Microsoft holds a quarterly event for its Partners called TS2. This event is generally of a technical nature, but designed to help us resellers sell and support Microsoft products. I have been to several of these events and have found them to be very useful. The most recent was held Oct 6 in Plainville, which was nice because I normally have to travel to the Boston area for these.
There were several new products presented at the event. The first was a new product called Microsoft Small Business Accounting. This accounting package is designed for small business with sales generally under $2M. It competes head on with Quickbooks. It looks very good. The interface is designed like Outlook which makes it pretty easy to navigate. It has pretty much everything a small business needs. Payroll, however is a little weak, although it does interface with ADP. (They are working on more payroll options) We don't sell accounting software, so other than possibly using it ourselves you won't hear much more from us about it.
The next product was another one that we won't be selling but it is a very cool system for small retailers. Microsoft Point of Sale is a full retail management package for small stores that might have 1 or 2 cash registers. It is a very cool system and very well priced.
There was a session on Windows Mobile 5, which we will be getting involved with. Windows Mobile 5 enables remote users to connect to Microsoft Exchange with a PDA or cell phone. Users have full access to their email, contacts, calendar, etc. This is really cool stuff. You will be hearing more about this from us. If you have Windows Small Business Server 2003 you will be ready to utilize these features when they are available.
There was a lot of other technical stuff that I won't bore you with. As always this was an excellent Microsoft event.
Click here for Microsoft Small Business Accounting info
Click here for Microsoft Point of Sale info
Click here for Windows Mobile 5 info
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