Microsoft Azure | Dr. Petri I. Salonen Views on Life and Software Business

Learnings of using software tools to run your business – Part 3

By DrSalonen | July 3, 2014 |

In my previous blog entry I gave the overall view how our Dynamics CRM 2013 account/contact entities have been used and what kind of Dynamics CRM 2013 custom fields I have used with those entities. In this blog entry I will describe the process how we integrate to SharePoint 2013 Online (part of Office 365).…

Software Ecosystems and APIs

By DrSalonen | June 6, 2014 |

I wrote about software ecosystems and their importance in my previous blog entry and what needs to be added to this discussion is the use of effective APIs (Application Programming Interface). This is not the first time I have emphasized the need for software vendors to focus on APIs and build solutions that can be consumed…

Cloud ISV: make sure you understand your ecosystem play – example of Intuit and Microsoft collaboration on software platforms to create a foundation for solution developers

By DrSalonen | August 19, 2011 |

I have written several times in my blogs about ecosystems and the role that ecosystems play. I recently run into an interesting article in the Redmond ChannelPartner with the header “Intuit Extends Cloud Pact with Microsoft”. As I am working with Microsoft ecosystem every single working day, I became interested what the article was all…