Microsoft Dynamics ISV Architect Evangelism

FY09 Dynamics Platform Adoption Stories: SmartCatalog

In this FY09 Dynamics Platform Adoption Stories series, I will continue to share success stories of my managed ISVs, highlighting their platform adoption experience, their Aha moments and advice to newer ISVs to be successful. Enjoy the next one…

During Convergence 2009, I got an opportunity to sit down with Steve Brown from SmartCatalog (formerly known as Endeavor Commerce). SmartCatalog is a guided selling and sales configuration solution for Microsoft Dynamics CRM and helps manufacturing, telecommunications, healthcare, retail and service companies around the world increase revenue, profit and customer loyalty by empowering their sale channels with intelligence and guidance needed to process valid quotes and orders. To learn more see the demo and webinar.

See the video here.

Prior Stories:

·         Permuta Technologies

·         Avalara

·         LinkPoint360

·         Bottomline Technologies

·         Hoovers

·         LeadTime Techonology

·         Pervasive Software

·         Celenia Software

·         MaxQ

·         Parature

Sanjay Jain

ISV Architect Evangelist

Microsoft Corporation

Blog: http://Blogs.msdn.com/SanjayJain

Twitter: http://twitter.com/SanjayJain369

FY09 Dynamics Platform Adoption Stories: Eloqua

In this FY09 Dynamics Platform Adoption Stories series, I will continue to share success stories of my managed ISVs, highlighting their platform adoption experience, their Aha moments and advice to newer ISVs to be successful. Enjoy the next one…

During Convergence 2009, I got an opportunity to sit down with David Watkins and Aaron Rothschild from Eloqua, marketing automation leader and provider of best practices expertise for marketers worldwide. Eloqua provides Integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM. You can see the solution demo and recent announcement of I.B.I.S. achieving Certified Partner Status.

See the video here.

Prior Stories:

·         SmartCatalog

·         Permuta Technologies

·         Avalara

·         LinkPoint360

·         Bottomline Technologies

·         Hoovers

·         LeadTime Techonology

·         Pervasive Software

·         Celenia Software

·         MaxQ

·         Parature

Sanjay Jain

ISV Architect Evangelist

Microsoft Corporation

Blog: http://Blogs.msdn.com/SanjayJain

Twitter: http://twitter.com/SanjayJain369

FY09 Dynamics Platform Adoption Stories: Avalara

In this FY09 Dynamics Platform Adoption Stories series, I will continue to share success stories of my managed ISVs, highlighting their platform adoption experience, their Aha moments and advice to newer ISVs to be successful. Enjoy the next one…

During Convergence 2009, I got an opportunity to sit down with Marshal Kushniruk EVP of Strategic Accounts and Customer Experience, Mark Wilhelm VP Development, and Bryan Wiggins VP Marketing from Avalara, provider of AvaTax, on-demand sales tax compliance services. Learn more about AvaTax for Microsoft Dynamics AX here.

See the video here.

Prior Stories:

·         LinkPoint360

·         Bottomline Technologies

·         Hoovers

·         LeadTime Techonology

·         Pervasive Software

·         Celenia Software

·         MaxQ

·         Parature

Sanjay Jain

ISV Architect Evangelist

Microsoft Corporation

Blog: http://Blogs.msdn.com/SanjayJain

Twitter: http://twitter.com/SanjayJain369

FY09 Dynamics Platform Adoption Stories: Permuta Technologies

In this FY09 Dynamics Platform Adoption Stories series, I will continue to share success stories of my managed ISVs, highlighting their platform adoption experience, their Aha moments and advice to newer ISVs to be successful. Enjoy the next one…

During Convergence 2009, I got an opportunity to sit down with Ryan Millett, President and CTO and Dave Milton, CTO from Permuta Technologies. Permuta has released DefenseReady, a suite of business applications for Department of Defense (DOD), built on Microsoft Dynamics CRM Platform. You may see the demo and whitepaper.

See the video here.

Prior Stories:

·         Avalara

·         LinkPoint360

·         Bottomline Technologies

·         Hoovers

·         LeadTime Techonology

·         Pervasive Software

·         Celenia Software

·         MaxQ

·         Parature

Sanjay Jain

ISV Architect Evangelist

Microsoft Corporation

Blog: http://Blogs.msdn.com/SanjayJain

Twitter: http://twitter.com/SanjayJain369

FY09 Dynamics Platform Adoption Stories: LinkPoint360

In this FY09 Dynamics Platform Adoption Stories series, I will continue to share success stories of my managed ISVs, highlighting their platform adoption experience, their Aha moments and advice to newer ISVs to be successful. Enjoy the next one…

During Convergence 2009, I got an opportunity to sit down with Glenn Lehner from LinkPoint360, a leading provider of Lotus Notes and GroupWise integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM. You can learn more on LinkPoint for Microsoft Dynamics CRM Features, and Screenshots.

See the video here.

Prior Stories:

·         Bottomline Technologies

·         Hoovers

·         LeadTime Techonology

·         Pervasive Software

·         Celenia Software

·         MaxQ

·         Parature

Sanjay Jain

ISV Architect Evangelist

Microsoft Corporation

Blog: http://Blogs.msdn.com/SanjayJain

Twitter: http://twitter.com/SanjayJain369

FY09 Dynamics Platform Adoption Stories: Bottomline Technologies

In this FY09 Dynamics Platform Adoption Stories series, I will continue to share success stories of my managed ISVs, highlighting their platform adoption experience, their Aha moments and advice to newer ISVs to be successful. Enjoy the next one…

During Convergence 2009, I got an opportunity to sit down with Karl Taylor from Bottomline Technologies (NASDAQ: EPAY), provider of collaborative payment, invoice and document automation solutions to corporations, financial institutions and banks around the world. You can learn about the Create!Form for Microsoft Dynamics and see the Create!form for Microsoft Dynamics AX Demo.

See the video here.

Prior Stories:

·         Hoovers

·         LeadTime Techonology

·         Pervasive Software

·         Celenia Software

·         MaxQ

·         Parature

Sanjay Jain

ISV Architect Evangelist

Microsoft Corporation

Blog: http://Blogs.msdn.com/SanjayJain

Twitter: http://twitter.com/SanjayJain369

FY09 Dynamics Platform Adoption Stories: Hoovers

In this FY09 Dynamics Platform Adoption Stories series, I will continue to share success stories of my managed ISVs, highlighting their platform adoption experience, their Aha moments and advice to newer ISVs to be successful. Enjoy the next one…

During Convergence 2009, I got an opportunity to sit down with Heidi Tucker and Malcolm Domecq from Hoovers, a D&B company (NYSE: DNB) that gives its customers a competitive edge with insight and actionable information about companies, industries and key decision makers). Recently Hoovers announced the availability of Access Hoover’s for Microsoft Dynamics CRM. You can learn more about the solution here, watch the demo and signup for TestDrive.

See the video here.

Prior Stories:

·         LeadTime Techonology

·         Pervasive Software

·         Celenia Software

·         MaxQ

·         Parature

Sanjay Jain

ISV Architect Evangelist

Microsoft Corporation

Blog: http://Blogs.msdn.com/SanjayJain

Twitter: http://twitter.com/SanjayJain369

FY09 Dynamics Platform Adoption Stories: LeadTime Technology

In this FY09 Dynamics Platform Adoption Stories series, I will continue to share success stories of my managed ISVs, highlighting their platform adoption experience, their Aha moments and advice to newer ISVs to be successful. Enjoy the next one…

During Convergence 2009, I got an opportunity to sit down with Mike Bonelli, President, LeadTime Technology, leader in optimization model for Forecasting, Production Planning, Distribution Planning, and Scheduling. Recently LeadTime Technology announced partnership with Fullscope to Strengthen APS (Advanced Planning and Scheduling) Offering for Process Manufacturers. See the earlier announcement on FastForward, advanced planning and optimization tools suite for small to mid-sized manufacturers and distributors.

See the video here.

Prior Stories:

·         Pervasive Software

·         Celenia Software

·         MaxQ

·         Parature

Sanjay Jain

ISV Architect Evangelist

Microsoft Corporation

Blog: http://Blogs.msdn.com/SanjayJain

Twitter: http://twitter.com/SanjayJain369

FY09 Dynamics Platform Adoption Stories: Pervasive Software

In this FY09 Dynamics Platform Adoption Stories series, I will continue to share success stories of my managed ISVs, highlighting their platform adoption experience, their Aha moments and advice to newer ISVs to be successful. Enjoy the next one…

During Convergence 2009, I got an opportunity to sit down with Dennis Hall from Pervasive Software (NASDAQ: PVSW), a global leader in embeddable data management and agile integration software. Earlier Pervasive announced their integration offering for QuickBooks accounting software and Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online. You can learn more about the DatatSync solution here, watch the demo here and sign 30-days free trial here.

See the video here.

Prior Stories:

·         Celenia Software

·         MaxQ

·         Parature

Sanjay Jain

ISV Architect Evangelist

Microsoft Corporation

Blog: http://Blogs.msdn.com/SanjayJain

Twitter: http://twitter.com/SanjayJain369

Certified for Microsoft Dynamics: Chat with Christian Lindberg

During Convergence 2009, I got an opportunity to sit down with Christian Lindberg, Microsoft. Christian is driving an important initiative called CfMD (Certified for Microsoft Dynamics) for our ISVs. Christian shared his deep insight including What is this program, How to get it, What are the benefits to ISVs and Customers, and How to get started...

See the video here.

Additional Resources:

·         VeriTest/Lionbridge, the administrator for CfMD

·         Partner Solution Profiler

·         Microsoft Dynamics Solution Finder

·         Pinpoint

Sanjay Jain

ISV Architect Evangelist

Microsoft Corporation

http://Blogs.msdn.com/SanjayJain

http://twitter.com/sanjayjain369

Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 AIF Web Services Screencast

Application Integration Framework (AIF) enables companies to integrate

Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 and communicate with external business

processes and partners through the exchange of XML over various transport media. AIF enables both business-to-business and application-to-application integration scenarios.

Click here for screen-cast.

Following enhancements are new in AX 2009.

·         Create, read, update, and delete (CRUD) operations are now supported.

·         The programming model for AIF supports document services that encapsulate business logic and are the interface to external systems.

·         AIF provides functionality for consuming external Web services from within X++.

·         Performance improvements include the ability to scale up and handle more messages through parallel message processing and the addition of multiple AOSs.

·         New document services for additional commonly-used documents.

Microsoft Dynamics AX receives placement in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant

Recently Microsoft Dynamics AX product has been positioned in the Midmarket (100-1,000 employees) ERP Magic Quadrant by Gartner. Gartner concludes that Microsoft Dynamics AX delivers low TCO through integration with other Microsoft products, and, most importantly for the midmarket, Microsoft is adept at managing its channel of resellers.

You may see the press-release from Microsoft and access the detailed report at Microsoft Dynamics Analyst Evidence Kit (would need PartnerSource Access).

About the Gartner Inc. Magic Quadrant: The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted May 2009 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner’s analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the “Leaders” quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

Sanjay Jain

ISV Architect Evangelist

Microsoft Corporation

Blog: http://Blogs.msdn.com/SanjayJain

Twitter: http://twitter.com/SanjayJain369

2nd CRM Incubation Week Videos: SkylineVS

During 2^nd CRM Incubation Week in Boston, MA, I took the opportunity to sit down with all startup teams to discuss their experiences and perspectives on Microsoft’s investments (BizSpark, XRM, Azure) to make them succeed in today’s economy.

In this series, I am pleased to introduce Skyline Vertical Solutions.

Enjoy the VIDEO starring Henry Hickman, Rao Kasibhotla, Devender Singh, John O’Donnell, and Larry Gregory.

The solution demo starts at time 8:45.

Sanjay Jain

ISV Architect Evangelist

Microsoft Corporation

Blog: http://Blogs.msdn.com/SanjayJain

Twitter: http://twitter.com/SanjayJain369

2nd CRM Incubation Week Videos: FourthLink

During 2^nd CRM Incubation Week in Boston, MA, I took the opportunity to sit down with all startup teams to discuss their experiences and perspectives on Microsoft’s investments (BizSpark, XRM, Azure) to make them succeed in today’s economy.

In this series, I am pleased to introduce FourthLink,  Most Viable Business Award Winner.

Enjoy the VIDEO starring Scott Weiss, Ken Leeser, Michael Berlyn, Rich Crane, and Larry Gregory.

The solution demo starts at time 5:38.

2nd CRM Incubation Week Videos: myStaffingCRM

During 2^nd CRM Incubation Week in Boston, MA, I took the opportunity to sit down with all startup teams to discuss their experiences and perspectives on Microsoft’s investments (BizSpark, XRM, Azure) to make them succeed in today’s economy.

In this series, I am pleased to introduce myStaffinfCRM, Best XRM Solution Award winner.

Enjoy the VIDEO starring Jennifer Brogee, Sandy Wurth, Tony Calvelage, CRM MVP Jim Steger, and Larry Gregory.

The solution demo starts at time 05:09.