This is a way overdue post from earlier this year when I delivered some training courses in Mandarin Chinese in China.
Fact is, I had to translate over 300 pages of PPT slides from English to Chinese. So I picked up a lot of CRM jargons in Chinese in a very short period of time. The training courses I delivered were Business Action World Tour in Beijing and Shanghai, which was a 200 level, 4 hours session on xRM with various other MSFT technologies. And Business Action Training Tour, a 300 level 2 day full on training course diving deep on BAWT contents in Guangzhou.
“But aren’t you a native Chinese speaker?” I hear you ask, and “yes” is the answer. However I can articulate these terms well in English since I learnt them in English, but I really had to learn what they are in Chinese as some of them are quite technical.
So I’ve compiled a list of these terms from my recollection and I will amend it as I remember more. Some are really simple, others are pretty technical.
This is way more exciting than Business Time by Flight of the Conchords (okay, maybe that’s debatable). If you missed out on the Business Action World Tour that happened in in March all around the world in person. Never fear!!! Here is another chance. The same sessions will be delivered via Livemeeting across three different time zones from Monday 27th April to Friday the first of May.
For content details and registrations visit Ben Riga’s post or Catherine Eibner’s post.
This is the next wave of Worldwide Business Action on Microsoft Dynamics CRM by Microsoft Metro program. It’s a two-day Instructor Led Training (ILT) course and my colleague Chris Auld is instructing this course in Singapore on 10th-11th May and Sydney on 14th-15th.
Back in February, a team of us at Intergen worked very hard and built the content for this training course – six modules; a mix of presentation decks, demonstrations and hands-on labs for this training course. The labs are step by step instructions on how to build Line of Business applications by leveraging the greatness of Microsoft Dynamics CRM as an application platform and integrate with WPF, Silverlight, OBAs, OCS, .NET Service and Windows Azure.
For registrations refer to blog posts from Chris or Catherine.
From the 9th to the 15th March I delivered a training course “Business Action World Tour” in Beijing and Shanghai, China – in mandarin. 🙂 It is part of a greater Microsoft Metro program, which is a technology early adoption program by Microsoft Dynamics DPE team in Seattle.
2. Leveraging Microsoft’s investments in WPF and Silverlight to build compelling user experiences into Line-of-Business Applications with Microsoft Dynamics CRM.
3. Increase information workers’ productivity and Leverage organizations’ existing investment and skills with MS Office suite of products, by building Office Business Applications (OBAs) that interact with MS CRM. So information workers don’t have to leave their familiar environments – Office word, excel etc – to perform LoB application tasks.
4. Increase organization wise productivity by exploring possible integration points with “Office on the server” products, SharePoint and OCS specifically.
5. Compare the pros and cons for different deployment possibilities with Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0; On-Premise, Partner hosted or Microsoft’s own datacenter through CRM online.
6. Showcase a self-service web application that integrates with a LoB application built on Dynamics CRM Online, also consumes third party services. The best part is, this web application is hosted by Windows Azure Services Platform. So, anything and everything about this application is in the cloud.
I’ve learnt so much delivering this course in Mandarin. To ease understanding of my Chinese audience, I translated the 101 pages of PPT from English to Chinese, I picked up all of the technical terms in Chinese along the way. The translated version of the PPT is here for download for anyone that’s interested.
Also, I’m writing a post on what the Chinese market is like for Microsoft Business Solutions, so subscribe to this blog to stay tuned.