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EMS-Cortex 7.0 for Microsoft CRM Product Released
 TMCnet Contributing Editor
EMS-Cortex, a New Zealand-based IT company with worldwide offices and operations, has announced Cortex 7.0 for Microsoft (News - Alert) Dynamics CRM 3.0.
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 is available through the Microsoft SPLA and provides "a good opportunity for hosters wishing to move into higher valued hosted services," company officials say. Cortex 7.0, the latest upgrade of EMS-Cortex flagship announced recently, is considered by Cortex officials to be a "major upgrade," featuring a number of enhancements for Microsoft Exchange 2007, SharePoint services 3.0 and new provisioning pack for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0.
Cortex v7 configures multiple CRM instances and servers to be managed and allows customers to be allocated to a CRM front-end server. Once allocated, user provisioning can be delegated to the end-customer without the need for the CRM administration tools.
Earlier this month an Evans Data Corporation study found that overall, the largest portion -- fully 50 percent -- of software professionals expect to increase their IT development spending with Microsoft more than any other company.
In a study designed to clearly articulate the opinions and attitudes of software professionals, Microsoft ranked highest for expected increases in IT spending. Other vendors ranked in this survey were: SAP, Apple, IBM (News - Alert), Sun, Adobe, BEA, Oracle, AMD, Intel, Cisco, HP, Computer Associates, Compuware and Borland.
While many new vendors are taking advantage of the emergence of virtualization , SOA, software as a service and Enterprise 2.0, it is still those incumbents who continue to enhance their product roadmaps and, in some cases, their pricing models who are forecast to benefit the greatest in IT spending, according to Evans Data officials.
These incumbents enjoy the greatest revenue growth due to their focus on the key enterprise priorities of applications integration, security, cost cutting, business intelligence, ERP/CRM and web based applications development, the study found.
The study, based on in-depth interviews with over 380 active developers, also found that the top three companies developers expect to see an increase in their Application Development spending with next year are SAP (News - Alert) (54 percent), Microsoft (50 percent), BEA (44 percent).
David Sims is a contributing editor for TMC (News - Alert) Net. For more articles please visit David Sims' columnist page. Virtualization | X | | Central Processor Virtualization or Virtualization allows one computer system to emulate as multiple virtual computer systems. A Virtual Machine Monitor also known as a hypervisor is a system of sy...more |
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