It’s all about Groove and SharePoint Workspace

Watch “A glimpse ahead” video and discover Microsoft vision about our future productivity…
It makes you want to be in the future
Enjoy!

I wrote with my friend and colleague, Jean-Michel, an article (in french) focused on Collaborative IS. Published on IT-Expert Online magazine, this article provide readers with an analysis about complementarity of centralized and decentralized architectures. This analysis is illustrated by Microsoft collaborative solutions.

Microsoft France and Hommes & Process released today a white paper (in french) dedicated to crisis management and remote work. More than a new paper focused on swine flu, this document list challenges and constraints that impact enterprises, when a new crisis appear.

Remote work is presented as a part of a global answer. Several solutions are then exposed, taking into consideration existing IS, business-specific constraints… On a technology point of view, several products are mentionned: Groove, Online Services, OCS, IAG, Live Meeting, etc…

To note that this White Paper was released today during an event focused on Crisis Management at Paris.

The french version of this white paper can be downloaded here.

I published few days ago on the French Speaking Groove Community website a set of pictures taken during Microsoft TechDays 2009. A nice way to have a global overview and summary of what happened during these 3 days at Paris.
Visit : http://www.groovons.org/2009/02/17/techdays-2009-synthese-en-images/

We announced it few days ago…

She attends Microsoft TechDays 2009!

Who?

The groovy idol of “Share, Groove and Win” contest of course !

During Microsoft TechDays 2009 at Paris, visit us on Hommes & Process, Open Portal and French Speaking Groove Community booths. Answer few questions on each booth and you will maybe be selected for the draw. A lot of prizes to win! 

Behind the “contest” approach, “Share, Groove & Win” is also interesing by the way it will be managed, using a software. We developed this by using WPF on Microsoft Expression Blend and Visual Stutio and store, gather and synchronize data coming from all the booths by using Groove !

This creation – with its playful approach – demonstrates again benefits provided by Groove  to create distributed applications and synchronize team member’s information.

Of course, we also used Groove to prepare this contest (materials discussion between partners, …)! 

Contest’s User Interface

She will attend Microsoft TechDays 2009, at Paris – Conference Center - next week (Feb 10th to 12th).

Come to meet her on Hommes & Process booth (CUC 16), Open Portal booth (Stand CUC 39) or Groove French Speaking Community booth (Stand CUC 29).

She’s got some great surprises for you…

Microsoft France just published a new wesite dedicated to technologies usages. Of course, you will discover some use cases dedicated to Groove. More details there (in french): http://www.groovons.org/2009/01/19/le-centre-des-usages-microsoft/

I just received an email informing me that my MVP award is renewed.
A great way for me to start 2009… 
Thanks to those who – directly or indirectly – contributed to that!

 What’s a MVP?
Here is the answer: (Source : http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/?LN=en-us)

Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) are exceptional technical community leaders from around the world who are awarded for voluntarily sharing their high quality, real world expertise in offline and online technical communities. Microsoft MVPs are a highly select group of experts that represents the technical community’s best and brightest, and they share a deep commitment to community and a willingness to help others.

MVPs represent a broad spectrum of Microsoft product users. They occupy many different professions including accountants, teachers, artists, engineers and technologists. MVPs reside in over 90 countries, represent 30 different languages, and cover more than 90 Microsoft technologies.

MVPs tend to be early adopters of new technology and actively communicate their experiences to millions of other technology users. Through their extensive community activity, MVPs help others solve problems and discover new capabilities, helping people get the maximum value from their technology.

 My MVP profile: https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=4A6DE3EC-1022-496A-8B8A-024FFA415E31

From Nov 10th to Nov 14th, I will be at Barcelona for Microsoft TechED.

Like last year, you will be able to find me on the Groove booth.

I will also be speaker on a session dedicated to Groove.

Here is the abstract :

How to extend and integrate Groove

This session will provide attendees with a global overview of available methods to extend Groove capabilities. Using Forms, we will explain how to create customized applications for your Groove workspaces. We will also explain how to integrate Groove with external applications such as SharePoint or to create secured distributed applications. The session will be illustrated by several demos…Some of them will be Business oriented, others will be more playful!  

While “Office for students” operation is starting, Hommes & Process just published an article (in french) related to Groove usage in Education and Reseach sector.

Learn more there : http://weblog.hommesetprocess.com/fr/2008/10/succs-story-hom.html