Effective April 2, 2020, VMware will be updating its per-CPU licensing model to align more closely to the industry standard of licensing software based on CPU cores as a main licensing metric. This means that VMware uses the per-CPU licensing model while requiring one
On March 2, 2020, VMware instituted some price increases for a limited set of offerings, including a number of VMware Professional Services offerings, such as VMware Technical Account Manager Services and Consulting Services. Beginning April 2, 2020 prices will increase on VMware vRealize Suite
Oracle and Microsoft announced an enhanced cloud collaboration to create the best option to run enterprise solutions for their joint customers. This cloud interoperability partnership combines Oracle and Microsoft technologies to support both line of business and mission-critical applications. Customers can now migrate to
Microsoft Windows 7 reached End of Support on January 14, 2020. Although Microsoft’s recommendation is to upgrade to Windows 10 or move to Windows Virtual Desktop in Azure, customers may purchase Extended Security Updates (ESU) to continue to receive security updates for critical issues.
On May 7, 2020, Autodesk will increase the price for renewals of maintenance plans by 20%. One year later, on May 7, 2021, the maintenance plans will be concluded. Customers will then no longer be able to renew their maintenance plans. Customers with a
On March 25th, 2020, Autodesk increased the price of new subscriptions by 5%. However, the price of renewals remains unchanged. In this way, Autodesk wants to reward loyal customers who renew their subscriptions on-time.
Microsoft made the following three announcements concerning their Dynamics 365 retail solutions: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Commerce, generally available on February 3, 2020, is a modern omnichannel commerce solution that unifies back office, e-commerce, in-store, and call center and simplifies the integration of new emerging channels.
Effective January 2020, Microsoft announced the availability of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Virtual Agent for Customer Service. This offering combines Power Virtual Agents and Dynamics 365 Customer Service Insights enabling organizations to create no-code chatbots having identified the most common support issues facing their customers.
With the December 2019 Product Terms, Microsoft takes the first step towards merging System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) and Microsoft Intune into Microsoft Endpoint Manager. Microsoft Endpoint Manager is a unified, integrated management platform for managing all your endpoints. This allows you to deploy