Microsoft is Increasing Pricing – What Customers Need to Know

September 9, 2021
Adam Mansfield
Reading Time: 5 minutes

Microsoft recently announced that they are going to be hitting their enterprise customers with price increases to some Office 365…

Categories: Microsoft

What Salesforce+ Means for Enterprise Customers

August 31, 2021
Adam Mansfield
Reading Time: 6 minutes

Salesforce recently announced Salesforce+, a groundbreaking extension of the Salesforce brand and overall marketing strategy. As an on-demand video streaming…

Categories: Salesforce

Is AWS Forming a “Rebel Alliance” to Take on Microsoft?

August 5, 2021
Adam Mansfield
Reading Time: 7 minutes

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has reportedly discussed forming an alliance with Dropbox, Slack, Smartsheet, and others to create a bundle…

Categories: AWS, Microsoft

Getting to No: 3 Things your Cloud Vendor Won’t Give You (And What to Ask for Instead)

July 29, 2021
Adam Mansfield
Reading Time: 7 minutes

Knowing what vendors will say "no" to can be a powerful tool in your negotiation arsenal When a company properly…

Categories: Cloud, Contract Negotiations

How to Turn Your Microsoft Underutilization into Leverage

May 18, 2021
Adam Mansfield
Reading Time: 5 minutes

In nearly all of the Microsoft engagements where we have advised over the years, there has been some level of…

Categories: Microsoft

What Microsoft’s Acquisition of Nuance Means for Customers

April 22, 2021
Adam Mansfield
Reading Time: 5 minutes

On April 12th, Microsoft announced the $19.7B acquisition of Nuance Communications, a provider of artificial intelligence (AI) and speech recognition…