Anith Gopal

 TOGA (Tampa Office Geeks Association) meeting this April 6, @ the Microsoft Office in Tampa.   Shane Holloman, a senior solution development consultant for Microsoft, will provide an overview and some demonstration of Microsoft InfoPath 2010 enhancements specific to building rich form based applications on the Microsoft SharePoint 2010 platform.

It’s official – Arpan Shah posted news on the SharePoint Team Blog that SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 will be launched on May 12, 2010. Register to join the virtual launch event with Stephen Elop, President of Microsoft Business Division, at 11am EST on the 12th of May. Stay tuned for information on other launch events in a city near you.

Hi… since I was asked a lot about quite recently, here is a link to Holger Sirtl’s book on the cloud and Windows Azure in special: “Cloud Computing mit der Windows Azure Platform” by Holger Sirtl, MS Press, ISBN 978-3-86645-533-7 for €39,90 http://www.amazon.de/Computing-Windows-Platform-Softwareentwicklung-mit-Windows-Azure-den-Azure-Services/dp/386645533X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267780646&sr=8-1   CU 0xff

What’s something we all do every day? Other than getting up, brushing teeth, going to work, etc, we all use a search engine to find and consume information on a variety of topics.

This post is not spam or malware related at all.  I just thought that I’d point out that Canada won the gold medal in men’s hockey today at the Olympics.  What a great day for Canada!

From my experience I often think the people your customers trust the most are your engineers – your tech guys.  The “techies”, as we affectionately call them, are often seen to be straight shooters who tell it like it is, unlike sales guys who can be perceived to be giving advice that’s biased towards making a particular sale. Often it’s around your engineers that customers will let down their guard and tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.  Therefore it’s important to make sure engineers are alert and know how to respond when a customer is making a genuine plea to fix their pain.  It’s important your engineers know how to identify, explore and report back an opportunity.  They can become an extended sales force and really drive further revenue opportunities

Hi all, This is to let you know it will be my last post on this blog. I’m leaving Microsoft and the Microsoft CRM business for now and will work for another Software Editor.

I’ll be at Boston WebsiteSpark Meetup next week (2/24) to meet with interested web devs and designers.  Reminder: WebsiteSpark is Microsoft’s offering to enable the success of Web developers and designers by driving new business opportunities, offering support and training, and providing software to jumpstart their work. Microsoft BizSpark has been a huge success in enabling software startups since we launched it 1.5 years ago.  Likewise, WebsiteSpark is providing similar support but also provide a connection to customers. I’ll talk about a few of the promotional offers we are offering on top of the program

Useful list of SaaS accounting offerings from Dennis Howlett it is a bit of a Heinz 57

Useful list of SaaS accounting offerings from Dennis Howlett it is a bit of a Heinz 57

During our November TopVAR road shows we ran a competition to win an Xbox pack – you just had to download and use the Customer Insights Tool and summarise in an email how it could benefit your business.

Great news, the GPCRM adapter is now supported for locales outside of the USA. Check out the new functionality: · New CRM Adapter Configuration Window showing all customizable CRM entities and allow user selection · Updated Log User Interface and Functionality 1. Ability to group by any column header 2