Overview

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Overview

• How we can help...

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In brief

• We help UK ISVs understand, explore and adopt the
  latest technologies from Microsoft
• We work alongside the Partner Advantage team
• Vast majority of what we deliver is free!
• In return, we need your help to build case
  studies, compile quotes etc.
• Success is a completed solution, using our
  rhythm technologies, by RTM 180 days

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Our current focus
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Early Adoption Assistance

• Commit to explore/develop on the Betas
• Technical Benefits
• Free support via www.discovermetro.net
• Multi-day class room based training (US)
• Opportunities to attend labs (UK and US)
• Technology Briefings
• And more watch this space

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Metro in one slide...

• ISV at the center
• Replaces Airframe
• My Tracks
• Self enroll to gain access to the associated
  track sites, event links, and PSS-moderated
  Forums
• My Applications
• Profile your application
• Associate yourself
• Request Support
• My Team
• Invite your colleagues
• My Company
• All your companies applications

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Also Marketing benefits Example SQL Server
2008

• Description
• A marketing and Sales benefits package to the
  top 100 partners who participate in Metro
• Requirement
• A SQL Server 2008-based solution available by SQL
  Server 2008 launch and subsequently make their
  solution Generally Available to the market within
  90 days after SQL Server2008 general
  availability.

• ISV can display Front Runner stamp and let
  their customers know they are early adopters of
  SQL Server 2008
• Front Runner graduate advertisement on a large
  2-page Ad in Wall Street Journal as part of SQL
  Server 2008 launch
• Bronze Sponsorship for SQL Server 2008 Global
  Launch
• Microsoft will contribute 50 of the cost, up to
  5000, towards marketing partner applications via
  Microsoft Tele Sales program or Microsoft
  Enterprise Demand Generation Engine (EDGE)
  program
• Front Runner mention in Microsoft Marketing
  collateral and web sites under the Market
  Solution Categories listed below.
• Example Web Sites
• ISV www.microsoft.com/isv/
• SQL Server portal http//www.microsoft.com/sql/de
  fault.mspx

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Next few months

• Many briefings
• On pretty much everything ?
• We have emailed primary contacts
• Will appear on Metro
• Several labs
• Server Development, Compatibility, OBA, Visual
  Studio, CRM ...
• For our most active ISVs
• Talk to your ISV AE
• Eric Nelson, Finance, Windows Server 2008
• eric.nelson_at_microsoft.com
• Dave Allen, Comms and Media, Visual Studio 2008
• dave.allen_at_microsoft.com
• Keith Burns, SQL Server 2008 keith.burns_at_microsoft
  .com
• Nick Page, RMS, Web UX nick.page_at_microsoft.com
• David Gristwood, OBA david.gristwood_at_microsoft.com
  
• Michael McClary, Dynamics michael.mcclary_at_microsof
  t.com
• Paul Maher, Public paul.maher_at_microsoft.com

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And... we need your suggestions

• Suggestions on areas you would like us to cover
  more deeply
• Likely January onwards unless we see high
  demand for an area
• Types of activities - labs, briefings,
  livemeetings
• Talk to your AE

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February 27th - Launch
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QA
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