Developers building solutions based on Microsoft's SharePoint collaboration and business process platform will gain expanded support in the planned Visual Studio 2010 development environment, which will feature templates and an extensibility API, a Microsoft official said in a blog late last month.
Microsoft is folding its business process management (BPM) software, PerformancePoint Server, into its SharePoint Server product.
Microsoft's SharePoint collaboration server software is, by many accounts, a huge hit, providing that seemingly irresistible formula of solid technology for free or at a low price.
Microsoft and IBM have been duking it out over email and messaging software for years with their respective Outlook/Exchange and Lotus Notes/Domino products. As their product lines have evolved, however, a new fight is brewing between Lotus and Microsoft's SharePoint Server as the platform of choice for enterprise collaboration strategy.
Chris Johnson traded life in Wellington for a career at Microsoft’s Redmond campus — and he’s loving it.
Canterbury-based Advanced Feeds is claiming productivity improvements from a business intelligence-focused technology upgrade.
Loyalty New Zealand, the operator of the FlyBuys programme, says it was able to roll-out a new website in a matter of weeks using the Microsoft SharePoint Platform.
Microsoft has opened up its hosted version of SharePoint and Exchange to medium-sized and small companies, as it tries to take advantage of the demand for software as a service.
EDS wants to change its image to that of a modern, go-ahead integration company.
Conventional wisdom holds that small companies, not big ones, are embracing software-as-a-service (SAAS) technologies. And until now, Microsoft's tentative forays into the SAAS arena — such as its Windows Live, Office Live and Dynamics Live CRM services — have held to that conventional wisdom by focusing on consumers and on small and midsize businesses.
Microsoft has confirmed that Excel 2007, the newest version of its market-leading spreadsheet, returns incorrect calculation results in some cases.
Hardware constraints are preventing Kiwibank from upgrading to the Windows Vista operating system, according to the bank’s enterprise architecture manager, Bohdan Szymanik.
Wellington-based web services and consulting company Redvespa got its big break recently when it inked a three-year contract with the UK’s Henley Management College, but it is blogging that is keeping everyone involved in the project honest.
Shaan Stevens' small Wellington-based economic and finance consultancy, Guinness Gallagher, has around 13 regular employees and operates partly from his large home in the capital. This became the demonstration site for the domestic and small-business launch of Vista in New Zealand.
EMC and Microsoft are stepping up their existing enterprise content management (ECM) relationship substantially to provide tighter integration between EMC’s Documentum ECM software and Microsoft’s Office, Outlook and SharePoint products.