MSDW Podcast: News Roundup, Oct 2021 - Abundant acquisitions

In this quick news roundup episode, the MSDW editorial team reviews a period of active deal-making in the Microsoft Dynamics channel. We look at all sorts of M&A, including deals driven by private equity, by big corporations, smaller ones, and an SMB merger. We also review three recent features by contributing authors with very different expertise.

Articles referenced in this episode:

• 9altitudes to acquire Microsoft partner Hillstar BI
• Microsoft buys Clear Software to bolster SAP and Oracle integration to Power Platform
• Sylogist acquires Pavliks, makers of The Portal Connector, for $11.5M CAD
• Avanade acquires Microsoft Dynamics 365 partner Qauntiq
• Dynamics GP channel veterans Custom Information Services and Reporting-Central announce merger
• Sikich acquires Microsoft Dynamics partner PA Group USA
• Avalara acquires CrowdReason for property tax compliance management
• HSO acquires CRM Dynamics
• Provance launches ServiceTeam ITSM Professional, a new Power App
• Adding a digital adoption platform for enterprise software users: What you need to know
• Business Process Management for a Dynamics 365 implementation: Beyond diagnostics
• Microsoft Dataverse Custom APIs in workflows, Power Automate, and beyond