As I hit the two year anniversary of this blog, I want to thank all our customers and partners who provided feedback and comments about our product line to me via this forum. The blog turned out to be super valuable to get (near) real time feedback on all our efforts, be it a new product release, a marketing campaign or even my attempts at publishing KB articles J. Time really flies when one is having fun !. It’s been over 7 years since we kicked off our engineering efforts to create a fully integrated software plus web service suite to meet the needs of small businesses. Today, OA is well into its 3rd release and is available both in USA and UK, BCM is also in its V3.0 and now available in over 30 language offerings, RMS and POS are both approaching V3.0 and all our integrated web services from payroll to emarketing to ecommerce are demonstrating the power of deep and ubiquitous connectivity to features served from the internet. Several million customers are benefiting from the product line and continue to inspire and motivate us at Microsoft. One of the finest teams in the industry comes to work every day to evolve, enhance and innovate for our customers and partners.
It has truly been a privilege leading this effort for the last 7years at MS. One of the most gratifying of my career. I want to take this opportunity to bid farewell as I move on to new adventures and new challenges in my career. All the learning’s and experiences in leading this effort for Microsoft will be invaluable as I continue to dedicate my career to developing the best software for our customers. And it goes without saying the small business application suite will always have a very special place in my heart no matter what I am doing.
Best Wishes
Rajat
PS : BCM hit a great milestone today becoming a standalone offering and in a way punctuating the effort we began back in 2001.