Brad Sams

Microsoft’s new collaborative tool is finally here but the product has a few challenges ahead that will not be easy to overcome.

Microsoft is gearing up to go head-to-head with Slack with a new product called Microsoft Teams that will be included with Office 365.

Google is finally making a serious move into the enterprise and cloud spaces; a series of announcements over the last year highlight this new initiative.

Microsoft is working on a new cloud-based server architecture and they are open-sourcing the designs so that others may contribute and gain from the company’s cloud experience.

Microsoft’s newest Surface is designed for the professional which means it has a price tag to match but its features are targeted at one specific segment of its user-base.

For the end of its first quarter fiscal year, third quarter calendar year, Microsoft has reported $20.5 billion in GAAP and $22.3 billion in non-GAAP revenue with operating income at $5.2 billion GAAP, and $7.1 billion non-GAAP.

Microsoft is hosting three separate events, all in New York City, during a three-week span with each event focusing on a different group of users; from consumer devices to updates for the developer community.

Microsoft and SAP have announced an expansion of their partnership to bring more SAP products to Microsoft’s cloud but it will take up to five years for the new software to materialize.

On this edition of the Enterprise Agenda, we take a look at how and why you should be backing up your Office 365 data as it’s not only Microsoft’s responsability.

How software is being delivered to the enterprise is changing; the cloud is having a significant impact on both hardware and software vendors which opens the door for some, while closing it for others.