Are you a guy who likes to have fun singing, yet hasnt been able to find the right outlet. Among her many activities, she and her family maintained several grain elevators where they stored. Executives fortunes turn from luxury to bankruptcy. Graduated from north dakota state university, received an mba from stanford university. That might be because, in a state with a population of 740,000, most of. Doug served as the ceo of great plains software and led it through a. Doug burgum, exmicrosoft exec, says he can lead north dakota. It bought fargobased great plains software, a maker of accounting packages. Why microsoft bought great plains software techrepublic. Little hub on the prairie bismarck, north dakota news. He joined the company in 1983 and became its president in 1984 after leading a small investment group composed of family members in buying out the rest of the company.
Adjacent cities include moorhead, minnesota population 32,177, and west fargo, north dakota estimated population 14,940. Another company is shipping jobs to a remote land to find good workers for less money. Great plains software was run by doug burgum, north. Burgum has said he built the company in fargo because of its proximity to north dakota state. The acquisition, according to microsoft, represents a major step in the companys entry into the small and medium. Acquisition of great plains software moves microsoft in a. Great plains realty fargo, nd business information.
Specifically, katherine kilbourne burgum has a long list of accomplishments, both personal and professional. The metro area population at the time was less than 174,367 compared to an estimated 233,836 today. Burgum, who started the great plains software business and eventually sold it to microsoft and became a top executive there while smith was the companys top lawyer, touted the involvement of. These days when he goes out to talk to potential clients about the products, he. Actually, great plains software is set next to a shopping mall in the middle of some. Nndb has added thousands of bibliographies for people, organizations, schools, and general topics, listing more than 50,000 books and 120,000 other kinds of references. Doug burgum bears much of the responsibility for this. Many of the product innovation ideas we had at great plains software came. Find 44 listings related to great plains in west fargo on.
Work at microsoft and still enjoy the laidback midwest lifestyle. Stoneridge software is the largest microsoft gold partner in the region, representing the full suite of microsoft dynamics solutions. Microsoft is moving into the field of business applications all the way to fargo. Microsoft vista building is a 3story lowrise building in fargo, north dakota, u.
Land values in fargomoorhead rose 74 percent from 2012 to 2017, from. The population of the fargomoorhead metropolitan statistical area cass. So, when she heard that microsoft was expanding its operations in fargo, she had to go and take a look for herself. Its university enrollment has expanded and its downtown. Great plains resellers see opportunity in microsoft. When asked to join a dinky 20employee software firm in fargo, doug says, my. The founder of great plains software, now microsoft business systems, doug burgum, has proposed to build a 23story office tower downtown. Well, they do, and, in fact, the population of metro fargo has doubled in ten years, to 150,000. Microsoft dynamics partner, fargo nd stoneridge software. Techrepublic s news editor, sonja thompson, was born and raised in fargo, nd. History of dynamics gp apnagp dynamics great plain. Great plains the origins of great plains software can be traced back to a family of overachievers in fargo, north dakota the burgum family. He led great plains software as chief executive officer for many years.
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