More then 4000 participants from 71 countries learned that sunny Spain stops at Barcelona as the heavens opened up with monsoon like rain and it turned out the main hall was the other side of the exhibition centre. Fortunately this did not dampen spirits and the day got off to a visionary start with the opening address that showed how Microsoft’s breadth of platform and products enables personal professional productivity.
This was delivered by Kirill Tatarinov president of the Microsoft Business Solutions Division (MBS) who whose key theme was that today’s connected workforce is transforming business from the inside out.
Workplace productivity is changing and evolving in front of our eyes. A key statistic he cited is that next year, it’s estimated that almost 30 percent of the global workforce will be mobile and that it’s estimated that over 85 percent of organizations worldwide will have policies enabling their people to bring their own devices and use those for work.
As individual business people and teams work closer together, and organizations become more customer-focused, they need technology that will help them unite. Businesses are increasingly looking to the cloud to respond to these changes. 75 percent of enterprises already enjoy the benefits of the cloud. The Microsoft recipe for cloud success is rooted in the integration and interrelationships between cloud platform, cloud productivity and cloud Business Applications – and only Microsoft offers all three. Together, Azure, Office 365 and Dynamics Business Applications deliver cloud experiences businesses can count on.
Microsoft Dynamics CRM works seamlessly with Office and Power BI across mobile devices to help increase sales productivity, deliver smarter marketing, and boost customer loyalty. Advances in Dynamics CRM 2015 are designed to address the growing need for businesses to deliver great experiences to their customers by helping them to break down the barriers between divisions and to collaborate like never before.
Every day, twenty million businesses around the world trust the Microsoft Cloud – the only cloud provider that is certified by the European Union under the EU model clause – across all cloud services – Azure, Office 365 and Dynamics CRM Online.
Case studies featured JJ Foods, Ingram Micro, Kudelski Group and Onduline, who are transforming their businesses in unique and creative ways, harnessing the power of the cloud to gain competitive advantage through outstanding customer experiences and productivity improvements.
A view of the future today showed how Power Bi, CRM, Office 365, Bing search engine, predictive analytics, alerts to a wearable wrist device and a mobile phone assistant can all interact across a range of platforms :ipad, Surface, browser, desktop, mobile.
It was also a chance to catch up with several of our partners for specialist isv solutions and global collaboration.
Emily- CWR mobility for Dynamics CRM
I was particularly interested in a session involving Mike Ehrenberg – Microsoft CTO on the future of Dynamics Ax showing how predictive analytics could be used for constraint based inventory forecasting e.g. for daily sale of an item based on a nearby event detected by Bing, change in weather or temperature, prior sales history etc. It also gave a peek at the future Ax html client.
