(Stephen Parker, Head of Cloud Strategy, NewLease) Assertion: Margin is a key business metric, however in the cloud era the following 3 KPI’s challenge it for the throne: Customers perception of Time to value Delivering additional services at marginal cost Optimising the number of parties using the service Justification: Do not misunderstand me I am…
(Stephen Parker, Head of Cloud Strategy, NewLease) Update #3 now heading your way. Lots going on at the moment in the Microsoft world, both Cloud and traditional Windows. The 29th February seemed to sum up so much of the challenges facing the industry and Microsoft: Windows 8 Consumer Preview was launched with much excitement. This…
(Stephen Parker, Head of Cloud Strategy, NewLease) Part 2 of what I am planning to be an ongoing series of posts. This is a simple summary of posts from around the web that I have come across over the past few weeks that caught my eye. My value add?: Hopefully finding the interesting from the…
(Stephen Parker, Head of Cloud Strategy, NewLease) I read lots of articles from various media sources every day and whilst most of it goes straight into the “do not file” bucket, there are some that I at least find interesting. Of course my definition of interesting is biased, but I trust that for some people,…
(Stephen Parker, Head of Cloud Strategy) Another set of links for potentially interesting cloud materials. Promotions Don’t forget Velocity incentives (A$1,000 for 20+ seat deals and A$2,000 for 50+ seat deals) more info at http://www.msonlineservices.com.au/ Also if for any reason you have not yet sorted out Cloud Essentials and/or Cloud Accelerate then head over to…
(Stephen Parker, Head of Cloud Strategy) Breaking News: Take advantage of the Velocity Promotion. Here’s what you could earn: $2,000 in migration and implementation funds for every sale of Microsoft Online Services via T-Suite of 50 seats or over. $1,000 in migration and implementation funds for every sale of Microsoft Online Services via T-Suite over…
In a short video (4 min) Brad Wilson, GM of Microsoft Dynamics CRM talks about how partners can take action to survive in the era of CRM Online 2011. It's an uncomplicated presentation but one of his messages struck me as very significant. He said basically three things: You can build apps which can be…
The Microsoft Azure team's announcement of a new Introductory Special offer as part of the "Cloud Power campaign" is good news for partners wishing to try out Azure at minimum outlay. The upgraded Introductory Special offer now includes 750 free hours of the Windows Azure extra-small instance, 25 hours of the Windows Azure small instance…
(Stephen Parker, Head of Cloud Strategy) This is a complex area covering everything from hard and complex legal facts (upon which I will claim no expert knowledge), through to illogical but equally important emotional reasons. So the answer is YES, NO and MAYBE. There are definitely hard legal reasons that impact where a companies data…
A question often asked by start-up entrepreneurs, and also others as they come up on an opportunity to patent "something", is whether it is worthwhile. By "worthwhile" we really mean will it generate extra wealth compared to the alternatives. It's often felt by those who lean towards not patenting that a patent will make your…
