Tech execs’ boldest predictions for 2017 and beyond
By: Tracy Mayor Here we go! What’s coming down the pike for information technology in 2017 and beyond? As part of our Tech Forecast 2017 survey of 196 senior technology professionals, we asked respondents to name their “boldest, most out-on-a-limb prediction for IT in the next five years.” Read on for a selection of their […]
Microsoft has officially completed its acquisition of LinkedIn
Microsoft has incorporated world’s largest professional network, LinkedIn, in order to reach out more people to spread more economic opportunity. Microsoft has announced their incorporating of LinkedIn, which has roughly 433 million users and is active in over 200 countries. This is Microsoft’s one of the largest acquisitions with $26.2 billion and the transaction is […]
4 employee wellness predictions for 2017
By: Sarah White The end of 2016 sparks predictions about what we can expect to see in the workplace for 2017. And, for the members of the Virgin Pulse Science Advisory Board, it turns out that wellness programs will likely become a major focus for successful businesses in the coming year. “The most forward-thinking companies […]
2017 IT forecast: Budgets will rebound
By: Sharon Florentine TEKsystems 2017 IT forecast shows IT budgets rebounding from a slump in 2016, and IT leaders’ confidence high going into the new year. But challenges around talent acquisition and organizational alignment will persist. The research, which polled 700 CIOs, IT hiring managers, directors and vice presidents in October 2016, found that almost […]
Despite risk, 1,000 in tech pledge not to help Trump’s data efforts
By: Patrick Thibodeau As President-elect Donald Trump met with high-tech business leaders in New York Wednesday, some of their employees were affirming, in tweets, a decision to join the resistance. The Neveragain.tech pledge passed more than 1,000 signatures, it announced late Wednesday, hours after Trump had wrapped up his meeting with a dozen tech executives. […]
Microsoft Envision discontinued, melts into Microsoft Ignite
By: Dann Anthony Maurno In a post entitled Microsoft 2017 event lineup, Microsoft announced that there will be no Microsoft Envision conference in February 2017; rather, it will be rolled into Microsoft Ignite. Microsoft Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer Chris Capossela made the announcement – the third of three items (more on […]
Perspectives on moving to Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Operations (AX7): Making sense of early user, partner reactions
By: Chris Hurley Microsoft disclosed many important details about the future of Dynamics AX at AXUG Summit 2016 in October. Our team at Computer Futures was very interested to hear the announcements related to Dynamics 365, which brings CRM and AX, along with other application and platform capabilities, together into a seamless solution that could […]
Hackers wanted
By: Stacy Collett The U.S. Army ventured into unfamiliar territory last week, the first day of its “Hack the Army” bug bounty program that challenges dozens of invited hackers to infiltrate its computer networks and find vulnerabilities in select, public-facing Army websites. “We’re not agile enough to keep up with a number of things […]
IT Channel Company appoints new CEO of its QBS Group division
By: Linda Rosencrance Netherlands-based The IT Channel Company (TICC), a distributor of ICT (information and communications technology) solutions for the small and medium enterprise, has appointed Michael Hartmann as the new CEO of its Quattro Business Solutions (QBS) division. Hartmann was just appointed chief commercial officer at QBS in August, effective Oct. 1. Prior to […]
DialogTech brings phone call analytics to Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Sales
By: Dann Anthony Maurno “Optimize the customer journey for your best leads: phone calls,” promises DialogTech, the call attribution platform. The company today announced an integration with Microsoft Dynamics 365. The integration enables companies to automatically capture intelligence on every phone call, caller and conversation generated from marketing within Microsoft Dynamics 365. The integration automatically […]