By R "Ray" Wang on June 4, 2014
Microsoft’s Platform DNA and Salesforce.com Quest For User Productivity Drive The Strategic Partnership On May 29th, 2014, the Redmond based mega vendor Microsoft and the San Francisco based Cloud pioneer salesforce announced a partnership. From the teleconference call with CEOs Satya Nadella and Marc Benioff; and in conversations with over 50 key executives, partners, and […]
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By Denis Pombriant on November 20, 2013
The story of this year’s Dreamforce might best be told through the partner community and AppExchange and that makes it a story about the platform. Appropriately enough, Salesforce teed up the platform topic in Chairman and CEO, Marc Benioff’s keynote and the press conference immediately following it on Tuesday in which he announced Salesforce 1. […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on July 12, 2012
Microsoft Provides The Passion And Products For Partners To Compete In A Post PC Era Microsoft kicked off its Worldwide Partner Conference in Toronto, Canada amidst 16,000 partners (See Figure 1). Attendees caught the latest news and product announcements while sharing new business models and products for a post PC era. Key announcements for Day […]
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By Jeff Nolan on June 28, 2011
Microsoft is out with Office365 and, well, it’s typical Microsoft. Why can’t I simply point to a URL and get going in the same way I can with Google? Regardless of what you or I might think about Google’s attitude towards our privacy, you have to give them credit for keeping things simple while Microsoft […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on April 10, 2011
Refresh Cycle Reflects Bullish Outlook By Partners and Customers Microsoft Convergence kicked off over the weekend in Atlanta, GA at the Georgia World Congress Center. With an anticipated increase in attendance, many new product announcements, and a technology refresh cycle in play, attendees seemed upbeat. The event kicked off in true tradition including the must […]
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By Chris Selland on June 3, 2010
This past weekend I ran the largest Memorial Day youth soccer tournament in the country – and ran it almost entirely online. This post describes some of the tools and technologies which helped our event to be a HUGE success.
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By Vinnie Mirchandani on May 13, 2010
I was excited to see this video around the Microsoft Office and Sharepoint 2010 launch from the NBC Saturday Night Live studio. Not so much around the tactical feature discussions and demos but to see Mark Mastrianni talk about how it fits within GE’s larger goals (that section starts around minute 16, and goes through […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on January 6, 2010
High Cost Of Ownership And Changing Requirements Drive SAP Users To Seek Optimization Solutions As users await SAP to regain its mojo (see Dennis Howlett’s post) and implement it’s “Voice of the Customer” strategy in 2010, users must continue to reduce their cost of ownership and complexity (see Figure 1). In addition, rapidly changing business […]
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By Phil Wainewright on November 19, 2009
Considering that I use Outlook to interact with people (or used to — I went Gmail last year), it seems absurd that the application has never allowed a people-centric view of email communication — until now, that is. Last night, the Microsoft Outlook team announced the Outlook Social Connector (OSC), an add-on that’s available now […]
Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged gmail, linkedin, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft SharePoint, Outlook Social Connector, Social network