Microsoft Collaboration

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Microsoft Collaboration

• Manage Documents more Efficiently and Keep Team
  Members Informed with Windows SharePoint Services
  Collaborative Workspace Applications

Michael Armstrong Portals and Collaboration
ConsultantQuilogy, Inc.
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Agenda

• Microsoft Collaboration
• Collaborative Workspaces
• Everyday Business Challenges
• Collaborative Workspaces Benefits for Everyday
  Business Needs
• Applications for Windows SharePoint Services
• Microsoft Collaboration Demos
• Customization Options
• For More Information

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Microsoft Collaboration
Software and services to help teams work together
more effectively

• Mobile workforce
• Build stronger connections
• Reduce Operational Costs
• Secure, Compliant

Integrated Communications

• Better, faster data driven decisions
• Business process optimization
• Easy to control and share your information
• Adapts to you

People Driven Process

• Simplify Search
• Ease of use
• Rapid Adoption

Access to People and Information

• Collaborative authoring
• You can create and control
• More effective teams
• Protecting information

Collaborative Workspaces
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Collaborative Workspaces
Making it simple to collaborate with other
departments

• Better Discoverability

• Better Communication

• Better Team Processes

• Better User Experience

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Collaborative Workspaces
Stay on the same page in a common work area
Supports standard and custom Web parts
Easily create self-service workspaces
Centralized Management
Collaborate in context
Out-of-box tools for collaboration
Extend document functionality
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Team Communication Challenges
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Free Application Templates for Windows SharePoint
Services
30 Scenario-based Windows SharePoint Services
Templates on TechNet http//www.microsoft.com/tech
net/prodtechnol/sppt/wssapps/default.mspx

• 3 Newest Application Templates!
• Discussion Database
• Team Work Site
• Document Library

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Discussion Database
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Document Library
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Team Work Site
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Microsoft Collaboration

• DEMOS

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Customization Options

• Edit the design of your sites in FrontPage
• Integrate with SharePoint Portal Server
• Create Sub-sites
• Contact your organizations technical
  professionals to discover other customization
  options including integration with LOB
  applications and other Microsoft technologies

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For More Information

• Download the free Applications for Windows
  SharePoint Services
• http//go.microsoft.com/?linkid3845170
• Sign Up for a Hosted Windows SharePoint Services
  Trial
• http//www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/techinf
  o/sharepoint/trial.mspx
• More information about Windows SharePoint
  Services
• http//www.microsoft.com/WindowsServer2003/technol
  ogies/sharepoint/default.mspx
• Developers  Use Windows SharePoint Services as a
  Platform for Building Collaborative Applications
• http//msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/04/07/Win
  dowsSharePointServices/default.aspx
• View the Application Templates in action
• http//wsstemplates.quilogy.net/default.aspx