Help maximise productivity with shared collaborative workspaces

Help your team standout with Microsoft's collaboration tools based on Windows® SharePoint® Services and Office Groove 2007 and provide them with the tools and resources they need to create their own playing field and deliver within a collaborative infrastructure. Why stop there? Extend collaborative workspaces beyond the firewall and connect with partners, suppliers, and customers.

Start collaborating with these great features:

• Deliver a secure, self-service workspace

  Help keep people connected and on task, with a collaborative workspace infrastructure that’s easier to use, familiar and provides a single point for communication with either SharePoint or Groove.

  Customise and personalise workspaces using out of the box Web Parts.

  Enable presence integration in the workspace with Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services, so users can establish a quick connection to team members.

• Help maximise value of Microsoft Office Desktop applications Share tasks and calendars and send email to workspaces

  Take content from your SharePoint workspace offline with Microsoft® Office Outlook® 2007 or Groove 2007 and continue working while not connected.

  Automate collaborative workflow processes with Microsoft® Office InfoPath® 2007.

• Customise collaborative workspaces

  Use the "Fantastic 40" application templates for Windows® SharePoint® Services 3.0 and tailor workspaces to specific business processes.

So what are you waiting for? Share assets across teams, departments, and organisations while maintaining IT control. Start collaborating with internal teams and external contacts anytime, anywhere.

Connect organisations through collaborative portals

Portal sites connect your people to business critical information, expertise, and applications. Office SharePoint Server 2007 is a world class portal platform that makes it easy to build and maintain portal sites for every aspect of your business. By consolidating access to existing business applications, it allows you to help drive consistent performance of common business tasks. Streamlined development of new composite applications can help lead to order of magnitude improvements in important business processes.

Start collaborating with these great features:

• Deliver personalised and targeted content

Target content, data from LOB or other systems and applications, to users based on their roles and geographical location.

• Help reduce cycle times with automated processes

Promote efficiency with an automated business process, such as review and approval, with six out-of-the-box workflows included with SharePoint Server 2007.

SharePoint Designer 2007 gives expert users and developers the tools to build additional workflows into SharePoint based on your specific business requirements ensuring enhanced business process improvement.

Collect and share information more securely, accurately and ubiquitously using rich client and Web-based forms with SharePoint Server 2007 and Office InfoPath 2007

So what are you waiting for? Get a personalised view of your work and collaborate with internal teams and external contacts whether you’re in the office or on the move.

Help enable communities with Social Computing Tools

Get colleagues, partners, suppliers, and customers working as one unified team by building a community that encourages the sharing of ideas and information. Collaborative communities provide users with enterprise-ready, secure social computing tools – allowing for the development of collective intelligence and greater connection between your people.

Start collaborating with these great features:

• Help accelerate innovation and collaboration

Automate your organisation’s processes and enable people to find, connect, and build social networks through a number of great features:

• Visit anyone’s My Site to see what they have in common with others.
• Learn about others’ expertise, skills, and interests through the public view.
• Customise, enhance and control the information that’s seen on your corporate profile.
• Offer a single, personalised view

Users can stay up to date with changes to colleagues, including title changes, blog posts, out-of-office messages and presence availability with Colleague tracker hosted on My Sites.

IT can push filtered and targeted views of LOB data to users using My Sites.

• More easily build collective intelligence with Enterprise-grade Wiki’s
• Provide users with ways to communicate via blogs

Leverage the collaboration workspace infrastructure to provide users with better ways to have persistent conversations with others, both within and outside the company using blogs.

So what are you waiting for? Team your organisations social computing capabilities with a collaborative workspace infrastructure, and build social networks across business and geographic boundaries.

Help reduce IT cost and complexity

Microsoft’s collaboration infrastructure helps your team utilise their strengths. It helps leverage existing investments, is extendable, and can incorporate with other systems to help organisations maintain a lower cost of ownership and drive the company’s bottom line by building a single infrastructure.

Start collaborating with these great features:

• Help leverage existing Microsoft investments such as:
• Windows Server® to access core collaboration capabilities found in Windows SharePoint Services.
• Windows Server and Active Directory® to delivery identity management through a collaborative environment.
• Maximise the value of investment in the 2007 Office system by integrating the collaboration capabilities of SharePoint.
• Reap the benefit of an investment into Office Communications Server 2007 by enabling presence capabilities in SharePoint Collaboration and Portals environment.
• Help maximise the value of existing line-of-business systems and other business applications by using SharePoint as their interface.
• Help consolidate disparate collaboration applications or product investments into a single, extendable platform.
• Help shift the perception of IT from cost centre to being a strategic business enabler.

So what are you waiting for? Deliver an enterprise-ready scalable collaboration infrastructure that delivers collaboration capabilities and meets requirements of your business.