Recent Articles
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Google Acquisition Lets Microsoft Office Users Share Documents on Web
(Reuters) – Google Inc stepped up its assault on Microsoft Corp’s productivity software business with the acquisition of a small start-up company that allows Microsoft users to edit and share their documents on the Web. Google said on its company blog on Friday that it has acquired San Francisco-based DocVerse. Terms of the deal were…
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Office 2010 Set to Hit Businesses in May
Businesses will be able to purchase the full version of Office 2010 May 12, roughly a month before consumers get their hands on Microsoft’s next-version productivity suite. “For businesses, we will launch the 2010 set of products, including Office 2010, SharePoint 2010, Visio 2010, and Project 2010 worldwide on May 12,” Jevon Fark, senior marketing…
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Motorola Unveils PartnerEmpower Program
Motorola will be getting increasingly aggressive in expanding market share through partners through its new channel program – Motorola PartnerEmpower – a new effort to bring the full breadth of the company’s enterprise mobility and communications products to market and open new opportunities for independent software vendors (ISVs) and resellers. PartnerEmpower is essentially the next…
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Microsoft Channel Chief to Outline Cloud Opportunity
Starting with an expansive speech CEO Steve Ballmer gave at the University of Washington last week, Microsoft appears to be continuing a full-court press of its cloud computing strategy, assigning its highest-level executives to get the word out that the company is serious about the online software world. Many in the channel need convincing, which…
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Business Intelligence for the Cloud Provides ERP, CRM Integration Opportunity
If you’re a traditional VAR and you are looking at the potential of the cloud business model, it may be hard to see how X amount of dollars per user per month will add up to enough for your business to survive at all, let alone thrive and grow. You are used to the big…