operations as its basis, Sycor.Rental is […]
Cross-region disaster recovery for Azure IaaS VMs in public preview
By: Dann Anthony Maurno Microsoft has announced the public preview of cross-region disaster recovery for Azure IaaS virtual machines (VMs) using Azure Site Recovery (ASR). This enables seamless failover to a recovery region in the event of a disaster, says Microsoft, then “fail back” to the original source region. The cross-region DR feature is now available in all Azure public regions where ASR is available. As Microsoft’s Principal Program […]