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NetSuite initiates fight in "software's last battleground"
News Even Microsoft can't get Dynamics CRM to work with Great Plains, so what chance do these small businesses have? On-demand CRM and business apps vendor NetSuite has declared its intention to fight for... [07 Apr 2006]
Microsoft sets sights on medium-sized businesses
News Under Dynamics, Microsoft will unify the company's CRM products from the Great Plains and Navision acquisitions as well as build in business intelligence capabilities based on 50 specific job functions... [08 Sep 2005]
Microsoft gets its business together
News Also scheduled to appear is Doug Burgum, head of Microsoft Business Solutions and former chief executive of Great Plains, a company Microsoft bought several years ago. The company is gearing up to... [08 Mar 2005]
Microsoft hopes to woo PeopleSoft customers
News The software giant, however, is wooing PeopleSoft Enterprise customers with its Microsoft Business Solutions-Great Plains products. Despite claims it made during the PeopleSoft-Oracle merger trial,... [11 Jan 2005]
10 points on Microsoft's 2005 'to do' list
News The analyst house criticises the Great Plains, Navision and GeCAD buys as not delivering enough fast enough. Specialist analysis house Directions on Microsoft has released a list of what it considers the... [22 Dec 2004]
Emails show PeopleSoft feared Microsoft competition
News After Microsoft announced in late 2000 it was buying Great Plains Software, PeopleSoft executive Renee Lorton sent out an email: "Breaking News. Microsoft buys Great... [18 Jun 2004]
Microsoft and SAP entered merger talks
News Microsoft launched its own business applications initiative several years ago, through the acquisition of Great Plains Software and Navision, two smaller software makers. Microsoft and SAP initiated... [07 Jun 2004]
Oracles gears up for SME fight with Microsoft
News Ayala's mission is to turn Microsoft's Business Solutions group, which sells products including Great Plains, Navision and Microsoft CRM, into a $10bn business by 2010, which is a huge leap from the... [28 Nov 2003]
Microsoft issues "critical" Office security alert
News Several applications sold under Microsoft's Business Solutions brand also are at risk, including version 7.5 of the Great Plains accounting software. Microsoft has issued yet more security alerts,... [04 Sep 2003]
First reactions to Larry Ellison's Friday Firecracker
News Its got Great Plains and Navision to rewrite, combine and stabilise. Larry Ellison's Friday firecracker didn't catch analysts on the hop - most have been singing the industry consolidation song for some... [06 Jun 2003]
SAP tries harder with SMEs
News The stakes are higher this time around because Microsoft has entered the fray with the acquisitions of Great Plains and Navision, as well as the introduction this year of customer relationship management... [05 Mar 2003]
Re:Viewing 2002 - CRM and security
News That will give it access to European SMEs, adding to the same strata of user it picked up in the US from its 2001 Great Plains purchase. Does the mere mention of these subjects depress you? Graham Hayday... [23 Dec 2002]
Microsoft delays CRM release
News Holt added that the professional version of the product, starting at $1,295 (£800) per user, will come packaged with links to Great Plains Edition, one of four accounting applications the company sells... [19 Dec 2002]
Microsoft counting on bookkeeping software push
News Small Business Manager was developed out of Microsoft Business Solutions, a unit the company formed from the acquisitions of Great Plains and Navision, which make applications for midsized businesses. [06 Dec 2002]
Only three business units make money for Microsoft
News The Client group includes desktop and embedded operating systems Information Worker is made up of Office, other standalone applications, and professional product support MSN refers to the online network and access services Home &... [19 Nov 2002]
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