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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>The Amazing Adventures of Geek Girl : compete</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/tara/archive/tags/compete/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: compete</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)</generator><item><title>Information Worker Compete Day - 27th Jan 2009</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/tara/archive/2009/01/15/information-worker-compete-day-27th-jan-2009.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:34:53 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3182721</guid><dc:creator>tara</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.technet.com/tara/comments/3182721.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.technet.com/tara/commentrss.aspx?PostID=3182721</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;Do you wish you had more information about how to convince customers using or considering a competitor's product that your Microsoft offering is the better choice? Check out the following event. There's still time to register to attend - details below:&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/blogfiles/tara/WindowsLiveWriter/InformationWorkerCompeteDay27thJan2009_86B5/clip_image001_2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="183" alt="clip_image001" src="http://blogs.technet.com/blogfiles/tara/WindowsLiveWriter/InformationWorkerCompeteDay27thJan2009_86B5/clip_image001_thumb.jpg" width="244" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;To register for this event, visit the &lt;a href="https://training.partner.microsoft.com/plc/search_adv.aspx?ssid=2C36B2848ED9430BA0C6770F7ACA6FA4&amp;amp;site=UK&amp;lang;=en-uk"&gt;Microsoft Partner Training Registration&lt;/a&gt; site.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;If your customers are still running Lotus Notes in their environment or are interested in deploying Google Apps or Open Office, this seminar is for you! When customers use or consider using any of these offerings, your ability to continue selling all areas of the Microsoft offering is at risk. In this event, you will see the sales strategies used by IBM and Google as well as how Microsoft counters from a position of strength. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The following topics will be covered during these events:&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;#183; Overview of the &lt;b&gt;new IBM, Google Apps, and Open Office sales strategies&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;and technologies for FY09&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;#183; &lt;b&gt;Updated demos of competitors&amp;#8217; technologies&lt;/b&gt; and how they compare with the Microsoft platform &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;#183; Training on the sales approach to counter IBM, Google Apps, and Open Office in your customer accounts&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;#183; Training on the new &lt;b&gt;Notes Transition Framework&lt;/b&gt; to provide an end-to-end playbook for helping customers migrate from Lotus Notes to Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and Office SharePoint&lt;sup&gt;&amp;#174;&lt;/sup&gt; Server 2007&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;#183; Training on the &lt;b&gt;Business Value Analyzer Suite&lt;/b&gt; to develop a business justification deliverable tailored to your customers&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;#183; Insight into Microsoft Office 14 themes&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;To register for this event, visit the &lt;a href="http://www.msidatechtraining.com"&gt;Microsoft Partner Training Registration&lt;/a&gt;. For more information, please contact Garry Corcoran via email at garycorc@microsoft.com.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Winning with the Microsoft Information Worker Platform&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Date and Location:&lt;/b&gt; 27&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; January 2009&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Microsoft Reading     &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;Microsoft Campus    &lt;br /&gt;Thames Valley Park    &lt;br /&gt;Reading RG6 1WG    &lt;br /&gt;Tel: 0870 60 10 100&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;You can get directions and more details on how to reach our Thames Valley Park, Reading office &lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/uk/about/map-reading.mspx"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;To register for this event, visit the &lt;a href="https://training.partner.microsoft.com/plc/search_adv.aspx?ssid=2C36B2848ED9430BA0C6770F7ACA6FA4&amp;amp;site=UK&amp;lang;=en-uk"&gt;Microsoft Partner Training Registration&lt;/a&gt; site.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/blogfiles/tara/WindowsLiveWriter/InformationWorkerCompeteDay27thJan2009_86B5/clip_image002_2.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="31" alt="clip_image002" src="http://blogs.technet.com/blogfiles/tara/WindowsLiveWriter/InformationWorkerCompeteDay27thJan2009_86B5/clip_image002_thumb.gif" width="126" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3182721" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/tara/archive/tags/compete/default.aspx">compete</category><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/tara/archive/tags/office+14/default.aspx">office 14</category></item></channel></rss>