Every day, our global community of consultants collaborates around the clock to generate the best ideas for addressing our customers’ business challenges with technology solutions. And this collaborative spirit prompts our consultants to share their insight with other colleagues beyond the Avanade community, to help others maximize the value of the Microsoft platform.
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By Zaqy Mohamad
2006 Singapore
(English; Article)
Zaqy Mohamed is attuned to the importance for workers to be able to adapt to changing needs of the global market and technological advancements.
By Mike Pazak
The Star, 2006 Malaysia
(English; Media Interview)
Avanade is confident in securing a large share of the local financial sector CRM market with its new Enterprise CRM for Financial Solutions.
By Peter K
MSN, 2007 United States
(English; Article)
Peter expounds on Microsoft’s BI topology and business intelligence in general.
The Manufacturing Guild, 2007 United States
(English; Book)
Managing Your Supply Chain Using Microsoft Dynamics AX describes the use of Microsoft Dynamics AX in a wide variety of environments, and explains how the system fits together to coordinate supply-chain activities within the company and with business partners. This book is targeted at those who are considering implementing Dynamics AX as their ERP system. For those involved in system selection, it provides a vision of an integrated system and helps evaluate system fit and needed customizations. Those who are already implementing can use this book to help accelerate and broaden the learning process, suggest changes to improve system usage, reduce resistance to change, and reduce implementation time and costs.
By Florin R
Microsoft DevDays2007, 2007 Finland
(English; Article)
In this keynote, Florin discusses industry perspective on software development and ways that VSTS can enable application lifecycle management, including a case study.
By Sean Jazayeri Jazayeri
Avanade Advisor, 2005 United States
(English; Article)
Don’t find yourself in the middle of Migration Ocean without a financial paddle. Learn to speak the language of budget approval.
By Mike Pazak
Customer Inter@ction Solutions, 2005 United States
(English; Article)
The world of enterprise software shook when Oracle acquired PeopleSoft. Most IT professionals remember promises of 360-degree views of the customer throughout the organization, a consistent customer experience integrating all touch points, insight into future needs based on past purchasing habits, and sales growth.
Microsoft, 2005 United States
(English; White Paper)
Learn how Avanade is building ACA Lifecycle using Visual Studio Team System, an extensible lifecycle tools platform that helps software teams collaborate to reduce the complexity of delivering solutions
By Mike Pazak
destinationcrm.com, 2005 United States
(English; Article)
Companies that learn to recognize and avoid them can realize the long-promised benefits of increased productivity, greater customer satisfaction, and better employee satisfaction.
By Matt P
Avanade Advisor, 2005 United States
(English; Media Interview)
Matt discusses what IT pros should know about using Microsoft BizTalk Server to
integrate CRM and enterprise applications with customers' systems.
Application Development Trends, 2006 United States
(English; Article)
Enterprise applications increasingly support the services approach to development. ERPs are no exception, but if you use them as application development platforms, you’ll need to carry a heavy tool bag.
By Amit B
Apress, 2007 United States
(English; Book)
Pro WCF: Practical Microsoft SOA Implementation is a complete guide to WCF from the SOA architecture perspective and explains why WCF is important to web service development and architecture
By Matt (MCTS) D
Informant Communications Group, 2006 United States
(English; Article)
Discusses the concept of developing a “portal in a box”: a single ASP.NET 2.0 server control pattern that, when dropped on a page, can support any number of personalized “tabs” with various configurations, all from a single control.
By Anthone W
Avanade, Inc., 2007 United States
(English; White Paper)
Following best practices and partnering with deployment experts who can provide valuable insight and guidance are sure steps on the road to CRM success.
“Laying the Foundation for Long-Term CRM Value” explains how an end-to-end CRM solution spans the entire enterprise and includes operational, analytical, and collaborative aspects to deliver a 360-degree view of the customer.
By Anthone W
Avanade Inc, 2005 United States
(English; White Paper)
The notion of customer relationship management based on a single, unified view of the customer seems so … last century. But it isn’t.
By Anthone W
Avanade Inc, 2005 United States
(English; White Paper)
Great technology infrastructure is both a shield and a sword, providing the reliability your CRM application demands, while allowing your business to use CRM as a weapon in the battle to improve customer satisfaction (and the bottom line).
By Anthone W
Avanade, 2007 United States
(English; White Paper)
Learn how an end-to-end CRM solution spans the entire enterprise and includes operational, analytical, and collaborative aspects to deliver a 360-degree view of
the customer.
By Toby V
McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, 2007 United States
(English; Book)
This in-depth implementation guide teaches network administrators how to effectively deploy and manage Microsoft Windows Vista within an enterprise environment. You will learn how to efficiently and effectively use the all-new features such as Windows Defender, Network Access Protection, Windows Service Hardening, and Active Directory.
By Matt (MCTS) D
asp.netPRO Magazine, 2007 United States
(English; Article)
Matt reviews this technical reference based on his experience as an ASP.NET developer.
By Joseph B
2007 United States
(English; White Paper)
By using the Microsoft Dynamics CRM platform as a series of solution building blocks, development teams can increase the business value of new solutions by focusing a greater percentage of the solution investment on innovation.
By Dennis G
Wrox Press, 2008 United States
(English; Book)
This design and implementation guide for Internet Information Services 7 and Windows Server 2008 teaches how to use the NextGen technologies for Web-based applications. In this book, programmers and server administrators will learn how to secure and maintaince applications to provide unprecedented ROI to their constituents.
By Dennis G
McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, 2007 United States
(English; Book)
This in-depth implementation guide teaches network administrators how to effectively deploy and manage Microsoft Windows Vista within an enterprise environment. You will learn how to efficiently and effectively use the all-new features such as Windows Defender, Network Access Protection, Windows Service Hardening, and Active Directory.
IT World Canada, 2005 Canada
(English; Article)
Find out how companies can make the most of their application migrations in this article by an Avanade Canada employee.
Packt Publishing, 2005 United Kingdom
(English; Book)
Take MCMS development to a higher level of both power and integration. Like its predecessor, this book is packed with code examples and secrets of MCMS, including extensive coverage of the Publishing API—everything you need to know to build advanced MCMS applications.
Packt Publishing, 2006 United Kingdom
(English; Book)
Written by the masters of Microsoft Content Management Server (MCMS), this book will help you get MCMS Service Pack 2 up and running, and start developing using the new features of ASP.NET 2.0 that everyone is talking about.
Packt Publishing, 2005 United Kingdom
(English; Book)
A fast-paced and practical guide aimed at C# developers starting out with MCMS 2002. It includes rapid, developer-level tutorials that will help you build a feature-rich custom site incrementally, plus tips and tricks from developer newsgroups and online communities.
By Paul H
Serview, 2006 Germany
(German; Book)
Paul discusses the characteristics of effective IT-based business support
services, and frames a comprehensive model for delivering IT services that add
business value.
By Nathan S .
Apress, 2002 United States
(English; Book)
Using .NET to create client-and server-side applications means addressing a complex set of security issues. This book covers different aspects of the .NET security model, and demonstrates how to write .NET code to create secure systems within the .NET Framework.
By Bryant (MCPD, MCITP) L
Apress, 2003 United States
(English; Book)
This technical guide is targeted at SQL Server professionals who want to further their understanding of how XML and SQL Server work together, from presenting relational data in XML format to supporting XML applications on SQL Server 2000. It covers all aspects of SQLXML 3.0, from programming to administrative and security issues.
15 Seconds, 2005 Australia
(English; Article)
How to host a Microsoft Indigo (now called WCF) web service, including the IIS, self-hosting, and Windows Activation Service (WAS) hosting options available in WCF. Includes step-by-step instructions for building sample code for an IIS-hosted and self-hosted WCF web service.
Wrox Press, 2001 United Kingdom
(English; Book)
Web services are perhaps the most important aspect of .NET development, and this book provides an in-depth look at the two ways to build them with .NET Framework: ASP.NET and .NET Remoting.
15 Seconds, 2005 Australia
(English; Article)
An exploration of the capabilities of Microsoft Indigo (now called Windows Communication Foundation, or WCF), part of .NET Framework and Windows Vista. Includes the basics of SOA, the problems that WCF solves, and a step-by-step technical implementation of WCF web service with .NET Framework.
By Hiroyuki O (MVP, MCSD) Ogiwara
Shuwa System, 2007 Japan
(Japanese; Book)
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By Hiroyuki O (MVP, MCSD) Ogiwara
Yahoo!, Japan , 2007 Japan
(Japanese; Blog)
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Microsoft, 2005 United States
(English; White Paper)
IT is taking on a broader, more strategic role in the implementation of lean manufacturing practices. This development underscores the rapid evolution of IT and lean philosophies in the manufacturing arena.
Information Week, 2006 United States
(English; Article)
With the next major release of Microsoft Windows on the horizon, businesses need to start planning now. Our survey shows what some business technology professionals have in mind--and why.
By Thierry D
Avanade Advisor, 2005 United States
(English; Media Interview)
Thierry discusses Microsoft messaging, opportunities around Exchange Server 2003, and approaches to migration.
Apress , 2007 United States
(English; Book)
A complete guide to WCF (Windows Communication Foundation), part of .NET Framework
and Windows Vista, from a service-oriented architecture (SOA) perspective. WCF is a new breed of communications infrastructure built around Web services architecture, making it easier to develop and run connected systems.
By Matt P
Avanade Advisor, 2006 United States
(English; White Paper)
For companies that need to deploy multiple instances of Microsoft Dynamics CRM
worldwide, Avanade offers a federated architecture solution that streamlines
data integration and addresses common challenges, including multiple languages
and currencies, scalability, and regional deployments.
By Matt P
MSDN, 2006 United States
(English; Blog)
In this Guest Star blog for the Microsoft Dynamics CRM team, Matt addresses server issues related to Dynamics CRM.
By Roberto C
AMASES Conference, 2006 Italy
(English; White Paper)
This paper shows how computations for complex financial problems
can be handled by Avanade’s Grid-Based Architecture.
Microsoft .NET Magazine, 2006 Netherlands
(Dutch; Article)
An introduction to Web content management within Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, targeted at .NET developers who work with MCMS.
By Roberto C
Proceedings of Science, 2006 Italy
(English; White Paper)
Full revaluation of a portfolio based on Monte Carlo simulation is computationally burdensome. This paper discusses a full revaluation of a mid-sized Italian Bank portfolio for Value at Risk (VaR) computation using Avanade Grid Architecture (AGA.NET), addressing performance and trustworthiness issues.
By Matt P
Avanade Advisor, 2006 United States
(English; White Paper)
Avanade’s lab tested the
scalability and performance of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 to determine whether
it is a viable solution for enterprise customers with demanding transaction
requirements related to sales-force automation.
By Roberto C
Linea Edp, 2004 Italy
(Italian; Article)
Analyzes customer scenarios where Web service technologies could be useful for supporting multi-channel and enterprise application integration (EAI).