"People-Ready" Business & Microsoft Dynamics
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 about putting “people” at the center of our design. One of the core themes for our Dynamics Wave 1 releases is around “roles based” user experience. Our User Experience teams has done some amazing work in doing the deep anthropological research for each of the roles within business and this context is what is influencing the significant investments we are making in delivering user experiences that transcend both Dynamics and Office “personalized” for the specific role.
A good example perhaps is to look at how a business using CRM and GP together. You have sales people living in Outlook and still getting to the price list from GP and a Finance Manager using the GP Sharepoint portal can get at pipeline data for forecasting and other functions. We are going to be releasing the integration between GP and CRM at Convergence next week and this will set the standard for real seamless integration even at the user experience level.
Also at Convergence our User Experience team will be hosting a UX launge where you will get an opportunity to test and give us feedback on all our “roles based” UX work. Also you can expect to hear more about “People ready Business” and role Dynamics plays (no pun intended) from Jeff Raikes and Bill Gates.
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About satyanadella
Satya Nadella is corporate vice president responsible for leading the Product Group within Microsoft Business Solutions.
Nadella joined Microsoft in 1992 and has held a variety of marketing, product development and general management roles. Before taking on his current role, Nadella was responsible for launching and leading Microsoft bCentral, the leading Internet service providing Web presence, communications, customer marketing and e-commerce tools to small businesses. Nadella became part of Business Solutions when the division was formed by combining the bCentral, Great Plains and Navision a/s groups.
Before that, he was general manager for the Commerce Platforms Group and led the development efforts for Microsoft Commerce Server and Microsoft BizTalk Server. Nadella was also a key member of several advanced technology incubation efforts inside Microsoft, including interactive television (ITV) and digital rights management (DRM). Nadellas first assignment at Microsoft was in the Windows Developer Relations group, where he was a program manager.
Before joining Microsoft, Nadella was a member of the technology staff at Sun Microsystems Inc.
Nadella has a masters degree in computer science from the University of Wisconsin and a masters degree in business administration from the University of Chicago.
