| Sneak peak... 2 new ideas |
The ideas are still flowing! B4Contact's team is preparing 2 new projects: SharePoint Hosting Web site and a green initiative.
That is correct. B4Contact is recognized in Slovenia as a SharePoint Company. Therefore offering a clean SharePoint hosting service doesn't sound like a bad idea...
B4Contact team also wishes to show its social responsibility with a new project called " Socially Green". Soon more information will be available.
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| New case study: SharePoint Simple CMS |
Our new product is now recognized as a Microsoft case study!
We have achieved important partnerships from Germany and United States.
The English version is available here. The Slovenian version is available here. A full presentation of B4Contact on Microsoft Slovenia is available here.
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| SMB Email, business email for free? |
B4Contact in cooperation with Microsoft, is offering the setup service for Windows Live Emails for small business. It is a powerful service, free of maintenance cost for only a very accessible setup fee.
The service is available in :
- Slovenian and
- English
Live ID Email offers high class Web mail with free antivirus and powerful antispam features. Now the small business can have a custom email address that corresponds to their Web site address using this service.
B4Contact charges a 50 Euros fee for setting up the domain address with the Live ID infrastructure. After that the service is for free and provided directly by Microsoft.
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| SharePoint Simple CMS |
B4Contact is offering to the international market a powerful content management system designed to work with Windows SharePoint Services. www.sharepointcms.com
The SharePoint Simple CMS is a great tool that solves the problem of "bad looking" SharePoint Sites and let's users of Windows SharePoint Services to enjoy of an easy to use CMS without sacrificing the functionality of SharePoint and without having to buy Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, a product designed for enterprise level users. For the Slovenian market B4Contact has Kontrast CMS, it is the localized version of the same product.
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| Case Study for B4Contact: EUGA |
In cooperation with EUGA initiative, from Microsoft, B4Contact achieved a grant from the Slovenian Ministry of Economy for a project called "E-sejem".
The grant will help B4Contact to offer free web sites for small companies and organizations that develop their activities in rural areas. The main goal of the project is to increase the usage of Internet and broadband access to the World Wide Web.
This successful cooperation is a sample for other companies looking for the support of EUGA. To get more information and access to the case study in Slovenian language click here.
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| New B4Business portal |
After more than a year from the first version of B4Business portal and after understanding more the needs of small business in Slovenia, B4Contact launched a new version of their business portal.
This time the focus is centered on improving the contact and communication between small businesses and Microsoft partners.
The portal includes a Blog called " small business round table" where Microsoft partners will be invited to write about their experiences and eventually answer the questions of the visitors to the portal. All visitors can send their questions using a web form.
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| New award for B4Contact |
September 2007. For second consecutive year B4Contact team received an award for their achievements in the Small Business area.
For B4Contact this recognition means that the efforts of the team are being made in the right direction.
The next year will be full of new challenges and opportunities, consequence of the incredible progress in Windows SharePoint Services customization and the current relationship with other Small Business Specialists within Slovenia.
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| Microsoft PAL in Slovenia |
Microsoft showed once more their interest in the small business sector by announcing the PAL program. Jose Antonio Morales, director of B4Contact, is PAL for central eastern Europe.
According to Marie Huwe, General Manager, Partner Strategy and Programs at Microsoft Corp. “PALs represent the most community-oriented Small Business Specialist partners who are willing to help other partners focused on entrepreneurial and midsized customers.”
- The list of 18 PALS is available here.
- The announcement from Microsoft Slovenia is avaliable here.
- Any Microsoft Small Business Specialists that wishes to get more information about how to get benefits from the PAL initiative please contact us.
- If you wish to participate in the Xing group for Small business Specialists please click here.
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| NTKonferenca 2007 |
The most important conference for IT professionals in Slovenia starts on Monday 14th of May in Portorož. B4Contact will present Iomega's products.
B4Contact's team will publish a competition between the attendees of the conference. For more information visit: http://www.b4business.si/ntk07/
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| Iomega in Slovenia |
30.4.2007 B4Contact is ready to offer to the Slovenian market the complete catalog of products from Iomega. From desktop hard drives, portable storage, backup systems and software.
B4Contact will welcome companies interested in the retail of Iomega's products from all across Slovenia.
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