IT Journal Entry: Doug Burgum, SVP, Microsoft Business Solutions Group

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Author: Chris Preimesberger

Doug Burgum is senior vice president of the Microsoft Business Solutions Group.
He and other executives at this week’s Convergence 2005 user show in San Diego unveiled a
development strategy across the group’s four product lines in an initiative known as “Project Green.” The
initiative includes extending the support time for the current applications and phasing in changes
in two major waves using technologies such as Web services and role-based interfaces.
Source:Convergence 2005 keynote on March 7.

Q: What is new about Microsoft going after the small- to mid-size BPM
market?