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SharePoint MVP Benjamin Niaulin (sharegate.com/blog) asked some of his colleagues about their opinions and thoughts of Microsoft Office 365. Our Office 365 expert Martina Grom was among them. Here´s the result: 20 MVPs Share Their Thoughts on Office 365 …a lot of well known experts in the IT industry! Here´s Martina´s statement: Martina Grom from atwork Martina is head of consulting and project development. @magrom Which feature(s) of Office 365 you think will have the biggest impact in 2015? And why? Office 365 has so many features, that’s really hard to decide. Let’s name some of them which I think are important: ...

Martina and I just returned from the Microsoft Community Open Day event in Munich. The name can be misleading for people outside of Microsoft, because COD is actually a closed event for members of the Microsoft community leaders in the MVP Program and the CLIP Program within a region. Here community leaders and members can inform about news and do a lot of networking. In our case we both belong to the german speaking D-A-CH region (Germany, Austria, Switzerland). COD usually takes place somewhere in the corresponding region, last year in Berlin, this year in Munich, at the Microsoft Office. [Additionally there´s the yearly Global MVP summit for ALL MVP´s at the Microsoft headquarters in Redmond…] ...

The Office 365 Summit took place in Amsterdam these days (from 12 to 13th February). Office 365 summit is a free event to get in touch with Microsoft experts about the SaaS Microsoft cloud services around Office. The summit “Office 365 Summit is traveling around the world and delivering technical and sales training direct from the source with Microsoft experts. These two day workshops provide deep technical and sales readiness on all our productivity workloads for IT Professional, Developers, Sales, Adoption and Education.”, see the details on https://summit.office.com/events/office-365-summit-amsterdam. ...

We are very happy and also proud that our CEO, Martina Grom, was awarded as Microsoft Regional Directory (RD) shortly! There’s a lot going on over at Microsoft these days. The RD program is designed to honor world-wide technology leaders who are an active part of the community and who have impact in sharing knowledge around the globe. See the new RD-website https://msrd.io/ for mission statements. The Microsoft RD program exists since 1993 (for an older description see also wikipedia.org). ...

We are proud to announce that we have reached a set of new competencies in the Microsoft Partner Program. atwork now owns five gold and two silver competencies in the Microsoft Partner Network. atwork in Microsoft Partner Program We are highly specialized in Microsoft technologies and are very successful in delivering consulting and software solutions to our customers and partners. So it´s great that our technical skillset is also represented in our new partner logo. Voila, here it is! ...

Anfang Januar fand die Office 365 Konferenz (office365konferenz.net) in Köln statt. Ergänzend zu unseren Artikeln hier im Blog (siehe Wrap-up Office 365 Konferenz in Köln, Office 365 Konferenz Interviews und #office365konf on Twitter) hier ein paar Zahlen zum Event. Die Veranstaltung war mit insgesamt 130 Teilnehmern an beiden Tagen ausgebucht. 26 Sprecher (davon 16 Microsoft MVP´s) hielten 25 Sessions plus Keynote und eine FAQ-Runde. Die Konferenzbewertungen waren durch die Bank sehr gut. Das größte Manko war, dass die Location für die Teilnehmeranzahl teilweise zu eng war – das werden wir beim nächsten Event besser planen. ...

Bei der Office 365 Konferenz in Köln (siehe auch Artikel hier) haben die beiden MVP´s Kerstin und Karsten Rachfahl kurze Video-Interviews mit fast allen Sprechern geführt. Die ersten gibt es bereits auf dem Video-Kanal der Rachfahl-IT anzusehen! Hier die Links zu den ersten Interviews: Videointerview mit Martina Grom zu Yammer und Office 365 Videointerview mit Toni Pohl zu Mastering Office 365 Development Videointerview mit Adis Jugo zur Cloud Software Architektur Videointerview mit Christian Glessner zu Berlin Burger International ...

Von 9. bis 10. Januar fand die Office 365 Konferenz (office365konferenz.net) in Köln statt. Die Veranstaltung war mit etwa 120 Teilnehmern ausgebucht. Die Konferenz An diesem Event waren einige Punkte besonders erwähnenswert: Die Office 365 Konferenz war die erste größere deutschsprachige Veranstaltung ganz zum Thema Microsoft Office 365. Veranstalter waren Mitglieder der Microsoft MVP Community, die das Event organisierten. Es gab hochkarätige Sprecher. Mit 16 MVPs, Spezialisten von Microsoft und Partnern aus der Praxis gab es qualitativ hochwertige und technische Vorträge mit einem guten Themen-Mix mit 25 Sessions. ...

We are very happy to announce that Martina Grom, CEO of atwork, was awarded for the 5th year in a row with the Microsoft MVP Award for Office 365! “Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals, or MVPs are exceptional community leaders who actively share their high-quality, real-world deep technical expertise with the community and with Microsoft. They are committed to helping others get the most out of their experience with Microsoft products and technologies. Microsoft has recognized exceptional, independent community leaders who share their passion, technical expertise, and real-world knowledge of Microsoft products with others.” ...

Heute startet wieder der Cloud Adventkalender! Aus dem Engagement von Microsoft MVP´s entstand letztes Jahr diese Idee, interessante Artikel über Cloud Technologien in einen ansprechenden Adventkalender zu verpacken. Hinter 24 Fenstern versteckt sich täglich ein Blog Artikel der deutschen Cloud Computing-Community, sowie weiterführende Links zum entsprechenden Thema. Zusätzlich zu den interessanten Cloud-Artikeln gibt es jeweils eine Frage mit einem Gewinnspiel! Als Preise gibt es drei handsignierte Exemplare des Buches Cloud Architecture Patterns von Bill Wilder und verschiedene Softwarelizenzen. ...