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Microsoft believes an effective communication and collaboration platform must empower the individual to creatively communicate their ideas and control when and how to share work with others.
You should be able to work seamlessly with colleagues, customers, and partners in your city, across your state or province, around your country, or even around the world. Communication and collaboration features should be pervasive throughout the applications that you already know and use.
The foundation of the Microsoft communication and collaboration platform is the 2007 Microsoft Office system, an integrated set of programs, servers, services, and solutions.
The cornerstones of the 2007 Office system, the 2007 Office suites, provide you with familiar, easy-to-use applications for electronic communications, content creation, and data analysis.
The same applications you use to create document content can also be used to prepare documents for sharing, create a collaborative workspace, and manage document content and lifecycle.
By integrating communication and collaboration features into the 2007 Office system and then extending these features beyond the desktop, Microsoft helps you overcome the challenges of the new world of work through the creation of collaborative workspaces, the unifying of communication methods, and the connection of people, processes, and information.
Collaborative Workspaces
Whether in a cubicle, an office, or a home office, you need a place to work. Some workers create their own place to work in an airplane, hotel room, or coffee shop.
Where do you go when you need to work with others? A conference room? An online meeting?
While working with others can be as simple as sharing ideas or information, more complex scenarios involve the collective creation, editing, and distribution of documents.
In addition, you cannot assume that your project is as important to someone else. Getting all required participants together for a working session at a particular time can be difficult. Consider the increasing geographical dispersement of teams and workgroups and such meetings become unrealistic.
Whether working with others in your local area or abroad, you must be able to transcend the physical boundaries of the traditional work environment into the online environment of the collaborative workspace.
Workspaces are a collaboration-ready alternative to standard shared network locations. Basic team communications and document storage and management capabilities are available to you out of the box. Most importantly, workspaces are designed to connect to and work with the Microsoft Office applications you already know and use.
Platform Basics—Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
Windows SharePoint Services, an integrated feature of Microsoft Windows Server® 2003, empowers you to create collaborative workspaces for sharing ideas and information. Windows SharePoint Services workspaces store and manage shared calendars, contacts, tasks, documents, and more.
Benefits of the Microsoft Communication and Collaboration Platform
The Microsoft communication and collaboration platform offers integrated, familiar, and easy-to-use applications that simplify how you work with others. These applications are designed to be people-ready.
By empowering you with the tools you need to control when, where, and how to collaborate, an investment in the Microsoft communication and collaboration platform is a direct investment in the people an organization depends on.
Once deployed, the Microsoft communication and collaboration platform delivers a number of immediate benefits.
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