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Microsoft and Avantus Training has been partnering up to bring you this quarterly series of MAX IT technology demos and appreciation briefings. Its aimed at showing how businesses can Save Money with Microsoft Technologies.

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Max IT - Jan / Feb 2010 Presentations

No.	Session Name & Synopsis
1	Desktop Optimization with Windows 7 & MDOP Microsoft’s next client Operating System – Windows 7 make everyday tasks faster and easier as well as it make your PC work the way you want it to and to make it possible to do new things by delivering new features and technologies to enable you to become the change agent in your organization through cost reduction and IT investment maximizations. This session is suitable for IT users. Streamline desktop management with the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack Branch Caching Enhanced Security & Control
2	Exploring Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 This session offers an overview of Exchange Server 2010, the cornerstone of Microsoft's unified communications solution. It will demonstrate how this latest release helps our customers achieve new levels of reliability and performance by delivering features that help simplify their administration, protect their communications, and delight their users. The session, suitable for IT users will highlight key innovations and enhancements made in Exchange 2010 across three product investment areas: Flexible and Reliable Anywhere Access Protection and Compliance We will also touch on high-level options around migration from previous releases of Exchange, and illustrate the significant "Software + Services" opportunities delivered with Exchange Online.
3	Productivity with Office 2010 The next wave of Office-related products will help people address these challenges. With these new products we are giving people a familiar interface across PCs, mobile phones and browsers to make it even easier for them to create, communicate and collaborate from any location. IT professionals will benefit from a choice of new delivery and new licensing models as well as from improved management options to better control costs, and enhanced security across all locations. And through our integrated infrastructure, businesses can more easily deploy, manage and help secure corporate assets and comply with government regulations. This session is suitable for Business & IT users. Session Overview: Each session timeslot should be run as a repeated session and customized based on audience, industry, etc.  Find more with Backstage view and ribbon UI Tell a story with photo & video editing Make sense of data with Gemini & Sparklines Work better together with co-authoring & OneNote Gain control over e-mail with conversation management Share instantly with Broadcast Slide Show Mystery feature – to be announced Work from virtually any place, device with Web Apps Keep up on the go with SharePoint Workspace Do more on your Windows or Nokia phone

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Microsoft’s next client Operating System – Windows 7 make everyday tasks faster and easier as well as it make your PC work the way you want it to and to make it possible to do new things by delivering new features and technologies to enable you to become the change agent in your organization through cost reduction and IT investment maximizations. This session is suitable for IT users.

• Streamline desktop management with the Microsoft Desktop Optimization
• Pack Branch Caching
• Enhanced Security & Control

Part 1

Part 2

This session offers an overview of Exchange Server 2010, the cornerstone of Microsoft's unified communications solution. It will demonstrate how this latest release helps our customers achieve new levels of reliability and performance by delivering features that help simplify their administration, protect their communications, and delight their users. The session, suitable for IT users will highlight key innovations and enhancements made in Exchange 2010 across three product investment areas:

• Flexible and Reliable
• Anywhere Access
• Protection and Compliance

We will also touch on high-level options around migration from previous releases of Exchange, and illustrate the significant "Software + Services" opportunities delivered with Exchange Online.

Part 1

Part 2

/Dennis

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Microsoft Security - What's New with Stirling? - Andrew Cheng

Synopsis: Forefront codename “Stirling” is a single product that delivers unified security management and reporting with comprehensive, coordinated protection across clients, server applications, and the network edge. Through its deep integration with the existing infrastructure, such as Microsoft Active Directory and Microsoft System Center, customers can reduce complexity, making it easier to achieve a more secure and well-managed infrastructure. Join this session as Andrew unwraps for you, what's new.

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/Dennis

The DPE Team of Microsoft Singapore has just concluded another session of Application Lifecycle Management Solution Briefing on Feb 2nd, 2010. In this session, we started off with the Keynote: Optimizing Your Business with the Microsoft Application Platform by Kian Sing, as he shares how Microsoft Application Platform can help your businesses create new efficiency, reduce costs and improve your development project productivity. Next, we dive deeper into the topic on Managing Application Development and Quality by Quah and lastly, the session ended with Visual Studio 2010 Preview by Maung Maung.

Thank you all for those who have attended the ALM Solution Briefing event, and for those who missed the session, feel free to download the slides available below. You may also view the recording at Application Lifecycle Management Solution Briefing (Oct 2009)

	Optimizing Your Business with the Microsoft Application Platform Ng Kian Sing Application Platform Sales Lead Microsoft Asia
	Managing Application Development and Quality Quah Hak Teng APAC Technology Solutions Specialist Microsoft Singapore
	Visual Studio 2010 Preview Maung Maung Phyo Technology Solutions Specialist Microsoft Singapore

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The next wave of Office-related products will help people address these challenges. With these new products we are giving people a familiar interface across PCs, mobile phones and browsers to make it even easier for them to create, communicate and collaborate from any location. IT professionals will benefit from a choice of new delivery and new licensing models as well as from improved management options to better control costs, and enhanced security across all locations. And through our integrated infrastructure, businesses can more easily deploy, manage and help secure corporate assets and comply with government regulations. This session is suitable for Business & IT users.

In this video, James Price shows how Visio 2007 Pro can be used as the programmer’s friend in delivering a visually rich and interactive interface for their solutions.  The first part of the video describes how external data can be displayed in almost real time.  The second part shows an example of a simulation where Visio captures data and then publishes it automatically to IE or SharePoint.  The result is to show why Visio is a great tool at providing interfaces, dashboards and POCs.

In today’s economic climate, your business faces greater challenges than ever before. Companies are increasingly looking to technology for solutions that will reduce costs while driving increased value across the business. This event gives you a valuable opportunity to learn more about how Microsoft Application Life-Cycle Management (ALM) solution can help you reduce cost, reduce development time, increase quality, and improve project manageability.

Topic synopsis and details of the event can be found here
For those who missed the event, here are the recordings to share with you.

Optimizing Your Business with Microsoft Application Platform Less is more, simple is beautiful and complexity is bad. However, the modern best practices and benefits of adopting "a single unified Application Platform suite", as opposed to the legacy best practices of adopting many disparate “best of breed” point solutions have not been well understood and adopted in most enterprises today. Learn how the Microsoft Application Platform can help you create new efficiencies to reduce costs, find new opportunities to grow your business, and help all users increase their productivity.

CMMI Best Practice Sharing CMMI is a process improvement approach that provides organizations with the essential elements of effective processes that ultimately improve their performance. CMMI can be used to guide process improvement across a project, a division, or an entire organization. It helps integrate traditionally separate organizational functions, set process improvement goals and priorities, provide guidance for quality processes, and provide a point of reference for appraising current processes.

Managing Application Development and Quality ALM is a solution for governing the process of planning, building, and managing applications over their life cycle. Learn how ALM solution enables you to manage projects, track project progress, manage requirements, streamline team collaboration, design and develop systems more effectively. Part1: Managing Application Development Part 2: Managing Application Quality

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The Developer Tools Program Manager is a member of the Singapore subsidiary Developer and Platform Evangelism (DPE) team. The DPE team’s mission is to secure platform adoption and revenue growth through evangelism, community engagement, relationship marketing and a the creation of a vibrant solutions ecosystem.

The Role:

• This role is responsible for planning, tracking, reporting, communicating and driving marketing programs/campaigns for developer tools in effort to uncover business opportunities which deliver revenue.
• The role will be responsible for providing marketing execution support which includes liaising with vendors for marketing campaigns and events.
• The Developer Tools Program Manager will be also be responsible in driving the online strategy execution, perception change campaign execution as well as leading the Relationship Marketing engine for the team.
• Will serve as a v-team member across the subsidary (i.e. working with Business & Marketing Organization, Enterprise & Partner Group Public Sector, and the Small & Midmarket solutions & Partners Group), integrating developer marketing activities effectively with other Business Groups and Segments.

To be successful in this position, one should have strong business acumen and be able to understand marketing as well as have knowledge of the technology industry. One should demonstrated strong organizational, interpersonal, time management, presentation, written, and verbal communication skills.

The Requirements:

• 5 - 8 years of related experience
• Passion for technology and solid knowledge of developer tools marketing (online and offline)
• Experience with market analytics tools and marketing campaign development/execution
• Demonstrated track record

Interested Candidates, please apply here.

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