How IT can foster a spirit of ‘intrapreneurship’

By:  Sarah White Entrepreneurship is typically associated with startup companies, and the eager, driven and innovative minds that start them. But there’s another type of entrepreneurship, and it lives inside established organizations. Intrapreneurs are already employed in your organization — they’re workers with progressive ideas that will benefit the company. The only problem is, these […]

LinkedIn steps closer to CRM as it gives Sales Navigator an enterprise boost

LinkedIn, the social network for the working world that is now owned by Microsoft, is quietly adding more features to fill out some of its bigger ambitions to provide more services to enterprises, tapping into its user base of more than 465 million professionals. And in the process, it’s also playing on one of the big themes not […]

Microsoft Dynamics Partner Roundup: Unified communications for D365; Euro CRM partner acquisition; Aussie D365 partner; New sales & marketing exec

By: Linda Rosencrance Broadview Adds Microsoft Dynamics 365 to its Growing List of OfficeSuite UC Software Integrations Broadview Networks, a provider of cloud-based unified communications (UC) and information technology services, has rolled out OfficeSuite UC for Microsoft Dynamics 365. Broadview’s cloud-based OfficeSuite UC capabilities integrate directly with an organization’s customer relationship management (CRM) system to […]

As Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM apps mature, can we still talk customization?

By:  Sarah Critchley The latest release the Microsoft Dynamics 365 customer engagement app suite have brought even more functionality to the application that customers can utilize right out of the box. Though this is obviously a fantastic thing, though it can raise the question of whether customizing the system by adding complex workflows and other […]

Why the Microsoft Dynamics AX community needs independent professionals

By:  Don Riggs There is an excellent resource in the Dynamics community that is not part of any Microsoft program: the independent AX professionals who serve customers around the world. Independents represent some of the best talent available for Dynamics AX. I doubt if most people could name five of these professionals. That article will […]

Adobe, Microsoft team up to share sales and marketing data (MSFT, ADBE, CRM)

By:  Stephen Nellis March 20 (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp and Adobe Systems Inc are joining to make their respective sales and marketing software products more potent competitors to Salesforce.com Inc and Oracle Corp offerings, the two firms said Monday. On the eve of San Jose, California-based Adobe’s annual user conference, the company said that it […]

Two Important Ways Cloud ERP Enables IIoT in Manufacturing

Your manufacturing processes are producing more than just marketable items that generate revenue. They’re also producing vast amounts of data. Until recently, manufacturers could only perform the most basic data analysis. Today, however, analytics capabilities combined with more opportunities to capture machine and production data present huge opportunities to drive efficiency. The growth of inexpensive, […]

What Do Manufacturers Look for in an ERP Solution?

By:  Nick Castellina Finding a needle in a haystack is hard. You know what’s even harder? Finding a specific needle in a pile of needles.  Selecting the ideal Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution from among the numerous options on the market can feel like just as daunting a challenge. ERP is a serious investment for […]