With an unprecedented wave of innovation on the horizon, Landsteinar Strengur prepared its channel of industry partners to empower customers with Retail Ready solutions and services.

Landsteinar Strengur held the LS Retail Worldwide Partner Conference 2007, 28-30 March 2007 by showcasing how innovative software and services will build unprecedented business opportunities for partners.

The conference, LS Retail’s annual event for partners from around the world, included three days of keynote presentations by Microsoft, LS Retail and LS Retail Partners and add-on solution partners, including product- and service-specific sessions, technical sessions and sales and marketing sessions. The main conference day was held at the Microsoft Portugal offices.

The LS Retail Worldwide Partner Conference provided the LS Retail partner community with access to key marketing and business strategies, leadership, and information regarding specific customer solutions designed to help partners succeed in the marketplace. Along with informative learning opportunities covering sales, marketing, services and technology, the Worldwide Partner Conference is an ideal setting for partners to garner valuable knowledge from their peers, LS Retail and from Microsoft.

There were approximately 53 partners and 130 members in attendance. The main event day was kicked off by Sandana Kichenane, Retail Distribution Wholesales Industry Manager, Microsoft.

“With 160 new retail customers in 2006 operating more than 10.000 POS, LS Retail and the LS Retail partners make a significant contribution to the success of Microsoft Dynamics for this specific market place” says Sandana Kichenane.

Other quest speakers included Jan Sillemann, Director of Product Management  - Microsoft Dynamics NAV and Michael Tyrsted, Program Manager, Microsoft Dynamics AX. Jan and Michael discussed the Microsoft Dynamics Roadmaps.

“If ever there was an ideal time to be a LS Retail partner, it’s right now,” says Ingvar Kristinsson, MD LS Retail Team. “We’re committed to empowering every partner of any type to deliver innovative role-based solutions and services that help customers enable their employees to work the way they need to work, to drive real revenue growth. Revenue figures from last year suggest that the total sale of LS Retail, Microsoft Dynamics Hardware and services from our partners reached a level of 75mill €.

Jan Sillemann, Microsoft:
"Simplicity has always been and will continue to be a core value in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 5.0. The new  Sales and Purchase Document Approval and Prepayments functionality will make it very attractive for retailers to invest in Dynamics NAV 5.0 or upgrade from previous versions. Dynamics NAV 5.0 continues to increase the integration to Microsoft Office - specifically in Word and Excell"   

If we look further into Microsoft Dynamics NAV 5.1, we will introduce the Role Tailored User Experience Concepts. As always this will  be fully customizable, so this will make it possible for the LS Retail partners to tailor-made retail specific functionality to the different roles in the retail industry.  

What are the partners saying:

“Landsteinar Strengur is an important source of Information and inspiration for us and our customers” says Hugo Langgaard of Munk IT Denmark. Munk IT has been working with LS Retail since 1999. “Our 2000 users of LS Retail expect that we are up to date with the latest trends and opportunities. This year we are especially looking forward to learn more about the impact of Microsoft Dynamics Navision 5.0 and the 2 new upcoming versions of LS Retail. The partner conferences are not just hard work. Over the years Landsteinar Strengur have succeeded in creating very good social activities, which makes networking with other partners very pleasant and effective. Networking with partners are especially important to us as we are relying on the LS Partner network to roll out LS Retail for our inter national customers such as Bestseller and Kvik Kitchens”

Andrew Hodges K3 BTG PLC:
"Once again Landsteinar Strengur has organised a world class partner event, delivering a great blend of in-depth product roadmap education and business networking opportunities. A key skill of Landsteinar Strengur is continuing to ensure that these events are relevant and valuable for the full range of partners attending; from ourselves as the worldwide number 1 Landsteinar Strengur partner at one extreme to new start-up partners at the other.  Keep up the good work Sigurjon & team !"

Lui Wai Ling and Jasmine Bin, Cyansys Singapore:
We are here to get more knowledge about the LS Retail Hospitality solution, because the hospitality market is growing fast in South East Asia. Furthermore, we use this conference to discuss specific technical issues with the developers of Landsteinar Strengur.

Steen Fabricius Dahl, Tectura Europe:
Networking with partners from all over the world is a great way of exchanging knowledge and products. We have been in Retail for many years, so for us it is very important to get the latest news of how the product roadmaps of Microsoft and Landsteinar Strengur complements each other. Finally we believe there is a window of opportunity for the LSPOS.NET product, and we want investigate how we can exploit this opportunity.

Dimos Giannakoulopoulos, SingularLogic Greece
I agree with Steen. The market is there. We just signed a frame agreement with a customer about delivering 3000 licenses of LSPOS.NET over the next 3 years. So it is very important for us to be on the forefront with the LS Retail product strategy.

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