http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2010/jan10/01-13InfToAppPR.mspx “ PALO ALTO, Calif. and REDMOND, Wash. — Jan. 13, 2010 — HP and Microsoft Corp. today announced a three-year agreement to invest $250 million to significantly simplify technology environments for businesses of all sizes. The companies...

If so then you’ll be interested in these roundtables that Kathryn Saducas is running with Telstra: “You’re invited to attend Roundtable Sessions at APC The roundtable sessions with Telstra and Microsoft will provide you the opportunity to connect with Telstra executives and Microsoft to learn more about...

New website for the “services-ready” program is live here: www.microsoft.com/servicesready This is a program we’ve been running for a while now, offering access to packaged IP for partners, for you to deliver solutions to customers in a lower risk and more profitable business model.

http://blogs.msdn.com/auspartners/ Sarah is known to many of the local MS partner community as the person responsible for running the partner program, and associated things like worldwide partner conference attendance amongst many other things. It’s great to see Sarah join the blogging world – so go...

The IAMCP is holding its first meeting for 2009! As you are aware the aim of the IAMCP is to  bring together like minded Microsoft Partners who, in this economic climate, have an imperative for profitability in the context of P2P networking and corporate citizenship. These key issues will be succinctly...

On Thursday 19th February 2009 between 1:00pm to 4:00pm, Microsoft and National ICT Australia are holding the inaugural Voices for Innovation forum at the Microsoft Sydney Office. The forum will bring together leaders from industry, government, academia and the community sector to discuss and debate...

Just published - this is a case study on BI with UNSW and Calumo.. Useful sales reference for many partners. http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/casestudy.aspx?casestudyid=4000003440 " The University of New South Wales (UNSW) is one of Australia’s leading teaching and research facilities...

John Martins spills the beans - this will be of definite interest to all the Aussie Sharepoint partners. " Ramp Up is a free learning program from Microsoft that provides community-driven learning paths or “routes” for building your skills with Microsoft developer tools and technologies...

Allison has just released this new partner-aimed webcast with advice for partners on how to survive and prosper in the current climate: Simply go to Digital WPC site and select Allison's link: http://www.microsoft.com/digitalwpc/

Mel Barlow, Microsoft Australia’s SMB Public Sector Director, talks about the Local Government Networking Nights , which will be held during this September and October. They’re an excellent way for you to find out how you can boost your profits in this sector, which is ripe for growth and...

I had a question today from a partner asking about CSP, Citizen Services Platform, which we will introduce at our forthcoming P2P networking nights . CSP is a little like Learning Gateway in the education space - some targetted functionality build on top of our core collaboration platform and CRM, in...

http://www.microsoft.com.au/techconnect/default.aspx This is new initiative to help connect experts in the community with each other and with Microsoft. Have a look - goof for partners too !

We ran this last year and it was very successful. it's a collaboration between Austrade and Microsoft Australia and is a great chance to travel to our Redmond HQ and be part of a special technology trade mission. From the brochure : " Be part of a select group of Australian healthcare technology...

I'd like to extend my personal thanks to all the Australian partners that came to Port Douglas last week. We've had lots of great feedback so far - and I believe we delivered the best ever event - but we want more feedback both formal and informal. My team runs the whole event, so if you have any advice...

Christian was busy last week and got a bunch of Partner TV videos out in his series on industry perspectives. I've already blogged about Tim Dawson on Financial Services and David Dembo on Health , but there is also Jason Trump on Education - all built for partners to get insight into our industry managers...

http://blogs.msdn.com/ozpartnertv/archive/2008/08/01/partner-tv-tim-dawson-on-the-financial-sector.aspx Tim has a session at next week's partner conference so check it out if your business sells into this market. The session is 12pm on Weds 6th.

Christian Longstaff (ISV Marketing Manager) is running an ISV Pre-Day the day before the Australian Partner Conference officially opens in Port Douglas. The day will focus on readying partners for our Software+Services vision.  If you are interested in attending, please review the agenda below and...

I spent some time today looking at the new Software + Services Partner Evolution Interactive Guide and would encourage you all to go check it out. The tool is packed with useful IDC analysis, Microsoft perspectives and strategic insight into the underlying trends as well as information on how to embrace...

Partners in Australia will hear much more on this in the next 3-6 months - but this blog post from the CSP team tells a little about what is coming at Worldwide Partner Conference on CSP. So what is CSP ? CSP=citizen services platform. Think of it as a platform based on Sharepoint and MS CRM but targetted...

David Dembo's blog continues to develop nicely as a great local resource for Aussie partners interested in the health sector. Here are his last two posts to get you interested: "Live Search - Health Many of you are already aware of the Health Search Engine we purchased last year, MedStory, and that we...

Mike Heald just announced this - an event tool that partners can use to run your own customer events. Available to all Gold, Certified and Registered partners but you need a LiveID account, associated to the partner organisation. Do let me know what you think if you use this - keen to hear some feedback...

With Australian Partner Conference coming round fast, we are excited by the quality of the submissions we have had for the awards already BUT WE WANT MORE ! We know there is such great work going on in the Aussie partner world so please take the time to showcase your efforts by entering an award asap...

[You will see the acronym WPC used a lot in the coming weeks = Worldwide Partner Conference ! ] As many of you know we are running an online web initiative, Digital WPC , in the build up to the full event in July, to help extend coverage of the event when it happens, and to continue after it finishes...

Announcing a new blog aimed specifically at health partners in Australia launched by our health services industry manager David Dembo, with help from my team. You can subscribe via RSS or email and do let me know if you find this valuable. http://blogs.msdn.com/microsoftinhealth/default.aspx Here is...

We opened the APC (=Australian Partner Conference) awards up for submissions this week. Partners have a month or so (until 16th June) to enter their solutions in for awards. See here for all the details: https://partner.microsoft.com/Australia/40043064 Here is the full list of categories and note there...