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Information Worker Solutions

Data Visualization

The vast amount of business data your customers collect is often complex, presented in difficult-to-comprehend tabular or text formats, and not accessible in a context that promotes understanding. The Data Visualization specialization can help you capitalize on these challenges through the creation, implementation, and customization of solutions that help your customers display and analyze information visually, bringing clarity and understanding to rich sets of underlying data. Use the information on this page to help you assess the data visualization market, identify customer needs, and drive revenue growth.

Customer Needs:

Many of the organizations are encumbered with the same problem: unstructured, flat, one-dimensional business information that's difficult to read, interpret, and translate into actionable insight. In addition, data is often compiled from multiple sources, increasing the difficulty of communicating it within and across organizational boundaries, and further reducing the ability to make informed decisions quickly.

Ninety percent of business data has a location component, but if employees don't view the data in the context of its location, they may not easily understand its importance.

You need a solution that helps you easily access and analyze related sets of data in a unified manner. It's vital for them to understand relationships in your business information and to be able to tap its value to make better decisions.

Enterprise Content Management (ECM)

When business information is disorganized or inaccessible, the impact on routine and critical decisions alike can be costly. Increasingly, enterprises need to efficiently manage vast stores of content, including financial reports, customer records, email, and Web pages. This creates a significant opportunity for partners to capitalize by offering effective content-management solutions. The following information can help you identify customer needs, find Microsoft offerings that align with your skills and expertise, and discover ways to deliver solutions that capture ECM market share.

Customer Needs:

Your customers work with a variety of content and need a consistent way to manage it. They also need to protect sensitive information and adhere to legislation requiring access to auditable records. However, although enterprise-level organizations invest a lot of time and money implementing content-management tools, user adoption tends to be low:

• Many content-management tools are not easy to use, and they require users to learn new and unfamiliar interfaces.
• Much corporate information is stored in disparate systems, reducing productivity because users must search across these often incompatible systems to locate the information they need.

You can offer an integrated solution based on the 2007 Microsoft Office system that delivers the seamless, unified, secure content-management experience your enterprise customers’ demand.

Increasing demand for solutions that can help enterprise customers manage documents, simplify compliance efforts, and keep business information more secure can be achieved based on the following products:

• Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
• Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007
• Windows SharePoint Services
• SQL Server 2005
• Exchange Server 2007

Enterprise Project Management

Organizations are constantly seeking to improve their ability to manage and align projects, allocate and balance resources, and track and report on projects and tasks. The Enterprise Project Management (EPM) specialization is designed to help you capitalize on this growing market with solutions based on Microsoft Office Project Server 2007, Project Portfolio Server 2007, and Project Professional 2007.

Customer needs:

Managing and aligning enterprise projects and resources in a way that enhances operational efficiency and organizational planning can be a challenging task in any business. Managers need to regularly allocate and balance resources across multiple projects and departments while ensuring regulatory compliance and effectively measuring and tracking project success. Teams increasingly need to be able to assign, track, report, and collaborate across boundaries . Organizations need solutions that will help them:

• Tackle technology gaps where integrated information and process management needs are growing, such as lack of integration between front-office and line-of-business applications.
• Streamline and control project management throughout its life cycle—from proposal to post-implementation—to lower costs, speed cycle times, and increase quality of work.
• Maximize ROI and improve operational efficiencies by more effectively measuring and tracking a project's success throughout its life cycle.

Office Deployment

Microsoft Office Deployment provides desktop deployment solutions to our customers upgrading to the 2007 Microsoft Office system in every way.

Customer Needs:

Almost every organization may look for a unified, integrated solution that can help them overcome the following challenges:

• Outdated, unreliable infrastructures that are costly to maintain
• Viruses, malware, spyware, and other security threats
• Information spread among disparate systems, making access difficult
• Lack of access for an increasingly mobile workforce

including desktop deployment planning, integration, support, security, outsourcing, and training. Microsoft office deployment solution services provides followings

• New PCs and hardware upgrades
• Deployment and ongoing maintenance services
• Business value consultancy
• Asset management services
• Application compatibility services
• Microsoft Office Access 2007 and 2007 Microsoft Office system conversion and migration services
• Security services
• Support and remote management
• Mobile and wireless solutions
• Value-added products and services for the 2007 Microsoft Office system
• Network solutions

You can also leverage desktop deployment as the foundation to up-sell communications and collaboration, business intelligence, and content-management solutions.

Office Solutions Development

Customer demand for increased access to key corporate services and information has driven the evolution of the 2007 Microsoft Office system from an application suite to a comprehensive development platform. As a result, related partner solutions using XML, Web services, and Visual Studio 2005 Tools are in high demand. The Office Solutions Development specialization provides helpful tools, resources, and valuable support to help you plan and build your 2007 Office system solutions and move them to market faster and more cost-effectively.

Customers have invested in business systems implementations such as enterprise resource planning and customer relationship management, but the promise of great returns on those IT investments continues to elude them. They still often lack rapid access to business-critical information, and conflicts remain between users' needs and how the back-end systems work.

Your customers need a familiar and easy-to-use gateway to their disparate back-end systems. One that allows them to:

• Connect to line-of-business data
• Improve business process management
• Streamline document creation and management
• Protect private information

Organizations are looking for a development platform that offers reliability, scalability, security, compliance, deployment and updating, reusability through componentization, a consistent object model, and version compatibility. The Office Solutions Development specialization can help you set your business apart from the competition and capitalize on these needs.

Portals and Collaboration

In today’s corporate environments, organizational growth and complexity contribute directly to the increasing volume of business information—and to the difficulty of managing data and resources efficiently. To gain visibility and control across the enterprise, your organization needs to integrate their business processes and information through intranet and extranet portals.

You will need a proven solution providers who can help you simplify infrastructure, and provide a more unified environment to collaborate, communicate, and make better business decisions. This page is designed to help you identify specific areas of opportunity, assess common customer needs, and understand the size of the portals and collaboration products.

Customer Needs:

Project teams at your organizations often span multiple offices, which can mean challenges in working together, sharing files, and coordinating activities. Better solutions are needed to connect these teams to information and expertise within their portals. Your organization may be looking to:

• Enable employees to make better-informed decisions by consolidating business-critical information into one central location.
• Boost employee productivity by simplifying everyday business activities, such as document review and approval, issue tracking, and signature collection.
• Coordinate organization-wide access to both structured and unstructured information across disparate systems.
• Effectively manage and repurpose content to increase business value.
• Gather accurate and consistent data across organizational and geographical boundaries.
• Collaborate and share business data without compromising confidential information.
• Manage business-critical information in a simple, familiar interface that yields a consistent user experience.

Search

Corporate employees routinely generate and store e-mail messages, files, data, and documents on their PCs, file servers, LANs, and mobile devices. Businesses have varying needs to provide access to ever-increasing volumes of stored information. For many enterprises, search needs depend on the current business role, project, or immediate relevancy to a task—such as answering a customer question. Meanwhile, most have to ensure security for corporate assets, and maintain privacy for business-critical records—making unrestricted search a potential threat. The potential impact on employee productivity and process efficiency are also critical considerations.

Companies need customized search solutions built for their specific business environments. Solutions that provide highly relevant results to the right people and processes—and can be easily maintained, safely utilized, and quickly scaled to meet search needs across the entire enterprise.