Technology Roadmap

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technology roadmap whats here, whats
coming (and how does it help your business)
Brett Roberts Platform Strategy Manager Microsoft
NZ
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Agenda

• The value of IT
• Information issues
• Information
• Creation
• Sharing
• Finding
• Protection
• The future

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• Communicating the value of
• an IT investment

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• Spend more money on IT ?
• Are you nuts ???

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Technology impact on information work
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Research Defines Two IT Priorities

• Lower Total Cost of Ownership
• Cost of hardware ?
• Cost of downtime ?
• Less plumbing, more building

• Increase Business Value
• Connect with Customers ? Revenue
• Integrate with Partners ? Profitability
• Empower Employees ? Productivity

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Integrated innovation
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Communicating the Valuea.k.a. the profitability
levers
Prospects
Conversion Rate
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Average Transaction Value
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Total Transactions
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Margin
Profit
X
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Mapping Technologies to Levers
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Information Issues

• Data ?Information ?Knowledge
• Multi-dimensional data dispersal
• location
• connectivity
• format
• security
• Complex problems
• lack of integration iterative model pain
• do nothing an attractive option
• dont always require complex solutions
• an outsourcers dream

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Creating information

• Notebooks replacing desktops
• New hardware form factors
• Tablet PCs
• Smart devices
• New software
• InfoPath 2003
• OneNote 2003

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InfoPath 2003
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OneNote 2003
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Sharing information

• Portals
• Sharepoint Team Services (video)
• Meeting Workspaces

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Protecting information

• Digital Rights Management
• Distribution (who)
• Type of access (what)
• Document lifespan (when)
• Big Brother perceptions are fading

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Protecting Information
www.microsoft.com/office search on information
rights management
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Creating and sharing

• video 1 Office System 2003
• integrated innovation
• Scenario
• Mike (in office), Victoria (working remotely)

Start 1m30s End 9m38s
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Find information

• Five key areas of research
• Crawling finding raw documents to search
• Duplicate detection and suppression finding
  documents once
• Spam detection finding documents to exclude
  completely
• Indexing locating documents from keywords
• Relevancy locating the most useful documents
• WinFS in Longhorn
• Store it (data, documents, email, pictures.)
• Synchronise it

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The future - meetings

• 360 camera and microphone
• Voice-activated tracking
• Whiteboard integration
• Save, search, replay

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The future Information Workers

• video 2

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The future (and a bit of the past)

• video 3 - Longhorn

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Summary

• Five levers business value model
• Key issues need addressing
• Information
• Creation new tools, XML !
• Sharing key to building knowledge
• Finding will become much easier
• Protection vital, both now and tomorrow
• The future
• Some of it is here today

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Resources

• www.microsoft.com/research
• www.microsoft.com/office
• www.microsoft.com/windows
• www.microsoft.com/server
• www.microsoft.com/infopath
• www.microsoft.com/onenote

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thank you