Microsoft's Cloud ERP Plans Get Mixed Reactions

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	Microsoft's Cloud ERP Plans Get Mixed Reactions Microsoft's announcement this week that it would begin offering its Dynamics ERP (enterprise resource planning) software via the Azure cloud platform drew significant interest from attendees of the Convergence conference in Atlanta, but some users and partners have questions Microsoft has yet to answer about its plans. Read More WHITE PAPER: Iron Mountain Are Your Laptops and desktops recovery and discovery ready? IT leaders agree: backup and protection of desktop and laptop data are crucial. But they also agree: too many fall short, leaving themselves vulnerable. Click here to get this exclusive research report on end point security. Read now In this Issue Ready Or Not, IPad, Other Tablets Are in the Enterprise Cisco Enterprise Management Tools Take on New Network Realities Key SaaS Software Executive Leaving SAP Age-Old Question: to Whom Should the CIO Report? [Reg. Req'd] Top Tech Vendors Renew Cloud Push [Reg. Req'd] Lawson Aims Customers Toward the Amazon Cloud 8 Security Questions to Ask Before Building Mobile Apps Oracle Cautiously Pushes Fusion Applications to Enterprises The Three Ways Users Experience IT WHITE PAPER: CA The Arrival of Cloud Thinking Much is being made of the "the cloud." The money it will save. The agility it will bring to computing. What is less obvious is how IT departments are actively employing cloud services today. How they are reacting to both public and private cloud initiatives. What it will mean over the next couple of years for IT decision makers and implementers. Learn More Ready Or Not, IPad, Other Tablets Are in the Enterprise Any IT department hoping to escape the headaches of supporting iPads in the enterprise should realize that they're more than likely already being brought into the workplace. Read More Cisco Enterprise Management Tools Take on New Network Realities Cisco this week broadened the security and management capabilities of its enterprise products to help IT shops get a better grip on mobile devices, video and changing workforce habits. Read More WEBCAST: HP The Evolving Industrialized Data Center The mindset for today's data centers is rapidly changing to meet the new paradigm shift that is influencing the thought processes for deploying enterprise IT strategies and the supporting data center frameworks. Learn more. Key SaaS Software Executive Leaving SAP SAP executive John Wookey, who was charged with developing a SaaS (software as a service) strategy for large enterprises, is leaving the vendor after about two-and-a-half years, the company said Monday. Read More Age-Old Question: to Whom Should the CIO Report? [Reg. Req'd] Imagine if the strategic engine of the enterprise didn't report to the CEO. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP Create the Data center of the Future This Executive Brief discusses the changing economic climate for data center development and how virtualization and consolidation will help organizations create a modular data center that provides the flexibility and adaptability to meet IT — and enterprise business — needs for many years. Read more Top Tech Vendors Renew Cloud Push [Reg. Req'd] As the market for cloud services grows, big enterprise IT vendors are moving swiftly to develop cloud offerings that can attract the attention of large enterprises that have so far been slow to embrace the technology. Read More Lawson Aims Customers Toward the Amazon Cloud Lawson Software is hoping to entice its customer base to deploy their applications in Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), and has a marquee customer to show it can be done successfully. Read More WHITE PAPER: BMC Improve Service Levels while Cutting Costs IT workload automation results in average annual savings in staff costs alone of $750,000. Learn more about automating complex IT processes – read the white paper. Learn More Now! 8 Security Questions to Ask Before Building Mobile Apps Enterprise organizations are rushing to build iPhone, iPad, Android and BlackBerry applications to deepen their customer experiences and extend the ways their customers can purchase from them. Read More Oracle Cautiously Pushes Fusion Applications to Enterprises Oracle is continuing to take a cautious approach in pushing its new Fusion Applications to enterprises. Read More The Three Ways Users Experience IT Now that technology has pervaded almost every facet of the enterprise, the number of ways in which IT interacts with users has expanded significantly. Read More
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