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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://blogs.technet.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Time to Reflect : partner</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/koen_daems/archive/tags/partner/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: partner</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)</generator><item><title>Document Interop Initiative</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/koen_daems/archive/2008/12/02/3162948.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:39:54 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3162948</guid><dc:creator>Koen Daems</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.technet.com/koen_daems/comments/3162948.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.technet.com/koen_daems/commentrss.aspx?PostID=3162948</wfw:commentRss><description>Today, I was introduced in the for me totally unknown world of Document Interop Initiative (DII).&amp;#160; This was during an DII workshop at the Microsoft Executive Briefing Center (EBC) for both customers and partners/competitors. For info on this initiative,...(&lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/koen_daems/archive/2008/12/02/3162948.aspx"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3162948" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/koen_daems/archive/tags/partner/default.aspx">partner</category><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/koen_daems/archive/tags/DII/default.aspx">DII</category><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/koen_daems/archive/tags/Microsoft/default.aspx">Microsoft</category></item><item><title>Exam help for Performance Point Server</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/koen_daems/archive/2008/10/24/3141342.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:04:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3141342</guid><dc:creator>Koen Daems</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.technet.com/koen_daems/comments/3141342.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.technet.com/koen_daems/commentrss.aspx?PostID=3141342</wfw:commentRss><description>Help partners attain the Performance Management Specialization by promoting the upcoming ExamCram&amp;#160; Webcast! This 1 ½ hour session will cover the preparation materials partners should consume to prepare for the Performance Management exam. In addition,...(&lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/koen_daems/archive/2008/10/24/3141342.aspx"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3141342" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/koen_daems/archive/tags/business+intelligence/default.aspx">business intelligence</category><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/koen_daems/archive/tags/partner/default.aspx">partner</category><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/koen_daems/archive/tags/competency/default.aspx">competency</category><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/koen_daems/archive/tags/PerformancePoint+Server/default.aspx">PerformancePoint Server</category><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/koen_daems/archive/tags/Microsoft/default.aspx">Microsoft</category></item><item><title>New Partner competencies available now</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/koen_daems/archive/2008/06/25/new-partner-competencies-available-now.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:45:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3077850</guid><dc:creator>Koen Daems</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.technet.com/koen_daems/comments/3077850.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.technet.com/koen_daems/commentrss.aspx?PostID=3077850</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;U&gt;The New Business Intelligence and Unified Communications Competencies Have Launched!&lt;/U&gt;&lt;/B&gt; &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Announcing the launch of the new &lt;A href="https://partner.microsoft.com/US/program/competencies/msppbusinessintelligence" mce_href="https://partner.microsoft.com/US/program/competencies/msppbusinessintelligence"&gt;Business Intelligence Competency&lt;/A&gt; and the new &lt;A href="https://partner.microsoft.com/US/program/competencies/msppunifiedcommunications" mce_href="https://partner.microsoft.com/US/program/competencies/msppunifiedcommunications"&gt;Unified Communications Solutions Competency&lt;/A&gt;!&amp;nbsp; The Partner Portal went live last week in 15 languages, on 63 portals worldwide.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;This was a significant, customer demand-driven launch.&amp;nbsp; It improved alignment of the Partner Program with&lt;B&gt;&lt;I&gt; &lt;/I&gt;&lt;/B&gt;these key strategic growth areas of the business, and will accelerate our growth into these highly competi&amp;shy;tive markets.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; We can now better align, segment and enable our partners to deliver industry-leading BI&lt;B&gt;&lt;I&gt; &lt;/I&gt;&lt;/B&gt;and UC solutions to our customers. &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;The BI Compentency has been split into the platform specialization, and the performance management specialization. &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;IMG height=138 alt=image src="http://blogs.technet.com/blogfiles/koen_daems/WindowsLiveWriter/NewPartnercompetenciesavailablenow_CEF1/image_5.png" width=553 mce_src="http://blogs.technet.com/blogfiles/koen_daems/WindowsLiveWriter/NewPartnercompetenciesavailablenow_CEF1/image_5.png"&gt; &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;For UC you can find the following specializations: &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;IMG height=210 alt=image src="http://blogs.technet.com/blogfiles/koen_daems/WindowsLiveWriter/NewPartnercompetenciesavailablenow_CEF1/image_6.png" width=553 mce_src="http://blogs.technet.com/blogfiles/koen_daems/WindowsLiveWriter/NewPartnercompetenciesavailablenow_CEF1/image_6.png"&gt; &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;If you're a (potential) Microsoft partner with interest in BI or UC, go and have a look! &lt;/P&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3077850" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/koen_daems/archive/tags/unified+communications/default.aspx">unified communications</category><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/koen_daems/archive/tags/business+intelligence/default.aspx">business intelligence</category><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/koen_daems/archive/tags/partner/default.aspx">partner</category><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/koen_daems/archive/tags/competency/default.aspx">competency</category><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/koen_daems/archive/tags/Microsoft/default.aspx">Microsoft</category></item></channel></rss>