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 relate in the BI spectrum. More importantly, it talks about how you can take advantage of integration and extensibility capabilities in Microsoft BI platform and tools to build or extend your own products/solutions and surface those to your customers. We also show you real-world scenarios how other ISVs and customers in the Enterprise and Mid-Market space build or integrate with the platform in their offerings.
We take you on the lap around BI Platform technologies such as Data Integration, Connectivity, Reporting, OLAP, Scorecards, Data Mining/Predictive Analytics, Portal and Collaboration, etc. and relate them to a BI Pyramid.
Each step in the pyramid does not necessarily imply the dependency on the previous block but shows more of the spectrum and what are you trying to achieve in the BI landscape. For example, you might already be offering extensive reporting capabilities in your products and now looking for that next step toward pervasive BI. In the paper, we explain what those next steps might be for you to build on top of the platform or extend it for your needs.
So whether you’re just starting exploring BI capabilities and thinking about how to surface those within your applications for your customers or looking for the next level in the BI Pyramid, check out this paper for ideas and start discovering the possibilities.
Download the whitepaper by clicking here or for a full view of published Business Intelligence Whitepapers, visit http://www.microsoft.com/bi/resourcecenter/whitepapers.aspx.
Vlad Eydelman – Senior Program Manager, Global Partner Team
Charles Fichter – Senior Architect, Global Partner Team
What software company wouldn’t want to reach millions of new customers? Windows can help you do that during the global launch timeframes. Simply show the world you are working to support Windows 7 
and Windows Server 2008 R2, by getting your products listed on the Windows Compatibility Center or Windows Server Catalog. If you haven’t already done so, visit the Windows Compatibility Center and tell us when you intend to support your client or server applications on the new platforms.
During the Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 global launch timeframe, Microsoft will publish a list of all the currently compatible and future compatible applications to help customers with their migration planning. This is a valuable opportunity to list your products on the Windows Compatibility Center or Windows Server Catalog and gain worldwide exposure. Signing up is quick and easy:
1. Visit the product submission page to complete the web form, or download an Excel template and submit it to us with your information.
2. Be sure to opt-in to receive ongoing information about compatibility tools, resources and events.
3. Update your product status by returning to the product submission page to re-submit your information.
For more information about pledging your support, you can read the Windows Compatibility Center FAQ.
Bruce Burns
PC Ecosystem ISV Engagement
Here’s a great post which provides links and an overview on how to get started with the Windows Mobile 6.5 Developer Toolkit. It highlights the new gesture APIs as well as provides links to a related blog post that provides an overview of the new Widget Framework in Windows Mobile 6.5. Here’s the Windows Mobile 6.5 Device Emulator displaying the new honeycomb menu.
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For information on the Windows Mobile 6.5 Widget Framework please check out this post.
Thanks,
Rob Cameron
Industry Architect - Communications Sector / Media & Entertainment
I have attended the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) as an employee since 1999, while I was still working in Microsoft Brazil. Since then the show has evolved a lot. Partner attendance has increased every year, and is now around 10,000 people, and is certainly one of the largest shows in the Industry. This year, however, I get the opportunity to work behind the scenes of the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference and have the privilege to help shape the session content for Independent Software Vendor (ISV) track on top of other WPC 09 activities.
With the economic crisis and recovery surrounding us, it is even more important to attend WPC 09, even if your business with Microsoft is still maturing. Why is that you ask? Here are a few key points why you don’t want to miss out this year:
- This is a pivotal launch year for Microsoft. Not only because of the products that will be announced in FY10 like Windows 7 or Office 2010, but mainly because of the Windows Azure, our cloud computing offering, which is promised in October 2009.
- Consolidation in the ISV segment is also making our world a different place. With Oracle and others on a spree of acquisitions that touch every segment of our industry, ISVs should be rethinking their relationships with platform companies and align to better deal with new threats.
- With the economic challenges, companies need to look for efficiencies, focus is more important than ever, and reinventing the wheel is not a good practice. Innovation is key now, and creates opportunity as the economy begins to rebound.
With these points in mind we put together an exclusive agenda for ISVs on July 16 at WPC. The day starts off with a keynote from Kim Akers at 11 AM. Kim is our General Manager for ISVs and she will discuss how as cloud computing and internet services transform our world the differences between ISVs, Web Developers, and Digital Agencies has been reduced, and how the software plus services approach to navigating the services transformation provides new opportunities for partnership.
After lunch Kim returns with a session starting at 1:30pm, where she will talk about the economic challenges or better said, the reset of the economy, and how companies are succeeding in that environment and the opportunities this presents. She will also show what Software plus Services offers to ISVs and how to benefit from it by increasing your breadth of offerings and also reducing your infrastructure costs.
After Kim’s session, Rob Craft, who is the CTO of our group, will discuss how ISVs should get ready for the new launches and develop applications to three scenarios—desktop, server and the Cloud. Very few companies, such as Microsoft, have the ability to offer a platform so comprehensive, and the business opportunities for developing solutions on the platform will be widely covered in this session. Rob will also talk about the steps ISVs need to take to make certain their applications are compatible with Windows 7, ensuring that our joint Customers are happy and no solutions present problems with the new operating system. He will also cover Office 2010, and how the pervasive productivity suite can serve as a front end using Office for Business Applications technology.
The last session of the day will be Ross Brown, Vice-President Solution Partners and ISVs, who will discuss the Microsoft business case and value of being a partner from a platform, program and pipeline perspective.
So, if you are an ISV and you are attending Microsoft WPC 09, you can’t miss these ISV sessions on July 16th. I will be there and I will be looking forward to seeing you. Check out Digital WPC to stay up to date on the latest news and happenings.
Alexandre Pombo
As “Generation Y” comes to the workforce, they have higher expectations, as a consumer ( What do others say about the generation shifts) and as a user, when evaluating user experience. The software industry, from consumer to line of business applications, is responding to this change by launching a new way to interact, such as project Natal on Xbox 360. Natal is a revolutionary new way to play, no game controller is required.
As consumers, we want to make informed shopping decisions, taking into account product features, pricing, warranties, availability, environmental impact, competitive comparisons and more, and we will use technology to accomplish this. We seek relevant information from retailers – but also from our social networks and independent third parties. As new technologies come to market at a fast path and an attractive price, our strategic partners invest on new windows platforms to provide a breakthrough user experience:
Windows 7 Multi-touch Support allows rich gestures, such as pan, zoom, and rotate. 
A user could use his fingers to browse the web, select options on a kiosk , explore additional product information and check what companion products or services would fit with the goods or services he is ready to buy. Here are a few places you can see more of the cool functionality of Windows 7:
- For touch gestures, seeing them in action is important so here is a brief video showing the gestures in action.
- Microsoft Surface Globe, an interactive globe that you can grab and stretch the view to zoom in, rotate, and move the view around. Interacting with the globe and exploring the world is the majority of the UI, and it is exceedingly easy to use with touch.
- To know more check the Engineering Windows 7 blog.
Beyond Multi-touch Support, Microsoft strategic partners are committed to offer enhanced user experience on Windows 7, check the Ready Set 7 to know more how applications are now more discoverable, informative, and interactive.
Microsoft Surface is unlike any other type of computing experience. Surface is particularly well suited for a collaborative experience to share, co-design, compare, locate nearby stores or point of interests, and get access to in depth information. 
- The engaging, social user interface of Surface allows customers to create experiences that your competitors aren’t offering
- Surface delivers a memorable experience that is educating and entertaining.
- Surface helps customers intuitively discover your products and services by exploring and discovering similar products and associated services. For example, in the hospitality industry users can discover other properties and even take a virtual tour of related locations.
- Enabling customers to interact with each other, Microsoft Surface encourages 360-degree interaction, information exchange, and collaboration among multiple users.
- Surface Gives ownership of the result by putting the end-user in the driver’s seat, and having them play a major role in discovering, learning, and making informed decisions about products and services.
As these and other technologies come to market, a wide range of new experience opens. Our strategic partners are currently re-thinking / re-setting their user experience architectures. Software companies doing business in retail, that used to provide touch enabled Point of Services for years, foresee opportunities to expand their capabilities to in store assistance, up and cross selling, product design and customization.
It is time to pause and think how your company can take advantage of it.
Touch it, feel it and tell others what you think!
Cheers, Baptiste Janique
Global Business Development Manager, Microsoft Corporation
Save the Date: Thursday, June 18 at 11:00am Pacific Time
https://ms.istreamplanet.com/springboard
Windows 7, is approaching fast and from the application standpoint is very similar to Windows Vista. We’re going to examine Windows 7 application compatibility not only from the perspective of moving from Windows Vista, but also for those coming from Windows XP. Join us to discuss the most common challenges around application compatibility when coming from a legacy operating system, why changes were made along the way, compatibility technologies inside the OS and methods for getting incompatible applications to run on Windows 7. Along the way we share tips and tricks, demonstrate free tools to analyze and fix applications and answer your specific questions about application compatibility live.
In Part 2 of this Virtual Round Table discussion (planned for later this Summer/Fall), we’ll discuss the options and approaches for using virtualization tools In depth to address application incompatibilities – including presentation virtualization, desktop virtualization and application virtualization. We’ll be sending out more details and posting information to www.microsoft.com/springboard for part 2 as the dates are finalized.
As part of the “virtual” experience, you may submit your questions about Windows 7 Application Compatibility to the panel live during the event—or submit questions in advance to vrtable@microsoft.com.
Springboard Series: The resource for Windows desktop IT professionals
Go Windows 7 Pros!
Global ISV Team
Last week, Dan’l Lewin, Microsoft Corporate Vice President of Strategic and Emerging Business Development, and Steven Martin, Microsoft Senior Director of Developer Platform Product Management, took the stage at JavaOne to give the first ever Microsoft keynote at this event. It was an historic event. Two giant software companies coming together to interoperate and create synergy so everyone can benefit. That's goodness!
Sun Microsystems and Microsoft are delivering interoperable application platforms that span on-premise and cloud computing, and enable the companies’ mutual customers to leverage their existing IT skills/investments in Microsoft and Sun technologies. During the keynote, Dan’l and Steven were joined by Sun Vice President Aisling MacRunnels, who announced that Sun will participate in the Apache “Stonehenge” project, which was created by Microsoft, WS02, Red Hat and Progress Software last fall. This project gives customers better examples and more guidance on how to ensure the interoperability of applications across multiple vendor platforms.
Sun also announced its commitment to contribute the Metro-based StockTrader application code to the Stonehenge project. In addition to helping Stonehenge deliver even more value to customers by providing best practice guidelines and reference implementations across an even broader range of scenarios and platforms (Java, .NET, PHP, etc.), this also represents another step forward in Microsoft’s ongoing work with Sun.
Microsoft’s participation in the Apache “Stonehenge” project has been led by Kamaljit Bath from the Microsoft Interoperability Strategy Group and Kent Brown from the Microsoft Developer Platform & Tools Group. Technical information on the project can be found at www.interoperabilitybridges.com.
Jean-Christophe Cimetiere
Senior Technical Evangelist
Come to New Orleans, Louisiana July 13-16th for the 2009 Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC). Keynote addresses at this conference will feature top Microsoft executives such as Steve Ballmer - CEO, Kevin Turner - COO and Allison Watson - Corporate VP of the Worldwide Partner Group, sharing overall vision, specific solution strategies, and question and answer opportunities. Get a high-level overview of product launches, product strategy, business direction, customer campaigns, and much more so you can align your business strategies for the coming year. In addition, Jack Welch will be speaking the morning of July 15th. Welch is a renowned business writer of the widely read weekly column The Welch Way. During Welch’s more than 20-year tenure as CEO, General Electric's market capitalization rose from US$13 billion to US$400 billion. In 2000, he was named “Manager of the Century” by Fortune magazine. You can view the full executive line up and biographies of the keynote speakers here: VISION KEYNOTE SPEAKERS AT WPC 2009.
The full agenda for the conference is available on the Digital WPC website here.
Visit the session catalogue and build your WPC schedule using the handy tool to sign up, create your calendar and review sessions like:
How to Increase Profits and Enhance User Experience with Microsoft Silverlight: Learn how to save money and increase profits using the Silverlight platform and its powerful User Experience (UX) capabilities. See current Partner applications for corporate communications, online training, and line-of-business apps built in Silverlight and leveraging Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Expression, Windows Server, and Microsoft SharePoint. See how Silverlight 3, along with Expression 3, open up a new world--and revenue stream--in Rich Internet Application development.
Learning Solutions Best Practice Showcase: Join us for a "Top 10" style showcase featuring best practices from Microsoft Learning experts and Learning Solutions partners around the world. We highlight actionable solutions that you can take home and put in practice immediately to drive business, revenue, leads and/or customer connections.
Winning with Windows 7 in the Enterprise: Selling the Business Value of the Optimized Desktop: As the next-generation operating system from Microsoft, Windows 7 opens new development, sales and services opportunities for your business - learn more about optimizing your business with Windows 7 at WPC09.
Register for WPC today to take advantage of a multiple-partner discount. Companies sending three or more attendees to WPC may qualify. The third attendee through the tenth attendee from the same company paying full registration fee (US$1795) will receive a US$400 discount. Refunds will be processed after the event.
Lastly, there are wonderful pre-negotiated WPC hotel rates available to make your visit to New Orleans comfortable and cost-effective, however the promotion with these hotels ends June 15th. Visit the Breaking News section of the WPC website for more information.
This year’s conference will be held at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans. Last year, the conference hosted more than 8,000 networking meetings and 11,000 attendees from 140 countries. This year’s tracks and sessions will provide detailed information about new Microsoft products and technologies, and offer deep competitive information to help you develop your plans and strategies for the coming year. Plus, WPC 09 offers valuable opportunities to develop relationships with Microsoft and partner executives, tap into Microsoft’s vision and strategy, share best practices, and drive business results.
We look forward to seeing you at WPC ‘09. 
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We all heard the news about the devastating bushfires in Victoria, Australia. The fires started February 7, 2009 and were finally brought under control near the end of March. The communities of Kinglake and Marysville were hit particularly hard. Thousands of people lost their homes and many lost their lives. “The conditions—we’ve never seen anything like them before,” said Damian Coyne, volunteer firefighter, Microsoft account manager, the day the Victorian bushfires began. It was a situation that far exceeded anything the local responders had been faced with to date.
In any emergency we often hear about the dedicated first responders – firefighters, police, and 
emergency response teams. In this case, behind the scenes, there was also a team of Microsoft partners. One partner in particular got the ball rolling. Australian based Maptel leveraged their partner relationships and called on them for help. Even before a request was made by the Victoria emergency operations centers or local police, partners were assembling people resources, communication infrastructure, hardware (mobile devices, laptops, phones) and software. The level of coordination and selflessness of each company as well as the unlimited hours contributed by the individuals involved was impressive. It is inspiring to see so many companies come together to produce a time-critical communication solution that delivered value so quickly. And helping to coordinate communications and Microsoft resources to assist was the Microsoft Disaster Response team.
The partners included Maptel, ESRI, Microsoft, Trimble, Motorola, Telstra and Navteq. This team provided hardware, software and services to assist the Victoria Police with victim identification, search and rescue efforts and helped the Australian Fire and Emergency Service Authorities Council collect behavior data on the fire, people, and houses.
The systems that were created as a temporary solution to help with the immediate situation are now being looked at as a long term tools to facilitate situational awareness, mobile/field operations, and risk assessment. Operational commanders can now get real time data from their field personnel, are able to more closely analyze search and recovery programs, and can build on a common operating picture to make split-second decisions.
In this case it was one partner reaching out to their network to make things happen. One individual can make a difference, especially when our partners are ready to answer the call.
Great work team!!
Heather Blatchford
Global Partner Team
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Are you interested in getting your Silverlight application on MySpace? How about using the New York Times APIs in your Silverlight application? Or perhaps you have deployed web service APIs and want to get more developers using them (with cooler Silverlight applications). Michael Scherotter, a Media Experience Evangelist (cool title huh?!), is presenting a series of free web meetings about Silverlight Kits that he has developed. These are three free tutorials on June 9, 2009 on the following topics at the following times:
- 9:00 AM PDT: The MySpace Silverlight Kit
- 11:00 AM PDT: The New York Times Silverlight Kit
- 1:00 PM PDT: Building a Silverlight Kit for your Web 2.0 API
All of the meetings will be roughly an hour long and they will recorded if you can’t make them at that time. Please come with your questions and your APIs, as Silverlight works great with REST, SOAP, and JavaScript-based APIs.
Register here.
Happy creating,
Global Partner Team
Global ISV Team
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I was walking through the expo at the TechEd conference in Los Angeles last week and was happy to run into my friends from Acresso, makers of InstallShield and AdminStudio.
Acresso Software just announced that they have a new beta capability in InstallShield to develop applications in the Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) format. Companies that are rolling out application virtualization can now create applications in both traditional and virtual formats using InstallShield. Acresso’s customers are beta testing now and the general release will be later this year. My friends also tell me that from their beta survey, 50% of beta users are interested in developing applications for virtual formats. This tells me that developers are seeing the value and the direction of application formats.
The latest InstallShield beta allows users to leverage their existing InstallShield project files to build both their traditional MSI based installation, and at the same time natively build an App-V package. At build time, InstallShield is able to translate and map the App-V package format because of the intimate development relationship with Microsoft, without the use of the sequencer or clean image. All the developer needs to do is simply check a box and BANG! the build process produces the App-V SFT file. Without altering the build process, InstallShield extends both the MSI and App-V package formats. This to me is huge because so many ISV’s have seen the need to repackage their application separately using the App-V Sequencer as a gate to supporting the format.
If you are reading this blog then chances are you are well aware of InstallShield. The guys from Acresso tell me that over 71,000 developers build their applications with it. The stats on this blog put the readership at 70,000 developers per month, so some math says there are 1,000 of you who use InstallShield but don’t read this blog. So tell your friends. J
I have been addressing the subject of ISV’s supporting their applications in the App-V format for some time now. While I have had some great successes with ISV’s issuing support statements this integration from Acresso makes it possible for both the in house developer and the 3rd party ISV to embrace the App-V format as the standard virtual application platform. Allowing developers to produce the App-V SFT file natively will not only benefit the ISV because their customers will be able to deploy multiple versions of their product on one system but their customers time to deploy will be cut dramatically. Not to mention the ISV I spoke with in Raleigh NC who wanted to use App-V on their build systems to test multiple version of their software on a single box.
Acresso is one of my well managed partners in the System Center Alliance program and I have been working closely with them for the better part of a year. It is great to see our partners start building on top of App-V as a platform for virtualization. One of the benefits Acresso has leveraged through their membership in SCA is a close working relationship with our product groups. This is emphasized by last month’s announcement regarding the latest version of AdminStudio, Acresso’s enterprise application repackaging product. AdminStudio now supports App-V as well. Whether physical or virtual, applications need to be created and deployed with performance and quality in mind.
Kudos to Acresso for this killer advancement for developers everywhere. If you are an ISV and would like to know more about the System Center Alliance please visit: http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/en/us/default.aspx
Sean Donahue
Senior Program Manager System Center Alliances
The Web 2.0 phase of the internet today characterizes a fundamental transition of the web from an ecosystem of system generated online content, to an ecosystem of vibrant services that thrive on pervasive and social user engagement. This shift has disruptive implications that extend beyond the social web where it is largely prevalent today. The trends introduced by Web 2.0 are constantly evolving to introduce newer models of service aggregation and user engagement with potential to impact enterprise/business operations and consumer lifestyles. Enterprises and Businesses of all sizes and kinds are actively exploring ways to leverage the disruptive models being introduced by the emerging web ecosystem to enhance their core business functions, optimize IT investments, and foster new internal & external community engagement strategies. There exists a tremendous opportunity for business solutions focused independent software vendors to deliver offerings and services that enable these opportunities. On the consumer edge, Web based alternatives are constantly evolving and challenging the existence of popular ISV COTS/white labeled products. Here again there exist opportunities for ISVs to rethink their product strategies to integrate with and take advantage of the emerging web trends while delivering unique value to consumers.
Materializing these opportunities will require ISVs to develop a sound understanding of the emerging web ecosystem to evaluate the implications and opportunities in the context of their current and future investments. A wide spread understanding and consensus in the context of planning, architecting, and implementing services for the emerging web is non-existent today. Web 2.0 applications and services are largely viewed today as ad-hoc investments undertaken by social web start-ups initiated by ambitious college kids. The first generation of social Web 2.0 start-ups have emerged and we are now in the early days of the second generation comprising the next wave of web start-ups and forward looking Enterprises/Businesses looking to ride the Web 2.0 wave. There exists a tremendous opportunity for ISVs of packaged/white labeled products today to embrace the emerging web and deliver services that enable unique value propositions for their existing users while extending reach to new and potentially untapped users.
The Microsoft Platform Architect Team recently released a Web 2.0 service development starter kit with resources (presentations, white papers, sample code) that provide an overview of the emerging web and drill into the aspects of planning, architecting, and implementing services for the emerging web. This is a useful collection of resources for ISVs to get to speed with the emerging web trends and obtain an overview of planning, architecting, and implementing services for the emerging web.
You can watch this video to obtain an overview of the kit. The kit can be downloaded from here. Feedback/comments on the kit can be sent to kobehelp@microsoft.com.
Thanks
Karthik Ravindran
Platform Architecture Team
“The combined markets of the top four emerging countries, Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC), will reach $5.9 trillion GDP in 2011. This will represent about 39% of all emerging markets' GDP. As these four countries become economically stronger, they will reinforce their role as the "driving engines" for other emerging countries”. This is according to a Gartner report on market trends in emerging markets published in late 2007. While these numbers may get corrected due to the economic conditions prevalent at this time, it is fair to assume these countries will continue to invest in infrastructure and education to energize their labor markets. It’s a well known fact that the number of software developers in emerging markets like the BRIC countries is rising at an incredible pace. I want to bring to your attention how this surge in skilled developers is fueling great technology innovation and adoption at large ISVs from these countries. This is a great testimony of software companies using technology innovation to drive revenue growth even under tough economic conditions. In this blog, I would like to highlight three such ISVs that we manage out of the Global ISV team.
1) China: Let me start with UFIDA, one of the largest business management software suppliers in China and the Asia Pacific region. They have over six hundred thousand enterprises in this region and over three million users that use their products every day. UFIDA has leveraged its pool of over 2000 highly trained developers to adopt new technologies from Microsoft such as Visual Studio 2008 Team System, Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Office 2007 Business Applications to build solutions and launch them in relatively short periods of time. UFIDA was one of the first ISVs globally to support Internet Explorer 8 as the recommended browser for its flagship ERP U9 solution. They conducted an internal performance benchmark of IE7 versus IE8 and the test results showed U9 average response time had decreased 168%, which means users will have a more productive web experience comparing to IE 7. You can find more information on UFIDA’s technology innovation on www.microsoft.com/ufida.
2) India: My second example is a fast growing software company headquartered in India called 3i Infotech which leverages its vast pool of developers in India to build industry solutions using Microsoft technology. 3i Infotech’s Enterprise Mobility solutions built on the Windows Mobile platform is deployed at the San Jose Police Dept and their payment solutions division is using the Microsoft’s application platform to build new and improved functionality to their payment processing and imaging solutions for the financial services, manufacturing, retail and distribution verticals. Their highly skilled developers are able to cut cycle times and bring products earlier to market by leveraging new technologies.
3) Brazil: My last example is a large ISV called TOTVS, the largest Latin American developer of application software and the 9th biggest ERP developer in the world. It is the absolute leader in Brazil, and the leader in the small and medium enterprises (SME) segment in Latin America. TOTVS like UFIDA and 3i Infotech, have leveraged their vast pool of developers in Brazil and other parts of LATAM to build exciting new functionality in their portfolio including offering Microsoft CRM as a hosted offering and an ERP solution built on the Microsoft stack.
Most large emerging market ISVs, like the ones profiled above, have close ties with local Microsoft subsidiaries. This enables them to leverage Microsoft’s Developer and Platform Evangelism (D&PE) teams in these subsidiaries who work closely with the ISV’s developer communities and provide them access to Microsoft Technology Centers (MTCs), trainings and technology briefings. For more information on Microsoft’s Global ISVs please go to www.microsoft.com/isv/gisv .
Regards,
Sunil Cheruvatath,
Global ISV Team
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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, May 27th, 2009, 10:00-11:30 AM Pacific.
Microsoft Global ISV Technical Forum: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Business Intelligence Overview
SQL Server 2008 offers a complete platform for delivering business intelligence solutions that unlock data, deliver relevant information and drive actionable insights. This presentation will provide a high-level technical overview of the SQL Server 2008 BI platform including Integration Services, Analysis Services and Reporting Services.
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Past Webcasts – if you missed any of our past webcasts, view them on demand at your convenience at http://www.microsoft.com/isv/Resources.mspx.
Past Webcasts – if you missed any of our past webcasts, view them on demand at your convenience at http://www.microsoft.com/isv/Resources.mspx.
- Microsoft Windows 7 Overview, Presented by Yochay Kiriaty, Microsoft Windows 7 Technical Evangelist, Developer and Platform Evangelism, Microsoft Corporation (4/29/09)
- The Microsoft Client Continuum, Presented by Jaime Rodriguez, Microsoft Presentation Foundation Technical Evangelist, Developer and Platform Evangelism, Microsoft Corporation (3/25/09)
- Internet Explorer 8 Application Compatibility, Presented by Margaret Chen, Product Manager, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corporation and Muni Pulipalyam, Principal Consultant, Microsoft Consulting Services (1/28/09)
- The Azure Services Platform, Presented by Eric Morse, Director, Emerging Ecosystems, Developer & Platform Evangelism, Microsoft Corporation (12/17/08)
- Post-PDC Special Edition – Event Highlights & Where to Learn More, Presented by Diego Tamburini, PhD., Senior Group Program Manager, Developer & Platform Evangelism, Microsoft Corporation (11/19/08)
- Microsoft’s Move into the Mid-Market: Windows Essential Business Server 2008, Presented by Lingan Satkunanathan, Lead Program Manager, Essential Business Server, Microsoft Corporation (10/22/08)
- Windows Vista 64-bit Adoption is Growing: Are Your Products Ready?, Presented by Gary Schare, Director, Windows Product Management, Microsoft Corporation (10/8/08)
The Global ISV Technical Forum is a monthly webcast series brought to you by the Microsoft Developer and Platform Evangelist team. This series showcases new products, technologies and information especially targeted for Microsoft GISV partners.
Best wishes for continued success,
Global ISV team
