Hi folks, This is Vlad Eydelman, I work on technical strategy with global partners in the Business Intelligence (BI) and Data Warehousing (DW) space. Charles Fichter, an Architect on our team, and I just published a whitepaper that provides an overview on how different Microsoft BI/DW technologies...

If you missed last week’s valuable presentation about Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Business Intelligence , you can view this on demand by visiting the ISV website on Microsoft.com and visiting the Technical Resources page. There have also been many other presentations that you can view on demand on the...

Mark your calendars for this session with Roger Doherty, Senior Technical Evangelist, Developer and Platform Evangelism. He will provide a high level overview of high level technical overview of the SQL Server 2008 BI platform. This month’s Global ISV Technical Forum Webcast will take place Wednesday...

More and more of Microsoft’s ISV partners are telling us that their customers across industries are striving to get value from their data. In financial services, they want to do things like optimize portfolios, identify potential business risks and opportunities, and understand best business unit performance...

"We write software that lets engineers do their thing." That quote from the founder of software provider Intelligent Light pretty much sums up their business philosophy. This innovative ISV in New Jersey provides an application called FieldView that takes massive data from Computational Fluid Dynamics...

In my role as an evangelist for Microsoft, I get the unique opportunity to meet and work with some of brightest CTO's, CIO and software architects in the world. It occurred to me recently that we have reached the "tipping point" of Silverlight 3 - the level at which the momentum of something becomes...

This week, Channel 9 published a demo featuring Microsoft Surface. Check out what Surface can do. This is a great demo to watch. Captured in the Reston, Virginia Microsoft Technology Center (MTC) where Northrup Grumman teamed with Microsoft, you’ll see they’ve built a compelling Proof of Concept (POC...

Registration is now open for this year's conference, scheduled for July 13-16 in New Orleans. Gain exclusive access to the latest information and insights about upcoming Microsoft strategies, cutting-edge technologies, and programs—directly from Microsoft leadership. Learn about innovative ways...

Training budgets are typically the first to be slashed in a tough economic environment, and many of our customers may be wondering whether they should skip MIX this year. Now more than ever, MIX is essential for companies that do business on the Web. Protect the bottom line. Consumers are spending...

I’m Baptiste Janique, writing from Microsoft in France and I recently attended the NRF Annual 2009 tradeshow in New York. It was the 98 th year of this conference and it continues to be an enormous show. I want to give you a report of some of what I heard about. The Connected Experience for Retail...

Each January Regional Directors from IT companies around the world blog their Annual Predictions. What is a Regional Director you may ask? Regional Directors are members of an elite, worldwide group of technology thought-leaders known for their national and international speaking tours, their authorship...

Microsoft’s 4 th annual Microsoft PARTNER MS101 EMEA Conference will be held 16 - 19 February 2009 in Munich, Germany! This conference will be jam packed with useful information sessions about how to build an alliance with and make the most of your relationship with Microsoft. Our primary objective for...

It is no secret the current economic situation is being considered as one of the deepest slowdowns in the modern history, and from every angle we get more proof of how serious and challenging the situation really is. Recently, the National Association of Business Economics (NABE) published their outlook...

Please join us for this month’s Global ISV Technical Forum Webcast Wednesday, December 17 th , 2008 , 10:00-11:30 AM PST The Azure Services Platform The Azure™ Services Platform offers ISVs the ability to provide their customers a range of choices in user experience over the Web or on connected...

About a month ago I gave a breakout session at a partner’s user conference. The headlines across the world were focused on the economic crisis, ideas for stimulus plans, and whether to wait or act immediately. I started my breakout session by saying “How we did business 6 months ago is certainly not...