10% discount off registration: JCC Consultancy is Industry sponsor of Microsoft Collab con event in Toronto March 9-11, 2015

JCC Consultancy is a sponsor at CollabCon!

CollabCon is a Microsoft focused business and information technology conference that will help you discover creative and innovative business solutions through collaboration.  The event is a 3 day conference that takes place March 9^th -11^th, 2015, the 11^th being a training day, at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre in downtown Toronto.

This 3 day conference offers:

• Presentations from world-class speakers and MVPs on the subjects of SharePoint, Office 365, Yammer, Azure and may more (check out the full list of speakers here CollabCon Speakers 2015)
• Panel discussions on the topics of Business Intelligence, Social Media, Enterprise Content
• Full and Half Day Workshops featuring Strategic, How-To, and Case Study sessions – http://www.collabcon.org/Agenda.aspx (Click on the link and scroll down to Wednesday for more details!)

Speakers already confirmed include:

• Benjamin Niaulin, Geek and SharePoint MVP at Sharegate

Exploring the New Search in your SharePoint 2013 and Experience from the Field: How to Use a Team Site Effectively for Collaboration

Workshops Just Added:

1. SharePoint Extranets – In this session we will discuss different scenarios with SharePoint on premises and Office 365. We will go deeper into options for allowing users to register and be approved for access, login, deal with forgotten passwords, and manage their account. For more info go to: http://www.collabcon.org/sessions/SharePoint-Extranets.aspx
2. Web Content Management – This session will go in-depth into the full life cycle of creating a web site on SharePoint 2013. While focused on public web sites, the same techniques apply to Intranets as well. For workshop details go to: http://www.collabcon.org/sessions/Web-Content-Management.aspx
3. Getting Scope and Requirements Right the First Time! Innovative Tools that Work, and that You Can Put Into Use Tomorrow – Over the past decade of delivering successful SharePoint projects, we have discovered methods that work very well at eliciting the stakeholders’ desires and then ensuring that we have clarified our own understanding with them. These methods involve the use of visual and tactile tools that open the lines of communication and rapidly expose misunderstandings. For more info go to: http://www.collabcon.org/sessions/Getting-Scope-And-Requirements-Right-The-First-Time-Innovative-Tools-That-Work-And-That-You-Can-Put-Into-Use-Tomorrow.aspx
4. END TO END EXCELLENCE – SHAREPOINT & OFFICE 365 – Join Dan Holme, global SharePoint thought leader, for a full-day workshop that will equip you to deliver excellent, responsive, managed, and compliant SharePoint service—on-prem or in Office 365—to your enterprise. http://www.collabcon.org/sessions/End-to-End-Excellence-SharePoint-and-Office-365.aspx

Early bird registration ends in 2 weeks!

Register at the early bird rate before January 31^st, 2015 and enter the discount code JCC to receive an additional 10% off. If you are unable to attend the breakout talks come visit us at our tradeshow for free by selecting tradeshow instead and entering the code JCC. Save an additional $100 by bundling the workshops with full conference! We also offer an additional 20% discount for groups of 5 or more.

Contact Erika at emoll@collabcon.org for additional government and registered charity discounts or if you have any questions.

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We look forward to seeing you at CollabCon!

Part 2: Superhero story Real Microsoft SMB Showcase: How JCC Consultancy improves their business productivity and lower the costs using Office 365

This part 2 of the SMB Superhero story of Microsoft partner JCC Consultancy. Part one can be read here.

 

How JCC Consultancy improves their business productivity and lower the costs using Office 365

A year ago I started out my company http://www.jccconsultancy.com and since our long term vision is to grow the company organically it was important to keep the starting costs low. So I subscribed for an annual Office 365 subscription with the following functionalities: SharePoint Online, Lync online, Outlook online, One drive and Enterprise Social functionality Yammer.

 

1.        Corporate website on SharePoint Online

Our corporate website www.jccconsultancy.com is built on SharePoint Online and many of our customers tell us that they did not see or notice that it was SharePoint Online.

2.        Our email access anytime, anywhere thanks to Exchange Online

Furthermore, as I have been traveling quite a lot the last 12 months, it was very important for me to have access to my private and business e-mails and important documents everywhere, anywhere. Exchange Online offers this functionality and possibilities for me to work anywhere in the world. Besides this, we did not have to invest money in a Exchange server and license anymore.

 

3.       One drive saves and shares our documents to our customers anytime anywhere

With my One drive (it is like a USB stick, but only in the cloud) I can save up to 1 TB of important private and business documents and pictures which I can access from anywhere and anytime in the world. For example, when I was in Toronto last week, I could download a proposal from one my Dutch customer from One drive on my Windows Nokia Phone and edit the proposal and saved it on One drive and shared the link to the document to my customer so he can have access to the proposal in a few seconds. Besides this, we did not have to invest money in a SQL server database and license anymore.

 

 

4.        Lync online for our international calls and customers

When I have a conference call with Microsoft China or Microsoft Germany, Office 365 offers me the Lync online phone functionality. With Lync online, I can see the availability of my customers and they can see my availability and can chat with me if they want to pose a question. Besides that I can also have conference calls with my customers and Microsoft subsidiaries worldwide and we did not have to invest money in a Lync server and license anymore.

5. Yammer group for Non Managed SMB Partners worldwide

I also have created a special Yammer group where Microsoft Non managed SMB Partners can come together and share their thoughts and experiences in the SMB market and vertical. https://www.yammer.com/microsoftnonmanagedpartnerworldwide/#/Threads/index?type=my_all    Besides this, we did not have to invest money anymore in a Enterprise Social solution and license.

 

A year ago and look now

So looking back on 2013, I can definitely say that Office 365 has enabled JCC Consultancy in a technical way to make our unique concept a success and it is starting to spread her wings. We kept our total costs of ownership very low and the extra revenue we realized we invested this into improving our product services and marketing activities.

 These wings can make JCC Consultancy fly as a superhero and fly her anywhere in the world to help out Microsoft Non managed SMB Partners to be successful in the Cloud in the long run.

So who are you going to call if our a Microsoft Non Managed SMB Partner? JCC Consultancy!

Jean-Claude Chan

For more information, please contact us or visit our website www.jccconsultancy.com

For live updates and blogs on our trips to SharePoint Conference Las Vegas, WPC Washington, Office 365 summit in Toronto please go to: or follow us: www.jcccloud.com or twitter @jeanclaudechan

 

 

 

 

Part one: Microsoft Canada Superhero SMB Story: the rise of JCC Consultancy to help the Microsoft Non managed SMB Partners in hands-on executing their Cloud Strategy, Sales, Marketing and Competence management plans.

     

Hi everyone,

2 weeks ago when i had a meeting with Microsoft Canada, they thought my business story of JCC Consultancy is an inspiring superhero story for the Microsoft Canadian SMB partners market. Microsoft Canada asked me to write a story and approved the following story.

This story was published by Microsoft Canada:

MSFT for Work CA @MSFT4Work_CA: Learn how one #smallbizsuperhero formed his company to help other entrepreneurs. Read more: msft.it/6015qnKz @jeanclaudechan

My name is Jean Claude Chan, born in Suriname, South America, raised in Cayenne, French Guyana (also South America) and moved to Amsterdam Netherlands at the age of 6. I come from a real entrepreneur family who has successfully introduced a supermarket chain in Surinam and French Guyana. I am 39 years old, married and have one newborn little girl.

At the age of 6th my parents moved to the Dutch capital Amsterdam in the Netherlands where they also ran a company store successfully for 30 years. I was told by my parents, ‘if you do business, do it with passion, dedication and perseverance’. After finishing my Grammar School and International Business Management education at the Business School of Amsterdam, I started my career within the commercial business world and dreamt to have my own business.

Last year at Microsoft World Partner Conference in July 2013 in Houston, Steve Ballmer said in his keynote: “Microsoft is changing her organization and the change will impact our partners worldwide. Microsoft partners are forced to change their current business model and create new business propositions which are sustainable and profitable in the long-term”.

There are about 750.000 Microsoft worldwide and only 20.000 of them are selling Cloud solutions.  What is the rest doing?” So my idea was born at that evening at WPC Houston and I have founded JCC Consultancy in 2013.

JCC Consultancy is a real niche player in this market and has helped Microsoft Non Managed SMB partners make better Strategic choices, empower the Microsoft way of working and drive excellent hands-on execution in terms of Sales, New Business Development and Lead Generations.

Our 3 vision focus towards 2016:

1. H​elping Microsoft Non managed SMB Partners to make the right choices and helping them in executing their plans in terms of Strategy, Sales, Marketing, Delivery & Change Management

2. Providing and inspire Microsoft Non managed SMB Partners with the latest and valuable Executive Microsoft intelligence regarding developments and changes within the Microsoft world via our special portal site for Business Decision Makers from Non managed SMB partners worldwide: www.jcccloud.com

3 .Making sure that by the end of 2016 we have helped or inspired over at least 2000 Non managed Microsoft Non Managed SMB Partners worldwide. Therefor,  JCC Consultancy has created a special Yammer Group for Non managed SMB Partners worldwide: https://www.yammer.com/microsoftnonmanagedpartnerworldwide/#/Threads/index?type=my_all

“We only help out Non Managed SMB Partners if they are willing to change, to be a pioneer and to invest”

JCC Consultancy has talked to many Microsoft Non Managed SMB Partners worldwide and we only help and support those who have the following 3 ambitions:

1. You are willing to change your company (internally and externally);
2. You are willing to be a leading and innovative company instead of being a follower;
3. You are willing to invest and make your company a sustainable and profitable company in the long-term.

Real Microsoft non managed SMB partner showcases

Click on the company logos below to read how JCC Consultancy has helped these Microsoft Non Managed SMB Partners to accelerate in their Microsoft business in terms of Strategy, Sales, Marketing and Competence management.

                              

JCC Consultancy organizes Executive roundtables successfully with Microsoft for founders and owners from Non managed SMB partners to listen to them what their challenges are.

For more info on the roundtables please go: https://jcccloud.wordpress.com/2014/09/26/summary-of-today-executive-strategy-roundtable-for-owners-from-microsoft-non-managed-partners/

The last 12 months,  I have traveled to SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas last March and World Partner Conference in Washington last July (read more here )to introduce JCC Consultancy where I had meetings with Executive stakeholders from Microsoft Corporation, such as my one on one executive meetings with Jared Spataro, General Manager Office and Enterprise Social worldwide to talk about the Non managed partners: read the story of my meetings in Vegas and Washington here

Besides this I traveled to Toronto last week from October 7^th till October 10^th to talk to Microsoft Canada about the Non Managed SMB partners. I had meetings with Partner Channel development managers Saurabh Mathur and Brian Miller to talk about Non managed SMB partners.   Read here for more

For more information, please contact us or visit our website www.jccconsultancy.com

For live updates and blogs on our trips to SharePoint Conference Las Vegas, WPC Washington, Office 365 summit in Toronto please go to: www.jcccloud.com or twitter @jeanclaudechan

Email: info@jccconsultancy.com

Phone number: + 31 6 41 965686

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