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SBSC PAL For India

 

SBSC PAL India

 

  

SURESH RAMANI (CEO)

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Greetings !

I am Suresh Ramani,the CEO of a Technology Solution provider "Techgyan" ( Tech for technology and gyan in Sanskrit language means knowledge).

TECHGYAN is a Technology Solutions Company which is broadly divided into 2 Divisions a) Offshore Services for International Customers  b) Networking Services  for India based Customers .

 My Community Interests:

a)    I run a blog on small business technologies for other small Business focused Companies :

http://ramanisk.spaces.live.com/

The blog focuses on mainly non technical  (business) issues facing the Partner Community in India.

b)     Founder President of  IAMCP India west chapter (www.iamcp.org ) . IAMCP is the largest Partner Association of Microsoft Partners in the World. It is present in more than 40 Countries.

c)       Partner Area Lead (PAL) for India since July 2007 in the Microsoft Worldwide PAL Program  https://partner.microsoft.com/global/40011087 

d)      Administrator of  Community Portal of Servers www.officeserver.in

What  are my focus areas as a PAL?

a)      Facilitate Partner to Partner Networking .

b)      Act as a voice for SBSC Community in India .

c)       Evangelize Small Business Solutions from Microsoft

d)      Help Partners get certified as Small Business Specialists

e)      Build a strong SBSC Community in India

How can you as a Partner be in touch with me?

a)      Read my blog and leave relevant comments below the blog

b)      Register on www.officeserver.in and take part in Discussion forums

c)    Email me at sramani@techgyan.com      

 

Blog
12/15/2008

Renovate Your Business

Greetings!          
 
There is a very exciting Promo launched by Microsoft India to coincide with the Worldwide launch of Windows Small Business Server 2008.
 

Eligibility requirements:-

All organizations (small businesses) who have between 5 and 50 PCs in their organization and have their PCs connected over a LAN. They should not have any server; or if they do have a server, it should be more than three years old.

If any Business satisfies the above requirements, they can enter the Contest where they have to fill up list of questions . Based on the information given, a panel of Jury will select one winner each from West, East, North & South India.

The Winner in each region will get the following goodies absolutely FREE!!!

  • Windows Small Business Server 2008 Premium Edition
  • Microsoft Dynamics NAV ERP
  • Microsoft Office 2007  std 5 nos.
  • DELL Servers 2 nos.
  • Windows Mobile Phone
  • Deployment & Training

 

For more details on the promo , please check the links below:

Renovate Your Business

http://www.microsoft.com/india/sbs/renovateyourbusiness/index.aspx

with warm regards

Suresh Ramani

live with Passion :)

www.techgyan.in


11/6/2008

Technical Training on SBS 2008 and EBS 2008

As I had announced in my earlier blog, Microsoft is launching 2 great Server products in first half of November 2008:

1) Windows Small Business Server 2008 ( upto 75 users)

2) Windows Essential Business Server 2008 ( upto 250 users)

For Partners who want some Technical training  on these Solutions, there is some great news ! New Training modules have been launched on these solutions. Please check the links below for details:

"Get Ready for the Windows Essential Server Solutions Launch with Technical Training Series"

“Technical training on SBS 2008”

The  first module starts on August 15:

“The Small and Midsize Business Server Platform: Which Is Right for Your Customer?”.

So if you are serious about building your Consulting practice , I suggest you enroll in the training program and start the training in right earnest.


11/6/2008

Windows Small Business Server 2008 Article in PC World

Recently PC World carried a very good article on Windows Small Business Server 2008. We can use the same to promote the solution to our Customers.  Please check out the article below :

Small Business Server 2008 Gets 'Small' Right


11/5/2008

Announcements

There is a webcast scheduled for 6th March at 4 pm on Business Benefits of using Small Business Server. The presenter of this webcast is our CEO , Mr. Suresh Ramani. To attend the  webcast, please click on the link below and select the webcase scheduled for 6th March 2009:
http://www.microsoft.com/india/webcasts/

9/17/2008

Articles Of Interest

How do you position SBS to your Customers? Do you sell it as a great  product? My guess is that selling it as a great product will not work. First do a good job of positioning it as a Complete Solution .

My list of Top 10 Benefits of SBS  would include:-                                                                                         

  1. A Push email Solution allowing users to access mails, contacts, calendars using    smart phones  
  2. A robust Email  system for single and multi location Companies
  3. A Shared Address book allowing multiple users to access a single address book
  4. A File & Print Server System allowing you to share printers, Internet access, data
  5. A Document Management System
  6. An Intranet Solution
  7. A Remote Web Work Solution allowing mobile workers to work on their  office desktops from outside the office
  8. A Server based anti spam solution
  9. A Network faxing Solution allowing you to fax from every PC in the network
  10. A Data Backup Solution for small Companies

 

        Once you have done the positioning correctly, then I see no reason why the Customer will not accept the solution. Let me tell you that a well configured SBS Solution can beat any other Solution hollow ( including any open source solution)  on value proposition .

        If you feel you do not have the in house expertise to implement the Solution, that should not stop you. Use this as an opportunity to partner with someone who has the expertise. Chances are that you may end up selling lot of hardware and networking to your Customer. Maybe your Partner would even share some service revenue with you . Partnering will help you to give your Customers a World Class Server Solution . Do not be afraid of Partnering . Just DO IT !