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Partner Sales/Presales Readiness Workshop

IW UK Partner Team — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 17:07:18 GMT

The Business Productivity Infrastructure Optimization (BPIO) Partner Sales/Presales Readiness Workshop is a 2-day in-depth, instructor-led sales readiness workshop for SI and ISV partners.

This training will help partners understand:

how to develop customer conversations around the new 2007 Microsoft Office system
how to sell using the BPIO customer campaign tools
Unified Communications & Collaboration, Enterprise Content Management and Business Intelligence
Microsoft marketing strategies, field priorities, and technology capability training
how to execute their own customer campaigns and selling activities independently

Currently there is availability on 22 Jan; 25 Jan; 29 Jan and 1 Feb.

To register, click here or visit the Partner Learning Centre and search for course ID 44Wk001 or ‘BPIO’. Let me know if you have any issues enrolling by emailing AskIW@microsoft.com.

UK Partner 2007 Office system Courses

IW UK Partner Team — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 21:39:45 GMT

We still have spare capacity on our 2007 Microsoft Office System course deliveries in December and January for UK Partners.

2007 Microsoft Office System Core Training (2 days): For more details and to enrol, click here: www.microsoft.com/uk/partner/readiness/2007OfficeCore
2007 Microsoft Office System ECM and Forms Workshop (1 day): For more details and to enrol, click here: www.microsoft.com/uk/partner/readiness/2007ECM
2007 Microsoft Office System Performance Management Workshop ( 2 days): For more information and to enrol, click here: www.microsoft.com/uk/partner/readiness/2007PerfManagement
2007 Microsoft Office System Portals and Collaboration Workshop (1 day): For more information and to enrol, click here: www.microsoft.com/uk/partner/readiness/2007Portals
2007 Microsoft Office System Unified Communication Workshop (1 day): For more information and to enrol, click here: www.microsoft.com/uk/partner/readiness/2007UnifiedComms
2007 Microsoft Office System Enterprise Search (I day): click here for more information: http://www.microsoft.com/uk/partner/readiness/2007entsearch

PerformancePoint Server CTP1 announced!

IW UK Partner Team — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 15:38:57 GMT

Microsoft announced earlier in the week the release of the first community technology preview (CTP) for its integrated performance management application Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007. Scheduled for general availability in mid-2007, Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 brings together next-generation monitoring, analytics and planning capabilities in a complete performance management application. Beginning today, customers can visit http://connect.microsoft.com/site/sitehome.aspx?siteid=181 to download the first bits of code and test the product’s capabilities in a real-world business environment.

Office PerformancePoint Server CTP 1 will combine the planning, budgeting, forecasting and financial consolidation capabilities of the product code-named “BizSharp” and the scorecarding functionality of Microsoft Office Business Scorecard Manager Server 2005. CTP 2, scheduled for early 2007, will incorporate the functionality of CTP 1 and analytics from ProClarity 6.2. Microsoft plans to release either one or two additional CTPs before the general availability of the product scheduled for mid-2007.

“We continue to invest in our business intelligence solution to bridge the gap between people and the information needed to drive business success,” said Chris Capossela, corporate vice president of Microsoft Business Division. “Today’s milestone brings us one step closer to our goal of enabling decision support and superior performance management across the enterprise.”

More information: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/performancepoint/

Slides from Collaborative Business Intelligence Partner Networking Event

IW UK Partner Team — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 10:39:00 GMT

I promised Partners attending the Collaborative Business Intelligence event on 25 July 2006 that I would post the link to our slides as soon as they were uploaded. They are now available on the Microsoft Partner Portal Events page: http://www.microsoft.com/uk/partner/events/presentations/

Posted by Christian.

Collaborative Business Intelligence Networking Event

IW UK Partner Team — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 20:10:00 GMT

Join us for this one day briefing on Collaborative Business Intelligence - understand the business opportunity, gain access to resources available to grow your business and network with other Partners.

This day will show our Partners how to develop your business in this solution area. Training can help you to gain the skills. Marketing support can help you to create demand. Resources are there to help you to win business.

One of the focal points of this event is to provide the opportunity for Partners to network with other Partners with the potential for building joint business solutions. Partners can book a number of meetings with other delegates to discuss potential alliances.

To register, please follow these two steps:
1) Register with Microsoft, clicking here or telephone: 0870 166 6680 Ref 2205
2) Register for Structured Networking with Business nCounter, by clicking here.

Posted by Christian.

Strategy Maps for Business Scorecard Manager 2005

IW UK Partner Team — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 17:29:00 GMT

Strategy Maps for Business Scorecard Manager 2005

Customers who need integrated Strategy Maps in conjunction with Business Scorecard Manager may find an answer with this new application. KpiDraw is a new BSM module, which allows customers to build KPIs in Visio and bring existing BSM KPIs into their Visio Strategy Maps.

Click here to download the module.

Posted by Christian.

IW Opportunity Seminar webcasts now available for download

IW UK Partner Team — Tue, 30 May 2006 18:14:00 GMT

For those of you who missed the IW Team's IW Opportunity Seminars that took place during May, you can now download the webcasts via the IW Micro site.

The webcasts are short, to the point, sessions that give an overview of the current and potential opportunities that exist within each of the IW specialist areas and are well worth a view!

Remember, any questions you have about any aspect of IW can be sent to the IW team at askiw@microsoft.com.

Posted by Katy

New! Business Scorecard Manager 2005 Classroom and Online Training

IW UK Partner Team — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 13:02:00 GMT

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Classroom: Building Scorecards with Microsoft Office Business Scorecard Manager 2005 (click here for more info)

19 April, London (click here to register)

18 May, London (click here to register)

16 June, London (click here to register)

Online Training:

New this week! BSM for business decision makers
New this week! Deploying Scorecards to SharePoint
Introduction to Business Scorecard Manager
BSM Builder Fundamentals
BSM Builder Advanced
Report Views
Scorecard Views
Deploying Scorecards to SQL Reporting Services
BSM Server & Security
Extensibility

Posted by: Christian.

3 Dates Announced for Business Scorecard Manager 2005 Technical Training

IW UK Partner Team — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 23:59:00 GMT

Building Scorecards with Microsoft Office Business Scorecard Manager 2005
www.microsoft.com/uk/partner/readiness/technical/bsm

This one day 100% subsidised course holds 12 delegates, so please book as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.

3 dates are currently available:

19 April, London

18 May, London

16 June, London

Summary
Identifying, monitoring, and managing the critical indicators that improve business performance are some of the biggest challenges facing companies today. Today, we have the ability to leverage this business practice with Microsoft Office Business Scorecards Manager 2005 (BSM), a comprehensive scorecarding application that provides all employees with deep contextual insight into business drivers.

BSM provides the tools and collaborative platform for a pragmatic, low-risk, complete Business Performance Management strategy for high impact and fast results. It helps companies make sense of their business data by putting it within the context of key performance indicators. By using familiar tools such as Office and SharePoint Portal Server, companies can leverages the skills, technology, and investments they have already made so that they will get more value for less cost, time, and risk.

Objectives

Design BSM scorecards

Develop BSM scorecards

Deploy BSM scorecards

How to register:

Telephone: 0870 166 6670

www.microsoft.com/uk/partner/readiness/technical/bsm

Posted by Christian.