Jack Ades remembers initial skepticism over the Great Plains Software business model. The North Dakota company wanted to build a community of partners to sell its software to clients. Great Plains ...

- Great Plains announces an accounting series for IBM computers. - The Great Plains Accounting Series for the Macintosh introduced. 1987 - Great Plains begins research and development on Dexterity, ...

The great software octopus that is Microsoft just got bigger. With the acquisition of Great Plains Software Inc. in a $1.1 billion stock swap, announced yesterday, the Redmond giant is spreading its ...

He has reassured ERP value-add partners that their model is safe in the hands of a company noted for high-volume sales of low-margin software. And, to be sure, the margins earned on ERP have stayed ...

REDMOND, WASH. (CBS.MW) - In the wake of its earnings warning, Microsoft said Thursday it'll pay $45.65 a share to buy Great Plains Software in hopes of boosting the technology giant's take in the ...

Microsoft Corp. agreed to buy Great Plains Software Inc. for $1.1 billion in stock, as the leading software maker seeks to improve its line of business tools for small and medium-sized companies.

Doug Burgum, who as chief executive of Great Plains Software guided the company through its recent acquisition by Microsoft Corp., has been named head of a new Microsoft division aimed at providing ...

ARTHUR, N.D. ― It was the early 1990s, and Doug Burgum had a message to deliver to partners of Great Plains Software gathered at the "Stampede to Fargo" conference. Burgum, then CEO of the startup ...

That, plus new Microsoft-backed credit programs and a raft of midmarket applications from Microsoft Business Solutions, could help solution providers breathe life into their stressed businesses, ...

MICROSOFT MAKES A move into the mid-market for ERP (enterprise resource planning) applications with its announcement Thursday that it is acquiring Great Plains Software, a long-time business partner ...