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Last week saw 400+ UK Microsoft Partners and 8,000+ from around the globe descend on humid Denver, Colorado, for our Worldwide Partner Conference. WPC is a great forum to celebrate success as our fiscal year closes and we look ahead to the coming fiscal
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Perhaps not something I thought I would be writing in the same sentence!! With BT in Redmond (Seattle) at the moment. Have to say, it's been a really great two days. The briefing session was really valuable. Though the highlight for me is getting new
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April 25, 2007 BT Business launches unique online software supermarket for UK businesses Creates new channel to market for ISVs and delivers wide ranging software to help small businesses thrive BT Business, in partnership with Microsoft, is bringing
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Helping ISV’s access Microsoft Skills Overseas Following on from successful events in October and January to highlight the opportunity around off-shore development to SE Asia, UK Trade & Investment (DTI) in association with Microsoft are taking a
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James often sends me links to interesting articles - this is one such piece about the investor community and Web 2.0 start ups. There certainly are a lot of them - have a look at this directory . Talking of finance, the guys at smartfundit.com are doing
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Met with the guys from Software Magic this week - I really like the concept of their solution as it builds on what you've already got in Outlook - and basically helps you visually represent your network. For someone who crams a lot in to the week and
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Lots of small, young companies and developers don't seem to know about the Empower offering from Microsoft. For just £260 + VAT you get: MSDN Premium Subscription Media Kit and five user licenses for development/testing Microsoft Windows XP Professional
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The extract below is from Ralph Schonenbach's speech at eServices in Manila. The Philippines and Vietnam has started to appear on the agenda more and more and we're pleased to see support coming from UK Trade & Industry to help Microsoft facilitate
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Microsoft has just posted architectural guidelines on how to build a SaaS aplication on our platform. Liteware is a fictitious HR application built using .NET 3.0 and on SQL 2005 and the sample application implements single-instance multi-tenancy patterns.
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I've heard quite a few things on what Web 2.0 means to public services and social networking this week. Here's something coming up that I plan on attending: Wt2 now have George Osborne talking. Great connection between public sector and technology innovation.
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Thanks to Nicola (our resident ebullient South African and newsletter editor) for highlighting this article where I also found a piece called called Outsourcing's own Long Tail . It is about "selling more of less" of course...but how does this phenomenon
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This site has some good info for Developers and I think this one is really good - it has input and webcasts from the guru's Frederick Chong and Gianpaolo Carraro. Read more about what BT are doing here . Leaders from BT were at our Partnering for the
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According to David Bradshaw from Ovum (in his paper on the subject published in October) ISV's are "likely to find that SaaS can produce considerable advantages.....not least reducing the buying cycle significantly. SaaS enables users to try the software
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Isn't technology marvellous. Sat in Terminal 3 at Heathrow - resisting the urge to buy something in the Armani sale and choosing to do email instead. That's dedication for you. Last night we had a gathering of 'like minded' people in Henley from over
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Outsourcing in general is an emotive subject - we're used to seeing newspaper headlines with the words "redundancies....call centre......Bangalore" and widespread perception is that offshore software development is bad for UK plc. However, it seems it
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