Buzzwords TOGETHER WE INNOVATE, MODERNIZE & EMPOWER October 2019 Edition Hey! I have 8 years experience in selling Microsoft solutions under my belt. I'm currently overseeing the overall CSP Business in Trident for Sri Lanka and Maldives. So far, it has been an interesting journey. Pulasthi Palansuriya 1 WHO WE ARE Hello! I'm the latest addition to the Trident CSP team. I have over 3 years experience in channels and end-customer sales . I look after some of the top ISVs, breadth and the emerging partner segments within Colombo as well as regional partners in Sri Lanka. Hello people! I'm responsible for the internal tele-sales engine at Trident. I generate leads to add value to our partners. Nasif Nazim Hi! They say I'm the backbone of our team; the one who is responsible for backend operations. Aqeela Weerabangsa Imanthika Dassanayake Trident CSP successfully hosted 'Azure Me - Trident CSP Azure Community Evening 2019 ' on 18th October 2019 at Park Street Mews. We had a packed venue with around 40 ISVs attending to explore the values of Azure Technology and understand the benefits of partnering up with Trident CSP. TRIDENT CSP PULLED OFF AN AZURE ME 2 Trident Corporation Country Manager Hilmey Niyas opened the event with values of Trident CSP, which was followed by Territory Channel Manager of Microsoft, Ashiq Niyaz, who presented on the Future of Azure. Trident CSP BDM Pulasthi Palansuriya and BDE Nasif Nazim spoke about Trident CSP’s value propositions and benefits. Thereafter, Shameera Prajapriya, Founder/Principle Architect at Impact IT Solutions shared his Azure success story. Sajeetharan Sinnathurai, Cloud Solution Architect of Microsoft, presented on ‘Why Azure?’. The event ended with a panel discussion moderated by Hasitha Willarachchi, MVP and Principle Consultant Thakral. The panelists were Anton Canisious - Partner Sales Lead of Microsoft, Gogula Aryalingam - Lead Architect of BI Fortude and Shameera Prajapriya. A Big thank you to our valued ISVs and partners who attended the event and a special thanks to Ashiq Niyaz , Sanjay Satheesh , Abdul Qadir , Sajeetharan Sinnathurai , Anton Canisious and Prabhath Mannapperuma from Microsoft for the continuous support. EMPOWERING PARTNERS WITH TRIDENT CSP PARTNER-CON Trident CSP organized 'Trident CSP Partner-CON' a focused session for partners to drive customers towards digital transformation through Office 365 and getting them legalized. Congratulations to the partners who attended and are eligible for the exclusive promo launched at the Partner-CON. We rolled out 3 sessions for our valued partners. Trident CSP Business Development Executive (BDE) Nasif Nazim conducted sessions on Office 365 and Mohamed Shafeeque, Business Executive from Trident Microsoft Distribution Team covered legalization through Windows GGWA program. Session 1 - 8th October 2019 Session 2 - 10th October 2019 Session 3 - 15th October 2019 GRAND SLAM! 3 WHO: MEGACHIP ELECTRONICS, MALDIVES WHAT: OFFICE 365 SOLUTION WHY: Megachip Electronics together with Microsoft and Trident CSP offered an end-to-end solution to one of the largest resorts in Maldives. Megachip will assist the customer on their digital transformation journey continuously. Megachip Electronics, one of the top solution driven partners, is a full service and support provider of Information Technology and Communications in Maldives. Megachip is a DELL EMC Authorized Gold Partner in the Maldives, Enterprise Solutions Partner for VMware, Managed Partner for Microsoft and Partner for other products that deliver end-to-end solutions. Megachip partnered with Trident CSP to drive the CSP motion in the SEA New Market region . Microsoft of cloud beginners use Microsoft's Azure Bot services mobility customers picks Azure & AWS dominated by Azure, AWS, Google 300,000 93% 33,000 FACT CENTER 4 Did you know? 57% of global cloud computing market Developers TIPS & TRICKS STORY OF THE MONTH 5 Implementing a business intelligence system has traditionally followed the same process, with very little variation. The standard process encompasses extracting data from source systems, transforming them into an analytical form, and finally loading it onto purpose-built data warehouses. After that, you create semantic data models, reports and dashboards using the data warehouse. One of the biggest issues when implementing such a system is the provisioning infrastructure. The configuration of servers and licensing complexities often distract and impede the actual implementation. For instance, it is difficult to estimate the optimal server configuration upfront. So, we over-provision and end up paying far too much. When budgets are low, we under-provision, but the solution eventually grows, and we end up facing performance problems. Azure makes provisioning infrastructure and a lot of other things much easier. It allows us to start an analytics solution as a pilot, provisioning only the infrastructure we assume we need, and then scale as more compute and storage is needed. This way we only pay for what we use, just like we do with regular utilities. When the solution grows, scaling up is a flick of a switch or a drag of a slider and takes just a few minutes. What’s more is that Azure provides a plethora of data services that can be used for any type of analytics, from self-service business intelligence to artificial intelligence, and not just traditional business intelligence that is mentioned above. All we have to do is choose the best fit for the customer requirements in terms of solution, infrastructure and technology services. The other best part is that these services keep getting better, and updates are automatic and free in many cases. The bottom line is that we can focus on delivering analytical solutions that matter to our customers without distractions and the least impediments. Gogula Aryalingam MVP, Data Platform Lead Architect, Business Intelligence Fortude Azure: Enabling Analytics That Matter 6 COOL IT DOWN MICROSOFT iNFLUENCER 7 In a technology-driven world, developers are at the heart of your company’s future innovation endeavors. Developers have more power than ever before with the power of the cloud at their fingertips. As a developer, it is important that you need to speed your application development by using a broad set of cloud-first development tools that make it easier to configure, build and deploy applications that scale. Microsoft has been the number one open-source contributor on GitHub for several years in a row that also means Azure not only runs open source technology, but Microsoft engineers are working with the community to ensure open-source software runs best on Azure. As a developer, you can take advantage of the open cloud by using different standalone tools, choose from a variety of language SDKs to reuse your existing code and skills across platforms. Also, it offers flexibility to run the application on any language hosted in azure data centers, on-premises or in hybrid environments. Azure’s data platform has the intelligence built-in, making it easy for the developers to build applications like human-like cognition and enables developers to innovate continuously to meet customer needs by offering a full end-to-end DevOps capability. With a free credit of US $200, developers can easily provision up to 14 VMS, 40 SQL databases and do many more. As an open-source contributor and a full stack developer, I’ve been thoroughly enjoying the Visual studio integration with Azure which makes it easier to code, build, deploy and debug large scale applications. Let Azure be the cloud that developers love. October 2019 Microsoft Influencer Sajeetharan Sinnathurai Cloud Solution Architect, APAC OCP Microsoft Azure be the cloud you love – The best cloud for developers! BARGAINS 9 Trident CSP and Microsoft are happy to announce that the discount for Office 365 Business Essential and Business Premium has been extended. It is time for our valued partners and customers to get the best out of it. Please contact Trident CSP for more information. imanthika@trident.lk Trident CSP carried out an exclusive promotion over a period of 2 weeks, for partners who participated the Trident CSP Partner-CON to drive the O365 in emerging and breadth space (this promotion is now closed). PARTNER SPACE We had the privilege of welcoming new partners to our Microsoft CSP mission in the hopes of being innovative in the technology landscape, and to modernize the way we offer solutions and empower our customers. VS Information Systems Triwsys 99X Sysco Labs 9 WE WELCOME YOU! LEADING ISV's TO FOCUS ON P2P (PARTNER TO PARTNER) MODEL After attending 'Azure Me' and understanding the benefits of the Microsoft Partner-to-Partner (P2P) model, a number of leading ISVs in Sri Lanka are focusing on partnering up with each other. The objective of this model is to explore new business opportunities in unchartered markets with cross cutting specialties. MONTH OF OCTOBER ACHIEVERS These highly skilled sales professionals contributed vastly to the Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider Business during the month of October. Congratulations and thank you for your contribution to the Microsoft CSP business. We appreciate your effort. Mohamed Saifan Ibna Moosa Shannu Mohamed Alister Joseph Anthony Peiris Shiyaz Mohamed TALK OF THE TOWN 10 TRIDENT CSP ISV PLAN IS A GO! Trident CSP had the privileged to meet Choeun Chon, Regional Partner Development Manager, Global ISV Business of Microsoft. The Trident team presented the exclusive ISV plan to the Microsoft team at the meeting. TRIDENT CSP PEP PROGRAM IS GOING STRONG Trident CSP Microsoft Partner Enablement Program (PEP) is almost at its end; we conducted one-on-one training sessions for the participants of Azure and M365 as a part of the program. Participants are expected to complete Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) exams within the month of October 2019. Trident CSP and Microsoft's objective of running this program is to certify more than 30 individuals as MCPs on Azure and M365. MORE REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD PICK TRIDENT CSP Trident CSP launched a simple yet a effective campaign to create awareness and understanding of why more and more customers should go with the Trident Cloud Solution Program (CSP). Contact Us Pulasthi Palansuriya Manager – Business Development, Microsoft Trident Corporation (Pvt) Ltd. No: 297, 1st Floor, Union Place, Colombo 02,Sri Lanka. Mob:+94 777 718448 | Tel :+94 11 5393300 : +94 11 5552323 Web:www.trident.lk https://www.neowin.net/ https://www.skyhighnetworks.com/ http://www.allaboutwindowssl.com/