Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) is laughing at the expense of Salesforce.com, Inc. (NYSE:CRM), the company that essentially spearheaded the model of computing, this according to Synergy Research Group’s Q2 report.
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The new deal with Microsoft is also a blow for another Redmond competitor, Oracle, which HP was using to run post-sales processes.
With its deal for NetSuite, Oracle is also going after more CRM contracts. It’s the latter of the two that has opted to sign up with Microsoft for Dynamics CRM.
Complementing Dynamics CRM, Office 365 provides worldwide sales, service and marketing professionals at HP with an immersive, connected productivity experience for teamwork and collaboration.
HP’s sales force has been using Salesforce CRM and its support people were using Oracle orcl CRM, he said.
The HP Inc defection is, as I say above, quite a logical development when the context of the firm’s business model is taken into consideration, but nonetheless it doesn’t send out a great message given the flagship status accorded the “old” HP as a Salesforce customer. Among the top ten companies Oracle achieved the highest growth rate followed by Microsoft.
Salesforce remains committed to the success of HP Inc as a customer and partner.
“For us it was a natural move to look at one combined vendor end-to-end”, Flaxman told the magazine. This included merging its CRM and ERP cloud solutions into one cloud service.
Once considered a threat to jobs and partner profitability, the cloud is now broadly recognized as a global economic engine underpinning new innovations, business models and industries.
HP’s services business was fairly stable over the same period, only dropping about $5 million to $1.395 billion in 2015.
Because HP has around 50,000 employees on its books, that means around half of its staff won’t be using Dynamics. The move will help HP enhance its presence in Asia. The shares ended last trade at $74.36, implying that Wall Street analysts see shares climbing about 26.95 per cent in 12 months’ time.
Over at Microsoft, it made waves in the stock market when it acquired LinkedIn Corp (NYSE:LNKD). However, the Redmond giant’s $26 Billion offer proved to be too hard to resist and LinkedIn chose to toss its lot in with Microsoft. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella thinks he can integrate the social network of LinkedIn with its suite of Office applications.
The refresh aims to increase the percentage of indirect sales from 80 per cent of total today to 87 per cent by the end of its next financial year, November 2017.
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Many pundits believe that Microsoft has plenty of legs in the coming years as it attempts to control the enterprise world.
