Microsoft’s M12 joins $12 million funding extension for fintech startup BlueVine
By: Paul Sawers Fintech startup BlueVine has added $12 million to its recently announced series E round of funding, bringing on board Microsoft’s venture capital (VC) unit M12, alongside the VC arm of finance giant Nationwide. The additional funding tranche brings BlueVine’s total series E round to $72 million, after the company announced an initial $60 million cash […]
RAICES Rejects Salesforce Donation
By: Mary Tuma Talk about integrity. RAICES – the state’s largest immigrant legal services nonprofit – recently said “no thanks” to a hefty and generous donation from a tech company. When employees with cloud computing company Salesforce pressured their CEO Marc Benioff to nix their contract with U.S. Customs and Border Protection in light of […]
Salesforce Wants to Take the Health Insurance Industry to the Cloud
By: Nicholas Rossolillo Enterprise software company Salesforce (NYSE:CRM) recently announced the upcoming launch of a new cloud service tailored to health insurance companies. Available this fall, the new software follows a strategy the company has used many times before in customizing platforms for other specific industries. This service could be a big deal, as […]
Microsoft teases new apps and integrations for Dynamics 365
By: Mike Wheatley Microsoft Corp. today published some 238 pages of release notes for the October update to its Dynamics 365 enterprise resource planning and customer relationship management applications. The company said recently that it’s moving Dynamics 365 to a twice-yearly release schedule, once in April and again in October, which more or less matches […]
Why Amazon Can’t Match Microsoft In The Cloud: 10 Insights From Satya Nadella
By: Bob Evans When Amazon releases its much-anticipated Q2 financial results any day now, two outcomes are extremely likely to occur: first, its AWS cloud-computing unit will post exceptionally strong numbers, and second, those numbers will fail to match those of Microsoft’s the world leader in the enterprise cloud. I’ve predicted that Amazon will post […]
Avtex Achieves the 2018/2019 Inner Circle for Microsoft Dynamics
Avtex is honored by Microsoft for achieving outstanding sales achievement and innovation. Avtex, a customer experience (CX) consulting and technology company, has achieved the prestigious 2018/2019 Inner Circle for Microsoft Business Applications. This is the third consecutive year that Avtex has achieved this status. Membership in this elite group is based on sales achievements that […]
Finlyte Launches Innovative Central Office Services Platform for the Small-to-Medium Enterprise Market; Becomes NetSuite BPO Partner
Finlyte Partners, LLC (“Finlyte”) has launched an innovative central office services platform providing Finance-as-a-Service (FaaS), consulting, and capital for small to medium-sized companies. Finlyte has chosen Oracle NetSuite as its technology partner and has joined the NetSuite Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) Partner Program. Running Oracle NetSuite’s leading cloud-based ERP to manage clients’ financial processes allows […]
NetSuite Outage Idles Finance Departments
By: Vincent Ryan A NetSuite service outage left some companies without access to their ERP and other systems for as long as seven hours on Tuesday. Can your finance team do without its accounting or ERP system for up to seven hours? That’s what many Oracle NetSuite customers in the United States (and possibly internationally) […]
AI is hurting people of color and the poor. Experts want to fix that
By: Heather Kelly New technology brings great promise, and as many problems. Smartphones put access to infinite knowledge in our pockets, but led to the rise of tech addiction. The social media platforms that connected billions of people were turned against democracy. And so it is with artificial intelligence, which could fundamentally change the world […]
What are the Differences Between an ERP RFI and an ERP RFP?
We often hear questions about the differences between an ERP RFI and an ERP RFP. When should you use each, and what is its purpose? An RFI, or Request for Information, is a procurement document used by an organization to: gather relevant information about available ERP options and help narrow down prospective ERP partners. RFIs […]