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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Before the Raikes School‘s Design Studio Showcase on Friday afternoon on the campus of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Doug Burgum (left), the former CEO and chairman of Great Plains Software and ...

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 ...