Hello everyone,
Today was all about the keynote from Microsoft new CEO Satya Nadella.
One on One executive meeting with Jared Spataro , General Manager Office 365 and Enterprise Social
Secondly JCC Consultancy had a one on one executive meeting again with General Manager Office 365 and Enterprise Social, Jared Spataro to talk about our services regarding Microsoft non managed partners.
Besides we talked about the Asia /APAC market and the non managed partners in that region.
He also introduced me to Jay Sethna, Product manager Yammer and JCC Consultancy will take it from there.
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Jean-Claude Chan
The keynote was kicked off by an amazing performance by the legendary soul and guitarplayer Buddy Guy and was taken over by Phil Sorgen, VP Partner Group Worldwide. Phil once again thanked the partners worlwide for putting some much efforts in making Microsoft succesfull regarding selling Office 365 and Azure. Microsoft is investing millions in helping partners (especially the SMB PARTNERS) to accelerate in executing their plans regarding Strategy, Sales, Marketing and Delivery.
Innovation is just not enough Phil said, we also have listend to all our partners worldwide and created new plans and frameworks for all our partners to accelerate in their transformation into the cloud and making the right decisions in terms of Sales, Marketing and Delivery.
Satya Nadella keynote
Satya Nadella vision is to create a productivity and application platform for the cloud first and mobile first world. This means that Microsoft will be aiming fo the coming years on improving and taking their productivity solutions to even more higher level than it is right now. Microsoft needs to reinvent productivity to empower every person and every organization on the planet to do more and achieve more.With this Microsoft will also change her organization and will help her partners to transform their business into cloud ready business models.
Tiffany Bova, Vice President of Gartner research
Tiffany Bova gave us a general view of what is going on right now and the coming years :
- Technology is different and the world is changing;
- Buyers have changed ( they know who you are and what your background is and you have to be able to understand your customers and not just sell a product;
- Provides, partners will need sales capabilities
JCC CLOUD, special portal site for Business decision makers of Business Partners (Microsoft and IBM) 