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Efficient Data Center Cooling - Intel Chip Chat - Episode 31

editor — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 09:27:01 +0000

Increasing data center density elevates the importance of the right cooling technology. Listen in to learn what Intel’s Eco-Technology team recommends for efficient cooling.

Tags: data center, Intel, Eco-Technology

Intel Centrino2: C.T. Phone Home!

Catherine Girardeau — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 04:01:00 +0000

Intel’s new, next-generation Centrino platform, Centrino2 and Centrino2 with vPro, is coming soon to a laptop near you. In this video from the vPro Expert Center, Josh Hilliker, vPro Expert Center’s Community Manager, along with Brian Tucker, Mobile Platforms Marketing Manager, and Senior Systems Engineer Todd Christ, give an sneak peek into Centrino2’s remarkable remote management capabilities, using a combination of Client-Initiated Remote Access (CIRA), and the recently-updated Active Management Technology (AMT) 4.0. Centrino2 with vPro can “phone home” for updates, assistance, or crisis management — even when it’s outside the corporate network, and IT Managers can access it for updates, software patches, troubleshooting, and hardware repair — even when it’s in “sleep” mode.

Tags: AMT, Brian Tucker, centrino, Centrino2, Centrino2 with vPro, CIRA, Intel, Josh Hilliker, Todd Christ, vpro

What’s New: Empowering your sales force, SAVO Group

Cydni Tetro — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:00:38 +0000

John O’Donnell, a Microsoft Dynamics ISV Architect Evangelist with Microsoft, met with Drew at Convergence 2008 to talk about the challenge of making a Dynamics CRM solution compelling for sales people and how his company’s product (SAVO) can help drive Dynamics CRM usage by making important sales information easy to find, manipulate and rate and therefore encourage sales professionals to access and update Dynamics CRM each day.

Tags: CRM, John O’Donnell, Microsoft Dynamics, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, S + S, SAAS, SAVO Group, USISV

Research@Intel Day: A Feast for the Senses

Jason Lopez — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:10:55 +0000

Intel’s invitation-only event at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., showed off the company’s diverse research projects in areas like visual computing, health, life sciences, green-friendly technologies, and wireless, to name a few. “Intel scientists can propose research on any topic they envision a solution for,” said Manny Vara, Intel’s technology marketing director at Intel’s R&D Labs. “It can start when a scientist comes across a problem, even outside of work, and says, ‘Hey, I could do something about that.’” Intel scientists have engaged in diverse research projects from digital money to mobile antennas that provide access to cell phone services in developing regions of the world. This year’s Research@Intel Day featured more than 70 projects.

Tags: Intel, visual computing, Manny Vara, digital money, mobile antennas, Research@Intel Day, Research@Intel

What’s New: Logotec Bringing Mobility to CRM

Cydni Tetro — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:12:31 +0000

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 is a three-tier application that can help organizations manage front office processes, such as sales, marketing, and customer service, and serve as a development platform for business applications in different industry verticals. The platform aspects let you focus on your core needs by providing you rapid development toolkit, well documented SDK, outlook integration including offline access, mobile support, scalability including multi-tenancy, globalization support including multi-language & multi-currency, and power of choice when it comes to choosing deployment options. Sanjay Jain, ISV Architect Evangelist, speaks with Michal Klaja, CTO and Mark Frederiksen, BDM at Logotec Engineering to discuss their experience of adopting Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Platform to provide a Software + Service based Mobile solution to Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 users.

Tags: Business Application Platform, Logotec Engineering, Mark Frederiksen, Michal Klaja, Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0, Mobile@Connector, S+S, Sanjay Jain, USISV

What’s New: Cincom Implementing Dynamics CRM

Cydni Tetro — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:33:27 +0000

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 is a three-tier application that can help organizations manage front office processes, such as sales, marketing, and customer service, and serve as a development platform for business applications in different industry verticals. The platform aspects let you focus on your core needs by providing you rapid development toolkit, well documented SDK, outlook integration including offline access, mobile support, scalability including multi-tenancy, globalization support including multi-language & multi-currency, and power of choice when it comes to choosing deployment options. Sanjay Jain, ISV Architect Evangelist with Microsoft , speaks with Dan Nicholas, Sr. Director Product Research & Planning and Gregor Newland, Manager of Business Development & Alliances of Cincom Systems, to discuss their experience of adopting Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Platform to assist their complex manufacturing customers.

Tags: Application Platform, Cincom, Dan Nicholas, Gregor Newland, Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0, S+S, Sales and Product Configurator., Sanjay Jain, USISV

Intel Helps Developers With Multi-Threaded Software Community

editor — Wed, 21 May 2008 18:53:44 +0000

In this podcast, The Register’s Tim Phillips speaks with Intel’s Shesha Krishnapura about developers’ adoption of multi-core technology. Krishnapura sees that, while multi-core processors have been around for awhile, now is an especially exciting time for multi-threaded software, given the uptake in industry and the increasingly urgent need for the software that will help to realize the higher performance potential of multi-core. Intel is leading the effort to adopt with key software packages and developer tools that make it easier to write multi-threaded code.

To find out what Intel is doing for the community, check out the community site, “Threading for Multi-Core Developer Community.” There, Intel and the community share tools and expertise with featured articles, threading analysis tools, industry benchmarks, training, and access to Intel developers and experts, for training and best practices information.

Krishnapura is a principal engineer in the Intel Platform and Design Capability Engineering group, driving the internal engineering of High Performance Computing solutions optimized for Tapeout and Design Computing. As an architect of Intel Architecture migration program for Electronic Design Automation, Shesha is responsible for enabling IA-based optimization and adoption in EDA market by enabling application vendors and strategically influencing world-wide semiconductor customers for best-in-class design compute solutions.

Tags: Tim Phillips, Shesha Krishnapura, multi-core processors, multi-threaded software, multi-threaded code, threading analysis, High Performance Computing, Tapeout, Design Computing, Intel Architecture, Electronic Design Automation, IA, optimization, HPC, Intel, VTune, Threading Analysis, Intel Performance Libraries, Intel Threading Building Blocks, EDA

Intel Research Day: Showcase for Creativity

Paul Lancour — Tue, 20 May 2008 01:27:31 +0000

When Intel’s research teams think about the future of computing - from mobile devices with near-limitless functionality to technology for the developing world to virtual worlds and advanced robotics, they are literally mapping our future (a future that could include, for example, a cafe table with networking ability). In this podcast preview of the 2008 Research@Intel Day, to be held at the Computer History Museum in the heart of Silicon Valley, we hear from some of Intel’s key players when it comes to the next generations of technology. Hear what Intel Research is focusing on now from Andrew Chien, vice president, corporate technology group and director of Intel Research; Intel Chief Technology Officer and Director of the Corporate Technology Group Justin Rattner; and Eric Brewer, director, Intel Research Berkeley.

Research Day is a chance to check in Intel on the future impacts that its advanced chip technologies will have on human health, mobility, innovation and, of course, computing - from Terascale architecture, software and programming issues to visual computing challenges.

You can hear more from Andrew Chien, here talking about essential computing, “the vision that drives Intel Research.” Justin Rattner shares some thoughts on virtual words as a precursor to the 3D Internet, and Eric Brewer, also a professor of comptuer science at the University of California, Berkeley, talks about how research from his Berkeley lab could lead to better technologies for the developing world.

Past coverage of Research@Intel Day

Tags: virtual worlds, Research@Intel Day, Silicon Valley, Intel, Andrew Chien, Justin Rattner, Eric Brewer, mobility, Terascale, essential computing

Citizen Journalism: Evolving Relationship Between the Press and the Public

Jennifer Jones — Mon, 19 May 2008 07:01:01 +0000

Everyone has the power to participate in communication today through blogs and community groups. Many bloggers have become powerful, given the popularity of their blogs. Some have become citizen journalists - citizens who play “an active role in the process of collecting, reporting, analyzing and disseminating news.” But with millions reading their words through a medium that seems to give equal weight to traditional journalism, what does this mean for journalism, and for the code of ethics that journalists traditionally understand? Jennifer McClure is the founder and executive director of the Society for New Communications Research, a nonprofit think tank focused on the study of advanced communication tools. She spoke with Marketing Voices host Jennifer Jones about the status of citizen journalism today.

Tags: Jennifer McClure, Marketing Voices, Jennifer Jones, bloggers, citizen journalism, SNCR, social media

The Deal - Deals in the Middle Market

Jason Lopez — Thu, 15 May 2008 23:15:13 +0000

Whether you call it a credit crunch or a credit squeeze, there’s evidence to be found that the chilled climate for deals has spread from the realm of the mega-deal into the middle market. To discuss the new economic realities in deal-making, The Deal convened a panel, “Deals in the Middle Market: How do they differ in this climate?” at the recent Private Capital Symposium, held in New York City.

For this podcast, panelists Steven Rattner, managing director, DLJ Merchant Banking Partners, and James Epstein, partner, Pepper Hamilton, spoke with PodTech’s Jason Lopez.

The Deal’s Private Capital Symposium brought together private equity professionals, angel investors, buyout and venture investors, corporate acquisition professionals, M&A advisors and professional services providers. The event took place in New York’s Essex House, on May 14, 2008.

Tags: middle market, The Deal, Steven Rattner, James Epstein, Jason Lopez, The Deal, Private Capital Symposium

Fueling the Desktop Revolution with VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

editor — Wed, 14 May 2008 18:44:30 +0000

Enterprise computing has come a long way from the days of centralized mainframes in the 1970’s to the fully distributed desktops and laptops we see today. With the workplace becoming more technologically diverse and increasingly mobile, desktop IT workload grows exponentially with each new user and configuration. Is there a solution that can give IT centralized control while still providing end users with a familiar interface? Yes there is - VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure allows you to centrally deliver virtual desktops from your secure datacenter to your end users. Virtual desktops look and behave like traditional PCs. Therefore, users can still customize their desktops, download additional applications without adding to the IT support queue. VMware virtualization helps you take back control of the desktop.

This podcast features VMware Desktop Specialist Todd Dayton in an interview that dives into the architecture behind VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, applicable use cases and tips on how to get started.

The Server Virtualization Blog has a great and concise explanation of the VM value proposition in a recent post by Bridget Botelho, including links to case studies.

Tags: enterprise computing, mobility, IT, VMware, virtualization, Virtual Desktop, data center

Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff: Forrester VPs Launch Groundswell, the Book

Jennifer Jones — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:48:51 +0000

Groundswell guides companies to a winning perspective on social media and marketing. The co-authors Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff spoke with Marketing Voices about some of the companies they think are getting it right. (It’s worth hearing what they have to say about Ernst & Young, for example.).

Tags: Charlene Li, Ernst and Young, Forrester, Groundswell, Jennifer Jones, Josh Bernoff, Marketing, Marketing Voices, social media

SNWSpotlight: The Week In Review

Paul Lancour — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:30:00 +0000

It’s a busy time of year for storage folks. For the many who made it to Orlando for this show, and for those who followed online from around the world, there was plenty to learn and share, from the floor (where you might have seen this IBM System Storage on display) to the Xiotech announcement. In this podcast, an overview of the week at Storage Networking World from keynote speakers, analysts, and industry leaders.

SNWSpotlight is your source for the latest information from Storage Networking World. It’s brought to you by LSI.

Tags: storage, Xiotech, Storage Networking World, SNWSpotlight, LSI

Voices of Shanghai: IDF 2008

Jason Lopez — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:13:28 +0000

This year’s Spring IDF, in Shanghai, brought the global community of Intel developers to one of the fastest-growing cities in the world, to discuss one of the most rapidly-changing technologies, and the incredible impact that all of that change is bound to have. Intel Senior Vice President and General Manager for the Digital Enterprise Group, Pat Gelsinger, referred to Intel’s efforts broadly as “architecture for life.” If it sounds ambitious, it is.

The speed of change in the software world is daunting. In his own keynote, SVP and General Manager of the Ultra Mobility Group at Intel, Anand Chandrasekher, noted that everyone is trying to “unleash the Internet, unwire it, and make it go mobile.” Again, the words sound almost obvious, like common sense. They’re not.

It’s true that Intel specializes in bringing incredible advancements to technology on a tick-tock product development schedule that allows industries to grow and thrive. You can see in the matter of weeks and months that Intel’s efforts go from being rumor to being confirmed technological advances (like the recent Dunnington news) that the world is watching itself change in real time. It’s true that a lot of time at IDF in Shanghai was devoted to presentations on specific technologies, platforms and products.

We heard a lot more about Nehalem, about visual computing, about multithreaded CPUs (And just for fun, compare this detailed look at Intel’s sometimes-inscrutable codenames with a detailed look at those same codenames, from a slightly different perspective). Keynotes from Gelsinger and Chandrasekher, along with Software and Solutions Group General Manager and Intel Vice President Renee James and Intel’s Andrew Chien helped to clarify just how much more mobile our technology will allow us to be.

But always in the backdrop was Shanghai. In this video podcast, Jason Lopez connects the dots between Intel’s efforts to push technology past its limits and Shanghai’s amazing journey to pass its own.

Tags: IDF, Shanghai, Intel developers, Pat Gelsinger, architecture for life, Anand Chandrasekher, unleash the Internet, Dunnington, Nehalem, visual computing, multithreaded CPUs, Renee James, Andrew Chien, Jason Lopez, IDF2008, Silverthorne, Intel Atom, mobile Internet device, Nehalem, Dunnington, Multithreading, virtualization, high performance computing, wireless technology, Centrino, WiMax, 45nm, 32nm

Brand Engagement = Social Media + Storytelling

editor — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:02:54 +0000

The many online social media have become an important part of the marketing mix for many corporations and organizations. Whether it means listening to online conversations, participating in communities of enthusiasts, clients, consumers or social networks, or simply increasing transparency, understanding how social media can be made to work for you is key to building stronger brand engagement and loyalty. It’s also going to save you money. But how?

In this video podcast, Marketing Voices’ Jennifer Jones, and others, talk with industry insiders to find out how combining social media with the art of storytelling in blogs, wikis and podcasts will foster conversations, convert incremental audience, and ultimately increase audiences’ engagement with brands. How can you use social media to create a voice for your brand that resonates beyond your corporate Web site? How can syndication help move your brand’s voice to your audiences, and bring those audiences back to your brand?

Tags: social media, syndication, rss, Marketing Voices, Jennifer Jones, PodTech, brand engagement, corporate messaging, conversation, blogosphere, blogs, engagement, community, marketing mix, incremental audience

SNWSpotlight: Storage Virtualization, Green Data Centers

Paul Lancour — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 22:58:55 +0000

In this podcast, reporter Michael Johnson delves into storage virtualization technology, speaking with Don Fautt, LSI director of software marketing, and Doug Jury, LSI’s director of software business sales. Catherine Girardeau tackles power efficiency in the data center, speaking with Dave Vellante and William Souder about Vellante’s Wikibon Project. It’s had a terrific impact on the bottom line at Berry College, where Sounder is director of information technology.

SNWSpotlight is your source for the latest information from Storage Networking World. It’s brought to you by LSI.

Tags: Michael Johnson, storage virtualization, Catherine Girardeau, power efficiency, data center, SNWSpotlight, Storage Networking World, LSI, Wikibon Project, Dave Vellante, Berry College, William Souder, Doug Jury, Don Fautt

IDF Shanghai: Sights and Sounds

Jason Lopez — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 22:51:47 +0000

In this video podcast, Intel Senior Vice President and General Manager, Digital Enterprise Group, Pat Gelsinger explains Intel architecture and its wide-ranging capabilities (”architecture for life”), and Intel Senior Vice President and General Manager of Intel’s Mobility Group, Dadi Perlmutter and Intel Senior Vice President and General Manager, Ultra Mobility Group, Anand Chandrasekher update the crowd on the latest on the mobile Internet devices and their innovative technology, powered by the Intel Atom processor.

This year’s Spring IDF took place in Shanghai.

Tags: Intel, Pat Gelsinger, Dadi Perlmutter, Anand Chandrasekher, Intel Atom, Shanghai, IDF2008, Silverthorne, Intel Atom, mobile Internet device, Nehalem, Dunnington, Multithreading, virtualization, high performance computing, wireless technology, Centrino, WiMax, 45nm, 32nm

IDF Shanghai: Keynote Demos Showcase Mobility, Innovation

editor — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:27:59 +0000

In this video podcast straight from Intel’s Spring IDF in Shanghai, the spotlight is on the keynote demos that showed power and performance in newer, smaller and more innovative form factors, many powered by the Intel’s Atom processor. Many of the demonstrations focused on mobility, and they all provided an exciting look at some of the technologies that are just around the corner.

Dr. Ren Ng, president and CEO of Refocus Imaging, led a demo of his company’s light field cameras, which record the full light field as it enters the camera, ultimately extending the capabilities of conventional digital cameras and “turning camera hardware into software.” Ng explains that by doing this, light field cameras “bring the economics and power of Moore’s Law to the camera system.” (snapshots from their Web site illustrate the demo, which they re-created live, on stage at IDF!).

Also on hand was Dr. Mendel Rosenblum, co-founder and chief scientist at VMware. He shared the stage with Intel Senior Vice President and General Manager, Digital Enterprise Group, Pat Gelsinger, to demonstrate a flex migration across four generations of hardware as well as the value of the deep collaboration between Intel and VMware.

There was a live demo by Classmate PC, following the news-making announcement of the new, second generation classmate (”featuring a 9-inch LCD screen, 6-cell battery, 512MB memory, a 30GB hard disk drive and a built-in webcam“), the unveiling of Intel’s Tukwila Itanium processor (“Two billion transistors in one processor”), and a mobility-focused Asianux demoonstration of the breadth of Moblin Usage, including a new way to play video from the Web and a new way to order Chinese food.

A Montevina demo was noteworthy after Intel Senior Vice President and General Manager of Intel’s Mobility Group, Dadi Perlmutter, revealed that Intel’s next generation mobile platform, Montevina, will provide twice the 3D processing power of any current integrated solution.

Demos showcasing Neusoft driver assistance, Fuwa robot, Adobe Air, Sobey real-time rendering and MID & mobile designs rounded out the event.

Tags: Intel, IDF, Shanghai, mobility, Ren Ng, Refocus Imaging, light field cameras, Mendel Rosenblum, VMware, Pat Gelsinger, flex migration, Classmate PC, Tukwila, Itanium, processor, Moblin, Montevina, Dadi Perlmutter, Fuwa, Adobe Air, Sobey, IDF2008, Silverthorne, Intel Atom, mobile Internet device, Nehalem, Dunnington, Multithreading, virtualization, high performance computing, wireless technology, Centrino, WiMax, 45nm, 32nm

Intel’s Emerging Compute Model Forum

Catherine Girardeau — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 07:01:10 +0000

There are now possibilities in enterprise computing that have the potential to solve mainstream problems and become widely adopted. These “Emerging Compute Models” are creating a lot of buzz, but also a lot of confusion in the IT community. That’s why this video podcast focuses on Intel’s Emerging Compute Model Forum. Jason Davidson, technical evangelist for the forum, says IT shops are experimenting with new ways to deliver applications and operating systems, but there’s no consensus on the best model, or models, to use.

In this podcast, Davidson and his colleagues Mike Ferron-Jones, marketing manager for Intel’s Emerging Compute Models program, and Chuck Brown, who directs the program, lay out the basic questions IT managers need to ask before choosing new compute models, discuss some of the pros and cons of different models, and preview some Intel and industry developments in the ECM space.

Tags: Intel, Emerging Compute Model, Jason Davidson, Mike Ferron-Jones, Chuck Brown, Thin Client, Rich Client, Terminal Services, Virtual Hosted Desktop, Blade PCs, OS Streaming, Application Streaming, SaaS

Verizon Completes Industry’s First 100 Gbps Field Trial

Michael Johnson — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 01:16:02 +0000

As video streaming, file sharing, database delivery and business continuity solutions drive bandwidth demand, industry experts are increasingly looking toward 100 Gbps network upgrades. In late 2007, Verizon successfully completed the industry’s first successful field trial proving that the existing network can be upgraded to carry 100 Gbps traffic. The trial carried a single 100 Gbps wavelength on a live, in-service 312-mile route between Tampa, Fla., and Miami. In this podcast, Glenn Wellbrock, Verizon’s director of backbone network technology, discusses how the trial was conducted, explaining the important technical aspects and what this development will ultimately mean for large business and government customers.

Tags: video streaming, file sharing, database delivery, 100 Gbps, Verizon, Glenn Wellbrock

Data Centers Recycle Excess Heat

Catherine Girardeau — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:01:20 +0000

Instead of wasting all the excess heat your data center generates, wouldn’t it be more efficient to reuse it to heat offices, water, and more? With the growing number of data centers being built, now is the time to integrate energy saving and reuse methods. In part one of this two-part podcast, Doug Garday, a data center design engineer with Intel Information Technology, explains energy recycling, a method of reducing the impact of data centers on the environment. Intel IT recommends building systems to recover data center heat into the design of new facilities. Garday explains Intel’s design scheme, and gives tips on calculating your return on investment.

Tags: datacenter, data center cooling, data center power, green data centers

Shanghai IDF Preview, with Intel’s Pat Gelsinger

Michael Johnson — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:00:38 +0000

In this podcast, a preview of this year’s Spring IDF 2008, bringing thousands of hardware and software engineers from around the world to Shanghai, China, for a developer forum with a telling theme: “Invent the New Reality.”

Intel Senior Vice President and Digital Enterprise Group co-GM Pat Gelsinger speaks with PodTech’s Michael Johnson about what is going to happen at the event in Shanghai.

Here, Gelsinger talks about the scheduled keynotes and new mobile internet devices based on the Intel Atom processor. Gelsinger shares his fondest memories of IDF over the years.

If you aren’t attending in person, that’s not a problem. Intel blogs will keep the information flowing in both directions with regular updates, photos and video.

If you’re not attending the event in person, be sure to follow online at Intel’s IDF pages and check in here for more video podcast coverage.

Tags: Pat Gelsinger, IDF, IDF2008, Nehalem, WiMAX, Dunnington, Intel Research, Mobile Internet Devices, Intel Atom, Intel

Welcome to Classic ScobleShow

editor — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:40:44 +0000

It started with an innocuous audio interview with the then-President of the Products and Technology Group at SAP AG, Shai Agassi. Then came Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz, sitting at a table with an umbrella. It wasn’t long before Scoble introduced us to Thomas Hawk (investment advisor by day, ubiquitous digital media creator by night). There was the Golden Gate Bridge walk (spread over three parts!), and then came pumpkins — lots of pumpkins. Somewhere between the Golden Gate Bridge and the pumpkin patch, conversations with entrepreneurs like b5media Founder and President Jeremy Wright and SmugMug CEO Don MacAskill.

There was lunch with Bill Gates and another lunch with Mark Cuban. We met folks from Salesforce and Zillow, SocialText, Retrevo and Maxthon. We met political bloggers and a presidential candidate on the campaign trail.

But one of our favorites? It’s an interview with Microsoft’s Gary Flake on Photosynth.

WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

Robert Scoble is still the author of the incredibly popular tech geek blog, Scobleizer.com. He’s also the managing director over at FastCompany.tv, where ScobleShow editor and producer Rocky Barbanica is also now a senior producer.

Since that fateful first ScobleShow, Agassi has moved on to found Project Better Place, in order to pursue interests in alternative energy and climate change. Jonathan Schwartz is still at Sun, still blogging, and lots of the start-ups we met are still kicking around, some of them very successfully! It’s worth taking a few minutes to surf through the archives, or just wait to see what pops up in the Classic feed. Good for a few goofy laughs and a little insight into where we’ve been and where we might be going. Oh, and Thomas Hawk is still evangelizing for photo sharing and digital media, and still believes that the best pictures in the world have yet to be taken.

Tags: SAP, Shai Agassi, Sun Microsystems, Jonathan Schwartz, Thomas Hawk, b5media, Jeremy Wright, SmugMug, Don MacAskill, Bill Gates, Mark Cuban, Salesforce, Zillow, SocialText, Retrevo, Maxthon, Microsoft, Gary Flake, Photosynth, Robert Scoble, Scobleizer.com, FastCompany.tv, Rocky Barbanica, Project Better Place

What’s New: Client Profiles - Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Platform Adoption

Cydni Tetro — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 00:00:58 +0000

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0, released to manufacturing recently, is designed with a single unified-code base for both on-premise and on-demand deployments. It enables customers to choose the right deployment model for their specific business and IT needs with flexibility to change deployment models over time. Sanjay Jain speaks with Kevin Wydra, vice president and director of R&D with Client Profiles, a successful ISV in the legal industry with their flagship application CRM4Legal, to discuss their experience of adopting Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Platform, value addition it brings to their big customer base of law firms, their innovative approaches of utilizing Agile SDLC Methodologies and cross-collaboration between on-site and off-shore teams.

Tags: Business Application Platform, Client Profiles, CRM, CRM4Legal, Dynamics, Kevin Wydra, Law, Microsoft, Sanjay Jain, Software + Services, USISV

What’s New: Axonom - Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Platform Adoption

Cydni Tetro — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 01:47:35 +0000

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0, released to manufacturing recently, is designed with a single unified-code base for both on-premise and on-demand deployments. It enables customers to choose the right deployment model for their specific business and IT needs with flexibility to change deployment models over time. Sanjay Jain speaks with William Barrow, CTO of Axonom, a successful ISV with their flagship application Powertrak CRM, to discuss their experience of adopting Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Platform, value addition it brings to their big customer base, expanding global footprint and execution of their Go-Vertical strategy.

Tags: William Barrow, Axonom, Business Application Platform, CRM, Dynamics, Microsoft, Powertrak, Sanjay Jain, Software + Services, USISV, William Barrow