Peter Ward, a business collaboration manager, presented on how organizations can simplify how people work together and improve business productivity. He discussed challenges such as disconnected teams, lost productivity from asynchronous communication, and information stored in silos. Ward presented Microsoft's search, share, and collaboration strategy and how its products like Office Enterprise, SharePoint Server, and Business Scorecard Manager can help organizations by enabling users to more easily find, use, and share information to make better business decisions and be more productive.

4. 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

8. User Experience Search in context; actionable results; user tax from multiple search interfaces, and logons; no unified search results; People and Information Secure, relevant results from silos of enterprise information; untapped people expertise and social networks; Enterprise Ready Search needs to be scalable, manageable and extensible; privacy and compliance trimmed; Search

10. Pain Points Too much VM and trying to find the correct information, or person to speak to Description Marketing and sales managers work in tandem to deliver a marketing plan and promotional materials for a nationwide product launch. Product s Office Enterprise 2007, SharePoint Server 2007

11. Pain Points Business data is changing too quickly and reports are out of date too fast. His desire To obtain a wide angle perspective of his company’s processes and data, but he must be able to zero in on critical concerns that require strategic business decisions To rely on up to date KPI’s to access business strengths Solution : SharePoint integrating with Microsoft Business Score Card Manager.

12. Pain Points Spends too much time finding vendors details and following up with them His desire Access to the accounting systems to obtain vendors details Solution : SharePoint Business Data Catalog to integrate the accounting systems and the portal.

13. Pain Points Wants analysis of sales information to make decisions . Not technical Not detail oriented – bottom line only His desire Simple point and click user interface for sales information Solution :SharePoint integrating CRM and accounting systems in SharePoint.

15. Peter Ward Business Collaboration Manager E: [email_address] P: 212-502-3937 W: www.InterDynAKA.com B: www.wardpeter.com