Microsoft has introduced six new applications for government and education, ranging from public-records tracking to student information systems, under the moniker Public Sector On-Demand Solutions. They will be powered by Microsoft Dynamics CRM.
According to the company, the deployment of cloud-based solutions will allow the government and education sectors, continually strapped for cash in the current economic recession, to save money.
Such cloud-based solutions have been an increasing focus of major IT entities, such as Google and Salesforce.com, who see the enterprise and institutions as attracted to lower costs and increased flexibility. However, the direction of the whole cloud-computing movement is one up for debate by analysts and pundits.
Microsoft has also been focusing on the development of Azure, a cloud-computing platform that will likely compete head-to-head against Google Apps.
“Public sector customers are working to deliver the next generation of capabilities to dramatically lower costs, increase productivity, streamline operations and reduce custom development time,” Curt Kolcun, vice president of U.S. Public Sector at Microsoft, said in a statement. “The Public Sector On-Demand cloud-based solutions we are launching with our partners represent the first of many such hosted applications.”
Available at a new site, the six solutions allow institutions to both drill down into their internal data and automate a number of bureaucratic functions:
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