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Technology for a Tough Economy

Your most important asset and the key to business success is your people, never more so than in tough economic times. Microsoft is uniquely positioned to help you remain competitive by optimizing the potential of your people. Microsoft’s familiar toolset and well-established presence across business processes helps empower people to get the most value from familiar, existing technology. Through a broad range of unique Microsoft solutions, both managed and online, your organization can reduce communication costs, uncover untapped efficiencies through better project management, and make better decisions through relevant, actionable business intelligence.

IT Optimization

Cost Savings through Smart IT

Smart businesses know that in times of economic downturn, technology can be the key, not just to survival, but to winning in a turbulent marketplace. Microsoft technologies – proven, familiar, and well-integrated – are optimized to help you lower the costs of doing business and to give you a competitive advantage. Learn how Microsoft technologies can help you manage costs while improving your company’s competitive edge.

Unified Communications

Cut Costs, Not Communication, with Microsoft Unified Communications

Microsoft Unified Communications maximizes existing infrastructure costs by bringing voice, email, instant messaging, and video-conferencing together. The Unified Communications solution makes the most of your existing communications investments by smoothly integrating Microsoft’s software-based solution with your existing IT infrastructure and your telephone systems, including legacy PBXs. Plus, Microsoft unified communications technologies bring new tools like click-to-call, and audio- and video-conferencing to the Microsoft Office system applications your workforce uses every day, reducing travel expenses and audio and web conferencing costs. Enable your business to be a People Ready Business and experience enhanced communication, reduced travel and communications costs, and improved collaboration.

Business Intelligence

Lower Costs with Microsoft Business Intelligence

Microsoft Business Intelligence solutions help you respond quickly to changing market conditions and gain a better understanding of how your business is performing. With a BI solution, you can learn where to concentrate your resources for maximum returns and improved efficiency, and gain visibility into areas where costs can be eliminated. Decision-making can be accelerated by improving operational visibility at all levels of the organization, without people having to learn complicated new applications. Enable your business to be a People-Ready Business by using powerful Business Intelligence solutions that are exposed in a familiar Office environment to help everyone across your organization make informed business decisions.

Customer Relationship Management

Use CRM Solutions to Decrease Costs, Not Your Customer Base

Maximize the impact of every customer conversation and contact, connecting actionable customer data to every conversation, ensuring that your entire organization interacts with your customers consistently across conversations and touch points. Microsoft Dynamics CRM is a customer relationship management solution that optimizes business operations, improves customer service and enhances certainty when making decisions. Delivered through the familiar Microsoft Office interface, employees are readily able to understand and use it to make every marketing, sales and service dollar count. Efficiency is increased as business operations become streamlined, better decision-making occurs in less time, and more sales leads are generated and pursued. Enable your business to be a People Ready Business and enhance the business value of your organization's entire portfolio.

Collaboration

Gain Productivity Improvements with Microsoft Collaboration Solutions

Now more than ever, businesses need to allow for significant “bottoms-up” contributions. Microsoft puts powerful, familiar tools in the hands of your people, enabling them to get to work quickly on projects and work the way that’s best for them. Microsoft Collaboration solutions streamline work practices by optimizing project resources through better project management, allow teams to establish their own workspaces for better collaboration, and use Microsoft’s well-established workflows to increase speed to market. These tools help your business to locate organizational resources, manage content, access the information they need when they need it and leverage business insights. Enable your business to be a People Ready Business and increase productivity and efficiency.

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