Microsoft

The results of Microsoft’s Q4 FY19 earnings were to be expected.  Microsoft performed extremely well and continues to grow; they achieved over $125B in revenue...

ServiceNow and Microsoft announced a strengthening of the partnership they established last October with the ultimate goal per their July 9th press release, “to accelerate...

This week’s issue discusses Microsoft’s up-selling practices and the often-found and detrimental inconsistent messaging enterprises communicate to their cloud vendors during cloud negotiations. Microsoft Executive...

It is hard to stay on top of the latest news, events and rumblings tied to cloud computing and the cloud vendors responsible for it....

It is hard to stay on top of the latest news, events and rumblings tied to cloud computing and the cloud vendors responsible for it....

It is hard to stay on top of the latest news, events and rumblings tied to cloud computing and the cloud vendors responsible for it....

Microsoft released yet another version of Office.  In the past, new Office versions included more functionality and yielded higher employee productivity.  So even if an...

If you have ever been tasked with having to negotiate a better deal with Microsoft, you have most likely stayed up many nights trying to...

Most enterprise customers start their journey into Microsoft’s cloud (whether it be Office 365 or the more robust cloud bundle, Microsoft 365) by making sure...

As the year end approaches, many organizations find themselves in the final strokes of their Microsoft renewal negotiation.  Microsoft is gearing up to close the...

On October 16th, Microsoft released its 2018 proxy statement to the SEC.  Included in the document are the leadership compensation metrics that can provide insight...

Microsoft recently announced upcoming price adjustments that will likely affect their customer’s future purchasing decisions. Specifically, they announced 10% price increases for on-premise Office 2019...

Though it was initially designed to monitor and verify financial transactions, blockchain technology has a wide range of applications, from supply chain management to corporate...

Large legacy on-premise enterprise software vendors like SAP, Oracle and Microsoft continue to push their “on-demand” SaaS cloud products on and into their customer base....

If you have a relationship with Microsoft, your sales representative has likely been pushing to discuss the benefits of Microsoft 365 and why your upcoming...

Microsoft posted its Q3 FY 2018 earnings on April 26th, reporting $26.8B in revenue, a 16% increase with better than expected performance across all segments....

Alphabet released its Q1 FY 2018 results on April 23, 2018, reporting that the Google segment beat revenue targets with $31 billion in revenue, up...

Microsoft posted its Q2 FY 2018 earnings on January 31st, reporting revenue of $28.9B along with exceptional growth tied to two key Cloud products, Office...

Negotiations and contracts with large IT providers can be intimidating and downright confusing. There are some major concerns that plague large enterprise customers after the...

When an enterprise decides to adopt Microsoft’s Azure, they typically make an upfront financial commitment to Microsoft known as an Azure Monetary Commitment. Seems simple...