Entries tagged with partners - Channel 9

Attachmate Describes Benefits of Joining Front Runner for Windows 7

bruceky — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:28:00 GMT

Kris Lall, Product Marketing Manager, at Attachmate describes the benefits for joining the early adopter program, Front Runner for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. Now with the launch of Windows 7, there's still time to join Front Runner.

Front Runner is an early adopter program for ISVs in the US that helps you get your applications compatible with the latest Microsoft technologies. Once you tell us that your application is compatible, you’ll get a range of marketing benefits to help you let your customers know you’re a Front Runner, including customizable marketing and PR campaigns as well as listings in Microsoft directories that are viewed by millions of people.

For ISVs outside the United States, you can register and participate in Project Green Light.

Attachmate was among the first to earn the Compatible with Windows 7 software logo. Find out how they accomplished that at How Attachmate Earned Windows 7 Software Logo.

Dave Thompson: Turning Software into Services

Charles — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:23:00 GMT

Dave Thompson, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Online Services, is an industry veteran with 30 years of experience in IT. In his leadership role for Microsoft Online Services, Dave is responsible for leading the delivery of Microsoft's business software products as online services. Dave has a rich history solving complex problems in computing. He's the guy that put TCP into Windows, back in the day. Today, his focus is squarely on taking Microsoft's business platform to the next level, up to the cloud. What does this all mean, exactly? How complex is it to take traditional software and turn it into a service? What are the big problems that Dave and team face? How does this concentrated focus on services benefit developers and businesses that build their innovations on the Microsoft stack?

Tune in. Meet Dave and get a clear sense of where we are heading as Microsoft continues the evolution of PC and server software. These are exciting times for Microsoft, and We are bringing our partners into this new territory with us. Fascinating times indeed. Keep up the great work Dave and team!

Windows Azure and Partner Opportunities

Brian Johnson — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:56:00 GMT

What are the Azure opportunities for Microsoft partners? Mike Werner provides a high level overview of Windows Azure, Microsoft's cloud computing services. Topics covered include basic platform features and functionality, overall benefits, and the common scenarios for using Windows Azure. We will also discuss how the Azure Services Platform applies to the partner business by creating new services-based opportunities across the Microsoft partner and customer ecosystem.

How Attachmate Earned Windows 7 Software Logo

bruceky — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:46:00 GMT

Attachmate was among the very first to earn the Compatible with Windows 7 software logo. In this video, Product Marketing Manager Kris Lall and Test Lead Chinh Vu talks with me about the whole process.

Kris tells why the logo is important to Attachmate and the customer benefits. Chinh explains the process, how it is different from other logo tests, and what steps he took to get the logo.

For more information about the products Attachmate has had logo tested, see Attachmate Information Center for Windows 7.

Azure Service Platform - Lightning Round at Cloud Camp DC

Brian Johnson — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:21:00 GMT

Scott Zimmerman, Solutions Architect at Microsoft, presents a concise, 5-minute summary of Microsoft's Azure Service Platform during the Lightning Round at Cloud Camp DC Commercial in Reston, VA on June 17, 2009. For more information on Cloud Camp and a link to Scott’s presentation, visit http://blogs.msdn.com/usdevpartners.

Wonderware: Synchronizing Production, Industrial Operations and Business Objectives

Charles — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:53:00 GMT

Wonderware, a business unit of Invensys plc, is the market leader in real-time operations management software. Wonderware solutions enable companies to synchronize their production and industrial operations with business objectives, obtaining the speed and flexibility to attain sustained profitability. Wonderware has 540,000 license installations at 125,000 plants in 181 countries. Wonderware has development centers in the US, India, EMEA and Asia.

Wonderware, a Microsoft Certified Gold Partner has developed a Unified Communications solution to address the communication challenges of the enterprise, such as collaboration barriers, information delay, unwanted communications, inefficient coordination and customer inquiries. Technologies utilized were Microsoft Office Communicator, MS OCS, MS VS 2008, supporting 64 bit hardware, WIN 2008 and Vista. The benefits derived from the solution include knowledge transfer, escalation of emergency situations, diagnostics and troubleshooting, remote information query and control and integration of the work force anytime, anywhere. The video exemplifies the application of the solution at a power utility company.

Visit the Microsoft ISV site for more information about software companies working with Microsoft.

Intelligent Light: Computational Fluid Dynamics and High Performance Computing

Charles — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 20:21:00 GMT

Before a plane flies for the first time, in the sky, it has flown many thousands of virtual miles in distributed clusters of computation cells, calculating non-linear differential equations of fluid dynamics.

Intelligent Light, with its Fortran and Python writing programmers, represents a typical ISV in the Microsoft HPC partner community with their flagship application having long been available on UNIX and Linux HPC clusters. Intelligent Light provides an application called FieldView that takes massive data from Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) applications and visualizes that data for engineers who design F16 fighters and Formula One cars. Because of the long compute times required, FieldView is often run in parallel on High Performance Computing (HPC) clusters to return quicker results. In this video, Intelligent Light founder Steve Legensky demonstrates the complex mathematics used by CFD engineers and talks about how HPC has evolved in his industry over the past 20 years.

Steve is awesome.

Check out the Microsoft ISV site for more information about ISVs working with Microsoft.

Partner Programs for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 - Eva Sachse

Bruce Kasrel — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 15:43:00 GMT

We sat down with some members of the Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 team. We talked about the launch of the newest version and in this installment in the series, we spoke with team member Eva Sachse about the NAV 2009 Partner Programs.

Enjoy!

The Microsoft Dynamics Community Team
http://community.dynamics.com/blogs/msdyncommunityteam/default.aspx

Blue Star Infotech

Charles — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:46:00 GMT

The week of PDC, Channel 9 was busy making lots of connections with ISVs. Here’s a great interview with Mehul Shah, the Senior Solutions Architect for Blue Star Infotech (BSI). BSI specializes in providing product services encompassing the entire product lifecycle through its global delivery model. The company has extensive experience in working with ISVs—from product design and development to implementation and rollout—and has devised its own methodologies for reverse-engineering and application migration. Through its Microsoft Center of Excellence, it helps ISVs revitalize their products using latest Microsoft Technologies like the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0, Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Microsoft SQL Server 2005. For its product implementation expertise on the Microsoft platform, BSI has many achievements, one of which was being awarded the "Best Dynamics Partner of the Year" by Microsoft for 2006. Check out this PDC interview with Mehul Shah to hear more about their technologies and their experience at PDC ‘08.

Check out the Microsoft ISV site for more information about ISVs working with Microsoft.