Partner TV Australia

Video: Partner-TV: Taysols Consulting on the Australia Partner Conference

Grow your business and your relationships

Jamie Cassidy from Taysols Consulting talks about the Microsoft Australia Partner Conference.  Every year, the Microsoft Australia Partner Conference gives you the chance to network with other Microsoft in a relaxed and informal environment, hear from Microsoft product experts, find out what’s in store for the coming year, and get tools and information to fine-tune your business. To find out more about next year’s event and how it can benefit your business, visit the Partner Portal now >

Michael Kordahi and Nick Hodge talk about Mix and IE8 and why it’s important to you… including standards and some exciting new USPs… a little bit of history and a couple of new words as well.  Oh and a cool feature in one of your favourite sites…

If nothing, else check out these “how to” guides Nick mentions here, here & here…

Video: Partner-TV: Calvert Technologies on the Australia Partner Conference

Grow your business and your relationships

Dean Calvert from Calvert Technologies talks about the Microsoft Australia Partner Conference.  Every year, the Microsoft Australia Partner Conference gives you the chance to network with other Microsoft in a relaxed and informal environment, hear from Microsoft product experts, find out what’s in store for the coming year, and get tools and information to fine-tune your business. To find out more about next year’s event and how it can benefit your business, visit the Partner Portal now >

In this video, Andrew Coates, Developer Evangelist for Microsoft Australia talks about TechEd North America and reasons for partners to attend TechEd Australia.  Get the latest news from Andrew’s blog and for more information about TechEd visit www.microsoft.com.au/teched.

Want to know more about sponsor and exhibitor opportunities? Contact Fran Barlow on (02) 9870 2639 or franba@microsoft.com

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Video: Partner-TV: Hostworks on the Australia Partner Conference

Grow your business and your relationships

Klaus Bartosch from Hostworks talks about the Microsoft Australia Partner Conference.  Every year, the Microsoft Australia Partner Conference gives you the chance to network with other Microsoft in a relaxed and informal environment, hear from Microsoft product experts, find out what’s in store for the coming year, and get tools and information to fine-tune your business. To find out more about next year’s event and how it can benefit your business, visit the Partner Portal now >

Jane Mackarell, the Public Sector Marketing Manager for Microsoft Australia, talks about the recent changes for Public Sector licensing.

For the Public Sector “How to Buy” customer licensing tool, visit: www.microsoft.com.au/publicsectorlicensing

If you are customer and want more information on Charity Open Licensing for customers, click here and on Open Value for Government click here.

For partners, click here for Charity Open and click here for Open Value for Government.

Finula Crowe, Marketing Manager for Developers, Designers and IT Professional at Microsoft Australia talks about TECHED!  Fin talks about where, when the venue is, why you should go and how to register!

For more information about the event + preparing + connecting to TechEd, visit http://microsoft.com.au/teched.

If you’re interested in sponsoring the event, click here or contact Fran Barlow.

A Strategic Engagement Event!
Operation Frontline Commences: 1st – 4th September 2009.
This year’s Microsoft Australia Partner Conference is focused on enabling our Frontline Partners get the tools and business intelligence they need to get a competitive edge in the current economic climate! This year’s event is set to be one of our most strategic and significant yet. Partners can Register Now.

In this video, Kim Partridge answers 10 questions which she receives on a daily basis!

Sponsorship opportunities are now available for Partners. For more information contact Megan Carter-Yoshida or visit our new APC website at www.microsoft.com.au/apc

Nick Hodge and Michael Kordahi talk in this “awesometastic” video about Mix and what’s new in the world of the Web including the betas for Silverlight 3 and Blend.

For more information on what the community is doing, visit REMIX09 on 11 June in Sydney about real customers, real developers doing real stuff.

UPDATE: REMIX09 registrations are live. If you’re interested in going to REMIX09, now is the time. Read the full agenda here.

Sarah Theiss, Microsoft Partner Marketing Manager talks about Microsoft Action Pack for Microsoft Registered Partners for just $699 for a 12 month subscription. This means you get internal-use, full-version software and sales resources to help you meet your sales goals, stay competitive, and grow your business.

For more information on the Action Pack, please visit https://partner.microsoft.com/40016455.

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Ross Dembecki, Lead Product Manager for Microsoft Dynamics CRM talks about XRM and how it is being used rapidly develop relational business applications.

For more information, please click here to visit Ross’s Sky Drive for a marketing and sales guide, solution documents and screen shots or the following case studies:

• XRM customer evidence, in an Aussie case study:
  http://crm.dynamics.com/customers/casestudydetails.aspx?casestudyid=4000002847
• XRM customer evidence, in a NZ case study:
  http://crm.dynamics.com/customers/casestudydetails.aspx?casestudyid=4000003066
• XRM in CRM book excerpt for developers: http://rc.crm.dynamics.com/rc/regcont/en_us/OP/articles/ch3_XRM_dev_SBSbook.aspx

Elon Aizenstros from Unique World, a Microsoft Gold Partner, talks about their Microsoft information management solutions that help businesses increase productivity, improve decision making and decrease risk associated with compliance.

Elon refers to one of their long standing customers and how RecordPoint and SharePoint helps with their document and records management needs by managing the entire content life cycle.

For more information, visit the Unique World web site.

Video: Partner-TV: Axxis Technology on the Microsoft Customer Satisfaction Survey

Find out what your customers are really thinking.

Matthew Dickerson from Axxis Technology talks about the Microsoft Customer Satisfaction Survey.  As a Microsoft Gold Certified, Certified or Small Business Specialist Partner, did you know that you have access to a complimentary, quarterly survey of your customers? You simply provide Microsoft with all the necessary contact details and criteria, and Microsoft will conduct all aspects of the survey on your behalf.  You then receive all the survey results in a tabulated, easy to understand format – which can help you improve your overall customer relationships. Find out more>

Video: Partner-TV: Extreme Networks on the Microsoft Customer Satisfaction Survey

Find out what your customers are really thinking.

James Eling from Extreme Networks talks about the Microsoft Customer Satisfaction Survey.  As a Microsoft Gold Certified, Certified or Small Business Specialist Partner, did you know that you have access to a complimentary, quarterly survey of your customers? You simply provide Microsoft with all the necessary contact details and criteria, and Microsoft will conduct all aspects of the survey on your behalf.  You then receive all the survey results in a tabulated, easy to understand format – which can help you improve your overall customer relationships. Find out more>

Danny Beck, the Product Marketing Manager for Windows 7, talks about his role at Microsoft and our new version of Windows being launched to market.

In this video, Danny answers some common questions around Windows 7, such as:

• What’s exciting about this new release?
• Is this the code name or final release name?
• How Windows 7 builds on Windows Vista
• If my applications do not work on Windows Vista, will they work on Windows 7?
• What resources are available?

Danny talks about www.microsoft.com/springboard which is a great site to hear from our technical fellows via webcasts and forums to have your questions answered and www.microsoft.com/optimization for information on how to drive the cost of managing your desktop and to tell the optimisation story

If you are an Australian partner interested in a copy of the whitepaper, please email Danny Beck.

Watch this space for events and more news soon.