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Accelerating the adoption of Microsoft SaaS in the Cloud - Live Blogging Ends

Thank you to all those that attended our events today, including all those who joined us virtually through Cob-Blog and Twitter. We hope that the event was beneficial to all those who attended, and we look forward to helping many of you tackle your messaging, collaboration and unified communication challenges.

Be sure to check back on Cob-Blog for slide decks, key takeaways and more, which will be available in the coming days.

One day in the life of EPA as a Cobweb channel partner

For the final session of the afternoon Craig MacAlpine from the Email Protection Agency joins us to run the audience through “a day in the life” as a Cobweb reseller.  

His session draws a very concise, but very powerful conclusion for any business looking to partner and resell:

• Be an expert on the services you sell
• There is a lot of technology that you can sell – pick the correct ones
• Select the correct vendors
• Understand how to make money!

About EPA
The EPA (originally called Email Protection Agency) was setup 2003 and as a company began selling email filtering services, which has evolved over the years. They have always sold Cloud services – previously under the banner on managed services or SaaS, from their head office in Devon, UK.

An overview of the voice industry for partners and how it’s moving on - SipCom

Oliver Compton, Senior VP from SipCom has just begun his keynote, he is going to be presenting to the delegates a high level view of the voice industry and their view of how partnering within that industry will become critical to maintaining a competitive edge.

Within his presentation he has some great examples of just how big the Cloud market has become:

• CRN predicts that small business spending on Cloud Computing will hit $100 billion by 2014
• IDC estimates the market for public cloud products and services at $16 billion in 2010, growing to $56B by 2014
• Gartner estimates the Cloud market at $150 billion by 2013 while Merrill Lynch has it at 160 billion by 2011
• A recent survey of 500 IT decision-makers by Sand Hill found that 50% of respondents cited business agility as their primary reason for adopting cloud applications

Creative Cloud Delivery – The Cobweb Cloud for Partners

This afternoon, Mark Davies, Head of Partner services at Cobweb, is going to be taking the audience through the various different options for partners and how they can use the Cobweb Cloud to their advantage.

Within his presentation he gives three great examples of why a reseller should consider engaging Cobweb:

• Bundling - Multiple bundles created to appeal to different range of businesses
• Margin - Provide a range of support services or setup services that suit your customer base
• No Profit - Hosted Services are provided at cost price to their customers to support their own core product

You can find more information about the Cobweb partner program here. 

Improve Communication and Collaboration with Microsoft SharePoint 2010

Stuart Brown, our resident SharePoint 2010 expert is taking the audience through the latest functionality of SharePoint 2010 and how through the adoption of this software it is meeting many of today’s business productivity challenges.

He notes that the traditional high cost of acquisition for this type of solution has in the past been a barrier to entry, however by deploying via a hosted model this is simply no longer an issue.