Bringing business to the cloud

WPC12 – Excitement, Accomplishment Boarding my flight this morning on the way to WPC I recollect my two favorite moments this year. Being a guest on MPN Live was a real highlight and I can hear my own words echoing in my head. “Don’t say you’re a partner, be a partner.” The second moment was the release of “Surface” where Microsoft introduced a revolution of evolution in tablet technology. I am so excited to arrive in Toronto this evening and get things started. WPC Connect email alert notices have been attacking my inbox and are making me even more anxious to see what Microsoft has in store for us. One of my colleagues is coming up from Costa Rica so for the first time, we’re a real participant of the WPC with a presence not JUST from the USA. Top on my list is Deepak Chopra, Steve Ballmer and Jon Roskill. Kevin Turner is sure to turn our heads in a new direction and I can’t help but feel like a child in a classroom looking up to my teacher on stage and waiting for every wo...

* When Partners Partner, great things happen.                Such is the case for RyanTech and eLeaderTech. Microsoft Partner eLeaderTech, located in Salt Lake City, UT had been developing a product called Executing the Standards, a.k.a. "ETS",  for over 3 years.  In their attempt to build out the software in the .Net framework as well as many other third party objects, the system began to take a road of its own in the sense that the software almost seemed to have a mind of it's own.  Due to the many different programmers and companies involved in the buildout over the years, the code had become unmanageable and the software suffered a potential self destruction. Enter RyanTech, another Microsoft Partner that had been providing ETS with Data Services through its API for a product called DMSi.  The relationship between the Founder of eLeaderTech, David Ibarra, and RyanTech's Founder, Kevin McMillen started to bl...

Our project which started in November of 2011 is aptly named: "The Dealership of the Future" for more reasons than one might think.  I'm going to share a timeline of all the events that happened and what's to come in the near weeks.  This particular blog entry is an overview of what we're doing.  I'll be blogging separately on each piece of the project to provide more detail which I hope can help you implement Microsoft cloud solutions more successfully.  So enough of this, let's talk about the "Dealership of the Future" which is located in Salt Lake City, UT.  Enter Murdock Hyundai. What we had to overcome: The spam in email was overwhelming Email server reliability was non-existent Telephone calls were echoing, dropped calls, limited features Desktops were bogged down with bloatware, spyware and viruses Internet bandwidth was 10% of the purchased speeds No policy for email was enforceable Employees were frustrated Executives we...