Dynamics - 15 Demos in 20 mins and 3 Major relesaes in 12 months!!
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 to bring more hardware J
The demo parade was a celebration of all our Wave 1 work that either has shipped or will ship in the next 12 months. The demos were all done to support the 4 core pillars of Wave 1 – Roles based UX; Sharepoint Portal/Composite Apps; Contextual BI using SQL BI; Web Services. We showed off - GP 9.0 home pages; NAV 5.0 full roles based client; CRM 3.0 with Office 2007; integrated search on Dynamics portals for structured and un-structured information; composite apps on Sharepoint for marketing campaign mgt (CRM), PLM/Vendor on-boarding (AX), HR/Employee on-boarding (AX); SQL Report Builder integration with Dynamics AX; Business Scorecard Manager integration with Dynamics AX; Dynamics GP Web Services; Dynamics SNAP apps; RSS support for Dynamics AX using AIF!!
We reaffirmed our roadmap. We are going to do upgrade releases in two waves across all our Dynamics product lines (Wave 1: 05-07; Wave 2: 08-09+). With each release we will have increasing levels of shared design and code across the product lines. Each of our product lines has either already gotten a Wave 1 upgrade (CRM 3.0, GP 9.0, SL 6.5) or will get a release in the coming year (AX 4.0, NAV 5.0, SL 7.0, GP 10.0). Yes some of our product lines will get 2 major Wave 1 releases (i.e. GP and SL)!! We also committed to major releases across all our product lines in CY 08-09.
This week there has been a bunch of talk about schedules and roadmap execution related to Microsoft J I am super proud of what our team has accomplished over the last year – we have launched 3 major releases of Dynamics (CRM 3.0, GP 9.0, SL 6.5), Office Small Business Accounting, 2006, Dynamics SNAP (in case you did not notice this delivers the value that Mendacino some day will deliver to users of that other ERP vendor), gotten into new geographies (China, Japan, Brazil) and of course tons of service pack releases and localizations… way to go team!!
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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.
