Well done Microsoft Switzerland!

Microsoft Switzerland put on a Commerce Server 2009 day for their partners. This was the program:

Commerce Server Day - Switzerland
Morning (0900-1200), Sales content
Module 1:
Trends, Sales Strategies, Solutions
• Key e-commerce market trends
• Roadmap and history
• New Commerce Server 2009 features
• How to sell Commerce Server 2009

Module 2
PreSales Consulting
• Understand the positioning
• Avoid the pain points
• Building a basis for a successful project.
• Cross sell, BizTalk, SharePoint
• Reference Cases, Marketing Materials

Afternoon (1300-1700), Technical content
Module 3
· Architecture
· Subsystems, Catalog, Inventory, Profiles, Orders, Marketing
· Data Warehousing
· Staging

Module 4
· SharePoint Commerce Services
· Commerce Server Foundation
· Integration to BizTalk
· Performance
· Resources

The partners were of high calibre, and had a number of customers evaluating Commerce Server 2009, and went deeply into performance issues and the aspx vs SharePoint issues. It would be great we could have a similar day in the neighbouring countries also.

Thanks Max!

Max reports on his site that he is winding up his Commerce Server business. http://www.maxakbar.com/blog.aspx?id=23. We had talked about this back in June but he asked me to keep it to myself for a while.

I would like to thank him for all his work for the Commerce Server community and wish him well for his new endeavours. I personally have learned a lot from him, particularly in the area of pipelines. Thanks Max!

This means that Commerce Server 2009 training is now pretty thin on the ground, so I have been expanding our presence in North America to make up the slack. We have a great new CS2009 training manual, running to about 1000 pages, and it seemed to work well in class. We were a little ahead of ourselves, our labs included BizTalk 2009, but fortunately this is now supported.