The Underlying Strategy Guiding Integration of Cloud Services with Microsoft Dynamics ERP

Microsoft chose an admirably straightforward moniker for its strategy to connect the latest, cloud-based services with traditional, installed software. "Software + Services" has been welcomed by many, but criticized by some as a way for Microsoft to pay lip-service to new computing architectures, while continuing its licensed software orientation.

Is Microsoft really counting on cloud services to become mainstream? In a recent address at the University of Washington in Seattle, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer left no doubt when he said, "The inspiration for what we are doing now starts with the cloud." He further characterizes Microsoft's bet on the cloud as "all in."

In fact, every business already uses cloud services. Does y...

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