John O’Donnell, a Microsoft Dynamics ISV Architect Evangelist with Microsoft, met with Drew at Convergence 2008 to talk about the challenge of making a Dynamics CRM solution compelling for sales people and how his company’s product (SAVO) [See the full post…]

Hear how IdeaBlade, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, is using Agile Software Development to improve the quality of their product. In this session, William Leong, ISV Architect Evangelist, talks with Ward Bell, VP of Product Management at IdeaBlade, on [See the full post…]

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 is a three-tier application that can help organizations manage front office processes, such as sales, marketing, and customer service, and serve as a development platform for business applications in different industry verticals. The platform aspects [See the full post…]

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 is a three-tier application that can help organizations manage front office processes, such as sales, marketing, and customer service, and serve as a development platform for business applications in different industry verticals. The platform aspects let [See the full post…]

Good PR gets Robert Scoble to break news for Cemaphore product. 22 Finalists named for the Utah Innovation Awards. Solera raises $5m from Canopy Group and the MWCN entrepreneur of the year for 2008 award goes to Amy Reese Andersen [See the full post…]

Cydni Tetro and Colin Kelly discuss the key events this week, including the release of the Top 100 Venture Entrepreneurs from vSpring Capital. It is a peer-nominated and peer-selected group of individuals that the community predicts will become a [See the full post…]

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0, released to manufacturing recently, is designed with a single unified-code base for both on-premise and on-demand deployments. It enables customers to choose the right deployment model for their specific business and IT needs with flexibility to [See the full post…]

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0, released to manufacturing recently, is designed with a single unified-code base for both on-premise and on-demand deployments. It enables customers to choose the right deployment model for their specific business and IT needs with flexibility to [See the full post…]

Some quick highlights in this weeks Connectcast include reflections about James Levoy Sorenson‘s legacy includes inventing disposal surgical masks and an entire legacy of medical innovations. A quick discussion around Venture Debt options and when they should be considered [See the full post…]

Jared Youtsey a senior developer from Configuresoft and Warren Wilbee, a Microsoft Architect Evangelist sit down and discuss how to utilize Microsoft’s WorkFlow Foundation and Windows Communication Foundation for building workflow enabled service oriented solutions. Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) is [See the full post…]

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0, released to manufacturing recently is designed with a single unified-code base for both on-premise and on-demand deployments. It enables customers to choose the right deployment model for their specific business and IT needs with flexibility to [See the full post…]

Are you trying to produce a fantastic user experience on the Web? Come spend 15 minutes with Kapil Tundwal and Mohan Dhandapani from Quark‘s emerging technologies and Warren Wilbee (ISV Architect Evangelist for Microsoft). Their discussion provides a crisp [See the full post…]

How should SmartClient technology integrate with web solutions? VP Development at Vertafore Chris Kinsman talks with Microsoft Architect Evangelist Bruce Kyle about how and why SmartClient deployment of Windows Forms deliver the most value to its financial services customers in [See the full post…]

Communication is one of the most important and often most difficult issue to tackle in modern application development. Microsoft ISV Development Evangelist Warren Wilbee sits down with Brian Schwalm from IP Commerce. Schwalm, a senior software architect, shares his [See the full post…]

Microsoft ISV Architect Evangelist John Wiese sat down recently with Karl Treier, Chief Technology Architect for Bluespring Software, to talk about building a solution on Microsoft Office Open XML, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, Windows Workflow Foundation, and other Microsoft [See the full post…]

In this week’s ConnectCast we cover the Utah Tech Council’s Hall of Fame event where Paul Otellini Intel CEO keynoted and Bernard Daines, Father of Gigabit Ethernet and James LeVoy Sorenson, Medical Device Pioneer, where inducted. In addition, John [See the full post…]

WeatherBug, the leading provider of weather information services, manages and operates a proprietary network of over 8,000 WeatherBug Tracking Stations and more than 1,000 cameras that are strategically placed at schools, public safety facilities and television stations throughout the [See the full post…]

Microsoft Office is one of the most ubiquitous applications in the world. Dr. Nasser Barghoutian the CTO Document Science and Warren Wilbee a Microsoft Architect Evangelist sit down and discuss how to utilize Microsoft Office as a platform for developing [See the full post…]

On a recent announcement of Microsoft Dynamics CRM Platform adoption for Higher Education solution, Microsoft US Dynamics ISV Architect Evangelist Sanjay Jain sat down with Jason Roberts CTO of Campus Management Corp. to discuss his insights on build/buy/partner decision making [See the full post…]

SharePoint is all the buzz. You can find out how ISV applications can benefit. Spend a few minutes with SharePoint expert Mauro Cardarelli from Jornata as he talks with Jason De Lorme at Microsoft discussing how ISVs are successfully building [See the full post…]

Guy Kawasaki came to Utah to speak to a group of over 500 business and technology leaders. With a packed room Guy, as always, motivated the crowd and created energy for the attendees. And in the M&A space WiLife, a [See the full post…]

For this weeks ConnectCast we attended the inaugural event of the Women Tech Council “Women Advancing in Technology” event. Over 100 women attended and listen to Teri Sundh CEO of Podfitness.com and Carol Fineagan CIO of Energy Solutions. Teri eloquently [See the full post…]

This is a special edition of ConnectCast and the v100 Show. We were at the vSpring Capital v100 luncheon for the top 100 venture entrepreneurs, where Kevin Rollins, former CEO of Dell, gave the keynote. We spoke with Kevin [See the full post…]

In this special, combined ConnectCast and v100 Show, news from the vSpring Capital v100 luncheon for the top venture entrepreneurs. We spoke with Jack Brittain about his position as Innovations Czar at the University of Utah. The U of [See the full post…]

Huntsman Corp. agreed to be acquired by Hexion Corp. for $10.6 billion cash. John Huntsman, Sr. is donating the majority of his share, $1.6B, to various charities, including the Huntsman Cancer Foundation. Forbes Magazine named Utah the 2nd best [See the full post…]