Food & Drink Dynamics – the ERP event

Food & Drink ERP Event

This event hosted by Microsoft and Sysco will feature a number of our customers in a personal roundtable environment discussing their experiences implementing Microsoft Dynamics AX, NAV and CRM focussing on how these solutions have transformed their business operations.

Following the roundtable, we will break into demonstrations of AX, NAV and CRM giving you the opportunity to discuss your particular requirement with leading industry experts.

Read more: http://www.the-food-people.com

IIA Cloud Computing Working Group Survey 2011

It’s back for the 3rd year running – the survey has now become an annual event and with the addition of this year’s data, the white paper will make interesting reading in ascertaining how the Irish market is responding to this innovative opportunity to deploy IT – cloud computing.

TAKE THE SURVEY HERE.

VOTE for the Best Cloud Service ever

Sysco’s Software as a Service offering, www.readydynamics.com has been nominated in the Best Cloud Service category in the IIA Dot.ie Net Visonary awards 2011.

So we’d love your vote – click here to cast your vote

For further information about our www.ReadyDynamics.com service, just visit the website.

SEE MICROSOFT DYNAMICS NAV IN ACTION

Here’s a chance to see the latest and greatest version of Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 R2 and a sneak peek at the next release NAV “7” scheduled for 2012.

Microsoft Dynamics NAV in action

 

 

Click here to register for NAV in action

Sysco strikes Gold with Microsoft ERP

 Microsoft has new competency policies in place for all partners.The new competencies will be enforced from May 1st 2011. We are delighted to announce that Sysco has already achieved the highest Gold status for the ERP competency – Sysco are the only partner to achieve this level in Ireland. Sysco has also attained a Silver Customer Relationship Management competency and a Silver Data Platform competency.

For further information, view the full piece here

Cloud Computing Report released

Microsoft Ireland commissioned a major report by Goodbody Economic Consultants which was published today. The report entitled Ireland’s Competitiveness and Jobs Opportunity:  Cloud Computing, documents that Ireland has the opportunity to create jobs and help restore competitiveness if we move quickly to establish Ireland as a Global Cloud Computing Centre of Excellence.

To view this report, click here.

CRM Online Launch

Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer cut the ribbon yesterday on the company’s latest effort to pump more of its software estate into the cloud – the launch of its Dynamics CRM Online product.

Until Ballmer’s relatively recent proclamation that Microsoft was “all-in” on the cloud, the vendor had concentrated much more heavily on its on-premises version of Dynamics.

View the Microsoft Dynamics CRM launch here

Cloud Computing Survey 2010 – have your say!

IIA Cloud Computing Working Group Survey 2010

The Cloud Computing Survey is being run again this year, to give us an indication of how Cloud Computing views have changed in the last year. We sent this survey out last year and would hope that people would participate again this year.

 

The Irish Internet Association (IIA) Cloud Computing Working Group is running this survey, in association with Sysco and ReadyDynamics.com, to gather information and increase understanding of cloud adoption in Ireland. The results will give a clear indication of the state of the Irish market for comparison against the results published last year.
 
Every respondent will receive a copy of the results when they are published. To participate, please visit click the link. 

 

All respondents will receive a complimentary (updated) copy of our Whitepaper (Cloud Business) which is being written in collaboration with all the major cloud vendors (Google, IBM, Microsoft, Salesforce, Supplierforce, etc.) and some major Irish enterprises. 
 
One respondent – chosen randomly – will receive 2 tickets for the Cloud Computing Summit, on the 9th September 2010 in Croke Park, Dublin

Thanks

The cloud will challenge traditional IT resellers

The direction of cloud computing is towards the commoditization of IT. This will challenge traditional IT resellers. A commodity is defined as a good which is supplied without qualitative differentiation across a market. What this means for sellers is that buyers don’t really care who they buy the commodity from and worse as the market matures:

1.Information Technology becomes cheap

2.Less need for the middleman

3.Less need for services

4.No upfront cash for software purchases

This challenge will pressurise traditional IT resellers without steady recurring revenue.

Logic+Emotion: The Social Business Manifesto

Logic+Emotion: The Social Business Manifesto.

We like this…have a read. I also like the statement for business – we will provide value, not noise.