Session Overview

Microsoft Dynamics AX
Be prepared to look at Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 in a whole new way. Through attending our concurrent sessions and interactive discussions, you’ll learn about multisite deployment, Business Integrations and ISV integration, and you’ll have the opportunity to learn how it works together with other Microsoft technologies today and in the future.  Microsoft Dynamics AX offers comprehensive features that can be extended with industry specific tools from Microsoft Dynamics partners and ISVs, helping enable customers to automate and streamline business processes and drive success.

Microsoft Dynamics NAV
Get ready to learn about the Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 product in action through real-world business scenarios. Simple to learn, use and personalize, Microsoft Dynamics NAV works like and with familiar Microsoft software; automating and streamlining financial, supply chain and customer relationship management processes in a way that helps meet specific industry needs and drive international business success. Whether the topic is web services, the RoleTailored experience, tips or tricks, you’ll walk away with a head full of knowledge at these Convergence sessions.

Microsoft Dynamics CRM
Attend sessions in the Microsoft Dynamics CRM track to learn how our solution offers businesses of all sizes the ability to create and grow profitable customer relationships via a complete sales, service and marketing suite. Because it’s based on the familiar Microsoft Office and Outlook user experience, Microsoft Dynamics CRM provides the easiest and most natural way to deliver powerful, roles-based CRM capabilities from within applications that employees use every day. From Outlook, a Web browser, or a mobile device, employees can access Microsoft Dynamics CRM sales, marketing, and customer service modules to make sales decisions, market products, solve problems, and gain strategic views of the business.

This year at Convergence Copenhagen, we’ll be presenting a new series of sessions focusing on a important trends and topics within the CRM industry to help you stay informed on what is driving innovation and growth in the marketplace.  Topics will include the growth and viability of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) implementations; the definition and business value of xRM; and how to integrate greater efficiencies through Business Intelligence (BI) processes.

Microsoft Office
The Microsoft Office track will showcase how Microsoft’s Business Productivity infrastructure, built around the Microsoft Office system, can amplify the impact of your people when combined with Microsoft Dynamics.  Your people can experience easy, powerful experiences working with their business information, while IT retains the flexibility and control they need with the most appropriate delivery options.  See ways to increase your business’ velocity through combining Microsoft Dynamics AX, Microsoft Dynamics NAV and Microsoft Dynamics CRM with Microsoft technology that can unify your communications, enhance collaboration, and improve desktop productivity.

Microsoft Dynamics Mobile
Learn how Microsoft can help solve customers' challenges by extending their Microsoft Dynamics solutions to mobile devices powered by Windows Mobile. Learn the advantages of going mobile with Microsoft Dynamics NAV and Microsoft Dynamics AX.   

Business Intelligence
Business Intelligence for Microsoft Dynamics helps enable confident decision making across an organization by delivering deep insight to people in the context of their role and responsibility.  Through integration with the Microsoft Business Intelligence solution set, Microsoft Dynamics helps empower individuals to make decisions that help drive corporate success. This track will provide an in-depth view of the value and functionality that Microsoft Dynamics delivers through Microsoft Business Intelligence. Integrated business intelligence tools including Microsoft PerformancePoint Server 2007, Microsoft Office Excel, Microsoft Office SharePoint, Microsoft Forecaster 7.0 will be demonstrated across Microsoft Dynamics solutions.

Microsoft Dynamics in Industries
External industry experts will share their perspectives on key trends in the retail, professional services, manufacturing and public sectors as well as discuss how technology leaders in these industries use business applications to further their competitiveness. Microsoft Dynamics customers will share how their solutions have helped them achieve their business goals.

Microsoft Application Platform
Together, Microsoft Dynamics and the Microsoft Application platform provide powerful capabilities for delivering applications that power your business and enable your people to do their best work. These sessions will provide insight on how Microsoft servers, applications and development tools, including Visual Studio, SQL Server and BizTalk Server, can help you improve your ability to deliver modern business applications. You will gain knowledge on how Microsoft Biz Talk Server complements Microsoft Dynamics in supply chain, retail and other industry scenarios as well as how Microsoft Windows Business Essential Server can simplify and lower your total cost of ownership for maintaining your Microsoft Dynamics applications across your infrastructure.

 Environmental Sustainability
It is hard to miss the topic of "environmental sustainability" these days. Whether you are walking past a newsstand, searching the Web, listening to your radio, or turning on the TV, there are stories about the environment to be seen or heard everywhere. Now, more than ever, businesses find themselves having to face the complexities of this issue. But what can you do within your own company to begin a sustainability initiative? Microsoft Dynamics is currently developing an Environmental Sustainability Dashboard, which will serve to enable companies to begin the process of understanding where they are in terms of their effect on the environment. Awareness and the resultant changes that might be made can have the greatest positive effect, on both the environment and your business.

Business Leadership
Economic downturn, accelerating globalization, increasing regulation in financial markets and environment sustainability…we’re in a period of rapid change full of risk, but also tremendous opportunity for those businesses with the innovative thinking, agile business processes and disciplined execution to recognize and capitalize on this growth potential.  The Business Leadership track at Convergence is a meeting of visionary business leaders who are confronting these challenges in their business and looking to share, learn and grow.

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