Recent Webinars

Presented by Jeff Bennett, Regional Sales Architect, Neudesic

​Competition is fierce among financial institutions. Those that find new ways to build stronger client relationships have the advantage. Neudesic has developed an innovative solution that leverages the power of Microsoft Dynamics CRM to help banks and credit unions gain deeper insight into the needs of their clients and prospects, so they can create targeted sales and marketing campaigns that uncover new revenue opportunities.  Learn how to:
• Establish new referral channels and accelerate existing ones
• Achieve a 360-degree view of your clients' unique banking needs
• Provide more powerful relationship-building tools
• Create more effective campaigns, improving marketing and sales alignment
• Bring new clients onboard quicker and more effectively

Presented by Clementino de Mendonca, Architectural Consultant, Neudesic

​Just as a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, the Agile development lifecycle is weakened by non-Agile testing procedures. Find out how you can speed software development by establishing patterns of Agile testing with Visual Studio 2012. Learn how to:
•Manage test environments more efficiently
•Reduce risk and rework through better communication
•Collaborate to define measurable and repeatable acceptance tests
•Centralize and share test documentation
•Conduct, record, and repeat manual tests
•Automate user interface testing
•Provide end-to-end traceability and visibility

Presented by Marty Wasznicky, General Manager of Neuron ESB, Neudesic

Neuron ESB 3.0 takes integration to a whole new level of simplicity. It’s more agile, easier to use, and packed with new features and functionality designed to make quick work of your real world integration challenges. Learn all about the new features of Neuron ESB 3.0, including:
• User Experience with the Neuron ESB Explorer
• Configuration Management and Deployment
• Adapters and Connectivity options
• Durable Message Management
• Administration and Monitoring enhancements
• Business Processing Features
• Service Broker Enhancements

Presented by Abhilash M Shanmugan, Connected Systems Director, Neudesic

Bring everything together with the new cross-platform capabilities of BizTalk 2013. Discover how BizTalk 2013 can help you leverage your existing database, ERP, mainframe and custom investments and maximize business agility by eliminating costly point-to-point integration across on-premise, clouds and devices.

Presented by Michael Collier, Windows Azure National Architect, Neudesic

When deploying cloud solutions, automation can eliminate costly manual testing efforts and reduce the time it takes to release new features. Neudesic’s Windows Azure National Architect, Michael Collier shows you how to leverage tools like PowerShell, Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server to automate mundane deployment tasks, deliver continuous cloud deployments, and handle the inevitable update of cloud services. You will come away from this webcast with a solid understanding of handling service deployments and updates, backed by practical real-world examples.

Presented by Ryan McIntyre, Portals & Collaboration Regional Director, Neudesic

SharePoint 2013 Enterprise Search introduces a new architecture that improves content management and includes many of the capabilities previously only available to SharePoint customers who owned FAST. SharePoint 2013 also has expanded its options for extensibility through a robust Application Programming Interface (API) and more powerful web parts. Join Neudesic Portals & Collaboration Regional Director Ryan McIntyre for an overview of this new architecture and learn how to:
• Utilize the new API to build search driven solutions conforming to the new SharePoint 2013 application model
• Decide when to develop custom code vs. utilize “out of the box” web parts
• Ensure the solutions you create are maintainable and portable with proper deployment techniques

Presented by Rinat Shagisultanov, Principal Consultant, Neudesic

Deep integration of development and operation teams using new practices and tools is critical to software builders that want to deliver on promises of shorter cycle times, improved mean time to repair, and increased business value. ​Join Neudesic Principal Consultant Rinat Shagisultanov as he shows you how enterprises can significantly speed up their Application Lifecycle Management process and enable continuous delivery of software to both internal and external clients through deep integration capabilities of Visual Studio 2012 and System Center 2012 like:
• features that help improve the interaction between development and operations, creating better, integrated workflows.
• new lab management tools that allow teams to quickly spin up an advanced Build-Deploy-Test infrastructure.
• deployment management features such as support for multiple package types, virtual machine management, and automated deployment to private and public clouds.
• integrated production monitoring and diagnostics tools.

Presented by Clementino de Mendonca, Architectural Consultant, Neudesic

Members of small development teams wear multiple hats throughout the life of a project, keeping in constant contact with clients while developing, testing, fixing bugs, retesting, and ultimately, planning and deploying releases. ​Join Neudesic Architectural Consultant Clementino de Mendonca as he shows you how Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server can boost your productivity, augment your skills, and help you find your way out of a development-cycle labyrinth.

Presented by Clementino de Mendonca, Architectural Consultant, Neudesic

Visual Studio has become the tool of choice for managing Scrum projects because it stands out of the way, allowing you to use Agile software development on your own terms. Join Neudesic Architectural Consultant Clementino de Mendonca, as he shows you how to enact Scrum best practices and use Team Foundation Server as a communication hub, allowing your team to always have a clear picture of what “done” should look like at the end of a sprint.

Presented by Kirk Nason, Business Intelligence Solutions Director, Neudsic

By leveraging Neudesic's CountERPart for SAP accelerator tool kit you can gain a holistic view of your enterprise and pervasive insight at all levels throughout the organization through self-service BI. Neudesic’s CountERPpart for SAP solution harmoniously connects SAP and Microsoft®, creating the opportunity to gain an enterprise view of your organization’s BI application to achieve and maintain high performance.

Presented by Clementino de Mendonca, Architectural Consultant, Neudesic

Team members in smaller teams have always had to wear multiple hats: talk to customer, develop, test, talk to customer, fix bugs, retest, talk to customer, deploy… did I forget to mention you also have to plan your releases? No way you can do this without some automation. Visual Studio 2012 is the suite that will boost your productivity to the max by augmenting your skills with powerful tools that will help you trace your way out of a development cycle labyrinth.

Presented by William Salazar, ALM Practice Director

Explore “fit-and-finish” scenarios in Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012 which will make developers more productive as they write code and collaborate with other team members. Learn about the new integrated code reviews; the new “My Work” experience for managing your active tasks; and once you’re “in the zone” Visual Studio will now help you stay focused on the task at hand, no matter how much you’re randomized, with a new suspend/resume experience. You will find out how to work offline seamlessly, how the new merging experience works, and how you can more easily find work items.

Presented by William Salazar, ALM Practice Director

From the ground up, the developer testing experience in Visual Studio 2012 was designed to allow developers to focus on their code and avoid unnecessary distractions. ​Test Explorer is now easily extended, allowing you to add third-party testing frameworks in addition to those shipped with Visual Studio. Visual Studio also includes the new Fakes framework to let developers create fast running and isolated unit tests. In this session, we will review the new developer testing experience in the context of a typical day-to-day workflow, showing how these features will help you quickly write better quality code.

Presented by David Pallmann, Custom Application Development General Manager

You can still use the Microsoft cloud in the traditional PaaS way, and there are exciting services to learn about. Microsoft has released an all-new Windows Azure and it’s time to get reacquainted. Neudesic MVPs show and explain the new and extended Platform-as-a-Service cloud services for Windows Azure, including media services and more capable virtual networking.​

Presented by William Salazar, ALM Practice Director

Organizations that use practices and tools to integrate development and operations can significantly speed up their Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) process and enable continuous delivery of software to their customers, whether internal or external. Developers and Operations engineers are increasingly working closer together to maintain always on services. Visual Studio 2012 with System Center 2012 give developers and operations the tools to work seamlessly together to reduce the mean time to repair for defects in production applications.

Presented by Clementino de Mendonca, Architectural Consultant

Do you know for sure which code base snapshot in your source control system matches what is in production? What is the best strategy to manage source code for team members working in parallel in different features? In this talk we will take a look at creating branching strategies that answer these and other questions, and allow you to balance simplicity, isolation, and speed in your software development efforts.

Presented by William Salazar, ALM Practice Director

Many teams use mockups or storyboards to describe general application appearance and flow. This session will demonstrate new features in Visual Studio 2012 that support creating, presenting and maturing storyboards using tools you already know. And then we’ll show how this process fits into the rest of your application’s lifecycle.

Presented by Clementino de Mendonca, Architectural Consultant

Find out how Visual Studio has become the tool of choice to manage your Scrum projects, and how it stands out of the way allowing you to do Agile in your own terms instead of forcing you to adapt your development process to a tool. ​We will take a tour on how you can enact Scrum best practices and cycles, allowing the team to always have a clear picture of what "done" should look like at the end of a sprint through using Team Foundation Server as a team communication hub.

Presented by David Pallmann, Custom Application Development General Manager

Did you know you can now run Linux in the Microsoft cloud? Microsoft has released an all-new Windows Azure and it’s time to get reacquainted. Neudesic MVPs show you the new Virtual Machines (IaaS) feature, focusing on creating and composing Linux VMs in the cloud. You’ll see how to use the cloud with full portability of workloads between the cloud and your enterprise.

Presented by Kirk Nason, Director of Business Intelligence Solutions

Effective corporate performance management is required in today's global economic environment. To reduce costs, eliminate inefficiencies, enable revenue opportunities and optimize investments, Business Executives need to be real-time decision makers and value-creators. Existing Business Intelligence platforms come with substantial costs, time and effort to implement, large training requirements, poor user adoption as well as critical trade-offs in functionality and self-service flexibility. By utilizing Neudesic's CountERPart for SAP - Analytics & the Microsoft BI Platform, SAP customers gain a holistic view of their enterprise and pervasive insight—for all people at all levels of the organization—through self-service Business Intelligence.

Presented by Noam Topaz, Director of SharePoint Solutions

Human resources departments are often overworked and understaffed, yet they still must find ways to expedite the acquisition of new hires in order to maximize productivity. Multiple back-end systems combined with a lack of time and resources makes implementing a structured onboarding program near impossible for HR departments. Learn how Neudesic's CountERPart Employee Onboarding for SAP solution simplifies new hire onboarding through a user-friendly interface while enabling your team to quickly modify processes and focus on more critical business activities. See how your organization can eliminate paperwork and duplicate work, complete tasks faster, increase visibility, ensure compliance, and save time and money.​​

Presented by David Pallmann, Custom Application Development General Manager

Did you know there is a new streamlined way to do web sites in the Microsoft cloud? Microsoft has released an all-new Windows Azure and it’s time to get reacquainted. Neudesic MVPs show you Windows Azure Web Sites, a new mode of using the Microsoft cloud for 2-tier web sites. Learn how you can create new web sites in the cloud in under a minute, with great support for common open source frameworks such as Drupal, Joomla, Orchard, Umbraco, and WordPress. Also learn about the new My SQL database support.​​

Presented by Abhilash M. Shanmugan, Connected Systems Practice Director

Today the Microsoft platform gives you a variety of tools around EDI at various price points. ​These capabilities enable you to extend on-premises applications to the cloud, provide rich messaging endpoints in the cloud for message processing and transformation assisting organizations with the ability to integrate with disparate applications, both on-premise and in the cloud as an extension of the enterprise. Come learn how the latest EDI capabilities in Azure Service Bus can enable you to do business with established customers with mature EDI investments without costly big-iron investments and full-blown middleware stacks. If you already have existing investments in EDI infrastructure, you will learn how these new capabilities allow you to extend the reach of these investments while achieving significant ROI by moving to the Microsoft platform.

Presented by David Pallmann, Custom Application Development General Manager

Microsoft has released an all-new Windows Azure and it’s time to get reacquainted. ​Neudesic MVPs will give you an overview of what’s new and extended in the platform, along with a demonstration of the new HTML-based management portal which provides great usability and can also be used from mobile devices.

Presented by Kola Bolarin, Principal Consultant, Service Delivery Group

One of the keys to scalable enterprise data warehouse development is data integration. ​Microsoft has enhanced their data integration offering in 2012 to make it more robust with a lot more features to assist developers, improve data capture capabilities and provide better troubleshooting and logging capabilities which considerable enhance the software development lifecycle (SDLC).This release is the best so far, we will cover some of the ways SQL 2012- Integration services provide data capture functionality, In-memory cache across packages and troubleshooting and logging capabilities and other cool features. Overall the development experience and functionalities required for Extracting loading and transform (ELT) OR Extract Transform and loading (ETL) are significantly enhanced in Integration Services 2012.

Presented by Tracy Derr, Managing Director

Discover how Amerishore's cost-competitive alternative to offshore outsourcing makes it possible for businesses to support their local communities by helping the next generation of technology professional learn skills and gain experience that will help them jump-start their careers. We train student associates and team them with technology experts to deliver capabilities in a wide range of low risk, high value IT services and solutions, including software maintenance and support; application migration; report creation, migration and support; software testing . . . and more.

Presented by Jacob Saunders, Practice Director, Business Intelligence

“Big Data” is a term many have heard, but what does it mean? How are Big Data systems different from traditional relational databases? ​Increasingly, firms are encountering performance challenges when attempting to query massive data sets in fields such as Internet search, social networking, physics, and molecular science. Jacob Saunders, Practice Director - Business Intelligence at Neudesic will demonstrate the value of Microsoft’s Azure cloud offering with Hadoop, by exploring social feed analysis for specific campaigns and diving into web log file analysis.

Presented by Monish Nagisetty & Daniel Sepp, Connected Systems Practice Directors

Many organizations rely on SAP as a foundational system of record for running their most mission-critical data and functionality, and like most ERPs, represents the cost of doing business. Organizations seeking agility and the ability to keep pace with the evolving market must leverage their existing investments in SAP as a core foundation for building compositions within the enterprise that fuel differentiation and innovation across various channels and user experiences. Achieving these compositions requires deep domain knowledge and expertise in exposing SAP to other applications and services while retaining the integrity of this critical system of record. In this webcast, you will learn how you can leverage core capabilities in the Microsoft Platform for easily service-enabling key SAP functions for composition across your enterprise. You will learn how to unlock the value in SAP beyond its primary users and administrators by extending the reach of your SAP modules to enable support for consumption across a variety of user experiences.

Presented by Steve Muise, Architecural Consultant, SQL/Business Intelligence Practice, Neudesic-Irvine

One of the most exciting new additions to the SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) suite is the new SSAS Tabular instance that has been created for surfacing Business Intelligence Semantic Models (BISM). ​What is that you say? What are BISM models? BISM models are the next generation of the work that started with PowerPivot taking these business developed models and allowing them to go to the next level and become enterprise ready with additions to the feature set that add on partitioning, hierarchies, KPIs, security roles and many other additions. We will take you through the process of building out one of these models starting with Excel’s PowerPivot add-in and showing you the natural progression and the ability to extend this model using Visual Studio’s new SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT).

Presented by Marc Jellinek, Principal Consultant, SQL/Business Intelligence Practice, Neudesic-New York

Any data warehouse or master data system has an undeniable need to have clean data for reporting purposes. Microsoft understands this and felt that SQL Server needed it own tool to handle just this. ​Welcome Data Quality Services (DQS) to the SQL Server 2012 release. We will cover some of the ways this new tool will help you clean your corporate data. At the root of DQS is the knowledge base , which is a repository of either out-of-the-box knowledge, knowledge generated by DQS or customer created knowledge. When you combine these three knowledge sources you end up with the ability to cleanse incorrect data with proposed changes, merge duplicates and verify key fields with cloud based lookups. Overall it really helps you build a foundation of data governance and allows data stewards to manage their incoming data elements before that bad record causes any troubles for your organization. Download this webcast's PPT Presentation.

Presented by David Pallmann, General Manager, Custom Application Development

The 4 pillars of the modern web are HTML5, Mobility, Social Networking, and Cloud Computing. In this fourth webcast of the series, David Pallmann will review cloud computing and the role it plays in modern web development. ​We’ll look at how cloud compute, storage, security, and communication services provide the perfect back end to support modern HTML5/mobile web sites. In particular we’ll explore how the Windows Azure platform can be used in this way. We’ll illustrate the use of cloud computing in modern web solutions with several application examples, including a “mobile and global’ solution that can run anywhere and everywhere.

Presented by Jason Noble, General Manager of Product Development

Get an in-depth look at the new features of Neudesic Pulse 3.0. Learn of the new Integration features of Pulse 3.0 with Microsoft SharePoint, and Dynamics CRM. Jason Noble, Neudesic’s General Manger of the Product Development group, will showcase Neudesic Pulse Social Fabric approach to Enterprise Social and demonstrate Neudesic Pulse Unified Activity Steam connecting Dynamics CRM, SharePoint and Line of Business Systems.

Presented by Scott Berkley, SQL/Business Intelligence Practice Director, Neudesic-Denver

Wouldn’t it be nice to allow your business users to create their own interactive analytic reports? How about taking this even further and allowing your customers to create them too? ​Power View is the tool that will help this become a reality. The newest addition to the SSRS is an add-on that allows your users to explore semantic models from an SSAS Tabular instance or any PowerPivot data source. We will deep dive into the features that are surfaces and how this will integrate into key scenarios within your organization. We will also explore the newest key feature within the standard reporting services reports that allows end users to have SQL Server watch for data thresholds to be broken, which will then send out an alert for them to be notified of this event.

Presented by Patrick Gallucci, SQL/Business Intelligence Practice Director, Neudesic-Dallas

Data governance is quickly becoming a wave of technology that the IT team cannot ignore. ​At the root of this is master data management (MDM) and Microsoft has released its second version of Master Data Services (MDS) within SQL Server 2012. Wouldn’t it be nice to know what the correct address is for each of your customers? How about knowing the correct product codes for each of your thousands of SKU’s? All this can be a reality with proper implementation of this improved SQL Server service.

Presented by David Pallmann, Custom Application Development General Manager

The 4 pillars of the modern web are HTML5, Mobility, Social Networking, and Cloud Computing. In this third webcast of the series, David Pallmann reviews Social Networking and the role it plays in modern web development. We look at various ways to integrate business solutions with social networking including web identity, content integration, gameification, and fusion (where knowledge from people is combined with information from systems). We illustrate the use of social networking in modern web solutions with several application examples.

Presented by Brendon Bridoes and Mike Diiorio, Connected Systems Practice Directors

Microsoft Dynamics CRM enables the organization and management off all facets of customer relationship management including business development and relationship management for building a 360 degree customer experience that differentiates your enterprise. To accomplish this, Dynamics CRM must play an interdependent role across various departmental and organization stores that are not easily shared, ultimately resulting in data islands and data duplication at best, and at worst, missed opportunities for realizing the full benefits of your CRM implementation.

Presented by Tom Marek, General Manager, SQL/Business Intelligence Practice

In this first webcast of our five-part series covering SQL Server, Tom Marek explores the exciting new features of SQL Server 2012. This informative series explains in detail the technical features of SQL Server 2012. It also helps tie these features to the business problems they are designed to solve. The latest release of SQL Server has some very exciting additions which we will go over in great detail. In future sessions, we dive into the details on Master Data Services (MDS), Data Quality Services, Power View, Report Alerts, the new SSAS Tabular instance, and the Business Intelligence Semantic Model (BISM).

Presented by Rick G. Garibay, Connected Systems General Manager

A growing business must meet its needs and challenges with new and existing systems and platforms if it hopes to remain relevant in the marketplace. Before long, however, the value of the whole enterprise begins to fall below the sum of its various parts. Whether these disparate systems reside on-premise, in the cloud or on partner networks, they must be well-integrated before a business can extend its investment in technology and drive future innovation. Once achieved, the composition of these systems unlocks an organization’s true potential by supporting the consumption of application programming interfaces across any user experience, regardless of platform. Only then can an organization differentiate itself and deliver value at the speed of business.

Presented by Michael Collier, National Windows Azure Architect

Learn about the next generation building block services available in Windows Azure that help to create connected, secure, and reliable services.
With services such as Caching, Service Bus (relay, queues, and topics), and Access Control Services (ACS) developers can focus more on building great solutions and less on plumbing services necessary to do so. In this webcast, we will take a look at many of the additional services offered as part of Windows Azure. We'll see just how easy it can be to add scalable caching with Windows Azure Caching, create robust connected solutions with the Service Bus, and secure applications with ACS.

Presented by David Pallmann, Custom Application Dev General Manager

Presented by Michael Collier, National Windows Azure Architect

Understanding how Windows Azure roles can communicate with each other is a key aspect to developing enterprise caliber applications on the Windows Azure platform. A Windows Azure role communicates with the outside world via input endpoints, and with other roles via internal endpoints. In this webcast, we will take a look at Windows Azure role communication from a developer's point of view. We'll see how configure input endpoints for exposing a service to the outside world, as well as using internal endpoints for role-to-role communication.

Presented by Michael Collier, National Windows Azure Architect

Presented by Darren Gooding, Dynamics CRM General Manager

Have an iPad or smartphone? Imagine having Mobile CRM on it … working how, when, and where you want it to work. Adoption of mobile devices is growing at a phenomenal rate and many organizations are thinking about how to take advantage of this trend. A leading research firm, Forrester Consulting, says that the largest benefits of Mobile CRM include improved employee productivity, better customer experience, higher customer satisfaction, improved business process efficiency, and lower cost of CRM.

Presented by Michael Collier, National Windows Azure Architect

There are three core tenants of Windows Azure storage - queues, tables, and blobs. One of the great features of Windows Azure is that we can consume the storage services from a platform that communicates via a REST interface. Libraries are available which make working with the native REST interface a more natural experience, but all features are not available in many libraries. In this webcast we will take a look Windows Azure storage from a developer's point of view. We'll look at using the native REST interface, as well as the .NET storage client library, for working with Windows Azure storage.

Presented by Rick G. Garibay, General Manager, Connected Systems

Learn how Neudesic and GimmalSoft’s solutions for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 create a complete enterprise platform for content management and compliant records management. The GimmalSoft Compliance Suite, currently in the DoD 5015.2 certification process, solves major compliance challenges faced by commercial, military and federal organizations. This session describes the requirements for implementing the DoD 5015.2 standard within SharePoint 2010 and how our team addressed these requirements in our Compliance Suite. Additionally, we will describe how any organization can take advantage of tools that extend the SharePoint 2010 platform to achieve compliance with content, records and knowledge management requirements.

Presented by Rick G. Garibay, General Manager, Connected Systems

As mobility and platform agnostic clients continue to build momentum, the need for reliable and discreet pub-sub messaging patterns between clients and services has never been greater. Azure Service Bus Relay Messaging democratized service orientation by enabling you to expose applications and services using SOAP and REST from behind the firewall, anywhere in the world. With the release of Azure Service Bus 1.5, Microsoft has enhanced Azure Service Bus by releasing support for Queues and Topics which extend the current capabilities of Azure Service Bus. Queues are an important addition to Azure AppFabric Service Bus capabilities because they provide a solid foundation on which to build loosely coupled distributed messaging solutions that support temporal decoupling, load distribution and load leveling. Topics extend queues to provide a logical and physical relationship between publishers and subscribers providing a great way to logically associate actions to events, enabling the implementation of the publish-subscribe pattern with a minimal degree of friction. Having published a feature article for CODE Magazine this month, Rick G. Garibay, General Manager of the Connected Systems Practice at Neudesic will provide a lap around these new capabilities and discuss how they can be applied to building hybrid composite solutions today.