Live from Convergence: Day 1 is off to a great start

Posted by Mike Snyder on March 10, 2007  |  Comments (1)

We are in the last group of breakout sessions on Saturday, and then we head to the Closing Session. After that...it's drink time! The opening keynote was very cool and it even had some crazy tap-dancing routine. Some of the most impressive portions of the keynote were the Microsoft Dynamics GP demos. The new GP 10.0 client looks great, and some of the R&D demos around 3D data visualization were "must see".

Microsoft CRM General Manager Brad Wilson presented a great Microsoft CRM product session this morning and Bill Patterson showed a live Titan demo running out of the Microsoft data center. It is exciting to see Microsoft starting to talk about and demo Titan publically!

Some of the new Microsoft CRM information that Brad shared with the public partner community today included:

• Microsoft CRM now has 10,000 customers with over 400,000 users
• The CRM product experienced 100% growth in FY 06
• A recent Gartner report ranked Microsoft CRM customer service as one of the top applications available in the market
• Update on Microsoft CRM to ERP integration timelines
  • Microsoft Dynamics GP available now
  • Microsoft Dynamics AX Q3 this year
  • Microsoft Dynamics NAV H1 2008
• Regarding timing around the Titan release, they said:
  • Early customer access via Live CRM will start in Q3
  • On-premise "Customer Showcase" in H2
  • "Full RTM and RTW will occur by end of year"

RTW is a new acrononym for Microsoft! It means Release-To-Web so of course it refers to the CRM Live! offering.

The conference logistics have been solid so far, and the weather here is awesome. Here is a photo of the "Sails Pavilion" where we had lunch today.