• Delivering unified communications

• Empowering global teams with collaborative workspaces

• Connecting people, process, and information

In the new world of work, the focus is on the work, not the where. Individuals come together to solve problems, develop plans, and embrace opportunities. But coming together no longer requires or even implies that individuals are sitting in the same room or even in the same country. In the new world of work, the physical and logical barriers that once defined a team or workgroup are dissolving. This is the world for which the 2007 release of the Microsoft Office system has been designed. It is part of a broad Microsoft initiative to make it easier than ever before to communicate and collaborate via pervasive, contextual capabilities. Three areas where Microsoft has made deep investments to facilitate communication and collaboration are:

• Delivering unified communications.
• Empowering global teams with collaborative workspaces.
• Connecting people, process, and information.

Delivering unified communications

In the new world of work, communications that once were separate become unified. People control their communications instead of being controlled by them. Communications such as e-mail, instant messaging, and Web conferencing are available to people in the context of the work they are doing.

• Learn more about Microsoft Office Outlook 2007.
• Learn more about Microsoft Exchange Server 2007.
• Learn more about Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 and Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005.
• Learn more about Microsoft Office Live Meeting.

Exchange Server 2007 enables people to access voice mail messages as well as fax and e-mail messages through the familiar Office Outlook interface. View a larger image.

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Empowering global teams with collaborative workspaces

In the new world of work, teams can easily collaborate by using workspaces that match when, how, and where they are working. These workspaces can be large and relatively centralized — supporting entire divisions of business units; they can be small and decentralized, supporting ad hoc workgroups that need a way to work together now.

• Learn more about Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services Technology.
• Learn more about Microsoft Office Groove 2007.

Office Groove 2007 makes it easy for people anywhere to work together — all without requiring significant IT support or significant IT overhead. View a larger image.

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Connecting people, process, and information

In the new world of work, people can quickly find, connect, and interact with the right people, business processes, and enterprise information and data that they need to get their job done. Creating and customizing personal portals that give people a personalized view of their organization’s enterprise information is made easy.

• Learn more about Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.
• Learn more about Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007.

Office SharePoint Server 2007 makes it easy to search for structured data from SAP or Siebel through the Business Data Catalog. View a larger image.

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