Kevin Machayya is a 15-year veteran of Microsoft and Great Plains Software. He has held various roles in technical support, customer service, and sales operations. For the last 11 years, Kevin has focused on the Microsoft Dynamics partner channel through partner account management, readiness, marketing, resourcing/staffing and development programs.
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There is a new guide available to help partners navigate through the recently launched Order Central tool. You can access the Order Central Partner Quick Reference Guide for Microsoft Dynamics ERP - How to Process an Order on Order Central via PartnerSource.
Also, don't forgot about the highly rated, Chat Now service to contact Microsoft Dynamics Operations for questions regarding product orders, ordering policy, licensing, and registration keys. The Chat serviced enables you to contact the appropriate Regional Operations Center, which supports your business -- the European Operations Centre (supporting EMEA), Asia Pacific Operations Center (supporting APAC), or the Americas Operations Center (supporting North and South America). The instant chat option is available for immediate response from the Customer Care Team during normal Local Regional Operations Center business hours.
--Kevin
This channel partner competitive sales guide is for Microsoft Dynamics Partners to use when selling Microsoft Dynamics AX against Oracle JD Edwards.
Competitive Sales Guides are designed to provide you with key company and product information, Microsoft Dynamics differentiators, and the sales positioning you might use to win your next deal.
Please visit the Competitive Sales Guides site on PartnerSource for a comprehensive listing of available competitive sales guides.
Also, don't forget to leverage the Oracle JDE Compete Offer (US Only) expiring on Wednesday, December 23, 2009.
There's some great new information posted to PartnerSource regarding the upcoming Microsoft® Office 2010 and Microsoft® SharePoint Server 2010 launches...
The "Dynamic Business" is Microsoft’s vision of companies who are able to continuously evolve and transform themselves to face changes and challenges in their business environment. Some of these challenges will be economic, others may be organizational, or require changes to the ways companies operate, or interact within a wider value chain. Such challenges will require companies to use software to optimize their people, their processes, and their ecosystem. Microsoft Dynamics’® goal is to help our customers become dynamic businesses through empowering their people to be more productive, simplifying their business processes so they can be more agile, and through enabling seamless connections with their ecosystem. Achieving this goal requires more than just a Dynamics business application - it also requires a business productivity infrastructure that works hand-in-hand with the business application, and provides many of the capabilities on which the business application relies. Microsoft Dynamics is built to run on Microsoft’s IT infrastructure – including the business productivity software that is used by hundreds of millions of information workers every day: Microsoft® Office and Microsoft® SharePoint Server. Both have advanced significantly over the last 10 years, enabling improved collaboration, communication, insights and productivity across the business. And Microsoft Dynamics has taken advantage of these advances through: Adopting SharePoint Server as the standard portal and collaboration infrastructure Recognizing the importance of Microsoft Outlook as the communications hub around which people spend much of their day Delivering business intelligence to the masses via Microsoft® Excel. The latest version of Microsoft’s business productivity infrastructure - and the two key components of the Wave "14" Launch - are Microsoft Office® 2010 and SharePoint® Server 2010. Both are currently in public beta, and are planned for release in the first half of 2010, at which time all Microsoft Dynamics® ERP and Microsoft Dynamics® CRM products will be certified to run on them. The readiness materials and resources on PartnerSource will help you and your colleagues understand and evangelize how Microsoft Dynamics business applications, together with Microsoft’s business productivity infrastructure, can help our customers evolve into Dynamic Businesses. Are you ready to ride the Wave "14" Launch…? To help you get up to speed fast on the most important new functionality in the Wave "14" release, we have selected the best – and most relevant – readiness resources that are available today. These include videos, Fact Sheets, White Papers, FAQ documents covering Microsoft Office® 2010 overall, many of the individual Microsoft Office 2010 Applications, and Microsoft SharePoint 2010. All of these resources are customer-ready, so please feel free to share as appropriate within your organization, and in discussions with your customers and prospects. We will keep this page updated with the newest readiness and product resources as they become available. And if you still want to know more, you can also follow the Useful Links on PartnerSource to access the most important Wave "14" resource pages on Microsoft.com, MSDN, and more…
The "Dynamic Business" is Microsoft’s vision of companies who are able to continuously evolve and transform themselves to face changes and challenges in their business environment. Some of these challenges will be economic, others may be organizational, or require changes to the ways companies operate, or interact within a wider value chain. Such challenges will require companies to use software to optimize their people, their processes, and their ecosystem.
Microsoft Dynamics’® goal is to help our customers become dynamic businesses through empowering their people to be more productive, simplifying their business processes so they can be more agile, and through enabling seamless connections with their ecosystem. Achieving this goal requires more than just a Dynamics business application - it also requires a business productivity infrastructure that works hand-in-hand with the business application, and provides many of the capabilities on which the business application relies.
Microsoft Dynamics is built to run on Microsoft’s IT infrastructure – including the business productivity software that is used by hundreds of millions of information workers every day: Microsoft® Office and Microsoft® SharePoint Server. Both have advanced significantly over the last 10 years, enabling improved collaboration, communication, insights and productivity across the business. And Microsoft Dynamics has taken advantage of these advances through:
The latest version of Microsoft’s business productivity infrastructure - and the two key components of the Wave "14" Launch - are Microsoft Office® 2010 and SharePoint® Server 2010. Both are currently in public beta, and are planned for release in the first half of 2010, at which time all Microsoft Dynamics® ERP and Microsoft Dynamics® CRM products will be certified to run on them.
The readiness materials and resources on PartnerSource will help you and your colleagues understand and evangelize how Microsoft Dynamics business applications, together with Microsoft’s business productivity infrastructure, can help our customers evolve into Dynamic Businesses.
Are you ready to ride the Wave "14" Launch…?
To help you get up to speed fast on the most important new functionality in the Wave "14" release, we have selected the best – and most relevant – readiness resources that are available today. These include videos, Fact Sheets, White Papers, FAQ documents covering Microsoft Office® 2010 overall, many of the individual Microsoft Office 2010 Applications, and Microsoft SharePoint 2010.
All of these resources are customer-ready, so please feel free to share as appropriate within your organization, and in discussions with your customers and prospects. We will keep this page updated with the newest readiness and product resources as they become available.
And if you still want to know more, you can also follow the Useful Links on PartnerSource to access the most important Wave "14" resource pages on Microsoft.com, MSDN, and more…
The Microsoft Dynamics Advertising campaign is designed to build awareness with prospective customers in key industries about how Microsoft Dynamics ERP and Microsoft Dynamics CRM solutions fit their business and drive efficiencies. In creative alignment with Microsoft’s significant investment in the "Because It’s Everybody’s Business campaign, the Microsoft Dynamics Advertising Campaign uses the voices of real customers to showcase how Microsoft Dynamics ERP and CRM have helped them to drive efficiencies and realize true ROI within their business. With placements in targeted industry print and online publications, the campaign’s goal is to build awareness that Microsoft Dynamics provides ERP and CRM functionality that fits. The campaign will be running in the US beginning in November 2009, followed by Canada, Germany and the UK. To ensure that you capitalize on this opportunity, we’ve developed campaign components that you can use to build awareness with prospective customers for your business and visually align with this awareness investment.
You know the Microsoft Dynamics GP 11.0 launch is coming, but do you want to know the details? Do you want to hear what US and Worldwide (WW) execs think about it? Do you want to know more about the great functionality that will be delivered? Do you want to know how you can plug into the Microsoft launch activities to drive new customer adds? Please join us on January 13, 2010, at 1:00 P.M. PST at this Microsoft Dynamics GP 11.0 Launch Overview. In addition to US and WW Exec introductions, Errol Schoenfish, Dir of Prod. Mgt for Microsoft Dynamics GP, and Rich Miller, US Microsoft Dynamics GP Product Marketing, will give you a complete overview of key new functionalities and the breadth of launch marketing events and activities planned for the US.
Click here to register.
Additionally, visit PartnerSource to hear what Dave Willis, Microsoft Dynamics US Vice President, has to say about Microsoft Dynamics 11.0.
Are the costs and time to develop compelling business solutions holding your company back? Have you wondered if there is a better way to build business solutions? If your company could save up to 70 percent of their development time and therefore get to market faster, would that be of interest? If the answer to these questions is yes then consider attending a series of webinars focused on why you should consider building your next solution on a Microsoft Dynamics platform.
Over the course of a week our Microsoft Dynamics experts will take you through an overview of the Microsoft Dynamics message and will drill into two of our solutions, Dynamics AX and Dynamics CRM. During these sessions you will gain insight into the capabilities these platforms offer out of the box as well as how they can be extended to meet you customer’s unique business needs. In addition to Microsoft presenters, you will also see independent software vendors who have developed applications on the Dynamics platform. They will talk about their real world experiences with the platform.
Microsoft Dynamics offers a way to empower your organization with the ability to react quicker to your clients’ needs and offer solutions built on a proven development platform. You owe it to your existing and future clients to watch this webinar and to learn how you can take advantage of Microsoft Dynamics.
Sign up today at - Introduction to Microsoft Dynamics – Why ISVs are Partnering with Microsoft Dynamics
If increasing your developers’ productivity and time to market by building solutions on a Microsoft Dynamics development platform is something you would like to discuss now, please consider reaching out to the Microsoft ISV team now by emailing dynusisv@microsoft.com with your contact details and industry focus. We will have a Microsoft ISV specialist contact you to start you on the road to a faster and more streamlined time to market and above all work with you to become a successful Microsoft ISV Partner.
An important announcement coming from the Microsoft Dynamics CRM team regarding a new service launch with a special offer to help customers switch from Salesforce.com and Oracle CRM On Demand.
REDMOND, Wash. — Nov. 3, 2009 —
"The new service update to Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online demonstrates our commitment to simplify the customer experience, deliver rapid innovation and offer more value at a lower price," said Brad Wilson, general manager of Microsoft Dynamics CRM. "Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online enables businesses to begin driving productivity and results in a matter of minutes."
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Microsoft is excited to announce the Microsoft Dynamics CRM "Sage Migration" Offer -- a Microsoft Dynamics promotion directed to businesses currently using a Sage business application including both Sage ERP and Sage CRM solutions. The promotion is comprised of up to a 20% discount on user licenses of Microsoft Dynamics CRM purchased off the Microsoft Dynamics Price List.
Click here to view complete offer details on PartnerSource.
These lively and somewhat humorous monthly broadcast address timely topics and share proven tips for marketing, selling and servicing Microsoft Dynamics effectively. There’s no PowerPoint to watch or URL’s to copy down…the only URL’s will be your hosts…the UnRuly Ladies!!!
The November 4 broadcast at 11:00am Pacific features updates from the News Desk, VPC best practices, Microsoft Dynamics CRM licensing & CSA fees, Microsoft Dynamics and SharePoint, and Partner Online Technical Communities – Free Break-Fix Support. Watch the video below for more information!!!
Click here to register for the event.
(The correct day for this is event is Wednesday, November 4, 2009 - not November 7 as previously posted. Sorry for any confusion!)
Microsoft Dynamics NAV team blogs are being combined into one blog -- the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Team blog, which will feature technical content, announcements, and news from many different bloggers from all parts of the Dynamics NAV team. So far, the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Sustained Engineering blog and the NAV Developer's blog have been combined with the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Team blog.
Check out the official announcement here on the blog!