Thursday, March 25, 2004
More Cross Sections
Posted by Andy Sjostrom in "NEWS" @ 07:10 AM
Cross section. Pocket PC combined with other Microsoft products.
The article "Microsoft Rewrites Its CRM Roadmap" is an interesting report from the annual Microsoft Business Solutions conference. In case you didn't know, one of the largest sort-of-new investments Microsoft is involved in is in the business solution (ERP/CRM) arena. The company has acquired a number of business solution products, for example Navision Axapta and Great Plains. You can read more about what's going on here!
Microsoft has decided to explore the cross section between business solutions and Pocket PCs. The first of "mobile add-on to MS CRM" is planned to arrive later this year, via a new module called "Sales for PocketPCs":
"The Sales for PocketPC product is a stripped-down version of MS CRM optimized to run on PocketPC handhelds. It is focused on addressing sales force automation needs, and will provide users with a way to keep track of contacts and accounts, opportunities, activities and their notes, Holt explained. The Sales for PocketPCs module will run atop Microsoft's SQL Server for Windows CE database for mobile devices, Holt said. The Sales for PocketPC technology will allow users to synch up with their full-fledged MS CRM systems over a VPN, wireless LAN or connected LAN, but it won't run on GPRS wireless devices yet."
This is great news. Not nescessarily because of what "Sales for PocketPC" delivers but because one more product group at Microsoft starts to leverage the exciting cross section between its product and Pocket PCs. I am so happy to see that, so I won't even bother remarking on "PocketPC" vs "Pocket PC" and the technically strange statement "won't run on GPRS wireless devices". More cross sections! 8)
The article "Microsoft Rewrites Its CRM Roadmap" is an interesting report from the annual Microsoft Business Solutions conference. In case you didn't know, one of the largest sort-of-new investments Microsoft is involved in is in the business solution (ERP/CRM) arena. The company has acquired a number of business solution products, for example Navision Axapta and Great Plains. You can read more about what's going on here!
Microsoft has decided to explore the cross section between business solutions and Pocket PCs. The first of "mobile add-on to MS CRM" is planned to arrive later this year, via a new module called "Sales for PocketPCs":
"The Sales for PocketPC product is a stripped-down version of MS CRM optimized to run on PocketPC handhelds. It is focused on addressing sales force automation needs, and will provide users with a way to keep track of contacts and accounts, opportunities, activities and their notes, Holt explained. The Sales for PocketPCs module will run atop Microsoft's SQL Server for Windows CE database for mobile devices, Holt said. The Sales for PocketPC technology will allow users to synch up with their full-fledged MS CRM systems over a VPN, wireless LAN or connected LAN, but it won't run on GPRS wireless devices yet."
This is great news. Not nescessarily because of what "Sales for PocketPC" delivers but because one more product group at Microsoft starts to leverage the exciting cross section between its product and Pocket PCs. I am so happy to see that, so I won't even bother remarking on "PocketPC" vs "Pocket PC" and the technically strange statement "won't run on GPRS wireless devices". More cross sections! 8)
