Geographically spread, multi-dimensional workforce - Collaboration within documents
There is a major amount of buzz around collaboration and various tools that enable it. This is justified, as several enterprises are still utilizing traditional methods for collaborating across, for example, a word document. The usual practice is for one user to work on a particular Word document or Excel worksheet and then send it across to a waiting colleague, so on and so forth. Not only does this create multiple versions of the same document but also results in a significant amount of time spent. However, criteria such as higher efficiency, faster turn-around time are the need of the hour.
The Office 2010 feature of real-time collaboration and presence within documents enables all concerned users to edit as well as view what others are working on. This is made possible via the Microsoft SharePoint 2010 or Windows Live Sky Drive platforms.
Need for a competitive edge - Embedded videos
Often during PowerPoint presentations for large gatherings, video clippings are played as part of the presentation; this requires the presenter to switch back and forth between PowerPoint and the video player application. One of the new PowerPoint 2010 features allows embedding of videos within the PowerPoint application, thus enabling the presenter to enable a seamless, unbroken presentation. Such a feature has the potential to make a favorable impact on an audience comprising potential customers. The videos can also be edited, and artistically improved for further enhanced viewing.
Multi-modal business environments - Product suite across PC, mobile phone and browser
Enterprise customers today need to be constantly in touch with their work environment through any means possible. For example, the head of a large business on the move may need to append his approval needs to an impending and critical business decision. If the decision needs to be based on certain analysis of say, data from an Excel worksheet, it is entirely possible that the business head does not have the time to start up, download and view the necessary details on his laptop.
However, with the enablement of improved Office 2010 applications even via the mobile phone client, the afore-mentioned situation becomes eminently manageable. Thus the business productivity experience would have been delivered in the most convenient medium, at the given time and context.
Stay informed, Stay ahead - Business Intelligence
Ranging from personal requirements for business intelligence to organizational requirements, Excel and SharePoint server compliment Microsoft BI Solutions to provide insights and stay tuned to business objectives by contributing to organizational plan, budget, forecast or financial consolidation and enable collective decision-making. Other than enabling quick analysis in Excel for a single user, the productivity tools in conjunction with BI solutions can also help the organization as a whole. It is possible to create defined data views with business user roles on defined views of strategies and metrics and build one cohesive team dashboard and output. Through Office 2010, it becomes easier for organizations to transcend strategic intent and enable employees to stay focused on and united towards specific set of objectives.
Time is Money - Selective viewing - Conversation view in Outlook 2010
Large organizations with volumes of e-mails being processed that occupy expensive storage space can now look to utilizing the Conversation view feature in Outlook 2010, which allows manipulation and management of e-mails as per user requirements. attraction quotient to Outlook 2010, this feature would also help save time and focus on relevant content and messages. Choosing a specific mail thread and then managing it has become significantly easier in Outlook 2010.
Optimization of Infrastructure and Resources - Office Web Apps
An enhanced browser-based version of certain Office 2010 products can help SME overcome challenges in terms of collaboration and infrastructure limitations. A browserbased version of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote 2010 with service delivery and maintenance by Microsoft is a premise likely to appeal to SME. The browser-based version complements the full-blown rich client Office applications with high fidelity and promise of no loss of data during round-tripping. Office Web Apps would be sufficient for SME to organize critical data and enhance overall productivity in a professional manner.
Do more with less - Manage varied marketing materials
Microsoft Publisher 2010 empowers small and medium organizations to create marketing material which can vary from postcards, brochures, newsletters, etc rather than outsourcing the same job and stressing budgets. Microsoft has been innovative in developing the concept of building blocks through which organizations can create and save reusable content that can be inserted in future materials. This ensures message consistency across varied materials.
Beginners can leverage and build files using built-in and community-submitted templates. New layout tools help align objects, place captions, and position elements on the page in accurate and aesthetically pleasing ways, thereby making an impact on your target audience.
Security is Priority - Added layers of Security with Office 2010
Security can never be enough for businesses and in today’s environment, it becomes mandatory to adopt various levels of security at a holistic level or even add multiple layers by opting for the Office 2010 stack. Users in organizations can control many levels of protection in Office 2010 applications by conditioning access to their files by other users or a group and the actions or roles that they can perform on those files. Office 2010 Defense utilizes a new Open File Validation process. This process enables checking if a particular file is authentic; if not, it can enable a protected view wherein the file is viewed in a secure space and rendered incapable of affecting any other data on the system. The need for security and prudence is high both in SME and large organizations.
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