Presentation done at the NGO event organized by Microsoft on July 14, 2010

1. Helping NGO’s Leverage
New Technologies
Suresh Ramani, President IAMCP India
West

2. AGENDA
• Introduction to IAMCP
• How can IAMCP help NGO’s
• How to Leverage The Cloud
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3. Introduction to IAMCP

4. What is the IAMCP?
• Business network for Microsoft Partners ( Registered, Certified, Gold
Certified) as members
• A worldwide community for partnering
– Established 1994
– Close to 4,000 members
– 40 countries
– Almost 80 chapters
– EUR 5 Billion last year in deals together (according to IDC)
• Specialized companies working together fulfilling customer needs
– Specialists working together across competencies
– Competitors helping each other with manpower
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5. Our chapters in Europe today
 Bulgaria
 Estonia
 Finland
 France
 Germany
 Greece (starting up)
 Italy
 Lithuania
 Netherlands
 Norway
 Portugal
 Poland (starting up)
 Russia
 Starting up more chapters in districts outside Moscow
 South Africa
 Slovakia (starting up)
 Sweden
 Regional events in Gothenburg, Malmö, Sundsvall and Stockholm
 Switzerland
 United Kingdom
 Regional events in Thames Valley (London), Southeast, Wales & Midlands
 Sub-chapter in Scotland
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6. Our chapters in USA today
 Arkansas  Louisiana
 Atlanta  Minneapolis/St.Paul
 Austin  New Jersey
 Boston  New York City
 Chicago  Northern California
 Cincinnati  Oklahoma
 Cleveland  Orlando
 Colorado  Philadelphia
 Columbus  Portland
 Dallas/Ft. Worth  Puget Sound
 Detroit  San Antonio
 Deep South (Mississippi & Alabama)  Southern California
 Florida-South  Southwest
 Houston  St. Louis
 Iowa  Tampa
 Jacksonville  Tennessee
 Kansas City  Utah
 Kentucky  Washington DC
 Las Vegas  Western Michigan
 Wisconsin
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7. APAC
 Philippines
 India
LATAM
 Brazil
 Mexico
 Puerto Rico
 Colombia
 Argentina
 Ecuador
CANADA
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8. IAMCP Mission
• To maximize the business potential of our
members
– Partnering
– Advocacy
– Community
– Education & Growth
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9. Community
• A forum for community outreach
– To businesses
– To individuals
– “Social Entrepreneurship”
– Support to vast array of Non Profits
– Provide Technology, Funding or “Sweat Equity”
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10. How can IAMCP help
NGO’s

11. IAMCP & NGO’s
• Technology is crucial for projects
• Microsoft can provide Technology
• Challenge is in implementing Technology
• Implementation is too Expensive or sub standard
• Enter IAMCP
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12. Why IAMCP
• Largest Association of Microsoft Partners
• Accountability
• All Geographies
• All Competencies
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13. Leverage The Cloud
or
Our Experiments with The Cloud
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(IAMCP)

14. What is Cloud Computing
• Different Terms, same meaning
– SaaS
– Online Services
– Hosted Services
– Software + Services
• Shift of Data & Apps from On Premise to
the Data Centre & provision on the fly
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15. On Premise Costs
• Initial Capex
– Server Hardware & Software
– Multi level Security costs ( Firewall,UTM, AV, etc)
• On going Opex
– Implementation charges
– Electricity for 24 x 7
– Manpower for 24 x 7
– AMC of hardware & software
• Recurring Capex
– Server Hardware & Software refresh
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16. On Premise Solution- Pains
• High Capex
• Service unavailability during Migrations
• Need for Headroom leading to idle capacity
– Extra Hard Disks, CPU power
– Extra CALs
• Lack of Trained Manpower
• Lack of Geo Redundancies
• Lack of Best Practices
• Data losses due to internal Threats
• Spams, Blacklisting
• Server OS and App Patches
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17. Cloud Computing - Pains
• Is my Internet working?
• Is my Internet working?
• Is my Internet working?
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18. User Experience
Microsoft Online Services
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19. Single Sign on for User
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20. Online User Console
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21. Understanding Sharepoint
• Company Intranet
• Employee Self Service Portal
• Document Management System
• Team Collaboration
• Workflow Applications
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22. Tech Support Site
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23. Send links , not attachments
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24. Wikis- Knowledge Base
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25. Coming Soon
• Sharepoint Workspace
– Sync with Sharepoint
– Maintain offline copy of the Data
– Great for places with poor Connectivity
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26. Office Communication Server
• Display & Detect presence
• Encrypted Instant Messaging over
LAN/Internet
• Integrated with MS Office
• Person to Person audio & video inside
Firewall
• Virus & Spam filtering
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27. Office LIVE Meeting
• Interactive Tools
– Whiteboards
– Text slides
– Polls
– Chat
• Document viewer
• Application & Desktop Sharing
• Remote Assistance
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28. Contact Information
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(IAMCP)

29. Contact Information
• Email: sramani@techgyan.com
• Website : India www.iamcpindia.org
• Website : International www.iamcp.org
• Facebook : Search for IAMCP India West
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30. Thank You