Wow!

That just about sums up my reaction to our latest seminar—this time a series of demo scenarios from Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010—that wrapped up this morning. I’m fired up, and not simply because we gave away another ten t-shirts to bold members of our studio audience.  

No, the key here is that Milwaukee and Wisconsin at large are truly excited about upgrading to SharePoint 2010. In late January we had the chance to spend 90 minutes talking with a different crowd (and I do mean crowd—we packed the Crowne Plaza again with nearly 150 attendees, just like last time) about the rich new features of ECM in SharePoint 2010. Lots of great feedback was received, but the most telling piece was the number of people asking for demos.

Ask and ye shall receive.

Truth be told, we didn’t do the demos last time because the new ECM features are so powerful and so rich that we knew it’d take us an hour and a half just to talk about them, let alone show them off. So this time around, we cut back on the PowerPoint and went full-speed-ahead with the demonstrations. And oh! Such demonstrations had not been seen yet in Milwaukee:

• The new SharePoint 2010 UI and the pervasive Office ribbon…
• The Backstage panels of Office 2010…
• Visualizing BPM with Visio workflows…
• FAST Search, Document Sets and Managed Metadata for truly enterprise ECM…

And that’s just for starters. All of these demos were built hands-on in our new Customer Immersion Experience (CIE) Lab—a fully-fleshed working environment we’re using to showcase the very real power of these new Microsoft tools.

Stay tuned—SharePoint 2010 is almost here. Talk to us if you want a sneak peek.