Watson nudges Microsoft partners toward vertical vision
eWeek | at | by Mike
At Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference here, eWEEK senior editor Peter Galli and senior writer Renee Boucher Ferguson continue their conversation with Allison Watson, vice president of Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Group.
Peter Galli: Doug Burgum's the senior vice president of Microsoft's Business Solutions group performance bonus must have been very small, given the partner questions he's been facing.
One after the other, they were very angryabout the verticalization, about the fact that they didn't understand the policy, about the fact that the sales force often doesn't know the product and weren't responsive. His response was, "Well, we hope it gets better by next year."