Microsoft has purchased Parature, an enterprise software vendor, and plans to integrate its customer service knowledgebase into Dynamics CRM. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but TechCrunch pegs the purchase price at $100 million, citing “sources close to the deal.” Parature offers its software on a SaaS basis and
Microsoft has announced two upcoming developer events. First, it will co-host a social-focused hackathon with Facebook January 17-18. “A number of our engineers along with Facebook’s engineers will be there working with developers to show how easily you can deeply integrate across both the Windows and Windows Phone apps,” said
I have often seen IT organizations within large enterprises struggle trying to figure out the right AD FS implementation. They almost certainly understand that AD FS is the right tool to create a secure network for managing resource requests from both internal and external users, but fail to position it