1993-2011
Southern California/Orange County CIO Breakfast Round Table
September 8, 2011 meeting
Present: Hicham Semaan, Jim Sutter, Sean Brown, Jeff Hecht, Keith Golden, Jeff Reid, Dave Phillips
The following is a list of future topics and speakers:
10/13/11 Business Analytics trends Sean Brown/Charles Wilson, RJT Compuquest
11/10/11 Google Aps. Joe Desuta, First Team Real Estate
12/8/11 Social Media David Mann, Neudesic
Please send me your suggestions for topics and speakers.
Topic: Microsoft Update
This is the second time that Hicham has shared with us his take on Microsoft progress and direction, based on his attending their Partners Conference, held this year in LA. There were 15,000 attendees, representing 8,000 - 9,000 partners worldwide. His overall take on Microsoft is that despite being a very successful company, they are being challenged on several fronts, and their market niche – PC/desktop software for business – is under attach from several different angles and companies. The do seem to own the “connect” environment for gaming control replacement. Linc, their unified communication product is very strong, It makes connections very easily, has built in video conferencing, and is better than VOIP. Hicham is looking at replacing his phone switch with it, but acknowledges that it would be hard to run a call center using it. The question of reliability is still an issue. It runs on Windows. His slides looked at IT today, and into tomorrow, and how Microsoft will affect that. Slide 2 touched on transformation – how to manage consumerization at home and in the office (he has a slide which spells out Microsoft’s strategy), moving to the cloud (slide 5) and enhancing productivity (a strong point for Microsoft, see slide 6). His 7th slide pulls it all together. These provided a platform for a very active discussion – I think it took us 45 min to get through the first 2 slides! Another successful presentation because it shares with us the direction that Microsoft is headed and Hicham provides a filter through which we can reflect on how it might affect each of us. His slides are at: http://www.slideshare.net/occio
Thursday, September 15, 2011
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