Intergen shines at PDC Conference

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With deep SharePoint 2010 knowledge, a proven track record of shipping under tight deadlines – and our very own race car – we had all the attributes to deliver something great. A broad team of Wellington-based Intergenites worked long hours to design and build the ‘Blue Yonder Airlines Racing’ team site in SharePoint 2010. Working closely with the Microsoft SharePoint product group and a US-based partner we built a site that combines many of the key features of SharePoint 2010 with rich Silverlight visualisation and Windows Azure. The demonstration featured the Intergen Motorsport RX7 rebranded for Blue Yonder Airlines and includes real in car video and vehicle telemetry.

SharePoint wasn’t the only place where Intergen shone at PDC. The Microsoft Dynamics CRM team took the covers off the forthcoming CRM 5 release and showed the Intergen-built ‘The Phone Company’ demonstration application that features CRM 5 coupled with ASP.NET, Windows Azure and Silverlight in a full xRM customer service and logistics scenario. Please get in touch if you would like to schedule an early briefi ng on CRM 5.

PDC also signified the ‘Go Live’ date for the Windows Azure Platform. I delivered a full day Azure Architecture workshop to over 300 attendees to share many of the extensive Azure best practices that we’ve developed at Intergen over the past 18 months. We also unveiled an early preview of a new Azure-based application for TicketDirect. If you’re a sports or culture
fan then TicketDirect will be a familiar name – their software drove 45% of professionally ticketed events in New Zealand this year. Ticketing really is the canonical Cloud application – the ability to add more computing capacity ondemand means that mornings of frustration trying to buy tickets for a big event will soon be a thing of the past. TicketDirect is
a wholly New Zealand owned company and we’re excited to be helping them innovate and take on the multinationals.

If you’d like to discuss anything that was announced by Microsoft at the PDC Conference please do feel free to get in touch with either myself or your Business Development Manager.

chris.auld@intergen.co.nz