Worldwide Partner Conference 2010

Come learn how SQL Azure, AppFabric, and the Windows Azure platform will enable you to grow your revenue and increase your market reach. Learn how to build elastic applications that will reduce costs and enable faster time to market using our highly available, self-service platform. These apps can easily span from the cloud to the enterprise. If you are either a traditional ISV looking to move to the cloud or a SaaS ISV who wants to get more capabilities and a larger geo-presence, this is the session that will show you how.

If you are a Microsoft Application Platform partner, in this session learn about Microsoft Application Platform success in your area of expertise. We talk about recent case studies, difficulties and competition. We share the latest benchmarks and proof of concepts that reinforce the value of the Microsoft Application Platform and you have the opportunity to share your learning, experience and feedback to help make a better platform for your needs.

Enterprise Data Warehousing (EDW) is one of the most important IT investments a company will ever make. EDW strategies often run into the millions of dollars in software, hardware, and services and underpin business-critical applications such as business intelligence, performance management, supply chain management, data mining, and closed-loop business process optimization. Forrester states that EDW is one of the fastest growing segments of the data management market but with IT budgets remaining under pressure the stakes are raised for customers to commit to one EDW solution. Microsoft offers a compelling EDW portfolio delivering a reliable, scalable data warehouse platform for all business critical applications. In particular, the new Parallel Data Warehouse is a game changer that opens unprecedented opportunity for Microsoft and its Partners in the high end of the Data Warehouse market. Attend this session to understand: • Who is buying Enterprise Data Warehousing and why; • Microsoft’s EDW strategy and portfolio; and • How Microsoft’s Parallel Data Warehouse will help you address new and more profitable market segments

Enterprise Data Warehousing (EDW) is one of the most important IT investments a company will ever make. EDW strategies often run into the millions of dollars in software, hardware, and services and underpin business-critical applications such as business intelligence, performance management, supply chain management, data mining, and closed-loop business process optimization. Forrester states that EDW is one of the fastest growing segments of the data management market but with IT budgets remaining under pressure the stakes are raised for customers to commit to one EDW solution. Microsoft offers a compelling EDW portfolio delivering a reliable, scalable data warehouse platform for all business critical applications. In particular, the new Parallel Data Warehouse is a game changer that opens unprecedented opportunity for Microsoft and its Partners in the high end of the Data Warehouse market. Attend this session to understand: • Who is buying Enterprise Data Warehousing and why; • Microsoft’s EDW strategy and portfolio; and • How Microsoft’s Parallel Data Warehouse will help you address new and more profitable market segments

This session helps SI partners understand the Microsoft middleware strategy. Microsoft has various middleware assets deliverd in various products like SharePoint, SQL Server, AppFabric, Azure and BizTalk Server. This session tells the all-up middleware story of Microsoft. We also share how our SI partners have successfully leveraged the Microsoft middleware stack to deliver real value to their customers.

This session discusses the landscape, market and partner opportunity for Independent Software Vendors and System Integrators with new Business Intelligence features of SQL Server 2008 R2. More specifically this session discusses the opportunity to enhance applications with real-time data capturing or streaming and the opportunity to develop apps with self-service BI capabilities. We showcase recent partner success stories.

Learn how Bing Maps, SQL Server, SQL Azure, SharePoint, and tools like the DataConnector can be used to deliver solutions that enable your customers to explore complex data visually in the context of location. Solutions with geospatial data visualization provide customers with greater insight for better business decisions. Join this discussion to see how you can deliver this innovation in your solutions.

Partner opportunities in IT have never been better. Robert Wahbe, Corporate Vice President, Server & Tools Marketing Group will share how investing in cloud computing today will help your business tomorrow. He will also highlight how the latest wave of product releases from Microsoft including Windows Server, SQL Server, Visual Studio, System Center, and others can drive projects that will be at the top of your customers’ spending priorities.

Partner opportunities in IT have never been better. Robert Wahbe, Corporate Vice President, Server & Tools Marketing Group will share how investing in cloud computing today will help your business tomorrow. He will also highlight how the latest wave of product releases from Microsoft including Windows Server, SQL Server, Visual Studio, System Center, and others can drive projects that will be at the top of your customers’ spending priorities.

Partner opportunities in IT have never been better. Robert Wahbe, Corporate Vice President, Server & Tools Marketing Group will share how investing in cloud computing today will help your business tomorrow. He will also highlight how the latest wave of product releases from Microsoft including Windows Server, SQL Server, Visual Studio, System Center, and others can drive projects that will be at the top of your customers’ spending priorities.

Partner opportunities in IT have never been better. Robert Wahbe, Corporate Vice President, Server & Tools Marketing Group will share how investing in cloud computing today will help your business tomorrow. He will also highlight how the latest wave of product releases from Microsoft including Windows Server, SQL Server, Visual Studio, System Center, and others can drive projects that will be at the top of your customers’ spending priorities.

Microsoft development tools and platform and your existing skillset will enable you to quickly build compelling experiences for your customers spanning devices, deployment targets and application types. The concept of experiences extends beyond what end users see to the overall experience while building applications. Visual Studio enables you to improve the productivity of individuals and cross-functional teams and also enables you to make tacit knowledge explicit. See how we can help you get the visibility you need to drive out risk in the development process.

This session will cover the new advanced capabilities in Excel 2010 and PowerPivot for Excel to help you create detailed analytical reports. We will cover new capabilities such as the to infer complex models in the underlying analysis, create sophisticated analysis using the latest Excel 2010 features, quickly work with very large data sets and publish and browse workbooks to Excel Services and SharePoint. It will also cover how IT can benefit from managing Self Service BI environments.

SQL Azure enables businesses to increase profitability, realize new revenue streams and expand segment reach. Come to this session to understand how SQL Azure enables first mover advantage by reducing the time required for you to build and deploy to market. Learn about the game-changing opportunities that SQL Azure provides with elastic scalability, a dynamic consumption model, business ready service levels, and web-based accessibility and flexibility.

After completing this lab, you will be better able to set up a Utility Control Point, upgrade a SQL Server schema, enroll an instance into a Utility Control Point, monitor a managed instance, and configure global policies for managed instances.

After completing this lab, you will be better able to set up a Utility Control Point, upgrade a SQL Server schema, enroll an instance into a Utility Control Point, monitor a managed instance, and configure global policies for managed instances.

After completing this lab, you will be better able to set up a Utility Control Point, upgrade a SQL Server schema, enroll an instance into a Utility Control Point, monitor a managed instance, and configure global policies for managed instances.

After completing this lab, you will be better able to import SQL Server data into PowerPivot, create a sales report using PowerPivot data, and import data from a web site into PowerPivot.

After completing this lab, you will be better able to import SQL Server data into PowerPivot, create a sales report using PowerPivot data, and import data from a web site into PowerPivot.

After completing this lab, you will be better able to import SQL Server data into PowerPivot, create a sales report using PowerPivot data, and import data from a web site into PowerPivot.