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by Alan Alper, MA Editorial Staff Posted on Friday, March 17, 2006 4:43:00 PM Sign Up to receive Daily News Alerts in your E-mail Inbox    | Abstract: | Pivoting around Office and Outlook, industry giant outlines "People-Ready" software initiative to help businesses create tighter cross-functional collaboration that drives faster and more informed decisions. |
NEW YORK -- Seeking to put business context around its ongoing massive technology refresh, Microsoft Corp. yesterday began laying out how its next-generation products will help organizations boost innovation and foster tighter collaboration inside and outside their four walls. As detailed by CEO Steve Ballmer at the Microsoft Executive Business Forum, held here, the company's "People-Ready" software initiative proposes to make knowledge workers more productive by removing technical obstacles that prevent them from securely accessing and sharing business-critical data and applications from a variety of devices across a multiplicity of systems. Ballmer, with the assistance of Microsoft Business Services Division Corporate Vice President Chris Capossela, showed off next-generation business solutions built on Microsoft's upcoming Vista operating system and the Office 2007 software suite (expected before year end); its new SharePoint web portal software and Dynamics CRM software suite; and its next version of Exchange Server, among other products. Ballmer's intent was to highlight how businesses in the not too distant future will be able to create more efficient workflows that support faster and more informed decision making -- fueling greater organizational productivity. [Click to continue] |
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