Wir sprachen mit Thomas Groß, dem Geschäftsführer von evidanza . ReadyBlog: Herr Groß, Sie stellen auf der diesjährigen Microsoft BI-Konferenz eine Lösung vor, die Sie bei Spitz Österreich umgesetzt haben. Was zeichnet diese aus und welche Hürden mussten dabei genommen werden? TGroß: Die BI-Lösung, die wir bei Spitz umgesetzt haben, ist vollständig in Microsoft Dynamics integriert. Das bringt im Vergleich zu nicht integrierten BI-Lösungen große Vorteile im Bezug auf Einführungszeiten, Kosten, Controllingqualität

Its EASY! When you register for our TechNet Virtualization Tour , simply type your friend’s name in the Referral Code field. When you check in at the event, both you and your friend must be present and you will both receive a copy of the book. Official Rules: Government employees are not eligible for promotion. Both parties must be present to win. If onsite supply runs out book will be mailed to individuals. See you all at the events.

Sometimes we forget what MSDN really stands for. And for sure “MS” is not the most important part of the acronym. MS D evelopers N etwork. The Devs4Devs event in South Africa that I had a pleasure to participate today – was an amazing proof that networking of technical community is the key to success (and not only to it). What I liked about the event – is that the majority of questions to presenters were answered by people from the auditorium (not only presenters!). Implication #1 The local experts

Since I just mentioned Andy Malone, one of our MVPs , I should also say that he got a session together in Berlin to talk about our “Most Valued Professional” program and asked me to to join the panel, which had two MVPs, an would-be MVP, an Ex-MVP working for Microsoft Greece, and two other Microsoft people who deal with MVPs. If you wonder what we’re talking about when we mention MVPs or think you might like to be one , this is well worth a listen   tweetmeme_style = 'compact'; tweetmeme_url

Following on from yesterday’s post on the Appliance Test Drive, for those of you interested in learning more, there’s a webcast scheduled that should give you all the information you need.  Here are the details: MGT49PAL: VHD Test Drive Program allows Partners to Distribute Virtual Appliances for Evaluation, Training and Demo Purposes Presented by:  Vipul Shah and Volker Will Thursday, 3rd December 2009 – 17:00-18:00 GMT Attend this Academy Live session to learn about the VHD Test Drive

Not only the truth, but also the name of the event I participated in Nairobi, Kenya on Nov 25. Emmanuel, Stewart, team thanks a lot for making this happening! What I really liked about the event - is the feeling of a real hunger for information from the community. What I didn’t like – is that I got another prove that we, as Microsoft, are not doing a good job informing out tech guys about the ways of getting information. I heard a lot of these from the audience: “what do you mean I can download it

ReadyBlog: Herr Zeiler, die Microsoft BI Konferenz findet dieses Jahr zum dritten Mal statt und Sie waren mit actinium consulting immer mit dabei. Wie fühlen Sie sich als „Veteran“ – oder anders gefragt: was erwarten Sie sich von der Veranstaltung? Gregor Zeiler (Geschäftsführer actinium consulting , im Bild): Nicht nur die Teilnahme an den bisherigen BI-Konferenzen, sondern auch die langjährige Partnerschaft verbindet uns mit Microsoft. Da schwingt für mich auch viel Erfahrung mit dem Wort „Veteran“

Come and see us! The Microsoft Small Business team would love to meet you at Business Startup , Olympia, London on 26 or 27 November. We’ll have Windows 7 on display so you can have a look at some of the great new features and try it out for yourself. You’ll also find our colleagues from Office Live if you want to have a chat about a free website – yes, it is free. They can tell you about Office Live Workspace as well, which offers 5 GB of free online storage, providing access to documents from any

When I was at Tech-ed in Berlin a couple of weeks ago I recorded an interview with Andy Malone, one of our MVPs, as a follow-up the session he ran on cybercrime. The results have now been posted , and apart from wishing the camera crew had told me just how awful I looked on camera I think it’s quite a good interview – my job when I do these interviews is to try get the “guest” to talk about what they know, and not show how much I know , this is Andy’s specialist subject, so it wasn’t hard to do.

Todd Mancini has posted the presentations from our “Realizing SharePoint as a Development Platform” event here on his blog . Please stop by Todd’s blog to check these slides out. If you’re going to be in Rochester, NY on December 9 please register and attend the event there.