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'My ERP supplier has been acquired - now what?'
Comment The bigger players include Microsoft with its Dynamics brand (covering the Axapta, Great Plains, Navision and Solomon systems through acquisition), Epicor (with acquisitions of CRS and Scala) and Infor (with more than 25 acquisitions in the last... [05 Feb 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Abrupt change
Comment The sheer face of the Flatirons suddenly erupt from the ground to mark the end of the Great Plains and beginning of the Rocky Mountains. Abrupt change GMT, Marriott Hotel, Cupertino, California At university I studied engineering and also took... [20 Apr 2005]
Leader: Microsoft's play for SAP
Leader Microsoft has been slowly building its credentials in areas such CRM and ERP, mainly through the relatively minor acquisitions of companies such as Navision and Great Plains. A can of worms has been opened. [07 Jun 2004]
Can Microsoft deliver on CRM?
Comment The Redmond software giant has about 30,000 existing Great Plains customers and about the same number of firms using Navision, yet around 80 per cent of these companies don’t have a full CRM solution, providing a great cross-sell opportunity. [10 Feb 2004]
The Bloor Perspective: Microsoft does CRM, the Liberty Alliance and Scient's nadir
Comment The product is based around a loose collection of technologies that Microsoft has acquired over time, most notably perhaps Great Plains Software and, ultimately, Navision. Microsoft last week unveiled further details about its CRM product that... [22 Jul 2002]
Microsoft to innovate? It's far too successful for that
Comment And when Microsoft doesn't build 'me too' products, it goes out and buys them - FrontPage, Great Plains or Hotmail anyone? "Innovate. That's the message Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer set out in a 2,700 word memo to 50,000 staff late last week. [10 Jun 2002]
The Bloor Perspective: Microsoft and CRM, government and web services, and some semantic clarity
Comment The move follows Microsoft's $1.1bn acquisition of accounting software vendor Great Plains in December 2000. And it is Great Plains technology that plays a key part in the Microsoft CRM solution. Microsoft's first move into the enterprise software... [04 Mar 2002]
Microsoft: A finger in every pie?
Comment Ballmer aims to achieve this via the investment in the soon-to-be acquired Great Plains Software and the development of bCentral software and internet services. He said Great Plains and bCentral will be closely integrated after the acquisition closes. [12 Mar 2001]
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