‘Competing to Win with Microsoft Business Intelligence Event'

Hayley — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:40:40 GMT

Microsoft Invites you to ‘Competing to Win with Microsoft Business Intelligence’

When: Friday 28th November 2008

Where: Microsoft Reading offices, Thames Valley Park, RG6 1WG UK Directions

Why should I attend?

Get the latest updates on the Microsoft Business Intelligence stack from the technical and sales perspective

Find out how you can sell more successfully to your customers with this complete and user friendly Business Intelligence

Agenda

Morning Sessions will include;

BI Conference 2008 & SQL Server 2008 Launch Update, How to win against the competition with the Microsoft BI stack

Who are my Microsoft BI team, and what are the resources available to me??

Afternoon session are split into two streams; Sales & Technical and will include;

The Microsoft Data Platform (SQL Server) – How to compete & win

The Performance Management Battleground – Winning with PerformancePoint Server

Should I be attending?

If you are; Sales Manager/Director, Direct Sales, Pre-Sales technical consultants

What do I do next???

Follow the link below to register your attendance to this event, places are limited so sign up now, registration closes on Friday 21^st November

Please include ‘Competing to Win with Microsoft Business Intelligence’ in the title of your mail along with your contact details and whether you are Sales or Technical.

Register Now!

Second Shot for SQL server 2008 exams..

Hayley — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:29:00 GMT

Microsoft SQL Server 2008

Learn about new features in SQL Server 2008—including security, administration, and performance—with a free e-book offer from Microsoft Press.
View this offer and more

Launch of SQL Server 2008...What the press have to say.....

Hayley — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:51:59 GMT

''Microsoft finally kicked its SQL Server 2008 out the door Wednesday, falling in line with its plan to release an update every three years. With the new offering, Microsoft has decoupled the dependencies with other product releases and even some key features.''

New Training for BI .......

Hayley — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:25:24 GMT

The Partner Readiness team is pleased to announce the delivery schedule of the following courses. Please pass this information on to your partners and ask them to enrol as soon as possible.

Please note – more courses will be scheduled if there is sufficient demand. There is a charge to attend all technical courses, please follow the link for each course for more details.

1. SQL Server 2008 Database Infrastructure and Scalability

https://training.partner.microsoft.com/plc/search_adv.aspx?ssid=609fbc78-d2c6-4d99-b335-3ee759b12713&site=UK&lang=en-uk

This three-day training course will help database administrators understand how to exploit the new performance, scalability, manageability and high-availability enhancements introduced in SQL Server 2008. Attendees will also learn how to exploit these capabilities, ensure application scalability and how to manage a database using new SQL Server 2008 features.

Delivery dates scheduled so far are:

11^th August, London

10th September, London

19th Jan, Altrincham

2. Introduction to SQL Server 2008 BI Solution Development

https://training.partner.microsoft.com/plc/search_adv.aspx?ssid=c490cfa6-8115-4087-ae8a-d20a5e0f329b&site=UK&lang=en-uk

This three day course is designed to give developers the confidence to tackle a BI project, and the content is equally relevant to SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008. This should be attended by developers who are new to the Microsoft BI platform, not those who are familiar with BI development but wish to update their knowledge to SQL Server 2008.

Delivery dates scheduled so far are:

29^th September, Maidenhead

19^th Jan, Altrincham

26^th Jan, Maidenhead

3. Essential SQL Server 2008 Business Intelligence for Developers

https://training.partner.microsoft.com/plc/search_adv.aspx?ssid=7138c764-6eee-40b4-80f9-cf2757aee150&site=UK&lang=en-uk

This two day course is targeted at experienced BI developers (or those who have completed the Introduction to SQL Server 2008 BI Solution Development course above) and wish to learn how to exploit the new features of SQL Server 2008 in their BI applications.

These dates have been scheduled to allow students to attend both BI courses in the same week if they are interested.

1^st October, Maidenhead

22^nd Jan, Altrincham

29^th Jan, Maidenhead

4. Implementing and Maintaining Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Course

https://training.partner.microsoft.com/plc/search.aspx?ssid=65D24292D1FB4969A219B1CBB79949E6

This is a residential, intensive and compressed course intended for those partners who want to get a head start on the SharePoint certifications.

· Ten days compressed into five

· Training for 12+ hours a day

· Residential course, with 24 hour availability of labs and instructor

· Exams taken during the week

Note - These are the last two deliveries that we will subsidise of this course, so if your partners are interested please ask them to sign up as soon as possible.

28^th September (registration, course starts on 29^th September), Oxfordshire

7^th December (registration, course starts on 8^th December), Oxfordshire

5. Microsoft® Office PerformancePoint™ Server 2007 Technical Training

https://training.partner.microsoft.com/plc/search_adv.aspx?ssid=f017ef3d-db86-44e9-b11b-bf9c3e219a3c&site=UK&lang=en-uk

This four day instructor-led workshop provides students with the knowledge and skills to architect and build Business Intelligence solutions using Microsoft® Office PerformancePoint Server 2007. This session covers both Monitoring and Analytics and Planning.

9^th September, London

25^th November, Altrincham

Note – These are the last two deliveries we will subsidise of this course, so if your partners are interested please ask them to sign up as soon as possible. We are expecting to schedule a five day advanced PerformancePoint course, with deliveries starting in October. When this is scheduled it will be announced as usual.

6. Developing with SharePoint Server 2007

https://training.partner.microsoft.com/plc/search_adv.aspx?ssid=4a3278dc-371b-41bc-81f7-6f53188b5100

This course explores the development opportunities with Microsoft’s most recent release of SharePoint Products and Technologies. The first half of the course focuses on Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS) where you will learn how develop fundamental WSS building blocks such as features, application pages, site pages, Web Parts, custom list types, site columns, content types and custom workflow programs. The second half of the course focuses on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS). You will learn how to assemble and configure business solutions by using and extending the portal and web content management features of MOSS as well as other server-side services such as the Business Data Catalog, Forms Services, Excel Services and Report Center.

20^th October, London

8^th December, Altrincham

9^th Feb, London

27^th April, London

7. Developers Guide To Web Content Management

https://training.partner.microsoft.com/plc/search_adv.aspx?ssid=6d49d9f3-a95c-4f4d-8a30-da2c3299bec0&site=UK&lang=en-uk

This five day training course is designed to provide SharePoint developers with the basic and intermediate information and skills they need to extend, customize, and deploy a Web content management (WCM) publishing site implementation. The primary audience for this course is SharePoint developers who are responsible for the successful implementation of a WCM site.

More dates to be scheduled, current dates are:

10^th November, Leicestershire.

The deliveries below are still being scheduled and will be announced as usual when this is complete.

8. Essential SQL Server 2008 for Developers, 13^th October, London. This is a new, two day course. More deliveries will follow.

9. BPIO University: the first delivery is due 22^nd September. This will use the new 2 day course material.

10. Groove Technical training: one day Groove course, first delivery planned for October.

11. Voice Ignite: five day Unified Comms course, first delivery provisionally planned for October/November.

12. Remember we also have MPT sales decks available, for delivery on the partner’s site:

· SharePoint (The Product, BI, Unified Comms and Collaboration, ECM) - Training for Telesales Staff and Solution Sales staff

· Unified Comms - Training for Telesales Staff and Solution Sales staff

· Selling the Microsoft Business Intelligence Solution - Training for Solution Sales staff

More information can be found on the New Partner Facing Learning Website. The new site is not a change to the way you make bookings, but more a tool to help your partners discover what training is available. By clicking on course descriptions partners can search for courses using products, or audience type. This then shows a complete filtered list of courses that might be of interest to them.

The site can be found at: https://sharepoint.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/sites/Channel%20Academy/default.aspx

If your partners have any problems enrolling, please ask them to contact our helpdesk on 0870 8509442, or by email on ukplcsup@microsoft.com.

Clinic 6258: New Features Of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services

Hayley — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:38:26 GMT

I have been asked recently about the launch of SQL Server 2008 Reporting services, and thought it would be ideal to share some of the training available to partners around this. It is a one hour course to be completed at your leisure.

Details are:

Objectives:
At the end of the course, students will be able to:

This online course addresses several of the new features and functionality of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services
It includes the new Microsoft Report Designer
A look at the the innovate tablix data region
Enhancements in visualisation through improved charting and gauges
Exploration of new administration and management features are also explored