Upcoming February 12th and 13th Microsoft event Office 365 Summit: Amsterdam

Hi Everyone,

Next week the Microsoft event Office 365 Summit will take place in the Movenpick Hotel in Amsterdam.

This major event will feature over 60 breakout sessions and the best Microsoft speakers from Redmond and around the world.

Office 365 Summit is traveling around the world and delivering technical and sales training direct from the source with Microsoft experts. These 2 day workshops provide deep technical and sales readiness on all our productivity workloads for IT Professional, Developers, Sales, Adoption and Education.

Of course JCC Consultancy will attend this event and blog (if possible live) on this event.

Follow me on twitter @jeanclaudechan and follow me on this blogsite http://www.jcccloud.com for the latest update on events. Or connect with me on my Linkedin profile by clicking here.

Go to this link for more information on the Office 365 Summit and check out the speaker line up:

http://summit.office.com/events/office-365-summit-amsterdam

I hope to see you there next week in Amsterdam.

Have a good one.

Jean-Claude

SPECIAL Offer 12-16 January: This week only, save up to $1,000 on Microsoft World Partner Conference in Orlando 2015

Hi everyone,

For Microsoft partners, whether you are a managed or a non managed partner and wherever you are located, this offer can be interesting for you.

Hope to see you there in Orlando.

Follow me on twitter:@jeanclaudechan or connect via Linkedin: jean.claude.chan@jccconsultancy.com

Have a good one.

Jean-Claude Chan

WPC Orlando 2015: This week only! Refer a friend to #wpc15 & earn up to $1,000 in your all-access pass discount! http://msftca.it/vV19ct

This week only, save up to $1,000 on WPC 2015.

That’s right, partners: we’re offering all of you a weeklong promotion on referrals to WPC 2015. From January 12-16 only, for each person you refer to register for WPC, you receive US$100 off your registration price—and you get this refund for up to ten referrals, meaning you can save up to US$1,000 on attending Microsoft’s largest partner event!

There’s more: each person referred also receives a US$100 discount, so they’ll only pay US$1,695 for their all-access pass. Get the full details about this incredible opportunity here.

Join us for WPC 2015 in Orlando, Florida from July 12-16, 2015 for unparalleled networking opportunities, business building thought leadership, and the chance to hear insights from the leaders, innovators, and visionaries of our industry. For a limited time only, you can purchase your all access pass for only US$1,795.

Terms and Conditions

• One all-access pass may be purchased per person.
• Pre-purchased passes to WPC 2015 cannot be resold.
• We reserve the right to rescind the pass at any time.

You may expect to receive additional communication from wwpartnerconference@microsoft.crgevents.com and/or mswpc@microsoft.com.

Sharegate exceeds 10,000 customers organizations around the world !

Hi everyone,

Our Canadian Gold Partner Sharegate can be proud of their achievement in helping over 10.000! customers/organizations around the world. Please click on the logo below to find out why more than 10.000 customers/ organizations (from Enterprise to SMB) are using Sharegate’s solutions in terms of Office 365 and Migration.

Benjamin Niaulin

Sharegate

Montreal, QC

Geek and SharePoint MVP, Benjamin has been around the globe helping people reach their goals by simplifying SharePoint. As a Certified Trainer for well over 7 years, he has become very comfortable training and sharing his experiences. In 2014, he was awarded as one of the Top 25 SharePoint Influencers in North America. He works at Sharegate, a simple Migration Tool for SharePoint, but his focus is in helping making SharePoint accessible to all. But first of all, Benjamin is just a Geek. He’s been in love with SharePoint since the beginning of the 2007 version up to now amidst the cool new features in SharePoint 2013. A passionate speaker, his sessions are always very engaging

Enjoy reading.

Jean-Claude Chan

Follow me on Twitter @jeanclaudechan or connect with me on Linkedin: jean.claude.chan@jccconsultancy.com

Great Office 365 & SharePoint Management touches 4 key points

• 

  Security

  Manage security settings to stay in control & avoid security breaches.

• 

  Growth

  Control your environments’ growth.

• 

  Lifecycle

  Monitor your environment to get rid of unused & obsolete content.

• 

  Standards

  Ensure that your SharePoint meets your organisational standards.

Here are some of the actions you can achieve with Sharegate.

• Find every list with disabled versioning & enable it.
• Reset permission inheritance on all of your Sites at once.
• Find documents that are shared externally using guest links.
• Activate a functionality on every Site of your SharePoint at the same time.
• Find all of your lists with custom permissions.
• Delete orphaned users (disabled in Active Directory).
• Add an administrator on all your Site Collections.
• Find all the Sites that haven’t been used in more than 6 months.
• Enable auditing on all of your Sites in one click.
• Enforce a limit on the number of versions to retain for every document.
• Change navigation types on all your Sites.
• And much more…

Go here for more information on Sharegate:http://en.share-gate.com/support/tutorial-videos

First Microsoft Ignite event in Chicago May 4th-May 8th 2015! Register now early bird discount!

Hi All,

Will you be there?

Jean-Claude Chan

This week Microsoft announced Microsoft Ignite via official Microsoft blog – it’s exciting to see this event go live!

Microsoft Ignite is her commercial technology event that brings together her audiences, content and best-of experiences across TechEd, SharePoint Conference, Project Conference, Microsoft Exchange Conference, Lync Conference and Microsoft Management Summit. This single, remarkable event allows Microsoft to tell her holistic company story to an extended audience across senior IT decision makers, IT Pros, enterprise developers and loyalists.

For her existing, thriving communities and for new entrants into the evolving IT world, bringing together these events in one location creates an expanded opportunity for companies to send employees to gain both business and technology insights, to take advantage of unique networking opportunities with established IT communities and to interact with Microsoft and industry experts. It will also be the event for immersion into technical education for Office 365, Lync, Exchange, SharePoint, Project, Visio, Azure, Windows Server, System Center, Intune, SQL, Visual Studio and of course Windows!

Microsoft is excited to announce that Satya Nadella will be her opening keynote on Day 1 of the event, followed by several of our business and technical leaders including Brad Anderson, Joe Belfiore, Dave Campbell, Peggy Johnson, Chris Jones, Julie Larson Green, Gurdeep Singh Pall, Julia Liuson and many others.

Microsoft Ignite will round out herschedule of events for professional communities in the first half of 2015.  Microsoft will start with Convergence 2015 in Atlanta, March 16-19, the place where business leaders gather to explore solutions.  //Build in San Francisco, April 29-May 1, is where developers will hear the latest about our platform strategy, technologies and opportunities.  After Microsoft Ignite on May 4-8, Worldwide Partner Conference will be held in Orlando, July 12-16, for our enormous partner community.

 

 

March 3rd 2014, Dan Holme SharePoint Conference Las Vegas

• 15.45 -17.00 : Dan Holme: The Cloud: Navigating the benefits and challenges of this disruptive innovation

This session is a Must visit for Business Decision Makers, because Dan is not only has a strong technical background and years of experiences, but he has also lots of projects which he has executed on C-level. Ofcourse I will be sharing live updates during this session via my blogsite www.jcccloud.com and website www.jccconsultancy.com

‘The cloud.’ Obviously, a significant consideration for every executive, business leader, decision maker and platform owner. As soon as the words are mentioned, there are aspirational visions of the potential for the cloud, concerns ranging from security to data sovereignty to manageability, and there is a raucous hype of promises, fears, uncertainty, and doubt. How can you align the dynamic nature of the cloud with your strategic objectives? How can you drive your business to optimize value and risk? What are the concerns of your peers and what have they done to address those concerns?  In this unique session, we will share a thoughtful, business-centric strategic approach to reimagining service delivery in this brave new hybrid world. You’ll explore the challenges and benefits of the cloud from a SharePoint perspective, but the prescriptive guidance you take away will help you manage on-premise and cloud services of any kind.

For live update follow me on @jeanclaudechan.

I will share with you the most important slides which I think is very interesting. If you want more information or the whole presentation let me know.

Jean-Claude Chan

Live update: March 3rd 2014, Adam Pisoni SharePoint Conference Las Vegas

• 14:00-15:15: Adam Pisoni, Founder of Yammer : A responsive organization stays ahead of the competition. See, 2 years ago I saw Adam Pisoni at the SharePoint Conference 2012 in Las Vegas and he was presenting the roadmap and ambition of Yammer. In that year 2012, yammer was acquired by Microsoft and I am very curious where Yammer is standing right now in 2014 and what their plans are for 2014 and further. Also live blogging will be shared with you guys.

This session will focus on why organizations realize that they have to rethink their work and communication styles to stay competitive. They must become more responsive to an ever-changing environment and their fluctuating customer needs. Innovative companies assess their own workplace, encourage employees to act beyond their job descriptions, and then empower individuals to be creative and collaborative beyond the normal work routine. This session will uncover the simple secrets to becoming responsive in this new era of business.

Adam Pisoni picks up by telling the evolution story of industrial working towards the modern working of today.

Nowadays a lot of non routine work is increasing.

Non routine work increased with 40% in 2015.the last 20 years we used technlogy do automate things. Companies are not build to share so companies has really look for the best way to make sure that their workers are executing their duties in the right way.

87 % of global workers are not engaged in their jobs. This leads to in productivity of workers and indirectly will lead to lost of money for companies.

This means that disruption will be caused.

Jack Welch says:

“If the change outside exceeds the change from the inside, the end is near”

The responsive organization is the future.

Live update: March 3rd 2014, Julia White SharePoint Conference Las Vegas

• 11.00:12.15 : Julia White, The Dynamice work of the future: Microsoft General Manager, Julia White, for an insightful examination of trends that impact business, productivity, and technology. Drawing from analyst and Microsoft’s own research, Julia lays out the challenges and opportunities that face executives, decision makers, and platform owners. Look at the tipping point facing enterprises in 2014, and the critical decisions that leadership must make, and chart the journey ahead. This executive keynote-style session is be the perfect kickoff for the Executive Track of the SharePoint Conference, and the Executive Track team will highlight the valuable sessions, discussions, and networking activities that will help you maximize your time at SPC14.

Julia start talking about how the world is changing and that companies have to change as well.

Companies should talk about natural expressions and get the most from BYOD concept.

Make sure you engage and excite customers within the Office 365 process.

If you want to make Office 365 a success make sure you do the following things right:

• Create a Social workplace via Yammer;
• Increase employee engagement;
• Innovate and stay competitive;
• Be more responsive to customers.

Self service BI portal is latest development.

The Power BI portal in Office 365 is a new feature. There are advantages by using the Power BI portal.

• Personalized insights : Business Intelligence is available for everyone within the organizations.
• Know business performance : With Power Bi you can have access to the latest business intelligence and performances so you can fast to adapt to the situation.
• With Power Bi you can make better decisions faster:
• With Power Bi you can get ahead of market shifts so you stay ahead of competitors.

 Customer case:

Aston Martin has a strategic alliance with Microsoft and they are using office 365 to be more agile, to realize cost reduction.

 

JCC CONSULTANCY says: Come along and take a look what is happening in the world of Microsoft Unmanaged SMB Partners

Hi All,

Yesterday I was very proud to announce that our company website JCC Consultancy went live and we had a lot of visitors yesterday.

For those who do not know what JCC Consultancy exactly does, you can check out our website for more information.

In short JCC Consultancy is an unique nicheplayer which is 100% focused on helping and supporting Microsoft Unmanaged SMB Partners worldwide. This concept is also a registered mark and All rights are reserved.

JCC Consultancy can help them accelerate in terms of execution of their Strategy, Sales, Marketing or delivery, Change Management plans. On the picture below you can see where JCC Consultancy is standing.

As Microsoft is changing her strategy towards a Devices and Services organization, many Microsoft SMB Partners are forced to review and rebuild their current business model. In stead of just selling hardware or licenses, it is time to think about serious sustainable cloud propositions or practices which will be profitable on a short term (think about 2 years)

Come along and take a look what is happening in the world of Microsoft Unmanaged SMB Partners

Today I would like to inform you that last December 2013 and January 2014, JCC Consultancy conducted a online survey among 500 Microsoft SMB Partners in the Netherlands. These SMB Partners have a Managed and Unmanaged status and 344 of the 500 SMB Partners answered the survey.

In these blog post I will not share all survey results, but i do want to give you an insight what is really happening within the Microsoft Unmanaged SMB partner world.

• Over 74 % of Microsoft Unmanaged SMB Partners answered in the survey that they will change their business model and propositions in 2014!!
• Over 54% of Microsoft Unmanaged SMB Partners pointed out that they will need help in execution in terms of Strategy,Sales and Marketing in 2014.

74% and 54 are  huge numbers and I do want to challenge Unmanaged SMB Partners to give their opinion on the survey result above.

Are you really changing your business model and if so, i want to hear from Microsoft Unmanaged SMB Partners what their problems are and why they have difficulties in executing their short and long-term plan in the field of Strategy, Sales, Marketing and Delivery.

So looking at these results, I think we all should seriously think about how to help these Unmanaged Partners.

And that is what JCC Consultancy is all about, because we are the only and niche player at this moment who has the experience, skills and know-how to help out Microsoft Unmanaged SMB Partners to execute their short and long-term plans in the field of Strategy, Sales, Marketing and Delivery.

Please, let me hear your comments or feedback on the results JCC Consultancy has provide above.

You can twitter me @jeanclaudechan , or mail me or reply on linkedin.

Have a good one!

Jean-Claude Chan

Owner/founder of JCC Consultancy and blogsite http://www.jcccloud.com