We are awaiting the start of the keynote. They are trying to entertain us with some computerized electronic music by a group called the Glitch Mob. Not doing it for me. Bin told there is something special coming. Focusing on the cloud and devices.
Cloud:
Can have a Public or Private cloud with Azure.
System Center would need to be used with the Cloud.
System Center will be able to handle the monitoring of most devices like the IPad, IPhone and BlackBerry!
Can use Excel to do BI and create great graphics and charts. Once it is created you can bring the whole app into the visual studio. This is really cool!
Devices:
Now shipping more smartphones then PCs. Microsoft has not done anything with their phones that has not already been done by Apple. They have improved the phone, but in my opinion they are too late and will not be able to get market share. One neat thing; you can attach to the cloud and get to SharePoint with Office365. All on the smartphone.
In conclusion, it is real clear that we should at least investigate the Cloud to ensure that we are availing ourselves to any features that would benefit Weston. Also, we will be investigating and confirming our current technology decisions. Lastly, the BI tools within Excel look very interesting and we should look at how it might apply for Weston.
The Excel part sounds like it might have some cool potential... There are a decent number of folks in the company that use Excel -- we could have folks prototype what they want in Excel and them bring that into our apps?!? At a minimum, it provides us another way to quickly prototype, develop, and deploy reports.
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