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Find out what transpired at the Microsoft conference - Inspire 2017

Written by Mark Britton | Aug 14, 2017 11:00:00 PM

At the Microsoft conference – Inspire 2017 several big announcements were made.

  1. New apps and LinkedIn integrations have been made available for Microsoft Dynamics 365.
  2. Azure Stack, Microsoft’s hybrid cloud platform, is now available to order.
  3. ISV Cloud Embed was announced. This provides independent software vendors with Microsoft building blocks for app development.
  4. Microsoft and its partners will be able to sell the company’s commercial offerings as a family. This package will be called Microsoft 365.
  5. Microsoft will be making a material investment into ‘co-sell incentives’ to support and boost partner sales.

Inspire take places in the US in July every year and is attended by around 18,000 Microsoft partners. This year Crimson’s Head of Cloud Services, Tom Cadman, attended the Microsoft conference in Washington DC in search of the next wave of tech that will support Crimson’s clients’ objectives.

In the August episode of The Sleepless CIO Show, Crimson’s monthly webinar that explores Microsoft solutions, Tom gave an insider’s view of the conference and shared his key findings from Inspire.

Click the video below to listen to Tom’s thoughts and see his presentation about the Microsoft conference.

 

Crimson is an IT consultancy, an IT solutions provider, an IT recruitment agency, and a Microsoft Gold Partner operating across the UK.