March 2006 - Posts

Dynamics - Tech Conference Suggestions
31 March 06 12:01 AM | satyanadella | 15 Comments   

Tech Conference. We have been having internal discussion threads around how we reach out to our technical community more effectively. In the past GP had Tech Conferences. Navision had their Product Conference. We have in the last couple years switched Read More...

Grain Elevators & Communities
28 March 06 08:18 PM | satyanadella | 4 Comments   

Just got back from Convergence, it was by far the best I have been to. Doug’s keynote was quite emotional. The story he used to illustrate “communities” had to do with his family Grain Elevator (seriously I had to look up what the heck this is on Wikipedia Read More...

Dynamics Community
27 March 06 12:39 PM | satyanadella | 1 Comments   

Dynamics Community has content, code and ability to connect with others in the community. Power of Dynamics Community can perhaps be best gauged by how directly it impacts our product features. ~60% of features that ship in Dynamics GP 9.0 were a direct Read More...

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Dynamics - "Light -Up" on Vista & Composite Applications - Bill Gates at Convergence
26 March 06 11:09 PM | satyanadella | 2 Comments   

Watch for the Dynamics client demo tomorrow at Convergence. It’s an immersive roles based user experience that shows how we adapt Windows Vista & Office 2007 UX concepts to Dynamics. You will see how “stacks” from Vista can help give you visual cues Read More...

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Dynamics CRM - Hosted Service
25 March 06 09:22 AM | satyanadella | 3 Comments   

Hosted Dynamics CRM at Convergence. http://demo.hostedmscrm.com A partner of ours – Streamline Solutions - has deployed CRM as a hosted service for attendees of Convergence to play around with. You can login as your favorite role and full immersive experience Read More...

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Dynamics - 15 Demos in 20 mins and 3 Major relesaes in 12 months!!
24 March 06 09:56 PM | satyanadella | 6 Comments   

At today’s Partner Day at Convergence, I got a chance to do 15 demos in 20 min as part of the opening Keynote with Tami Reller !! Thanks Graham Sheldon & Darren Laybourn for staying up all night getting the VPCs all staged. Next time we will remember Read More...

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RSS for Dynamics CRM - Is Now Available
24 March 06 01:58 PM | satyanadella | 1 Comments   

RSS feed generator for CRM is now available for. The idea here was to support taking any Advanced Find saved query in CRM and make it available as an RSS feed. Read about RSS support for CRM & Download Thanks Michaeljon Miller and CRM UE/PM team….. Read More...

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Dynamics Web Services - Business Mash-Ups; Composite Apps; Integrations
21 March 06 08:28 PM | satyanadella | 9 Comments   

Web Services in Dynamics Wave 1 releases. What is the intent behind them? The core vision behind what we are doing is Roles Based Productivity. To deliver on this vision, you have to start with “People” and really connect them up to their “work” (i.e. Read More...

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"People-Ready" Business & Microsoft Dynamics
18 March 06 01:06 PM | satyanadella | 14 Comments   

This week Steve Ballmer and Jeff Raikes launched the Microsoft's People-Ready vision. At the core of this is the idea that software that empowers people will help businesses achieves next level of productivity gains. My first post from last March was Read More...

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Dynamics in China & Japan
18 March 06 12:35 PM | satyanadella | 0 Comments   

Our first major release for the Far East just hit RTM this week. We shipped CRM 3.0 for Chinese and Japanese. Since the December RTM of CRM 3.0, the team has been on a roll and has shipped - localizations in 20+ languages, SPLA release for hosting, SNAP Read More...

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