Stories about: Damgaard

Microsoft is due to unveil Dynamics AX 4.0, the latest version of its high-end ERP (enterprise resource planning) software Monday at its Tech Ed 2006 user conference in Boston.

Products in the mid-market financial and CRM sector are disappearing so quickly, as a result of acquisitions, that users are struggling to keep pace.

Microsoft has completed its acquisition of Danish software company Navision in a stock deal valued at US$1.45 billion, the Redmond, Washington, software giant announced Thursday.

Microsoft has agreed to buy Danish business software developer Navision A/S in a transaction valued at about US$1.3 billion, the Redmond, Washington, software giant said Tuesday.

After recent announcements that they are to merge, Danish mid-market ERP vendors Navision and Damgaard have quelled channel uncertainty, unveiling its restructure plans this week.

Arch-rival Danish ERP companies Damgaard and Navision have finally buried the hatchet and announced plans to merge. The revelations made this week surprised many in the industry, and have left the companies' Australian channel partners wondering what the future may hold.

A snapshot of ERP suppliers with details as supplied by vendors by deadline

Since partnering with ERP vendor Damgaard mid last year, specialist financial systems company Scalable Data Solutions (SDS) has gone from strength to strength, according to SDS's managing director, John Crew. The integrator has taken eight orders in Australia for the Damgaard Axapta ERP solution, with three sites already live, making it the biggest Damgaard dealer in Australia, according to Crew.

New York-based Kozmo.com Inc., an online delivery service company, has announced a five-year co-marketing agreement with Seattle-based Starbucks Corp. The deal will garner Starbucks $150 million from Kozmo.com and will provide the Internet retailer with publicity in Starbucks' coffee shops. In return, Kozmo.com will sell Starbucks coffee over the Internet.

Brain Jaffe has read all the articles and reviews, he's heard years' worth of hype and sales pitches from Microsoft Corp., he's watched the betas come and go, and he's heard all the arguments, pro and con.

This week only eight of more than 7,000 applications ported to Windows 2000 had been certified to run on it. That's partly because Microsoft Corp. has decided to clamp down on sloppy code, but it's also partly because server certification specifications were late and because some application vendors are balking at the high cost of certification.