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Welcome to the August issue of Business Optimization Through Technology, presented by Microsoft Certified Gold and Award Winning Partner Gig Werks. |
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Continues to Emerge as Enterprise 2.0 Platform of Choice
Microsoft showcases social-computing innovation from customers and partners and unveils Podcasting Kit for SharePoint
Microsoft Corp., a leading provider of social-computing tools and technologies, today announced ongoing commitment from partners and customers who continue to adopt Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 as the platform for social-computing. In addition, Microsoft announced the Podcasting Kit for SharePoint (PKS), an open source initiative that helps partners and customers accelerate the development and deployment of podcasting solutions. Microsoft made the announcements today at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference, an event that brings together the latest trends and practical information about Enterprise 2.0 in one place.
The need for social-computing tools is a natural extension of digital collaboration and is increasingly becoming incorporated into business productivity solutions. According to an April 2008 Forrester Research Inc. report...
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Energizer Simplifies Access to Business Data to Speed Collaboration, Workflows.
Energizer Holdings, based in St. Louis, Missouri, is a leading manufacturer of batteries, flashlights, and wet-shave products. The global company has made a significant investment in Microsoft® Office software for its 6,800 knowledge workers, who also use dozens of specialized line-of-business (LOB) applications to do their jobs. Energizer is installing Microsoft Office Professional 2007 on its desktop computers so that users can better access LOB data from within the familiar Microsoft Office system. Using 2007 Microsoft Office programs, Energizer employees will be better able to access the data they need with less application-switching, and to improve productivity by eliminating time-consuming process steps. The IT staff will be able to eliminate tedious data integration work and focus on creating new business capabilities.
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Complimentary Webcast on
SharePoint 2007 & Collaboration
Join Gig Werks & Microsoft for a complimentary webcast on Collaboration & SharePoint.
This Webcast will show how to:
- Simplify the way people work together
- Streamline your business processes
- Share business data while preserving its consistency and security
- Experience a simple and consistent user experience leveraging familiar tools such as Microsoft Office
- Gain greater insight and visibility into your organization's operations and identify bottlenecks as they occur
- How to truly leverage the talent already in your organization
- Get more out of your information
- Ease server administration, extensibility, and interoperability
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Free Business Productivity Assessment. The assessment provides a personalized and private Optimization score, peer comparison, and value assessment for your organization. The tool generates a comprehensive report that can serve as an actionable roadmap and incentive for optimizing your IT infrastructure and platform.
Get answers to questions like:
- Where does my organization rank on the Optimization model?
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SharePoint User Group: August Meeting
This months meeting will be a Webcast and is open to all!
Topic: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 - Extranet deployment methodologies
Date: August 20th, 2008
Welcome Time: 6:00PM
Time: 6:30PM - 8:00PM
Speaker: Chris Lavista of Microsoft
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