The Internet of Things has gotten hot, judging from the number of demonstrations and sessions at recent conferences, including Epicor's Insights and SAP's Sapphire. At the latter conference, a demonstration was made using a power drill to make a hole in a piece of concrete.

Eighteen months ago, Sage opened its first Customer Business Center in Atlanta. It also opened a center in Dublin, Ireland. When the centers were first announced, the company said more would open "to revolutionize the way it supports customers around the world."

My thinking was that after Microsoft moved its Dynamics products to the cloud the behemoth would roll over competitors. That may have been a bit premature. Some admittedly brief conversations with resellers yielded a picture that Dynamics 365 Enterprise Edition is doing really well while Dynamics 365 Business Edition, not so well.