metanautix (Acquisition)

Microsoft acquired Matanautix in December 2015. Metanautix empowers organizations to rapidly capitalize on all data assets instead of waiting for weeks and months. Metanautix delivers immediate insights from disparate data silos without requiring the data to be moved into one centralized system. Our mission is to integrate the data supply chain and enable organizations to transform information assets into better decisions and new products. For more information about the Metanautix acquisition visit: https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2015/12/18/microsoft-acquires-metanautix-to-help-customers-connect-data-for-business-insights/#sm.00000lo4ve6x65f5wyam5ku6v03nx

m12, microsoft's venture fund (Subsidiary)

M12 is Microsoft’s corporate venture capital fund. We invest across key focus areas in the most promising early-stage companies that are disrupting markets in the business of today and tomorrow.

parature (Acquisition)

Microsoft acquired Parature in January 2014 to be included in their broader portfolio. As a provider of cloud-based customer service software to midsize and enterprise organizations, Parature has a well-earned reputation for outstanding customer service with 70 million users worldwide and more than 500 well-known brands. Parature’s approach to its solutions enables organizations to take advantage of an extendable knowledge base available through self-service portals on the Web and Facebook, support ticketing, mobile customer care on virtually any device the customer chooses to use, social customer support, and chat for both traditional customer service scenarios and proactive sales engagement to create new, revenue-generating opportunities for the business. These capabilities complement the existing Microsoft Dynamics CRM customer-care solution with core strengths in workflow, extensibility and process-driven user experiences that allow contact center agents to do their best work. For more information about the Parature acquisition visit: https://news.microsoft.com/2014/01/07/microsoft-acquires-parature-to-add-leading-customer-self-service-suite-to-microsoft-dynamics-crm/#ThyQzUDukYIjLt1Y.97

code connect inc. (Acquisition)

Code Connect's Alive tool has been acquired by Microsoft in 2006, where it will be more closely integrated with Visual Studio. We develop highly functional and aesthetically pleasing web applications based on a variety of technologies designed to suit the enterprise environment. We can give you desktop like responsiveness in a web application that is a pleasure to use on both your mobile device and on your desktop. We also provide Enterprise IT Services specialising in process automation and scripting. We support Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange and Sharepoint. We provide and maintain world class Open Source solutions including Apache Web Server, Zimbra Collaboration Server and OpenLDAP.