Small Business is Big Business: Uncovering Opportunities With Microsoft Small Business Server
Come join us for this interactive web seminar, hosted by Cindy Bates, Microsoft’s General Manager, U.S. Small Business Group. This hour long session will feature discussions with recognized IDC analyst, Janet Waxman, Small Business Server product manager Elyn Yao, and Mohit Vij from our partner, General Informatics.
The panel will address when, where and how to uncover new opportunities with Microsoft Small Business Server. Specifically, we’ll take a look industry trends and market opportunity, how Small Business Server helps address the most common problems faced in the SMB space today, and how Microsoft can help you uncover and pursue opportunities with SBS moving forward. Small Business is Big Business: Uncovering Opportunities With Microsoft Small Business Server.
About the panelists:
Cindy Bates- General Manager, US Small Business group
Cindy is responsible for maximizing Microsoft’s potential to serve the needs of the 6 million small businesses in the United States. Armed with a wealth of management experience and expertise in strategic and corporate development, investment banking, and small business operations, Bates is charged with bringing even greater focus and visibility to Microsoft’s already strong, ongoing efforts to serve small businesses.
Janet Waxman- VP of Hardware Channels and Alliances/IDC Industry Analyst
Ms. Waxman leads a team of researchers responsible for identifying and analyzing go to market strategies that are key to the success of the hardware focused IT vendors. This encompasses tracking a set of business issues that face these suppliers' ecosystems, including distribution channels, strategic alliances, partnering strategies as well as balancing hybrid and complex
routes to market. The team provides guidance and advice to a broad range of companies including start-ups through multi-national organizations. Ms. Waxman's research specifically focuses on these key issues for server and storage related products. She joins this panel as an industry expert and author of a recently published whitepaper, “Paths to Opportunity for Microsoft Windows Small-Business Server 2003 Partners”.
Elyn Yao- Senior Product Manager, Windows Small Business Server Worldwide Product Management Team
Elyn joins us from the worldwide SBS product management team and is responsible for SBS’ go-to-market efforts, partner marketing, product marketing, and worldwide marketing. Elyn brings more than 10 years of marketing experience to Microsoft, most of which was spent working in small businesses.
Mohit Vij- President, General Informatics
Mohit Vij is the President of General Informatics. His company focuses on Small Business Technology needs for business in the Gulf Coast region. His company recently won the Microsoft Partners-in-Paradise Contest for the best Small Business IT solution in the nation. Last month they were also announced “Company of the Year” from Louisiana Business & Technology Center. In the last four years Mo has successfully steered his company with a growth of over 200% annually and recently also became the first Small Business Specialist in Louisiana.
