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Web Seminar Recap: Value Definition and Sales Enablement for Cloud Applications and Solutions

Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013

Everyone wants a piece of the cloud. So now you want your piece. It is one thing to build it. It is an entirely other thing to position and sell a solution within it. Other challenges include how to staff the right supporting organization and creation of team compensation plans that drive desired behaviors.

On Tuesday, April 16, 2013, Mike Shook and Will Shook of Accelerence, LLC went over the business rational for cloud. They also discussed how to sell cloud solutions and your product or a solution within it. Will and Mike discussed ways to counteract the confusion and uncertainty the cloud can bring and offered specific value propositions and selling techniques to hit the ground running.  They touched on getting started with a cloud services strategy, cloud sales processes and barriers to entry.

Overall, the presentation went over why the cloud is hot, selling cloud followed by selling your solution, defining value in the face of confusion and tips on how to do effective competitive research.

You can listen to a complete recording of this presentation at aspeevents.webex.com. Select “View Event Recordings” in the top right corner and then search by title.  You can also download the slides from this presentation by visiting our Web Seminar Archives.

Looking for an extensive training course on Cloud Computing? Check out Understanding Cloud Computing to learn more!

Web Seminar Recap: The Problem With SharePoint Development

Monday, March 11th, 2013

SharePoint is everywhere, with some studies reporting as many as 78% of organizations currently using it. When Microsoft released SharePoint 2007, it was the fastest software to ever hit $1B in sales, and that success has continued through the release of SharePoint 2010 and 2013. SharePoint is easy to deploy, user friendly, and provides a “good enough” approach to developing a corporate intranet, providing document management for end users, and fostering team and social collaboration. Click to continue »

Web Seminar Recap: SharePoint 2013 – The NEW SharePoint 2013 Designer!

Monday, February 25th, 2013

The next generation of Microsoft’s SharePoint Server is right around the corner and introduces new ways for users and organizations to communicate, collaborate and share information. Beyond its highly promoted features, including the new user experience and enhanced collaboration through social networking; SharePoint Server 2013 provides many improvements in the support of bottom-line business requirements: workflows, business intelligence, business connectivity services, mobile productivity, eDiscovery and more.

In this monthly web seminar series we focus on many of the features of SharePoint 2013 and will explain what has changed, what has stayed the same, and what is new! This month our focus was specifically on the NEW SharePoint 2013 Designer.

You can listen to a complete recording of this presentation at aspeevents.webex.com. Select “View Event Recordings” in the top right corner and then search by title.  You can also download the slides from this presentation by visiting our Web Seminar Archives.

Looking for an extensive training course on SharePoint 2013? Check out our SharePoint 2013 Boot Camp to learn more!

Web Seminar Recap: Integrating SharePoint 2013 & SalesForce to Drive Business Productivity

Friday, February 22nd, 2013

To achieve optimal business productivity, organizations must continually work to break down the information “silos” that often form amongst business units and prevent knowledge workers across the enterprise from working together efficiently and sharing information. Often, different business units leverage different technologies, which are neither integrated nor able to communicate with each other. Until recently, organizations using both Microsoft SharePoint and Salesforce.com CRM faced such challenges, resulting in inefficient or duplicative processes, increased storage management and data recovery costs, and an inability to generate actionable intelligence for decision makers. Click to continue »

Web Seminar Recap: Vendor Independent vs. Vendor Certified IT Training

Friday, February 15th, 2013

Product training is critical in IT. Companies spend tens of thousands of dollars on software and hardware, often struggling to maximum their effectiveness. Oftentimes, a high dollar IT product purchase ends up as shelf-ware and is under-utilized. An investment made in training can drastically increase the long term return on investment and significantly reduce total cost of ownership. However, in the IT Training Industry, it can be difficult to select the most appropriate and most beneficial product training for you. Hardware and software vendors have developed training programs since the industry saw the successes of training and certification for Novell back in the late 1980s and early 1990s. As a result of this, certified product training can also serve as an additional endorsement or marketing effort by the vendor. These vendors want to build long term acolytes for their products through certifying individuals, with the goal to receive a higher salary, ultimately becoming a lynchpin for the product. Click to continue »

Web Seminar Recap – Cloud: Understanding the Service Level Agreement

Monday, February 11th, 2013

As more and more people look to the Cloud as a solution, the more we, as consumers, will look to outside companies to manage our internal cloud.  When we reach this level, another company is then involved in providing IT services to your company and a new technical relationship is started Do you know what the cloud provider is responsible for in the relationship and what your company is responsible for? In this one hour web seminar that took place February 8, Mark Wilkins discussed what you should expect from a cloud provider, what a Service Level Agreement is and why you need one. Click to continue »

Web Seminar Recap: Windows 8 Features for the Corporate Customer

Wednesday, February 6th, 2013

Windows 8 has been released! Even if you aren’t quite ready to deploy Windows 8 company-wide just yet, there are enough features and changes that you should know about. If you have to move from the Windows XP platform to a newer version of Windows, find out why Windows 8 may make sense. And, if your company is dealing with the BYOD issue, then understanding how Microsoft views the integration of the tablet and cloud environments is also essential.

On Tuesday, February 5th Mark Wilkins presented the free web seminar, “Windows 8 Features for the Corporate Customer.”  In this one-hour presentation Mark discussed what’s changed and what new functionality we can expect in Windows 8.

You can listen to a complete recording of this presentation at aspeevents.webex.com. Select “View Event Recordings” in the top right corner and then search by title.  You can also download the slides from this presentation by visiting our Web Seminar Archives.

SharePoint 2013 Web Seminar Series: What’s New and Why You Need It

Wednesday, January 30th, 2013

The next generation of Microsoft’s SharePoint Server is almost here and creates innovative ways for users and organizations to communicate, collaborate and share information. This  including the new user experience and enhanced collaboration through social networking; SharePoint Server 2013 provides many improvements in the support of bottom-line business requirements: workflows, business intelligence, business connectivity services, mobile productivity, eDiscovery and more. In this web seminar series, we  focus on many of the features of SharePoint 2013 and explain what has changed, what has stayed the same, and what is new!

On January 25, Mark Weinstein presented the December session of our free Web Seminar Series SharePoint 2013, What’s New and Why You Need It! He particularly focused on Collaboration and Socialization using SharePoint 2013.

You can listen to a complete recording of this presentation at aspeevents.webex.com. Select “View Event Recordings” in the top right corner and then search by title.  You can also download the slides from this presentation by visiting our Web Seminar Archives.

Looking for more comprehensive SharePoint training? Click here to view our SharePoint 2013 Boot Camp.

    $500 OFF SharePoint Training & a Chance to Win FREE SharePoint 2013 Training

    Tuesday, January 8th, 2013

    Have you attended any of our free 1-hour SharePoint web seminars? Each month we host several web seminars covering a number of topics around SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2013.  As if an hour of free SharePoint training isn’t good enough, we’ve made the experience a little sweeter. Now, every time you attend one of ASPE-IT’s free SharePoint web seminars you  will receive a $500 discount towards one of our hands-on SharePoint training courses.

    Additionally, one attendee of each web seminar will be selected at random to receive a free SharePoint 2013 training course.  This free seat can be used for both our in-class  SharePoint 2013 training sessions and our live-online SharePoint 2013 training sessions. Click to continue »

    SharePoint and Document Management – If You Build It, They Will Not Come

    Wednesday, December 19th, 2012

    I’m in the middle of a series of posts on SharePoint and document management that’s aimed at helping folks adopt what I’ve seen work (and avoid what I’ve seen not work) at a range of organizations.

    At this point, we’re walking through six ways you can succeed/avoid failure at document management in SharePoint.

    1. SharePoint is not an Office product
    2. Training is not optional
    3. You don’t want shared drives on steroids
    4. Don’t leave content organization up to chance
    5. Don’t underestimate the difficulty of compliance
    6. If you build it, they will not come

    Last post we looked at #5, Don’t underestimate the difficulty of compliance. This post, we move on to the last thing to keep in mind, If you built it, they will not come.

    Get Real Click to continue »