To allow organizations and individuals the flexibility to address their specific challenges, Microsoft has a variety of Microsoft® Office suites to select from. This paper describes the commonalities and differences among the suites of the 2007 Microsoft Office system: Microsoft Office Standard 2007, Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007, Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007, and Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007. Each suite provides the core Microsoft Office applications as well as features that support integrated content management, information rights and policy, and integrated electronic forms; however, they differ in the selection of included applications and the ways in which advanced features are implemented.
2007 Microsoft Office System
Suites Comparison White Paper Published: December 2006 For the latest information, please see www.microsoft.com/office
Contents
Flexible Solutions for the New World of Work ........................................................................... 1
Powerful Tools for Individual and Organizational Productivity .................................................. 2 Increasing Personal Impact ..................................................................................................... 2 Simplifying How People Work Together ................................................................................. 2 Support for Business Processes and Increased Security for Sensitive Business Information 2
The 2007 Microsoft Office Suites ............................................................................................... 3 Microsoft Office Standard 2007 ............................................................................................. 3 Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007 ................................................................................. 4 Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007 ........................................................................................... 4 Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007 .............................................................................................. 6 Home Use Program (HUP) ...................................................................................................... 6 Flexible Deployment Options ................................................................................................. 7
Differences in Applications ......................................................................................................... 7 Overviews of the Microsoft Office Applications ..................................................................... 8
Differences in Features ............................................................................................................... 9 Information Rights and Policy Management ........................................................................ 10 Integrated Content Management ......................................................................................... 11 Advanced Support for Electronic Forms ............................................................................... 13
Conclusions ............................................................................................................................... 14
For More Information ............................................................................................................... 14
Appendix: Full Suite Comparison Table .................................................................................... 15
Flexible Solutions for the New World of Work The ability of organizations to meet the new challenges of the global, information-based economy depends on the ability of employees and teams to work more efficiently and effectively with information. At the organizational level, challenges include streamlining business operations and managing increasing volumes of content, as well as finding ways to collaborate more effectively within organizations, across corporate boundaries, and across time zones and geographies. At the individual level, information workers more frequently find themselves faced with overwhelming amounts of information. Time spent searching for and managing information and the difficulty of sharing information effectively with others inside and outside the organization conspire to reduce the individual's ability to have a positive impact on organizational performance. Solving these challenges requires tools and technology to manage the vast amounts of business data, facilitate the efficient flow of information through the organization, and simplify the ways people work together to produce results. The products and technologies that comprise the 2007 Microsoft® Office system provide organizations with a broad set of capabilities and tools to achieve these goals. By deploying the 2007 release, organizations can increase information worker productivity, enhance content management, and facilitate collaboration on document-based business processes. Although the challenges of the new world of work are fundamentally the s... [download for more]
