 | | Abstract | The Microsoft's Collaboration Strategy report evaluates all Office System products, including Microsoft Office Suite 2003 (including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Publisher among others), Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003, Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003, Microsoft Office OneNote 2003, Microsoft Office Project 2003, Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2003 and Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2003.
The primary criteria for choosing a Collaborative Business Environment are Administration, Application Integration, Architecture, Collaboration and Community, Content and Document Management, Knowledge Management, Messaging and Security. Basex employs its proprietary Knowledge Worker Impact Quotient (TM), or KWIQ, to provide a framework for evaluating or selecting an appropriate CBK tool or service, simplifying the decision-making process and enabling more effective IT investments.
Providing comprehensive and detailed comparisons and research, Basex' Microsoft's Collaboration Strategy and Office System 2003: Does It Hit the Mark? In-Depth Insight Report helps users and software vendors evaluate the overall goals and innovations offered by Microsoft Office System and its individual components.
Key Findings include:
- Microsoft Office System 2003 is not a mere brand extension of its popular Office Suite offering, but rather a coordinated set of tools which can be used to create comprehensive Collaborative Business Environments
- Friction-free Knowledge Sharing, a critical aspect of the Collaborative Business Environment, is a key benefit of Microsoft Office System, as it leverages XML to share information between desktop, workgroup and enterprise, and products such as Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server and Microsoft Live Communications Server to bring other Microsoft products into a Collaborative Business Environment
- Microsoft is in a strong position to leverage the ubiquity of its Office Suite applications, such as Word and Excel, as entry points to the enterprise deployment of Microsoft Collaborative Business Knowledge tools but enterprise customers are not getting the appropriate messaging and remain confused due to the Office branding
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