Microsoft Dynamics

Ariba is now teaming with Microsoft in business streamlining to empower buyers and sellers to better connect and collaborate across Microsoft applications and Ariba's commerce cloud services. Announced last week at the AribaLIVE conference in Las Vegas, the joint effort paves the way for many more businesses and resellers globally to plug into what Ariba calls the Networked Economy by giving Microsoft Dynamics AX users automated access to the Ariba Network. Microsoft Dynamics offers productivity tools and built-in contextual business intelligence that help decision-makers move faster. There are 300,000 businesses that use Microsoft Dynamics applications and 10,000 Microsoft Dynamics reselling partners worldwide. The Ariba Network leverages cloud-based invoicing, supplier discovery and spend management services and an online trading community to drive collaboration and... (more)

Resolving “Data Error Reading Drive C” in Microsoft Windows

This behavior results into critical data loss situations and require Data Recovery to be fixed. Recovery is possible in most of such situations using appropriate tools and techniques. In a practical scenario, when you try to start your Windows computer, it does not boot in normal mode. If you boot the system in safe mode, you encounter below given error message and the boot process gets terminated: "Data error reading drive C. Abort, Retry, Fail" When you boot the system in command mode and run ChkDsk, you encounter same error message along with following error: "Chkdsk cannot ru... (more)

WordPerfect Jury Deadlocks

The jury that sat through eight weeks of complicated testimony and 600 exhibits over whether or not Microsoft broke the antitrust laws and tied a can to WordPerfect's tail to maintain its monopoly after Novell bought the software 17 years ago couldn't come to a unanimous decision Friday after three days of deliberation. The jury's foreman reportedly sent out a note to the judge late Friday afternoon saying, "I'm sorry, very sorry we cannot come to one accord. I've done the best I know how." Novell asked for one more day. District Court Judge Frederick Motz - who didn't think th... (more)

The Long Tail of Cloud Computing?

My watered down translation of Long Tail theory is simply the notion that the aggregate sum of stuff buyers take in small, infrequent quantities will invariably outstrip the aggregate sum of the most popular counterparts. Research evidence is beginning to corroborate what we saw some three years ago: There is a Long Tail in Cloud Computing. Consider some well accepted research points from IDC and others of late: The Cloud Computing market will hit USD $42 Billion by 2012 Of that, more than 50% will comprise business process applications (the stuff we all use daily to run companie... (more)

Microsoft Open Government - To the Cloud!

With the US Government announcing a 'Cloud for Clunkers' migration plan for Cloud computing, and also an Open Government initiative to make agencies more transparent and responsive to the public, this overlap area is a very fertile zone for driving adoption of the technology and new models. Needless to say Microsoft is one vendor offering a powerful solution set for the requirement. They offer a Gov 2.0 resource centre, where there are tools like case studies, news, and articles that explain what Open Government is, and even an implementation plan template so that agencies can doc... (more)