Michael Porter

Our own Rich Wood spoke at the SharePoint Conference.  Many think of Yammer as only for employees of a specific company but as Rich points out, that’s limiting the technology.   Microsoft actually created a network just for the conference.  This is available to all Yammer users who are attendees of the conference.  That’s one […]

Juliet Wei and Christopher Fiessinger, Microsoft Product Managers gave us a look into where Enterprise Social is headed.   Given the many questions on deeper integration between SharePoint and Yammer plus hoped for enhancements made this a packed session, even if it was the end of the day. They put the agenda as: Work like […]

Rob Lamear, presented on the pros and cons of on-premise vs cloud.  Rather than give a one size fits all answer, he started with a series of questions and points to consider.  His first question was  on who is still running on premise: Most of the audience raised their hands.  Gartner says however that 2016 […]

This is going to be a hard hitting session with lots of stats and lots of new features delivered rapid fire.  Hence my heavy use of bullets. 30% of all IT spending will be in the cloud by 2020.  It’s IT as a service.  Keep in mind, SharePoint is one product but there are many […]

Micorosft wants to partner with you.  It’s about trust, control, and the cloud onramp. Platform changes Deliver rock solid platform whether it’s on-premise or in the cloud Will do a 2015 release of SharePoint and Exchange But Cloud remains a key focus Stats 250K responses per second 400K cores 400 Petabytes of storage 20% growth […]

Quote: Norwegian write code like they win medals…………. More per person than any other country in the world.  But first some stats: 3.4 million developers build solutions around SharePoint Microsoft has two key missions in the developer community Give organizations maximum agility to meet business needs Give partners the biggest opportunity Contextual applications When building […]

Transforming work is a key theme at the conference and they spent time developing it.. The little things add up. By small means great things come to pass. Four trends that change the way people get things done. Cloud Social Mobile Big Data Microsoft has four core beliefs Future of work is about working Same […]

President Bill Clinton was the 42nd president of the US.   He also runs the Clinton Global Initiative. Short video on the Clinton Foundation Microsoft has been a key partner to the Clinton Foundation. They have been a part of the Global Initiative for 8 years. Microsoft’s commitments to CGI is 36 pages long When President […]

Tom Wentworth at CMSWiRE has a short but very interesting article on collaboration between the Chief Marketing Office and the Chief Information Officer.  He engages you at the beginning with the reasons why the two roles are blurring.  I personally know of one CIO who also wears the CMO hat. …today’s marketers have a required […]

I’ve ranted a couple times about the gaping hole that is database in the cloud.  I say that not because I don’t like Azure’s cloud service in SQL Server or Amazon’s db service.  I say it because on premise solutions that run on a database don’t have an easy way to migrate to the cloud […]

Thanks to the Marketing Tech Blog for a reference to a cool “Future of Mobile” info graphic by Three. It’s UK focused but still a nice summary of mobile.  I especially like the internet use via mobile devices now and in 2025.  Click to get to the entire info graphic.           […]

Thanks for John Spyers for pointing this out to me.  I’ve heard a lot lately about the “contextual” experience.  By that I mean, an up to the minute completely personalized experience based on more than just what a company knows about you.  Now you can take into account all of the usual items like how […]