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How time flies…
OK – yes, it’s been a while since I’ve posted. Although cliche at this point – I’ve definitely been busy. Lots of stuff has gone by in the meantime – the Yahoo/MSFT mess, the Sonics leaving Seattle, Barack Obama winning the Democratic nomination, BillG transitioning out of MSFT…at the same time, it’s hard to believe it’s the middle of 2008 already…whew! Closer to home, the CRM team has been hard at work launching CRM Online and digging in on the next release. At this point, we’re not ready to discuss much externally, but we have some pretty cool things on the radar and we’re closely listening to feedback from our customers, partners, and MVPs. You may have seen some of the posts (like the ones from Jim and Phil) about our recent move to new offices. I find that moving offices is like most things in life – some blue sky and a little bit of gray surrounded by some silver lining. In my case, the dynamics of the new building are interesting (lots more glass), but the extra 20min of commute each way has been more of a drag than I expected. The good news is that the team is settling in and starting to make the building our ‘own’. So – the holiday weekend is over, WPC is starting, and before you know it, it will be August. Time moves fast, so if you have suggestions for what you’d like to see in the next release of MSCRM, let me know… Developer Ramp-up kit for Dynamics CRM 4.0Girish Raja just posted about the new Developer Ramp-up kit for CRM 4.0. If you’re new to developing solutions with the CRM platform, I highly recommend checking out the content and labs in the download, which were originally put together as part of the ISV training program run by the Developer and Platform Evangelism (DPE) team prior to the launch of CRM 4.0. Thanks Girish! Sizing and Perf guidelines for 500 seat CRM deploymentFor those of you thinking about deployment on-premise Dynamics CRM, you may be interested in the whitepaper our Business Systems Architecture team just released last week detailing the hardware, workloads, and performance for a 'typical' 500 user deployment.
What is 'typical'? Well, that's what the paper describes. Obviously your organization may look very different, which may require slightly different sizing, but the doc is a great starting point.
Wow - just missed a bulletSo I just back in Seattle - my flight arrived from Atlanta around 7:45p or so. I got home and checked out MSNBC only to see that Atlanta has just been hit by a major storm.
Wow - the real irony is that my flight didn't leave Atlanta until 5:15 EST, so I just missed it...very happy about that...
Convergence thoughts - part 1Well - it's been an interesting week.
As usual, Convergence was pretty crowded, although not as bad as last year (probably because the Orange County Convention Center is clearly larger than the San Diego Convention Center from last year). In general, everyone I met seemed pretty upbeat on business prospects and very positive about CRM 4.0, although customers were usually still in the evaluation stage ( either looking at upgrades from 3.0 or still in the decision phase on new 4.0 projects).
Paul Greenberg wrote an interesting post - Microsoft Convergence - Right Stuff - Wrong Convergence - that focused primarily on thoughts from the SteveB keynote. While I can understand his general point about how the message isn't as effective as it could be, I also know that the product strategy we're pursuing is on point and messaging can (will) evolve.
 You can check out the keynote for yourself at the Convergence Presspass site.
Gotta get on the plane now - I'll post some more thoughts on the fun side of the week a little later...
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