November 2008 - Erik P. Ernst about Navision and the Dynamics Community

  • Groove and OneNote - Convergence 2008 day 2 (post 3)

    Today my first session was about "Extending Collaboration with the 2007 Microsoft Office System: Office Groove 2007 and Office OneNote 2007". I selected this session because I have previously been using both Groove and OneNote and I really see some potential in both applications. But I would also like to hear about it in situations outside my little IT world. Where Sharepoint is Microsoft's offering to primary internal enterprise and departmental collaboration, then Groove is their...
  • Convergence 2008 - the keynote (post 2)

    Kirill Tatarinov's keynote was the first session on Convergence 2008. As someone who have participated on many Microsoft and before that Navision conferences over years then this keynote as actually boring. Not that Kirill is a bad speaker, his little russian accent makes him sound a bit more entertaining. But except for his announcement of Dynamics NAV 2009, there was really nothing new here. Just a lot of sales talk, not giving anything new. The most interesting part of his session was really...
  • Welcome to Convergence EMEA 2008 in Copenhagen (post 1)

    I have just arrived in Bella Center, the venue where Microsoft Convergence takes place in Copenhagen 2008. They also call it Convergence EMEA, for Europe, Middleeast and Africa and this is the second year in the row where they have it here in Bella Center. It's only 8:30am here and the conference is not set to start until 9:30am, but as a local resident (I love about 50 km from Bella Center), then I know the morning traffic, which sometimes simply isn't accountable. But this morning it was...