Microsoft reverts back to its core business activities

Seeing an increasing trend among companies to speed up their IT investments, Microsoft decided to concentrate on promoting business IT solutions. It is currently widening its products portfolio. "The small business sector started to notice the advantages of using IT technologies," said Tomasz Bochenek, the director of Microsoft in Poland. The company hopes to attract small businesses with its ERP management enhancing software and larger ones with its Business Intelligence offer. Over 550 clients already use ERP solutions, distributed by Computerland, Spin, Lumena, Talex and Betacom. It is estimated that around 90% of Poland's computers run on Microsoft's operational systems. Microsoft's decision was spurred on by the fact that in 2004 its Polish branch managed to sell 20% more licenses than a year earlier. The company's best sellers were Windows, MS Office and MS SQL database software. (Puls Biznesu, p. 7) D.W.