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February 6, 2007. Call in at 1055 a.m. Eastern
Time
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Theme
Microsoft 2007 Office system is an Information
Workplace (IW) platform.
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Agenda
Agenda

• Analyst introductions and brief IW overview
• Core areas of 2007 Office system functionality
• Communication and collaboration
• Office productivity
• Enterprise content management
• Business process management and workflow
• Business intelligence
• Social computing and expertise location
• Line of business integration
• QA

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Agenda
Agenda

• Analyst introductions and brief IW overview
• Core areas of 2007 Office system functionality
• Communication and collaboration
• Office productivity
• Enterprise content management
• Business process management and workflow
• Business intelligence
• Social computing and expertise location
• Line of business integration
• QA

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Forrester analysts
Barry Murphy Principal Analyst
Erica Driver Principal Analyst Moderator
Kyle McNabb Principal Analyst
Rob Koplowitz Principal Analyst
Paul Kirby Senior Analyst
Colin Teubner Analyst
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Information Workplace platforms are emerging
Information Workplace platform
Portals
Office productivity
Collaboration
Content
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Definition Information Workplace (IW)

• Digital workplace for all types of information
  workers
  
• Contextual, seamless, guided, visual, role-based,
  multimodal work experience
  
• Core IW platform provides
• Content management
• Portal
• Collaboration
• Office productivity
• Many other services

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Whats In An Information Workplace?
June 2005 Forrester Big Idea, The Information
Workplace Will Redefine The World Of Work At
Last!
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Agenda
Agenda

• Analyst introductions and brief IW overview
• Core areas of 2007 Office system functionality
• Communication and collaboration
• Office productivity
• Enterprise content management
• Business process management and workflow
• Business intelligence
• Social computing and expertise location
• Line of business integration
• QA

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Microsofts 2007 Collaboration Platform
October 2006, Tech Choices Microsofts 2007
Collaboration Platform
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Communication and collaboration

• Microsofts collaboration platform is a market
  Leader
  
• The 2007 release offers many improvements over
  prior versions
  
• Platform is full-featured but not fully unified
  and has many redundancies
  
• Be aware of interdependencies among products and
  potential for vendor lock-in
  

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Agenda
Agenda

• Analyst introductions and brief IW overview
• Core areas of 2007 Office system functionality
• Communication and collaboration
• Office productivity
• Enterprise content management
• Business process management and workflow
• Business intelligence
• Social computing and expertise location
• Line of business integration
• QA

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Office productivity

• New experience with Office client applications
• New XML based default file format, compatibility
  packs for previous versions
  
• Promise greater productivity and richer
  documents, spreadsheets, and presentations that
  have more impact
  
• OneNote and InfoPath more central, Excel a more
  powerful tool for analysis
  
• Entry into the Office System, stronger affinity
  with server capabilities
  

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Office productivity

• Facelift presents minimal challenges to
  enterprises
  
• But is it enough to warrant an upgrade?
• Greater ability to surround business process and
  applications with Office
  
• Use caution when looking at alternatives
• Office system an IW platform
• High cost, analytical information workers may
  demand Office
  

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Agenda
Agenda

• Analyst introductions and brief IW overview
• Core areas of 2007 Office system functionality
• Communication and collaboration
• Office productivity
• Enterprise content management
• Business process management and workflow
• Business intelligence
• Social computing and expertise location
• Line of business integration
• QA

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Enterprise content management
Microsoft Office client applications
Microsoft SharePoint Portal
Web services
User interfaces
Collaborative document management
Records management
Web content management
eForms management
Office SharePoint Server 2007 ECM suite compo
nents
Excel services
Slide library
Library services
Workflow
Search
Office SharePoint Server 2007 Core ECM servi
ces
Security
Metadata
Policy management
Information rights management
Windows SharePoint services content repository
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Enterprise content management

• Microsofts ECM offerings address common needs
• Office 2007 release makes SharePoint a more
  viable offering for tackling common ECM needs
  
• Excel Services and Slide Library put Microsofts
  ECM capabilities in context
  
• Office 2007 doesnt do it all, look to partners
  for solutions requiring more than minimal rigor
  
• Retention and records management
• Message archiving and eDiscovery
• Transactional content and high-end persuasive
  content support

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Agenda
Agenda

• Analyst introductions and brief IW overview
• Core areas of 2007 Office system functionality
• Communication and collaboration
• Office productivity
• Enterprise content management
• Business process management and workflow
• Business intelligence
• Social computing and expertise location
• Line of business integration
• QA

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Microsofts BPM strategy
Partners!
Office SharePoint Server
Visual Studio 2005
BizTalk Server
InfoPath
Visio
SQL Server
Office SharePoint Server
PerformancePoint Server
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SharePoint, Office, and workflow

• Whats in MOSS 2007?
• Workflow for documents
• Business-user-configurable workflows through
  SharePoint Designer Outlook filter-like rules
  building
  
• Users can interact with workflows from a
  SharePoint site or from Office applications
  
• Whats not in MOSS 2007?
• Graphical modeling tools
• Process intelligence/analysis tools

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Agenda
Agenda

• Analyst introductions and brief IW overview
• Core areas of 2007 Office system functionality
• Communication and collaboration
• Office productivity
• Enterprise content management
• Business process management and workflow
• Business intelligence
• Social computing and expertise location
• Line of business integration
• QA

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Business intelligence

• 2007 Office system improves Microsofts BI
  offerings substantially
  
• Excel has always been the No. 1 BI tool, but has
  given IT a headache over spreadsheet
  proliferation, single version of the truth, and
  data freshness
• 2007 Office system remediates that problem with
  better access to Reporting Services, Analysis
  Services, and the upcoming PerformancePoint
  Server 2007
• But not all front-end functionality can access
  Reporting Services and Analysis Services
  identically
  
• Good solution when it matches your functionality
  needs

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Office 2007 will expand BI penetration
More senior
More aggregated
Cubes
Datawarehouse
Budgeting
CRM
ERP
Data
People
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Agenda
Agenda

• Analyst introductions and brief IW overview
• Core areas of 2007 Office system functionality
• Communication and collaboration
• Office productivity
• Enterprise content management
• Business process management and workflow
• Business intelligence
• Social computing and expertise location
• Line of business integration
• QA

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Social computing and expertise location

• Wiki templates
• Blog templates
• Integrated tools as well as Word support
• My Sites in MOSS
• Enhanced search
• Office 2007 tight integration with UC
• LCS for presence, IM, VoIP
• LiveMeeting support throughout
• Service only at this time
• Expertise from line of business applications

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Agenda
Agenda

• Analyst introductions and brief IW overview
• Core areas of 2007 Office system functionality
• Communication and collaboration
• Office productivity
• Enterprise content management
• Business process management and workflow
• Business intelligence
• Social computing and expertise location
• Line of business integration
• QA

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Line of business integration

• Business data catalog
• Drives context from LOB to unstructured apps
• Brings LOB data into SharePoint
• Web parts
• SharePoint lists
• Custom app
• Metadata driven
• Read only

SQL server
Business data catalog
ADO.Net
Web service
RDBMS
LOB App
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Agenda
Agenda

• Analyst introductions and brief IW overview
• Core areas of 2007 Office system functionality
• Communication and collaboration
• Office productivity
• Enterprise content management
• Business process management and workflow
• Business intelligence
• Social computing and expertise location
• Line of business integration
• QA

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Thank you
Erica Driver Paul Kirby
1 401/592-0170 1
617-613-6415 edriver_at_forrester.com pk
irby_at_forrester.com Rob Koplowitz
Kyle McNabb 1 650/581-3854
1 617/613-6288 rkoplowitz_at_forrester.com
kmcnabb_at_forrester.com Barry Murphy
Colin Teubner 1 617/613-6313
1 617/613-6105 bmurphy_at_forrester.c
om cteubner_at_forrester.com
www.forrester.com
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Selected bibliography
Selected bibliography

• Dec. 7, 2006, Trends, Office Productivity
  Software Trends 2007 And Beyond
  
• Oct. 24, 2006, Tech Choices, Microsofts 2007
  Collaboration Platform, Tech Choices
  
• Oct. 2, 2006, Best Practices Expertise Location
  Your Next Frontier, Best Practices
  
• Aug. 16, 2006, Trends Collaboration Trends 2006
  To 2007
  
• July 5, 2006, Quick Take Microsoft Announces BPM
  Enhancements For BizTalk Server 2006