Court: IBM Owes Indiana $78M for Welfare Automation Failure
IBM owes Indiana $78 million in damages stemming from the company’s failed effort to automate much of the state’s welfare services, a judge has ruled in a long-running dispute. Marion Superior Court Judge Heather Welch issued the ruling dated Friday, nearly six months after she heard arguments from attorneys for the state and IBM Corp. […]
Enterprise software fuels IT spending as CIOs become builders again
By: Marc Ferranti Companies are refreshing enterprise software platforms for the cloud era and stitching together new systems to support digital business projects, triggering an uptick in IT spending worldwide. Gartner is forecasting a 2.4 percent increase in global IT spending this year, amounting to $3.5 trillion, up from an anemic 0.3 percent growth last […]
Oracle refreshes entire SaaS line, aiming to fuel cloud momentum
By: Marc Ferranti As the migration of enterprises to the cloud picks up steam, Oracle is intent on keeping up. It has taken to refreshing its SaaS applications twice a year, bringing them up to feature parity with its on-premises software and adding brand-new features for e-commerce and internet-centric supply chain management. Oracle Cloud Applications […]
Amazon Quietly Buys a Startup To Make Alexa Smarter
By: Paresh Dave Amazon.com Inc. acquired a Santa Barbara data analysis and search engine start-up in May to help improve its Alexa virtual assistant and other services, according to four sources familiar with the deal but unauthorized to discuss it. The previously unreported acquisition of Graphiq Inc. and its more than 100 employees has given […]
Partner-to-Partner (P2P) success, Part 1: The York Group on managing expectations
By: Dann Anthony Maurno Microsoft vigorously encouraged partner-to-partner (P2P) relationships at Inspire 2017 as a mechanism for building the Dynamics footprint worldwide. But in two sessions at Inspire, Harald Horgen made the startling claim that just 10 percent of ISV/reseller partnerships work, and asked “What other industry accepts a 90 percent failure rate?” Horgen is […]
Microsoft partner foresees tech roadmap for IoT with Dynamics 365
By: Dann Anthony Maurno The Internet of Things (IoT) has had fits and starts since the term was coined around 1999 to describe how machines in the supply chain, without human support, can capture data about things moving around the world. Even at that time, the concept was nothing new. But increased attention and accessibility […]
The future of the Internet of Things in the healthcare sector
By: Ben Rossi The global adoption of the Internet of Things has not been as rapid as many predicted, but it is now accelerating fast. In the first half of 2016, Gartner predicted that 45% of enterprises would adopt IoT technology by the end of the year. It’s too early to know if that forecast […]
What The Edge Cloud Means For The Future Of IoT
By: Yiannis Giokas For the last decade or even longer, the key driver for change in the information and communication industry and the overall technology domain has been the adoption of cloud. The cloud has enabled us to introduce elasticity to our environments, shortened time to deploy a new service, and increased the resilience of […]
Machine learning for Dynamics, Part 2: Making the most of machine learning with Dynamics 365 / CRM
By: Mark Anderson Microsoft Dynamics 365/CRM customers have a number of machine learning tools at their disposal thanks to the solution’s proximity to technology from Azure Machine Learning Studio and the Cortana Intelligence Suite (formerly the Cortana Analytics Suite). MSDynamicsWorld has covered a few of these capabilities already, such as our article earlier this year […]
Following first round of Microsoft Dynamics 365 SMB go-lives, UK NAV partners proceed with care
By: Linda Rosencrance “First-out-of-the-gate” implementation claims are bold, which practically invites argument. Two weeks ago, one partner released a statement claiming the first Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, Business edition (D365FOB) customer go-live in the UK. “One of many,” countered James Crowter, managing director of Technology Management Ltd. in Wolverhampton, UK. At least five […]