Hi All,
Today JCC Consultancy will be present on the first key note of Microsoft during the Inspire event in Las Vegas.
This morning the following Microsoft speakers have kicked off the Keynote.
- Microsoft Executive VP, Worldwide Commercial Business Judson Althoff:
Judson told us about Microsoft’s dedicated focus on enabling Microsoft Partners to become successful in terms of Business Applications, Artifical Intelligence, Customer Success management. He recommended partners to seriously to create a new business model related to Microsoft Dynamics Office 365 on top of their existing business model and propositions.
As a customer use case, Carslberg gave a presentation about how Carlsberg used Microsoft’s Power BI and Artificial Intelligence solutions to enhance and improve their internal Supply Chain business processes.
- CVP One Commercial Partner , Gavriella Schuster
Gavriella kicked off her Keynote by sharing some inspiring Sales figures/facts and informing everyone that Morocco was the emerging country that has generated customer wins growth rate of 162% in FY18.
Furthermore, Gavriella also shared the following facts:
- FY18: 135 Million Office 365 Active users on a monthly base:
- FY18: CSP (Cloud Solutions Providers): Up with 234%
- FY18: Azure usage up by 93%
- FY18: Dynamic 365 Users up 65%
- FY18: Office 365 Sales up 42%
- Microsoft President and Chief Legal Officer, Brad Smith
As expected Microsoft had shared her vision and strategy on Artificial Intelligence and Data Intelligence management and how Microsoft is going to increase their global support in working even more closer with their Business partners whether they are small or large Business partners.
I also had the chance to meet with Fabrice Barbin, CEO of French Business Partner Synergiz.
Furthermore, I met with the following Business partners:
- US partner MerTechdata, CEO Riaz Merchant, who has created a Migration tool that make life easier to run Btrieve and DataFlex applications on industry-standard relational databases without changing your code, while Thriftly connects Windows PC applications to the Cloud;
- Canadian Partner: Blue Silver Shift: CEO and Founder Craig Slack
Yesterday, it was a day where Micrsoft Netherlands organize a Holland House networking and welcoming reception in Tom Urban’s cafe in the New York Hotel. Over 400 Dutch partners attended this reception.
Also I had the privilege to had dinner with Dutch Business Partner Heine Stuivenberg of Uniprofs and Portugese Business Partners Create IT. CEO Nuno Miguel Guerra and Raul Ramos Ribeiro.
Have a nice day and more will follow today.
Jean-Claude Chan
JCC CLOUD, special portal site for Business decision makers of Business Partners (Microsoft and IBM) 