Ebusiness software specialist Great Plains is to acquire Solomon Software for around $140m in stock and cash in a move intended to boost the company's ebusiness offerings to medium-sized companies. The deal, set to be completed by June, will see...
Great Plains, provider of mid-market business connectivity solutions for financial departments, will help integrate technologies for Microsoft .NET platform. The deal will be structured as a stock purchase, with each share of Great Plains being...
Back after a break Peter Cochrane talks trucks, chips and logistics. RFID tags and the introduction of communications to container sub-modules, coupled with GPS location devices, should give us that ability.
Ayala's mission is to turn Microsoft's Business Solutions group, which sells products including Great Plains, Navision and Microsoft CRM, into a $10bn business by 2010, which is a huge leap from the $550m it generated in the 12 months to June 2003.
The Redmond software giant has about 30,000 existing Great Plains customers and about the same number of firms using Navision, yet around 80 per cent of these companies don’t have a full CRM solution, providing a great cross-sell opportunity.
The software giant, however, is wooing PeopleSoft Enterprise customers with its Microsoft Business Solutions-Great Plains products. But those talks stalled early last year, due to the complexity of the deal and the integration that would have...