Mike Gallagher - Portal Solutions Specialist

Some thoughts about the role of product demos in solution selling

“Now, I know you’re a bank, but trust me, if you were a hospital you’d really love this feature.” A posting about demos might seem to be something more suited to an internal Microsoft audience. However, if you’re a customer, you’re going to be on the

SharePoint 2007 Mashups!

In this Channel 9 video , Jon Kauffman points out some the mashup capabilities of SharePoint 2007. At around 25:15 in the video he shows how easy it is to integrate customer data with Windows Live Local search. I love this loosely-coupled approach to

Knowledge Network for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

Great to see that the blog for the Knowledge Network for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. These social networking persepectives on knowledge sharing and collaboration are really fascinating. http://blogs.msdn.com/kn/ Some additional perspectives

Running successful pilots

Last week I spent some time discussing operational pilots with customers. An operational pilot has great broad appeal. Everyone agrees that it’s a good, common-sense idea to “prove” the solution in a safe and containted environment. Operational pilots

my first post

I’m a Portal Solutions Specialist for Microsoft in the UK, working in the Business Productivity Solutions Group. This blog will focus on the business and social applications of portal technologies. Broadly speaking I understand portal technologies to