Microsoft IT Academy - Enhanced Membership event TVP Monday 14th May How to use all your ITA benefits to deliver excellent skills in IT using MS technologies, learning & Certifications

1. Microsoft IT Academy WorkShop Day
Microsoft Tools and Resources
Lee Stott,
Academic Evangelist
Developer Platform Evangelism
Microsoft
@lee_stott
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/faculty

2. The changing world of technology
1983
PC
1990
Client/Server
2000 2011
Network/Internet NUI/Mobility/Cloud

3. We all live in the
cloud..

4. A world of opportunity
Mobile devices usage in context The mobile only Internet population
6.9 Billion people to be 788 million by 2015
5.2 Billion devices
1.6 Billion TVs
1.2 Billion PCs
1.0 Billion Cars
The next decade will see the first People-to-people messaging,
true always-on/connected Usage very media and social in
generation - "99% messaging, nature including Text, MMS, real-time
media and entertainment, 1% web and social networks
voice" communications
Voice usage will be very minimal
when compared to messaging, and Content Consumption
Media – photos, video and music,
messaging and media go hand-in-hand gaming, Data consumption
with media usage driven by personal info/search or queries, by 2015
messaging 64% Online Spend
Ecoconsultancy.com 2011

5. Cloud Connected Devices..

6. How “App First” is impacting IT Roles
Less
dependence on Implicit control
broad of infrastructure
infrastructure and
skills connectivity
Agnostic
infrastructure
Users care only control single
about Apps More
admin point for
and Internet cloud or on appliance-like
Connectivity premise on-premise IT

7. Cloud services spending will
exceed $36 billion, growing at
4x the industry rate
IDC Predictions 2012 “Competing for 2020”

8. Going to the cloud is a business
decision - it’s not about
technology
Robert Youngjohns, President, Microsoft North America

9. Consumer Cloud Services
CLOUD SERVICES

10. Microsoft On Premise and Cloud Services
MICROSOFT SOFTWARE

11. Skills and Tools.. On Premise and the
Cloud
Traditional IT IaaS PaaS SaaS

12. Developer Skills and Tools

13. Mobility + Cloud..
= Opportunity

14. In 2012, about 83% of all net-new software
firms coming to market will be
operationalised around creating, testing,
selling, and provisioning a service versus a
packaged product.
IDC 2012
Are you teaching the right technologies?
http://www.microsoft.com/faculty

15. Microsoft - A Unified Ecosystem

16. Positive Economic Impact by 2015
Source: IDC, Microsoft Economic Impact, 2011

17. Microsoft UK Academic Team
Tools and resources for student technologists & educators to make the most of their learning, teaching and
research
Tools Curriculum Community
DreamSpark
Free curriculum
Professional Platform,
materials, from Key On-line and in-person
developer and
Stage 1 to post communities of
designer tools to build
graduate, covering students, teachers and
real sites, apps,
hundreds of Computer researchers
games, cloud services
Science topics
and more
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/faculty

18. * for Schools, FE and HE
Free for students, included with EES or academic pricing for institutions
Schools FE & HE HE STEM
Visual Studio Professional, Expression, Windows 7
Windows Server, Windows Embedded, SQL Visual Studio Premium
Visual Studio Ultimate
Visio, Project, OneNote
Server BizTalk Server
SharePoint Server
• HE STEM departments only
• Free to all students for personal use • Students, Educators, labs
• Free with EES or from £50/year per institution for • Free for Microsoft IT
Academies or from £250/year
Schools, FE, HE - classrooms and educators per department
Also offers easy access to other free tools, including Kodu Game Lab, Small Basic,
Windows Phone tools, Kinect SDK, XNA Game Studio and more
http://www.dreamspark.com * Academic/non-commercial use

19. Faculty & Student Curricula Resources
Game
Operating Systems Cloud Computing Development
System Phone
Dynamics CRM/ERP
Engineering Development
http://www.microsoft.com/faculty

20. Resources and Opportunity
“ready to be retrained”
16,734 UK curriculum
view commonly expressed among
content downloads from the 32,000 Microsoft Partner
427,000 products Microsoft Faculty Connection companies in the UK when
downloaded and used by in 2011 recruiting CS graduates
over 140,000 students;
43,599 world-wide downloads
of Windows Phone Programming 46% of UK Application
in 2011 - curriculum written by Development job ads
22,000 tech students “like” our Rob Miles, University of Hull
Facebook page and 330 CS
specify Microsoft .NET
Educators joined our LinkedIn skills
group in 2011
Sources: www.itjobswatch.co.uk, Microsoft internal reporting systems for DreamSpark, Faculty Connection and
Windows Phone Marketplace, www.facebook.com/microsoftukstudents and Microsoft Faculty Connection UK on LinkedIn

21. What are the key learning
opportunities?
REDUCED MORE
AGILITY
COSTS MOBILITY
HIGHLY EASY TO END USER
AUTOMATED IMPLEMENT PRODUCTIVITY
http://www.windowsazure.com/education

22. Employability IT Skills
The IT Industry is growing and presents a
Yet industry struggles to find
significant opportunity for your students to find
the right skills
employment after graduation
+20% of Application
Development jobs require
98k new IT business will
SharePoint skills****
Global IT jobs will grow be created by 2015**
from 35.6 million in 2009 to 92% of IT Leaders indicate it
41.4 million by 2013* UK requires 550,000
is challenging to secure
new entrants in to IT
necessary IT skills*****
Global IT Spend will grow and Telecoms by
to $1.7 trillion in 2013* 2015***
* Source: IDC Economic Impact Study, Global, 2009
** Source: IDC, Microsoft’s Economic Impact, 2011
*** Source: eskills Technology Insights report, 2011
**** Source: www.itjobswatch.co.uk
***** Source: TEKSystems Report, October 2011

23. Resources for Academics
Faculty Curriculum
Imagine Cup DreamSpark Connection Resources
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/faculty

24. Resources for Students
OpenSource Student to Microsoft
Community Experience Business Student Blog
& Facebook
Start-Up Phone App
Support Xbox Game Faculty
Clubs & Societies
Mentoring Development Connection
Blog &
Linkedin
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/faculty

25. Q&A
Lee Stott,
Academic Evangelist
Developer Platform Evangelism,
Microsoft, @lee_stott
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/faculty