Business Management


The Right Kind of Exit Strategy

Manage your business as though you're planning to work until retirement or to the day you pass it to your children. Then, you'll know you've developed the perfect exit strategy.

OCS Is Out, Lync Is In

With new product name, Communications Server enters release candidate stage.

Leveraging the MPN for Cloud Channels

Partners who are "in the cloud" can get specific help with sales, services and marketing.

Acquisitions, Expansions Among NSIs

Tallan buys twentysix New York, Sapient expands.

MPN: What You Need To Know If You're a Dynamics Partner

Dynamics partners have always had different needs than other Microsoft partners, and the MPN has very different requirements of its business applications partners.

The Dawn of a New Day for SBS

With a focus on the super-small business market, Aurora offers a cross-premises Active Directory solution that's easy to manage.

MPN: Where Do You Want To Go Today?

It's time to get serious about the Microsoft Partner Network (MPN).

Cloud Strategies: Yours and Microsoft's

Microsoft's determination to dominate the market for online services has never been as evident as it was at the 2010 Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC). Why is it moving so aggressively into that space?

Forecasts Suggest Slower PC Growth Ahead

IDC, Intel revising forecasts downward for second half of 2010.

Ratcheting Down the Fear in Scary Times

We don't need the approach of Halloween to realize that it's a scary world out there.

Smartphone Adoption Beating Expectations

IDC upgrades 2010 growth forecast for converged mobile devices.

Microsoft Launches Cloud Champions Club

Three-tier model brings field resources, MDF, per-deal subsidies to U.S. partners.

Microsoft Financing Back on the Fast Track

Program expands to rely on a broader base of banks worldwide.

Watch Out for the Mammals

Success in the small business space has always been Microsoft's to lose.

IT Spending Growth?

With fingers crossed, IDC calls for 6 percent bump in IT spending for all of 2010.