If you are here in Atlanta and want to be bored out of your mind, come on by Room B401-402 between 4:30 and 5:30. I would get there early as I have seen all of the CRM Sessions filling up quickly. We will be showing a BUNCH of ways to extend CRM for your sales, service and marketing teams. All of the same code will be posted here this week, so if you attended the session, check back to get all of the code samples here!

Jeff, who is my boss, put a bounty of Dinner at the Ritz to the person on his team who drives the most number of CRM customers. :) So if you are interested, just make sure to put my name on your registration. :)

This is open primarily to customers. If you are a partner without a customer, call me. We can meet up afterwards. Just not here. :)

Join the local Microsoft Dynamics team and the Dynamics User Groups for a year end meet and mingle event. 

Not a Dynamics User Group member?  Not to worry, this will be your chance to talk with members from the

User Group Community team and understand the benefits of becoming a member. 

 

The Microsoft Dynamics Customer Reference program team is offering a 1yr free User Group membership

for customers willing to become a reference!  As a key benefit of the premium membership,  customers will

have an opportunity to network with their peers to discuss and collaborate ideas to help them make the

most of their Dynamics solutions. The User Groups offer a forum for training, hands on workshops and

special topic round tables.   Most importantly members will receive the latest product information and

access to product management teams. 

Bring an unwrapped toy for our Toys for Tots collection and receive a free copy of Office 2007

Professional as our thanks!

- Thursday, November 12^th

- The Ritz-Carlton, Buckhead - 4:30 to 6:30 pm

· 3434 Peachtree Road, N.E., Atlanta, GA 30326

- Mingle with Dynamics User Group Executive, Microsoft Dynamics Mgmt and Microsoft Dynamics peers

- Community outreach Toys for Tots collection – donate an unwrapped toy and receive a free copy of Office 2007

Professional as our thanks!

We hope to see you on Nov. 12^th!

Event ID: 1032430024

www.msevents.microsoft.com

OR # 1-877.673.8368

One of the biggest missing links to me in Scribe was it’s ability to connect to a full Web Service back end service. Well, with the release of Scribe 6.5, they have the ability do this. For partners ONLY this even is a little later this week and is one I would not miss.

Webcast: Scribe 6.5 Product Launch – Thursday, April 16 @ 11am – 12pm EST
Insight 6.5 is a major release which includes an extensive list of features that have been requested by Scribe partners and customers.  The new release also includes significant new functionality targeted at enterprise accounts.  These are:

- Failover/Disaster Recovery

- Web Services Adapter

- Support for 64-bit Windows Server 2008

Scribe Presenters for the webcast will be:

Bob Sturim - Vice President, Products
John Gravely - Vice President, Marketing and Product Marketing
Lou Antonucci -  Director, Sales

Please register at the following registration URL https://www.livemeeting.com/lrs/8001615779/Registration.aspx?pageName=8nlw1x85309wfbns

We’re excited for our 10th annual Convergence event! Convergence 2006 will take place in Dallas, Texas, USA, Saturday, March 25th through Tuesday, March 28th, 2006.

Convergence provides an exceptional agenda of various speakers, detailed product demonstrations, and in-depth learning sessions. At the event, you can discuss solutions, address business needs, and establish and grow a true community that can be leveraged throughout the year.

Ultimately, Convergence helps you build skills and knowledge that enhance your solution knowledge and business productivity. Recognizing that experience is the best teacher, we have designed many of our workshops to feature presentations that tackle real-world issues and present practical solutions.

Convergence is geared towards our end users and having seen the tenative tracks, looks to be AWESOME for our CRM Customers!

More details at:  http://www.microsoft.com/BusinessSolutions/convergence.mspx

Microsoft Dynamics CRM Partner Conversations!

Join us this month for the latest updates on Microsoft CRM.    This is a regional call to assist local partners (Mid Atlantic, South East and Gulf States) in selling and implementing Microsoft CRM.    This month we will review Business Analytics and Microsoft CRM and updates on the upcoming product launch tour starting in January. These calls are lead by Chris Regan, the East Coast Regional Technical Specalist...

Next Microsoft CRM Partner Conversations

Date                LiveMeeting

November 16   https://www.LiveMeeting.com/cc/microsoft/join?id=PCON1116&role=attend&pw=MSCRM

I know you guys read EVERY line in the partner newsletter, but in case you missed it, here is a great event your team should focus on if you’re interested. Chris Regan and I will be doing a ½ day technical deep dive on things like Jscript in CRM, SPS and CRM, etc… Some cool tricks for you to demo and some ideas for you to use with customers.

Local Event: Mid-Atlantic Partner Technical Briefing
December 1^st and 2^nd @ 8am-5pm |   Microsoft Reston office
Microsoft provides our own Technology Specialists and Consultants with a "Tech Ready" event to provide product roadmaps and other insider technical information. As a FIRST of its kind, the Mid-Atlantic team is making the most important training topics available to our partners at this 2-day event. You DO NOT want your company to miss this event! Questions: email us.... 

Click below to check out the detailed agenda for this event by downloading this month's Technical Training Guide! Download this month's Technical Training Guide!
Click here to register...

This event has one ½ day reserved just for a Microsoft CRM Technical Deep Dive. If you JUST want to attend that portion of the event, let us know and I will work with NS to get something setup for just the CRM team. Of course, some of the other classes may help you out as well. J

From the shameless promotion department....[:D]

From January through March 2006, we will be showcasing our new product at 35 cities throughout the US and we would like your help to ensure that this is the best launch ever.

 

 

There are several ways in which you can get involved as outlined in the documents below. Most importantly, we strongly encourage you to bring your prospects and customers to learn more about the buzz around this hot new version of Microsoft CRM. This is must-see event for anyone in the market for Microsoft CRM!

https://mbs.microsoft.com/partnersource/products/mscrm/newsevents/news/CRM3_Tour2006 is the link for more information and the forms... (And no, if you don't have access to PartnerSource, I can't email them or post them. Sorry.)

The dates for the Mid Atlantic are February 7 for Washington, DC and February 9 for Baltimore, MD. There will also be a tour for some of the other areas in the Mid Atlantic, but I don't have those dates yet.

What do you guys think of a promotion around this? Who ever has the most number of prospects attend that aren't in your pipeline gets a prize? Any thoughts? (And NO it will not be an iPod...)