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The UK’s leading manufacturer of superior natural stone and innovative concrete hard landscaping products, Marshalls was established over 130 years ago and supplies the construction, home improvement and landscape markets, specialising in a wide range of products, design services and technical...

Team Lotus, the Formula One team that brought the highly regarded Lotus name back into Grand Prix racing last year, has recently implemented Microsoft Dynamics AX, Microsoft’s enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution. Team Lotus was introduced to Dynamics AX through Microsoft Gold partner eBECS...

Businesses today are often taxed with the challenge of attaining increasing levels of success in an ever-changing business environment. This Thursday, September 8 at 9:00 a.m. P.T., Microsoft is hosting a Virtual Launch Event for Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012, an enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution...

It's vacation season, and Coca-Cola has partnered with airport food-service company HMHost to launch a summer travel sweepstakes complete with Microsoft Tag . Travelers can scan Tags on the side of 32-ounce Coke cups and enter to win a trip to Orlando, Palm Springs, or Chicago. Plus part of the proceeds...

Microsoft takes collaboration to the next level with Office 365, a new service that combines business productivity solutions with cloud computing to deliver an innovative platform, helping organizations collaborate while cutting costs. Office 365 gives businesses the opportunity to access information...

This article appeared on ConnectingIndustry.com Rakesh Kumar, global industry product director of manufacturing for Microsoft Dynamics ERP, looks at how manufacturers can derive competitive advantages using customer relationship management (CRM). Customer relationship management (CRM) means different...

Today, Tim Wallace, CEO of iPipeline was announced as the winner of the Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year 2011 Great Philadelphia Award in the technology category. The award, considered to be the world’s most prestigious business award for entrepreneurs, is a great honor for iPipeline...

Although with Microsoft since 2005, Sherle Webb-Robins was recently appointed General Manager for the newly formed Enterprise Partner and Industry Solutions Team in Microsoft’s U.S. Enterprise and Partner Group, where she’ll lead industry and partner-facing sales efforts. The Microsoft Vertical...

This July, Microsoft partners throughout the world will unite at the annual Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference with a common goal: to take their business to the next level. The five-day event, held in Los Angeles, is slated to be the largest conference ever held in the city, with an estimated 15...

If you’ve ever tuned into a show on the DIY Network or gone to a home and garden expo, it’s clear that the do-it-yourself home improvement industry – currently estimated at $10.5 billion* – is booming. Every month, in fact, more than four million people visit HGTV.com, America’s...

Roadblocks to business continuity come in all shapes and sizes – natural disasters that threaten to close businesses for weeks, difficulty attracting and retaining productive and efficient employees, or simply the inability to gain access to information or collaborate with coworkers thousands of...

This guest post is written by Ruth Fisk, director of insurance solutions at Hyland Software . Efficiency. Cost-savings. Fewer steps in a process. In the insurance technology world, these are terms that are thrown out a lot as benefits of using particular software solutions, like ECM. And while...

This guest post is written by Microsoft Partner VUE Software . Blue Cross and Blue Shield (BCBSVT) of Vermont, the state’s oldest and largest health insurer, needed to reverse a five-year decline in revenue and market share. Between 2005 and 2010 the company saw market share drop by 50 percent...

This guest post is written by Microsoft Partner Customer Effective. As prospects of a double-dip recession fade, the size and pace of bank failures in 2011 is significantly lower than this time last year. Yahoo! Finance references the FDIC’s failed bank list and notes that 25 banks with $9.9...

In this video, Fred Williams of AspenTech, Barry Irani of iStore and Kim Harshbarger of Motion Computing share how each of their respective companies are providing technology solutions to the oil and gas industry.

This guest post is contributed from the Microsoft Power and Utilities Team Imagine reading 10 million meters every 15 minutes. That’s 40 million data sets per hour, 960 million data sets per day, and 6.7 billion sets per week. Could your system handle that deluge of data right now, today? ...

This guest post is written by Microsoft's David Barret. As we head down the path towards the Smart Energy Ecosystem with our utilities customers, there are many benefits that the smart grid offers the industry, customers, and society at large. In delivering on the promise of the smart grid, utilities...

Surfing is no longer only a sport for beach bums. In the last 20 years or so, surfing has developed into a multi-billion dollar industry and a staple of our culture. Similarly, Pacific Sunwear or "PacSun" has grown from a little California surf shop established in 1980 to one of the top names in teen...

Calling all business owners who are looking for a way to help your business grow! Most consumers use the Internet to find out where to dine, shop or play, but it may be difficult to fully showcase the benefits of your business. Now, there's a new tool that can help you. Recently, Bing announced the beta...

Target Corp. has hit the bull's-eye, using Microsoft software and Dell hardware to help successfully manage all of its 1,755 stores and differentiate itself through a high-quality guest shopping experience. In this new video , Target IT executives Brad Thompson and Fritz DeBrine talk more about the...

The goal for any manufacturing operation - whether it is a discrete or a process manufacturing business - is to produce quality products at the lowest possible cost while striving to exceed customer expectations. Achieving this consistently and cost-effectively depends on gaining deep insight into the...

Business analytics is a dominant theme in the retail industry these days. New 2011 research on retail technology spend trends from IHL Group and RIS News shows that providing store associates with better tools rose to the top of retail priorities for store systems. Better BI tools lead to smarter store...

Technology is certain to continue changing the way insurance firms operate, communicate and relate to their customers and each other. Over the coming months, watch for these five trends to make a particular impact on the U.S. insurance industry: 1. Mobility - Sales and Service in Motion Insurers...

It's true that today's mobile and digitally empowered consumers increasingly are calling the retail shots. With more information, more options, and greater expectations than ever before, they want a highly personalized and value-driven retail experience that delivers consistency of service, ease of interaction...

Watch Aon Corporation talk about why they chose to move to the cloud for their IT needs. Listen to why they chose Microsoft as their provider of choice and the benefits they've received by making this decision.