Where is the Excel community?

Excel is one of the most used software applications in the world. There is, therefore, a lot of know-how, tips, and tricks out there about Excel. There are many Excel experts, MVPs, consultants, add-in manufacturers – you name it. So why is there no Excel community? Where can we Excelists meet, talk, and exchange ideas? Where is the Microsoft sponsorship that should support this?

In any case, the guys from the Excel user conference are the only ones who make an effort. I didn’t get a chance to attend their conference, but they do have some big Excel experts as lecturers, and they seem to be having fun. I hope to attend sometime during 2007, but if you get a chance to attend before I do, please tell me how it was.

Cogniview is now a certified partner of Microsoft

I am pleased to announce that Cogniview has achieved the rank of Microsoft certified partner. We were always putting off becoming a certified partner because it seemed to be a big hassle. We were right about that. We had, however, an ace in the hole that I wasn’t aware of: you, the customers.

Our customers deserve the credit for our becoming a certified partner. It seems that if you have a product that is used by thousands of customers, you just fly through the product-certification tests (we submitted our PDF-to-Excel conversion product).

The best part was the testimonials. As an ISV, you are required to submit customer testimonials to Microsoft and have the customers who gave those testimonials approve them. It took us just three hours to get approval for our testimonials. The speed with which the approval came moved me.

Thank you, dear customers.

Here are a couple of pictures of the gang and PDF2XL with the goodies that you get from Microsoft.

The Gang with the Microsoft flag

PDF2XL and the ISV competency plaque

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