Time really flies. 10 years ago, almost to the day, I had the pleasure of shaking the hand of Mr. Tagir Yapparov, CEO of I.T. Co. , an ISV that had just announced the shipping of a new product. As Computerworld Russia reported in “A new platform for BOSS...

Greetings and Salutations! My name is Raj and I manage Microsoft’s relationships with several of the leading Enterprise Content Management (ECM) ISVs. In Karl’s previous post he talked about how to work with Microsoft when you are afraid we’ll eat your...

One of the benefits that Microsoft brings to its partners is international reach. Hi, my name is Alexey Palladin, and 10 years ago, when I originally joined the company, Microsoft’s presence in Russia was about 50 people (vs. 500+ today). But even with...

You’d be amazed how often I’ve heard some variation of that question. Given the mystery surrounding partnering with Microsoft, I thought it might be helpful to share some Advice Tidbits over the next few weeks. I’m Karl Dittman and I am responsible for...

My name is Stig. I work on the ISV team for Microsoft. I’m an SAP user. I’m also a Siebel user. As you can gather my company has invested a lot of resources in me by giving me access to these systems. I’m thankful for that. I’m...

If you've ever designed a form to collect demographic information, chances are you included a question about gender. It probably was a drop-down list with two options: 1. Female 2. Male A couple weeks ago I managed to get my hands on an invite...