Microsoft

Are we “all in”?

by Vjekoslav Babic on December 14, 2010

image“Are we all in” – asks Hunter Richards on The Software Advice blog in his Monday post, giving a view of Microsoft’s Cloud strategy in perspective of Microsoft Dynamics. He argues that while Microsoft is indeed betting heavily on the Cloud, its Dynamics line of products is not nearly ready for the Cloud.

In his argumentation, Hunter gives four challenges that Microsoft is facing, and that are main obstacles in Microsoft’s way to Cloud Dynamics ERP: architecture, multiple products, partner channel and market readiness.

I believe in the Cloud. And I believe in Microsoft Dynamics ERP in the Cloud. So I do not agree with Hunter’s views on this, and here I’m offering a counter view. Okay, I must say that my views are limited exclusively to NAV, so whatever I say applies to NAV, and may not apply to AX, SL or GP.

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7 habits of highly unsuccessful sales people

by Vjekoslav Babic on December 9, 2010

imageOne of the takeaways from my Microsoft experience will undoubtedly by my attendance of Microsoft Services University, where all Microsoft’s consultants are ramped-up in a 15-or-so days intensive program. One of the things I will never forget, is when a presenter (kill me if I can remember his name) asked the 100-strong audience:

- How many of you here work in sales?

A couple of shy hands went up.

- Well, let me tell you something – the guy continued – you ALL work in sales!

And yes, he was absolutely right. If you are a consultant, like it or not, you do work in sales. So, one off-topic post, which is not completely (or not at all) off-topic is a short write-up of a post by Drew Stevens on RainToday.com, with (unpredictably, eh?) the same title as this.

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Special Offers for Microsoft exam takers – Hurry!

by Vjekoslav Babic on September 12, 2010

specialoffersAre you aware of the Special Offers on Microsoft Learning Products? Well, you should be: Microsoft Learning website offers many fantastic bargains. There are two specific offers I’d like you to check, which are going to be there for a limited time only.

Good luck with your exams!

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Is Microsoft About To Enter The EMR Playground?

by Vjekoslav Babic on April 21, 2010

image Austin Merritt of Software Advice has posted an interesting analysis of a possibility of Microsoft entering the Electronic Medical Records (EMR) and Electronic Health Records (EHR) market through acquiring a strong existing player.

Almost a decade ago, Microsoft has aggressively entered the ERP market through acquiring a series of ERP vendors, gaining a large customer base in practically all business and industry verticals—except medical.

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Panorama’s ERP report, part III

by Vjekoslav Babic on April 16, 2009

image I’ve just got the news about Part III of Panorama’s ERP Report in my inbox. If you missed my analysis of the report, please read it first: part three builds on findings of the first two. I know that I am biased when writing about this, but how can I not be? Microsoft Dynamics is the best choice ERP and the report (as a whole) clearly shows why exactly.

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Panorama’s ERP Report reveals important facts

March 5, 2009

For a long time, the ruler of project reports was Standish Group’s (in)famous Chaos report, which analyzed IT project success/failure factors. While many of the Chaos report’s findings applied to ERP implementation, the report as a whole was primarily about software development projects. And as we all know, implementing ERP is not the same thing [...]

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Welcome to NavigateIntoSuccess.com

December 18, 2008

This blog has moved to the new domain, but there are many more news to this blog than a mere domain name change. There will be a regular posting schedule, the blog will cover a more comprehensive range of topics, potentially interesting to a broader public, and over time a full Microsoft Dynamics NAV Functionality Catalog will be developed.

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Mystery laptop

June 12, 2008

I had no clue how good my laptop was. Seriously. Today it kicked ass of an 8-processor server. Tomorrow we have a go-live of a Microsoft Dynamics NAV deployment, with manufacturing customized to support configure-to-order functionality. Refreshing manufacturing orders now calculates dynamic BOMs and routings, and it takes time.

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Architectures: Good, Bad and Ugly

June 11, 2008

Four months ago I attended a conference, where I had a chance to listen to Miha Kralj, an architect at Microsoft, talk about architectures. It was one of the best presentations I ever attended, and ever since I had this topic in queue, but never really had chance to write about it. Most of the [...]

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WinDays 2008: Aftermath

April 29, 2008

WinDays 2008 are over. Somehow, this conference has become a milestone, in Croatian ICT community, in Microsoft community, even in my life. I met a friend there, one of those I only meet there, and realized just how quickly the year turned. Obviously, I contemplated too much, and partied too little, something to really get [...]

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Tomorrow

September 2, 2007

Technically it was yesterday, September 1st, but in practice it will be tomorrow, September 3rd, because it is a Monday. Tomorrow I start at my new position at a new company. The position is Consultant, and company is Microsoft. Quite a change for me. This change was pending for a while, and tomorrow it comes to completion. I was never this excited [...]

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