Microsoft is upping the stakes in the growing market for cloud-based ERP, with its Dynamics GP 2013 and NAV 2013 products now available for deployment on its Azure service.

Internet tools are just starting to be applied to industrial tasks such as maintaining equipment and optimizing operations, but the wealth of data being produced by industrial systems could make this a major focus of development in the coming years.

Sur fond de débat sur un marché des télécoms d’entreprise considéré comme « verrouillé » en raison d’une présumée position dominante d’Orange, Keyyo tente de répondre par l’innovation et la différenciation de services.

Microsoft released a version of its office suite for iPhones in the U.S. that is only available for Office 365 subscribers. Microsoft Office Mobile is compatible with iPhone 4, 4S, and 5, and the iPod Touch (5th generation) and requires iOS 6.1 or later, according to the iTunes release notes.

Avec l’argument de la dématérialisation propice à la réduction des dépenses liées au courrier et à l’archivage, SFR Business Team vient titiller La Poste sur le marché  de la lettre recommandée, évalué à 1 milliard d’euros en France.

Hewlett-Packard launched an OS designed specifically for cloud computing, called the HP Cloud OS. Initially, however, the software can only be obtained by purchasing HP systems.

Hewlett-Packard announces its entry into the Google Apps Reseller program as it cozies up to Google in business. Hewlett-Packard is now a Google Apps reseller, as it continues to lean more on Google-related products and tries to make itself more relevant in the age of the mobile device. Those mobile devices now include the Google-software-based HP SlateBook x2, HP Chromebook, and HP Slate 7.

Lenovo offered a peek under the covers on a new consumer cloud storage service called Lenovo Reach, which it said will allow users to securely access their cloud-based files and applications from any device via a single login ID.

Expected to go live later this year, Lenovo Reach will offer 5GB of free capacity.

Cisco has overtaken IBM as the leading provider of infrastructure for cloud computing, analysts at Synergy Research report.

Au moyen d’un partenariat stratégique avec la SSII française Atos, Samsung avance ses pions sur le marché professionnel. Les deux sociétés vont conjointement oeuvrer au développement de solutions d’entreprise dans le secteur de la mobilité. Leurs travaux engloberont aussi les domaines de la signalétique, de l’embarqué, du cloud computing et du big data.