Chemical Industry Blog

Hi everyone, I’m posting this to let you know that I took on a new challenge at Microsoft and that means this blog will “pause” until my replacement in chemical and process manufacturing is brought on board. It’s hard to believe that this is the 3rd year...

I’m excited to write that yesterday we announced the acquisition of four industry solutions including a process manufacturing solution for Dynamics AX from Fullscope, Inc . These acquisitions signify our continued commitment to driving innovation for...

We posted a new video case study of Medway Plastics’ use of Microsoft Office Live Meeting to help increase productivity and drive down costs for both collaborative product development and customer service. Medway Plastics, a family-owned business, is...

Cloud computing, in particular the move of email and other business productivity services out of your data center and into the cloud has a rising interest in the chemical industry. I’d like to share this new case study featuring Coca-Cola Enterprises...

Guest blogging today is Dave Lassiter.  Dave is our Solutions Director for Manufacturing & Resources and is responsible for solutions that we take to multiple vertical markets inside of the Manufacturing & Resources sector.  One of those...

I just received all the questions that were on the webcast.  I’ll go through those over the next several days.  One that indirectly came up, was the scalability of Dynamics CRM . The day after the webcast, we released the following information...

For those who couldn’t attend the live webcast, the replay is available on the ChemWeek site at http://www.chemweek.com/crm . Enjoy and let me know what you think. -Brian

Thank you to everyone who joined today’s webcast highlighting Arch Chemical’s experience deploying Microsoft Dynamics CRM to help the drive sales productivity. We weren’t able to get to all the questions, so I am working on getting a hold of them and...

I was invited by ChemWeek to contribute a blog entry for the upcoming webcast on June 2nd @ 10:00am Eastern, highlighting Arch Chemicals use of Microsoft Dynamics CRM to drive sales productivity. You can find the blog post here (subscription may be required...

Join AMR Research, Microsoft and Infosys for a June 9th webcast about supply chain visibility & collaboration.  See the invitation below.  You can register at http://video.webcasts.com/events/amrr001/30790 .   Enable the Agile Supply...

Arch Chemicals is a long time user of Microsoft Dynamics CRM for both sales and customer service, and they have a great story to tell about why they chose Dynamics CRM, and how they use it in their diverse portfolio of businesses. I invite you to join...

Back in late 2007, I posted a case study highlighting Dow Corning’s deployment of unified communications (UC) to its Engineered Elastomers group. Our UC team just launched a micro-site on unified communications in the manufacturing industry.  The...

Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), a global agricultural processing company, recently launched their new customer experience on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 .  You can read the full case study here . ADM joins PolyOne and International Specialty...

We co-hosted a fun, informal networking event with AspenTech on Wednesday evening at the Philadelphia Phillies game . The Phillies lost 3-1, but did have the winning run at the plate with 2-outs in the 9th. I forgot to take a picture, but if you like...

I blogged back in August about a Microsoft Research collaboration with Dr. Peter Murray-Rust on building chemistry-related features in Microsoft Office Word.  The project is called Chem4Word .  Peter updated the project’s progress on his blog...

That’s what I told a group of tourists at the top of Lombard Street in San Francisco last week after making the hike from my hotel across both Nob Hill and Russian Hill - with my laptop bag strapped across my shoulder no less.  My legs were a bit...

Yesterday, Accelrys , a provider of scientific business intelligence software and services, put out a press release on their support for Office SharePoint Server 2007 in their Pipeline Pilot Enterprise Server offering. We’ve started introducing this combination...

I was with a customer this week up at our Executive Briefing Center in Redmond.  In fact, I am sitting at SEATAC right now, waiting for my red-eye flight back home. When it is a futures-oriented briefing, we will show our Manufacturing Future Vision...

Happy Friday.  The customer presentations from the Global Energy Forum are now posted.  Check them out . -Brian

What a great day at the Global Energy Forum last week, and what a fantastic turnout.  I was down there in support of my customer Nalco, and their talk on using software to improve customer operations ( press release here ). It’s always good to see...

I’ll be in Houston this week for the Global Energy Forum .  Nalco Company is speaking with OSIsoft about a solution they are building in their Energy Services division to help refiners better optimize water treatment.  They are using a software...

As promised, I am following up with more information about OSIsoft ’s Dynamic Office Business Application (DOBA) Accelerators offered on OSIsoft’s vCampus site.  I traded emails with David Doll, from OSIsoft, to share his answers directly on the...

Sorry to use this for a blog post, but if you sent me an email last week through the contact form and haven’t received a response, please drop me another note.  The email address you provided keeps bouncing back as non-deliverable. I’m being vague...

UMT delivered a nice webcast yesterday featuring Blaik Halling, Project Manager and Senior Research Associate with FMC .  You can access the recording by sending an email to marketing(@)umt.com. We had a good-sized audience for the event, and I thank...

Just a reminder about tomorrow’s webcast on best-in-class portfolio management in R&D, featuring Blaik Hailing, Project Manager and Senior Research Associate from FMC . The webinar begins at 1 PM Eastern time on January 27th. You can register...