Cybersecurity Trends Report Highlights ERP Security as a Topic to Watch in 2017
By: Darya Maenkova In February, Crowd Research Partners released the 2017 Cybersecurity Trends Report. The study reveals that ERP Security got the list of organizations’ investment priorities as a trending cybersecurity topic. Unfortunately, the interest is caused by the expected increase in the number of cyberattacks against these business-critical applications. Security professionals predict that […]
Why GE is winning the war for tech talent
By: Clint Boulton Hiring enough tech talent to facilitate digital transformations typically tops the list of challenges CIOs face. They could do worse than follow the blueprint crafted by 125-year-old General Electric. The company has lured top tech executives from Apple, Google and Microsoft by underscoring the huge role GE plans to play in the […]
Microsoft Leads in Burgeoning SaaS Market; Oracle and Google are on a Charge
New Q4 data from Synergy Research Group shows that the enterprise SaaS market grew 32% year on year to reach almost $13 billion in quarterly revenues, with ERP and collaboration being the highest growth segments. For the third successive quarter Microsoft is the clear leader in overall enterprise SaaS, having overtaken long-time market leader Salesforce. […]
Microsoft Dynamics Partner Roundup: NAV mobile app; Digital transaction app; New ICSP; New ISV CEO
By: Linda Rosencrance New Anveo Release: Make Your Dynamics NAV Available Anywhere|Anytime Anveo has announced that its Client Suite 8.0 will be available for download on March 14 at the Anveo Partner Portal. Anveo 8.0 offers new features for mobile processing, anywhere and at anytime. One of the features of the new release is Extended […]
Here’s how Microsoft has rethought its approach to email
By: Blair Hanley Frank Two years ago, Microsoft made a massive shift in the way it approached the email market. In January 2015, the company launched Outlook for iOS and Android, free professional-grade email apps for two platforms that Microsoft previously underserved in that regard. Outlook for iOS and its Android sibling were special, because […]
Master Planning in Manufacturing using Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Operations or AX 2012 R3
By: Scott Hamilton Editor’s Note: This article summarizes the newly published book by Dr. Hamilton about master planning in different types of manufacturing. The book contents apply to those firms using Dynamics 365 for Operations or Dynamics AX 2012 R3. The planning calculations for managing a manufacturing business can provide significant benefits by coordinating supply chain activities […]
Oh No, Not Again!?! How A Second Global IT Outage Suggests Delta Airlines Still Has No Decent Disaster Recovery Strategy
By: Greg Pierce In August, I blogged about my experience with the Delta outage and provided some lessons learned from those calamitous few summer days. With over 650 cancelled flights (and thousands of frustrated customers), I speculated that their disruption in services must have cost them many millions of dollars in damages. And all caused […]
AWS, Microsoft and Google take different paths to the cloud
By: Clint Boulton SAN FRANCISCO — An outage at Amazon Web Services Tuesday rekindled the debate about whether it is wise to rely too heavily on one cloud service provider. Such snafus are rare for AWS so CIOs worry more about the potential for vendors to turn off their service without notice. But CIOs who […]
5 Important CRM Trends for 2017
In an age of accelerating change, agile customer relationship management (CRM) systems are increasingly important. Both startups and successful, established enterprises must anticipate and prepare for the exciting possibility of rapid growth. Chess masters are highly skilled at thinking many moves ahead, and today’s business professionals must do the same to take full advantage of […]
ERPSI Wins $45M Contract to Support U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), has awarded Enterprise Resource Planned System International, LLC (ERPSI) — a joint venture team between Planned Systems International, Inc. (PSI) and ERP International, LLC (ERP) — the Flexible Agile Development Services II (FADS II) contract. Under the contract, PSI will support the USCIS […]