Best of 2017: Microsoft Dynamics NAV experts keep an eye on the future of the product and channel
By: Dann Anthony Maurno Between Dynamics NAV 2018 and Dynamics 365 “Tenerife”, NAV partners step from 2017 into 2018 with a solid foundation for their business plans. Programming advances like Extensions 2.0 will ease development, while advanced integrations with Office 365, Power BI and LinkedIn (to name just a few improvements) extend NAV utility. Although […]
Musk Says Tesla Is Building Its Own Chip for Autopilot
By: Tom Simonite Rockets, electric cars, solar panels, batteries—whirlwind industrialist Elon Musk has set about reinventing one after another. Thursday, he added another ambitious project to the list: Future Tesla vehicles will run their self-driving AI software on a chip designed by the automaker itself. “We are developing customized AI hardware chips,” Musk told a […]
Best of 2017: What Microsoft Dynamics 365/AX experts taught us about technology, process, and project management trends
We begin to wrap up the year in Microsoft Dynamics by looking back at the best expert insights of 2017, as published on MSDW. For Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, Enterprise edition (D365FOE), formerly known as Dynamics AX, 2017 was a year in which Microsoft stressed its rapidly growing list of go-lives and the […]
Microsoft fixes exposed TLS key for Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations, Enterprise (at long last)
Customers of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations Enterprise edition were vulnerable to “man-in-the-middle” attacks for three months before Microsoft resolved the exposure. And according to the developer who discovered it, Microsoft only deployed a fix after increasing pressure that made the issue public. German software developer Matthias Gliwka describes himself as a “curious world […]
NetSuite Adds Three New Partners Seeking to Drive Growth with Cloud ERP
Oracle NetSuite, one of the world’s leading providers of cloud-based financials / ERP, HR, Professional Services Automation (PSA) and omnichannel commerce software suites, today announced the addition of new partners to NetSuite’s Solution Provider Program and Alliance Partner Program. Apps Associates, BTM Global and iSP3 are expanding their longtime Oracle partner relationships to add NetSuite practices to their portfolio. Partnering with […]
ERP systems slow to embrace AI
By: Daniella Hoffmann No ERP system is offering interfaces for artificial intelligence (AI). So several carmakers are cooking up ways to bring AI into their ERP platforms on their own. Automotive companies such as Volkswagen are experimenting with artificial intelligence in their labs. They have been setting up new AI-based processes on the operating engines […]
Things that made me say “Wow!” about Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2018
By: Roberto Steffaneti After a fair wait (considering we were accustomed to a release every year), and after several rumors about its publication or delay, the new release of Microsoft Dynamics NAV, NAV 2018, includes some interesting features. My reaction after a first look: Wow! Although I had seen the Community Technology Preview (CTP) versions […]
Microsoft Commercial and Enterprise CVP to analysts: Aggressive cloud investment can co-exist with customers’ hybrid, on-prem interests
By: Dann Anthony Maurno Perhaps Microsoft’s cloud-first strategy seems to some like a runaway train, leaving partners and slower-moving customers on the platforms with their “baggage” of on-premise products and expertise. Or, perhaps that’s not the full story. Microsoft’s appearance at last week’s Credit Suisse 21st Annual Technology, Media & Telecom Conference reveals more forethought […]
Transforming Your Business with an ERP Deployment in 2018
By: Jeff Carr The New Year is when we assess our current personal situation and look to create goals to exercise more, eat less and lose weight or learn a foreign language. The same is true for manufacturers and distributors; it is the ideal time for a company to work on improving its current situation […]
The cloud: It’s raining possibilities
By: Paul Robson Perhaps it feels as though the concept of cloud computing has been around for a long time, and that it’s an expected part of every CIO and CTO’s toolkit. It might be a surprise then to learn that cloud uptake is only at about 20 per cent, even though last year, spend […]