Salesforce buys SteelBrick from California and wind power from Virginia
Business Cloud News Cloud giant Salesforce.com has announced two new acquisitions, one intended to boost its bottom line and the other to shrink its carbon footprint. The acquisition of California based start up SteelBrick gives it a quoting and billing system for SMEs that runs within the Salesforce cloud platform. Meanwhile, it has announced an […]
Microsoft maps out 2016 BizTalk Server, Azure Stack and cloud integration plans
Business Cloud News Microsoft has unveiled its plans to integrate its cast of cloud services and servers in the coming year. Cloud users can now download a roadmap for the direction of its integration products such as the BizTalk application-integration server, Azure Stack and the Logic Apps included in the Azure App Service offering. The […]
Microsoft Dynamics Partner Roundup: Wine System for NAV; Canadian Network Expands; eCommerce/ERP for Distributors; RapidStart for Dynamics CRM
by Linda Rosencrance In this week’s Microsoft Dynamics partner news roundup: TVision’s Wine System Now Certified for Microsoft Dynamics NAV; Second Foundation Joins SBS Group Canada Partner Network; ENAVATE Launches Integrated eCommerce, ERP Solution for Wholesale Distributors; Intellitec Adopts RapidStart CRM for Dynamics CRM Online TVision’s Wine System Now Certified for Microsoft Dynamics NAV TVision […]
More Cloud, More Customization, More Lawsuits in ERP’s Future, Predicts Panorama
by Jill Rose, Contributing Writer Predicting the future of ERP can be tricky, but Panorama Consulting fearlessly unveiled its Top 10 Predictions for the ERP Industry in 2016 in both a blog post and a webinar hosted by Panorama Director January Paulk. Some will sound familiar to CIOs who follow the sector, including a blurring […]
Technology Spending Sustains Citi’s `Raging Bull’ on U.S. Stocks
Technology Spending Sustains Citi’s `Raging Bull’ on U.S. Stocks David Wilson Increased business investment in technology will provide support to the economy and stock market next year, according to Tobias Levkovich, Citigroup Inc.’s chief U.S. equity strategist. As the chart below shows, third-quarter corporate spending on computers and software equaled 4.2 percent of U.S. gross […]
Top 11 resume tips from 2015
Over the last year, CIO.com’s team of resume experts and career consultants have helped numerous IT professionals showcase their knowledge, experience and technical skills to help them land their dream IT jobs. Here are the top 11 resume tips from 2015 Sharon Florentine By Sharon Florentine CIO Over the last year, CIO.com’s team of resume […]
Microsoft Dynamics Partner Roundup: Call intelligence for CRM; AX accelerator; Retail partnership; European food sector offering
by Linda Rosencrance Invoca Announces New Integration with Dynamics CRM Invoca, the call intelligence company, has announced a new integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM, aimed at bringing conversations into the omnichannel customer journey by connecting phone calls with every digital touchpoint. With Invoca Connect, marketers can easily inject call intelligence into their existing technology stacks […]
Science as a Service Continues to Evolve with the Help of Amazon Web Services
Since its early inception in the mainframe era until around a decade ago, scientific computing held the reputation of a cloistered art — an arcane, guarded practice that only a select crowd in the highest reaches of government and academia understood. Its machines were monolithic, its software dense and overtly mathematical, and its management frameworks […]
How to increase employee retention with ‘stay’ interviews
CIO | High turnover hurts a company’s bottom line, and it also ruins morale for the employees left behind. Since 2012, attrition has been a huge problem for IT companies, and finding ways to stem the tide is increasingly important as turnover rates continue to rise. Most companies use exit interviews to gather feedback about […]
Microsoft acquires Metanautix with Quest for intelligent cloud
by Business Cloud News Microsoft has bought Californian start up Metanautix for an undisclosed fee in a bid to improve the flow of analytics data as part of its ‘intelligent cloud’ strategy. The Palo Alto vendor was launched by Theo Vassilakis and Toli Lerios in 2014 with $7 million. The Google and Facebook veterans had […]