Dynamics Academic Alliance to Partners: Seek Channel Recruits on Campus
by Karen Kroll, Contributing Writer A good many partners in the Microsoft Dynamics channel struggle to recruit college and graduate students. For starters, most partner firms have limited recruitment budgets. Few are household names, which can make it hard to capture students’ interest. Finally, many potential recruits lack an understanding of the many careers available […]
Azure Machine Learning Now Available as a Function in Azure Stream Analytics
by Dann Anthony Maurno, Assistant Editor By popular demand, Azure customers can now apply Azure Machine Learning (ML) models as a function on top of streaming data to get real-time insights. So wrote Microsoft Senior PM Sudhesh Suresh in a blog post about this preview. Azure ML is largely a recommendation engine – an enterprise-grade […]
Hitachi Solutions Acquires Leading Microsoft Dynamics Solution Provider Ignify
Strategic acquisition expands Hitachi Solutions’ global delivery model in Asia Pacific, deepens IP portfolio, strengthens retail and other industry solutions, and furthers Microsoft strategic partnership. Irvine, CA and Long Beach, CA (PRWEB) December 14, 2015 Hitachi Solutions America, Ltd., a leading provider of global industry solutions based on the Microsoft Cloud, today announced it has […]
KELLY: NEARLY 40% TOP SAGE EXECS NEW
Bob Scott reporting in his weekly Insights column. Sage Group CEO Steve Kelly said this week that “nearly 40 percent of the top 100” employees in his company are new since he took over his job a year ago. If you have followed the items in the last two newsletters, there has been a flood […]
INFOR REVS SHIFTING TO SUBSCRIPTION
Bob Scott reporting in his weekly Insights column. The results for software vendor Infor for the second quarter ended October 31 are difficult to describe. The company swung to a loss over the prior year with a drop in revenue. However, Infor is being impacted by a switch of its fiscal year end from May […]
MICROSOFT’S DYNAMICS: $2B BIZ
Bob Scott reporting in his weekly Insights column. Microsoft has not issued statistics about Microsoft Business Solutions, the organization that has pretty much disappeared, in a long time. But on his LinkedIn page, former MBS head Kirill Tatarinov said that MBS “was a $2B business unit developing and marketing the family of Dynamics ERP and […]
Trump’s call to ban Muslims would create H-1B, other turmoil
A strange proposal that would affect technology workers, students and many others Patrick Thibodeau By Patrick Thibodeau Computerworld | Dec 8, 2015 5:30 PM PT Early in his campaign, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump established himself as a champion of restrictions on the H-1B visa program. Notably he called for a provision compelling businesses to […]
Red Hat helps eMedlab share supercomputer in the cloud
Red Hat helps eMedlab share supercomputer in the cloud | Business Cloud News Business Cloud News A cloud of bioinformatics intelligence has been harmonised by Red Hat to create ‘virtual supercomputers’ that can be shared by the eMedlab collective of research institutes. The upshot is that researchers at institutes such as the Wellcome Trust Sanger, […]
Microsoft Dynamics Partner Roundup: Sales intelligence launch; Collection automation for AX; Automaker CRM; VAR Hires and Promotions
Microsoft Dynamics Partner Roundup: Sales intelligence launch; Collection automation for AX; Automaker CRM; VAR Hires and Promotions – MSDynamicsWorld.com by Linda Rosencrance In this week’s Microsoft Dynamics partner news roundup: InsideSales Rolls Out Accelerate for Dynamics CRM Dynamics Partners Launch Online Invoice Solution for Dynamics AX CuroGens Rolls Out Cloud-Based Customer Service Solution for Automakers […]
EDGEWATER REVIEWING OPTIONS
Bob Scott reporting in his weekly Ingights Column. In the face of a hostile takeover bid, Edgewater Technology has authorized the review of choices that could enhance shareholder value. The decision by the board of directors of the Dynamics reseller comes as the company’s management faces a hostile takeover attempt by Lone Star Value Investors […]