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Windows 7 Webcast - Exclusive for IAMCP Partners - Register Now

This is a business webcast will specifically focus on: • The Windows 7 Value Proposition – How to best position Windows 7 with your customers • The Market Opportunity for Windows 7 • The Partner opportunity – Go-To-Market solutions for your customers • The Competitive advantage of Windows 7 • Live Q&A with Visser This is an incredible opportunity for YOU to take advantage of being an IAMCP Partner. Attend this free webcast, get your questions answered and stay ahead of competition! Learn m… Continue

Added by Chaitra Vedullapalli on October 23, 2009 at 6:00pm — No Comments

Mea Clouda: SaaS Vendors Can Win Over Customers with Honesty: can onpremise applications provide 99,5% or better uptime?

I like this article that explains that all SaaS vendors have an opportunity to build trust with their clients by being open and transparent when an outage happens. No IT system is failsafe, and I would even argue that some onpremise solutions do not provide 99.5 or higher uptime. I have not seen one yet. Mea Clouda: SaaS Vendors Can Win… Continue

Added by Petri I. Salonen on October 14, 2009 at 1:54pm — No Comments

Nigel Pendse Sharply Criticises Traditional BI Providers at the 2009 Palo Open: do you agree with him?

Nigel Pendse gave a keynote and gave his opinion about traditional BI vendors. I happened to collaborate with Nigel in the past, he knows his stuff and focuses on the BI field. Nigel Pendse Sharply Criticises Traditional BI Providers at the 2009 Palo Open Continue

Added by Petri I. Salonen on October 14, 2009 at 10:56am — No Comments

Is Cloud Computing Secure? Prove It

This article is a good discussion of issues around cloud computing security and what private clouds can do for an organization. Compliance and other regulatory issues is something that organizations have to think about as well. Read on.... Continue

Added by Petri I. Salonen on October 13, 2009 at 7:52pm — No Comments

Coders at Work: Recommended reading for people in software business

I have to say that I was very excited to run into a new book by Peter Seibel " Coders at work" that provides reflection of known developers and their thinking when developing software. Continue

Added by Petri I. Salonen on October 12, 2009 at 7:30pm — No Comments

Announcing the topic of my new upcoming book from Talentum

It is time to reveal the name of my new upcoming book. We have agreed it to be ” Rohkeasti maailmalle – onnistu liike-elämässä ja ihmisenä”. If one translates it to English, it is close to following: “Bravely out into the wide world - become successful in business and as a person”. My first book “Onnistu suuressa maailmassa - opas globaaleille kilpakentille” (Become successful in the big world – guide to global competitive markets) came out to book stores in January 2008 and I feel that this new… Continue

Added by Petri I. Salonen on October 12, 2009 at 2:27pm — No Comments

Microsoft Partnering - Have u finished it - CSAT requirement for Gold Certified Partner deadline approaching

Partner CSAT requirement deadline is just around the corner for Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. Have you finished yet? Read the article from Eric Ligman to complete this requirement asap : http://blogs.msdn.com/mssmallbiz/archive/2009/09/03/9890934.aspx Send me your questions if you have any. Continue

Added by Chaitra Vedullapalli on October 1, 2009 at 4:56pm — No Comments

You Proposed a Corporate University: “Are You Nuts?”

Here is a quick story for you. A mid-market human resource executive schedules an agenda item for the next month’s senior management and board meeting. The proposal is to create a Corporate University to address meeting the company’s performance objectives. The initial reactions to this agenda item from the CEO, CFO and COO ranged from “are you nuts?”… “in today’s economic climate”…. ”expensive”….”limited appeal and utility”…. “no short-term benefits”….. to ”looks like it’s time to look for new… Continue

Added by Bob Brogan on September 29, 2009 at 3:31pm — 1 Comment

PDC09 - The Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles Convention Center November 17-19, 2009

PDC09 is getting closer and there is lots of new stuff coming in to the PDC-site so if you have an interest in this, I would put this site as one of the ones you follow. Continue

Added by Petri I. Salonen on September 21, 2009 at 10:17am — No Comments

US ISV Developer Evangelism Team : Best Practices for Your Software Available for Free

The ISV Developer Community provides free resources for Best Practices US ISV Developer Evangelism Team : Best Practices for Your Software Available for Free Continue

Added by Petri I. Salonen on September 10, 2009 at 2:49pm — No Comments

Dirty vendor tricks | Applications - InfoWorld article of software business

Having been in the software industry for 20+ years, this article kind of made me laugh.. Is the software industry so desparate, and if it is.. are you one of these vendors...? Dirty vendor tricks | Applications - InfoWorld Continue

Added by Petri I. Salonen on September 10, 2009 at 2:44pm — No Comments

'Oslo': Microsoft's Modeling Strategy will be more clear at PDC09

"Oslo" codename for Microsoft's modeling strategy will be more clear at PDC09 in November. Creating software tools for the domain-specific modeling space is not easy, not even for large software companies. Microsoft PDC09 will be key to gain an understanding of how Oslo modeling platform looks like now and in the future. 'Oslo': Microsoft's Modelin… Continue

Added by Petri I. Salonen on September 9, 2009 at 9:55am — No Comments

Four Steps to Organize Your Network for Powerful Pinging

I like the blog entry by Keith Ferrazzi (author of Never eat alone etc.) about how to nurture your social network network. Social networking is not rocket science, but you have to be very consistent in doing it! Continue

Added by Petri I. Salonen on September 9, 2009 at 9:51am — No Comments

Convergence: Model-Based Software, Systems And Control Engineering

I love this presentation from Dr. Janos Sztipanovits from E. Bronson Ingram Distinguished Professor of Engineering and professor of Electrical Engineering. What is very interesting in this speech (held at OOPSLA 2008 in Nasville, TN) . His topic "Convergence: Model-Based Software, Systems and Control Engineering gives a good view t… Continue

Added by Petri I. Salonen on September 2, 2009 at 8:49am — No Comments

24hrs of PASS - Sept. 2, 2009 for 24 hours of free, nonstop SQL Server and BI training

Sept. 2, 2009* for 24 hours of free, nonstop SQL Server and BI training Online: The Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) presents a free community event featuring top industry SQL Server and Business Intelligence (BI) speakers. 24 Hours of PASS is a series of live, online, hour-long webcasts that focus on SQL Server. Presentations include information on taking better advantage of current SQL Server capabilities, a look at the latest and hottest issues for SQL developers and administra… Continue

Added by Chaitra Vedullapalli on September 1, 2009 at 12:00am — 4 Comments

Company Helps ISVs Assess Cost of Microsoft's Windows Azure

There will be tools that ISVs are innovating around Windows Azure and one of them can be describe as follows based on an article in PCWorld. As part of a new release of its existing Dotfuscator Suite, PreEmptive includes a way for ISVs (independent software vendors) to monitor an application not only to find out how many computing resources it requires when running on Windows Azure, but also to find out how people are using it, said Sebastian Holst, the chief marketing officer at PreEmptive,… Continue

Added by Petri I. Salonen on July 28, 2009 at 8:00pm — No Comments

Microsoft Partnering Power – 09 from Chaitra Vedullapalli Blog

This is a good summary of links and resources for Microsoft partners and other interested what Microsoft has to offer for 2009. The blog entry includes links to Bill Veghte, Steven Elop, Bob Muglia,… Continue

Added by Petri I. Salonen on July 28, 2009 at 9:06am — No Comments

Set Godin presentation at Business of Software 2008

Check out the very nice speech of Seth Godin in the Business of Software 2008 conference... The way Seth Godin relates to software industry is very, very compelling... The new Software Business Conference 2009 is coming up soon.. Check from http://www.isvcommunity.com/ Events link. This video is very good..

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Added by Petri I. Salonen on July 27, 2009 at 10:35am — No Comments

.NET Pricing in the Cloud -- Visual Studio Magazine

During the WPC conference in New Orleans last week, Microsoft announced the pricing options for the Azure platform. Check out some additional information from Visual Studio Magazine article. .NET Pricing in the Cloud -- Visual Studio Magazine Continue

Added by Petri I. Salonen on July 24, 2009 at 12:22pm — No Comments

Don't Tell Eric Schmidt Google Won't Make Money from Chrome OS

Got to love the competition... Google has not figured out how to make money with Chrome OS.. and I am sure many ISVs are also trying to figure out what it means... Don't Tell Eric Schmidt Google Won't Make Money from Chrome OS Read on... Continue

Added by Petri I. Salonen on July 24, 2009 at 12:19pm — No Comments

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