Danny serves as Vice President of Client Development at ThreeWill. His primary responsibilities are to make sure that we are building partnerships with the right clients and getting out the message about how we can help clients.
- Today’s buzzword of the day (I should have done this for Day 1/2 as well) – Single Pane of Glass. I think I heard it five times today. BTW, you’re reading this blog post on a single pane of glass. 😆
- Yes, as suspected, the attendance at the Vision Keynote was down. They closed off many sections of the Verizon Center.
- Keynote was covered by Brad Smith, President and Chief Legal Counsel. Strong emphasis on European Union’s new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which will take effect May 2018 and “will significantly raise the bar for data privacy protection.”
- Gavriella Schuster, CVP, Worldwide Channels and Programs, covered changes to the partner program – focus will be on growing partners for one role and role a for a person acting more as a “connector.”
- Discussion with Ian Bremmer about the current state of the world politics. I’m a bit tired of politics so I would have preferred someone more inspirational (core message was basically that US is no longer leading the free world). The conference is called Inspire – maybe next year they can book someone like Tony Robbins to get us all pumped up.
- Enjoyed meeting some folks from a partner from Portugal called BindTuning – UX for Microsoft 365 that will definitely be a part of upcoming projects.
- Talked with Microsoft rep for the p-seller program – with all the talk about how the partner model is changing it sounds like things are status quo so not sure if it’s worth the investment of time. Time will tell.
- I had two awesome sessions from Mike Gannotti – he had some killer takeaways (sorry, first two are for Windows only – a benefit of moving from Mac to a PC):
- Mix for Office – http://mix.office.com
- Snip for Office – https://mix.office.com/snip
- Attended a session on the partnership with Adobe (integration with Dynamics and LinkedIn). It’s a solution for larger companies (for now). Keeping my eye on this since some companies have asked us about migrations from Salesforce to Dynamics.
- Great session from Dan Holme on SharePoint and what’s coming – can’t wait to use Communication Sites (still not available on our tenant) and new web parts (like the news web part). Discussed difference between Yammer and Teams. Yammer is a cross-company discussions (large groups) based on interest/topic and Teams are for, well, teams (smaller groups). He confirmed the model is one Team per company/client that you work with (we came to the same conclusion). Confirmed that they are building in many of the features that companies want in a modern Intranet – it just may take some time. This puts “SharePoint in a Box” products in a foot-race to outpace Microsoft (maybe one of them will be bought by Microsoft – just guessing). Talk of further integration with workflow (Flow) and building apps (PowerApps).
