This document discusses the challenges facing information workers and how the Microsoft Office System aims to address them. It notes that information workers spend a significant amount of time on emails, searching for information, and collaborating. This reduces productivity. The Office System provides tools like SharePoint for enterprise content management, collaboration, and business intelligence to help streamline processes and improve productivity by enabling easier information sharing and teamwork. It provides a roadmap of the Office System products and features to address these challenges.

1. with the Microsoft Office System The Information Worker Platform Tony Knors – tknors@microsoft.com Sr. Partner Technology & Solutions Advisor Microsoft Belgium & Luxemburg

2. What Shapes Performance? An Example - the Rise of Virtual Collaboration 0 20 40 60 80 100% 2000 2005 2010 Work Styles (Source: Gartner - http://www.datapro.com/teleconferences/attributes/attr_103789_115.ppt) Different time, different place Same time, different place Same time, same place Working alone Percentage of work that will depend on group input

3. Productivity - a Moving Target Over time, innovation causes any technology to lose its productivity benefit Productivity Gains

8. The New World Of Work One world of business Always on, always connected Transparent organization Simplify working together Find info and improve business insight Secure and manage content Workplace Trends Role of Software

9. Enterprise Content Management Secure and manage content Single, end to end content management solution for every information worker Manage diverse content Satisfy compliance requirements Efficiently manage multiple web sites Streamline business processes

10. Business intelligence Collaboration Content management Streamlined processes Portals Search Word processing Business modeling Presentations Business data management Information management

11. Products Enabling Business Productivity Office system roadmap The real time communication server The e-mail, calendar and unified messaging server The collaboration and content server The ultimate collaboration desktop

13. 2007 Office System Infrastructure to streamline the way people do business

14. SharePoint Feature Areas Docs/tasks/calendars, blogs, wikis, e-mail integration, project management “lite”, Outlook integration, offline docs/lists Enterprise Portal template, Site Directory, My Sites, social networking, privacy control Enterprise scalability, contextual relevance, rich people and business data search Rich and Web forms based front-ends, LOB actions, pluggable SSO Server-based Excel spreadsheets and data visualization, Report Center, BI Web Parts, KPIs/Dashboards Integrated document management, records management, and Web content management with policies and workflow Business Forms Search Content Management Platform Services Workspaces, Mgmt, Security, Storage, Topology, Site Model Collaboration Business Intelligence Portal

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