Microsoft Events and Webcasts for Midsize Businesses

Ongoing Webcast Series
Attend this series of live and on-demand webcasts to learn about the new functionality in Microsoft Dynamics GP and to get a sneak preview of the future innovations coming in Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010. As we experience change, new possibilities arise—new strategies, new technologies, new directions, and new ways of doing business. In the past year, Microsoft Dynamics GP has released new functionality that can help you do more with your existing Microsoft Dynamics GP financial management solution. Quick access to data and the ability to turn data into insight can help make your employees more productive, improve your decision-making processes, and ultimately save you time and money. Learn how by watching these informative Microsoft Dynamics GP webcasts.

Ongoing Webcast Series
Tune in to these webcasts and podcasts to learn how purchasing Microsoft licensing agreements can be truly beneficial to your business. If you have already purchased licensing agreements, learn how you can fully take advantage of these agreements from experienced licensing specialists who provide informative, sound solutions and advice. If you've recently purchased an Enterprise Agreement license, learn how you can add products to your agreement even after you've signed it! If your licensing agreements are about to expire, take this opportunity to view this series of webcasts to learn more about the value of renewing your licensing agreements.

Ongoing Webcast Series
Join us for this series of webcasts and podcasts to discover the benefits of deploying the 2007 Microsoft Office system. Attend a webcast to learn how you can enable your people to communicate and collaborate more effectively with customers, partners, processes, and information using the familiar Microsoft Office desktop and server software. Tune in to a podcast to find out how the 2007 Office system can offer you powerful tools and resources to drive down your operational costs and improve your work processes.

Ongoing Webcast Series
Join us for this series of webcasts to learn how the new Windows 7 operating system can help you improve the way you manage your business. Learn new advanced management techniques with the Windows Powershell 2.0 command-line interface. Discover how to enhance your virtual desktop infrastructure, including multiple monitor configurations and advanced video viewing. Discover the secrets of how to turbo-charge your virtualization strategy with this powerful new operating system, in addition to exciting new features for faster deployment of Windows 7. View and listen to this great selection of webcasts and podcasts featuring Windows 7 and discover what benefits it may have for you.

Ongoing Webcast Series
Business Professionals This informative series of webcasts and podcasts offers a new look at the benefits of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Learn key strategies for reducing the cost of data management through better accuracy of information sharing using SharePoint Server 2007. The key to successful performance management is based on bringing together people, processes, and technology in a way that makes it possible to align an organization's strategic goals and objectives, promoting agility in manager decision making. Discover the broad capabilities of SharePoint Server 2007 and learn how the integrated collaboration suite can help you improve business productivity through easier information sharing. Join us for these informative webcasts to understand how these solutions can enhance business productivity at your organization.

Ongoing Webcast Series
Join us to learn how Microsoft Dynamics SL business software can help you provide better and faster management solutions for your business. Discover how Microsoft Dynamics SL can help you streamline key business processes by automating workflow while providing accurate, real-time data to enhance decision making. In these webcasts, we explore how integrating Microsoft Dynamics SL with Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Microsoft Office Project Server can empower you to bridge project and financial data, providing a 360-degree view of customer information from project and accounting modules. Join this informative series to learn more.

Ongoing Webcast Series
Summary: Come explore how you can use Microsoft Virtual Earth mapping software as a data visualization tool in line-of-business solutions throughout your organization. See how Virtual Earth can provide easy, intuitive access to data in solutions that are critical to an organization's success. Discover how you can implement Virtual Earth across the enterprise by integrating it with technologies like Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Dynamics, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Tune in to this series of webcasts to learn how you can take advantage of Virtual Earth—from supply chain management and emergency response to marketing analysis, e-commerce, and more.

Ongoing Webcast Series
Learn how to maximize the data connectivity, Data Graphics, Data Refresh, and PivotDiagram capabilities of Microsoft Office Visio 2007. We show you how to create valuable visual data for auditing, claims, investment reporting, loan consolidation, and Sarbanes-Oxley Act compliance. Tune in to these webcasts and podcasts to find out how you can use the new features of Visio 2007 Professional to design, manage, and deploy processes within an enterprise and with customers.

Ongoing Webcast Series
Microsoft Online Services and Business Productivity Online Suite provide organizations with always up-to-date technologies that can be deployed rapidly, helping you maximize your valuable IT resources and reduce your need for infrastructure investments. In this four-part webcast series, we highlight the scalability and flexibility of these Online Services. We explore the IT administration experience, in addition to the security and reliability built into these services. Join us to discover how you can take advantage of these services quickly, and cost effectively, to drive business results.

Ongoing Webcast Series
Microsoft Online Services and Business Productivity Online Suite provide organizations with always up-to-date technologies that can be deployed rapidly, helping you maximize your valuable IT resources and reduce your need for infrastructure investments. In this four-part webcast series, we highlight the scalability and flexibility of these Online Services. We explore the IT administration experience, in addition to the security and reliability built into these services. Join us to discover how you can take advantage of these services quickly, and cost effectively, to drive business results.

Ongoing Webcast Series
Learn how you can improve your business intelligence infrastructure with Microsoft SQL Server database software. Find out how SQL Server can help you provide a comprehensive data environment that is more secure, reliable, manageable, and scalable for your mission-critical applications. Discover how SQL Server makes it possible for you to manage reports and analyze data of any size or complexity, while providing users with deeper integration with Microsoft Office programs at the same time.

Tune in to the Platform Solution Blueprints webcast and podcast series each month to learn how these blueprints fit into the Microsoft platform and how a platform approach turns tactical decisions into long-term, strategic plans.

Ongoing Webcast Series
With the economy in recession, saving money while increasing productivity is more important than ever. Tune in to these webcasts and podcasts and learn ways Microsoft products and technologies can help your organization reduce IT costs while getting the most value out of IT investments you've already made. Discover how the broad capabilities of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 can enable you to improve business productivity through easier information sharing across disparate business processes. We also explain how you can get the most productivity and return on investment from your desktop with the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP), a suite of six products available as an add-on subscription license to Software Assurance customers. We explain how the MDOP can help you reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO) of your entire enterprise-wide application management life cycle.

Ongoing Webcast Series
In this challenging economy, a tighter budget means that you need strong customer connections to build loyalty, boost business, and grow profits. Learn how you can deliver immersive user experiences on the desktop or on mobile devices that connect customers with your locations, products, and services. Join these webcasts, where we show you how Microsoft Virtual Earth can help by driving customers to your store, restaurant, or hotel. Discover how Virtual Earth provides a platform of integrated services for quality geospatial and mapping data, rich imagery, and cutting-edge technology that can integrate with your existing business systems to provide unique views of data and engage your customers.

Learn about the core features of Microsoft Office Visio Professional 2007 as we explain how you can use shortcuts for navigation, editing, and connectivity. Tune in to these webcasts and podcasts to see how you can take advantage of the new Visio 2007 data connectivity, Data Graphics, Data Refresh, and PivotDiagram tools to create truly intelligent diagrams that can help you communicate complex information. Discover how Visio 2007 works with other Microsoft Office system technologies and applications, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, letting you import Visio diagrams into your document, worksheet, or presentation.

In Person Event Series
From consolidating server hardware and cutting costs in the data center, to enhancing user productivity on the desktop, virtualization is a key step in achieving the Microsoft vision of Dynamic IT-where people and computers get the resources they need the moment they need them. Tune in to this series of webcasts and podcasts to discover how you can save time and money by implementing virtualization in your organization.

In Person Event Series
Join us for the Connect + Share Summits to find out how to capitalize on your technology investments by improving user productivity, enhancing communication, and effectively collaborating across your business. This innovative session is designed to showcase the benefits of the full integrated Microsoft platform. We will present this through a demonstration which focuses on a real business scenario involving customer service in a competitive environment. Afterward, for more technical details, we will provide a behind the scenes look at the products and services that comprise the solution. This comprehensive event will also contain a short session to address your total cost of ownership.

Ongoing Webcast Series
Tune in and see how the line of Microsoft Dynamics integrated business management solutions can help you automate and streamline your processes. During these webcasts, we provide you with strategies on how to build your business by improving system security and increasing productivity.

Ongoing Webcast Series
Learn about Hewlett-Packard (HP) solutions that help you integrate Windows Server 2008 into your business model easily and cost-effectively. Tune in and see how HP network services, virtualization capabilities, and Web security solutions can help you achieve the full benefits of your Windows Server 2008 implementation—and conserve energy, too.

Ongoing Webcast Series
Discover how to align IT with your company growth strategy, maintain existing infrastructures and deploy new solutions while leading and motivating your team.

Ongoing Webcast Series and Archives
Tap the experience and knowledge of CEOs, authors, industry leaders, and more for insight to help you take your business further.

Ongoing Events and Webcast Series
Learn more about Microsoft's Business Solution Advisors: Who they are, the live events and webcasts they host, and the resources they offer and suggest.

Ongoing Webcast Series
Join us for a three part series to learn all about the new features and functionalities in SQL Server 2008.

Ongoing Webcast Series
Learn about the hardened operating system and security innovations that make Windows Server 2008 the most secure Windows Server ever released. We explain how Network Access Protection, Federated Rights Management, and Read-Only Domain Controller provide unprecedented levels of protection for your business network and data. You find out how to simplify the management of your network's security, help protect your network from security threats, and how to respond to and resolve security threats rapidly.