Tuesday, August 18, 2009

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.