Microsoft Helps Businesses Achieve More with Better Connected ComputingEverybody wants to be in the sweet spot: the best seat in their favorite sports team’s stadium, the parking spot near the front entrance at work, their name on the mailbox in front of the prime piece of real estate in their neighborhood.
Microsoft sees itself in just such a spot with the emerging world of online services, and it expects this sweet spot to produce significant rewards for virtually all of its customers – from students and home-computer users to information workers and enterprises. The company is completing development of a new wave of services that synthesize elements of Microsoft Office programs and the division’s broad selection of other familiar client software, along with enterprise servers and new online services.
Microsoft Business Division President Jeff Raikes talked with PressPass about how these new services will help Microsoft customers overcome the challenge of information overload and take advantage of today’s increasingly connected world of work.
PressPass: What is Microsoft announcing today?
Raikes: We are laying out a roadmap for new Microsoft Business Division services and investments designed to increase computing options and break down barriers for everyone from individuals to large corporations. The new offerings and programs that we are announcing today represent the next phase of the division’s strategy for online services. Most importantly, they demonstrate our dedication to and progress in the area of online services.
First, Microsoft plans to deliver a wide variety of new solutions over the coming months under two key families of service offerings: “Live†and “Online.†We believe these choices will provide businesses with the flexibility to choose the software and capabilities that best suit their business needs, whether hosted by Microsoft, on-premise with the customer, or hosted by a Microsoft partner.
As part of this announcement, we are launching Microsoft Office Live Workspace, a Web-based feature of Microsoft Office that enables people to access their documents online anywhere and easily share their work with others. Testing continues on another of our new services offerings, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, and I’m thrilled to say that the reception this new offering has received during an early access program has been great.
We are also excited to announce that today Microsoft opened Exchange Labs, a new research and development program for testing next-generation messaging and unified communications capabilities in high-scale environments. Initially, the Exchange Labs program will include select universities and school districts. These participating institutions involve high-scale environments where students, faculty, staff and alumni have unique requirements that blend digital work with digital life. As a generation that uses technology to communicate differently than those before them, this group of users will provide feedback that drives new capabilities to advance the operational efficiency, operational flexibility, anywhere access and protection of Exchange.
We also are introducing an update to BizTalk Services for easy, cross-organizational integration. It’s an early-access offering of a next-generation business integration capability, optimized for cross-organizational integration and high scalability.
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