We just returned from this year’s Convergence Conference in Atlanta. WOW! As first-timers at this Microsoft Dynamics partner conference, all four (Rick Steber, Mark Stevens, Tom Erdle and myself) of us were completely impressed with this event. It is the best industry conference I’ve ever attended. It was focused, informative, interesting and FUN. High energy all around this event…

With the theme of Today – Tomorrow – Together, MS Dynamics created a great environment for partners to look at all aspects of the products, including best practices for today and glimpses into the future. Numerous parallel tracks enabled us to cover a wide range of AX and CRM sessions. The general sessions show Microsoft’s leadership position in CLOUD computing – with many real-world products already available and countless more on the way. With this level of investment and commitment MS is unbeatable in this emerging trend. This is very exciting, as the walls are coming down around applications services.

Specifically for our customers/market, we see great solutions coming together like never before. Many of the ISV’s in the expo are building highly specialized best-practice solutions on the MS AX stack… and the CRM product is the best we’ve ever seen! Together this is going to offer faster implementation of more powerful industry solutions.

We were also able to connect with many other partners and the MS Dynamics execs responsible for our channel. It is a very impressive convergence of more than 8,500 attendees. Special thanks to our partner advocates, Janet Kahr and Kevin Racer for making this a complete success for eLogic.