Microsoft Products for Businesses and Organizations
Updated: June 1, 2005
Microsoft offers a broad range of products designed to work together, providing the connected technologies required for a comprehensive solution. Regardless of your company size or industry, your business will run efficiently and be ready for growth with products built on the highly-scalable, time-tested, widely-familiar, and reliable foundation of Microsoft products. Visit the product pages linked to below for more details on key business tools.
Products for financial and business-process management
At the core of your business IT structure, you need software to manage your financials, automate processes, track key business performance, and make informed decisions. Microsoft provides the following families of products for managing and integrating finances, e-commerce, supply chain, manufacturing, project accounting, field service, customer relationships, and human resources.
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Microsoft Dynamics Microsoft Dynamics—formerly known as Microsoft Business Solutions—is a line of products that automate and help improve financial, customer relationship, and supply chain management. Delivered through a network of Microsoft partners, these integrated, adaptable solutions work like and with familiar Microsoft software to streamline processes across an entire business.
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Microsoft Products for Small Businesses For small businesses, Microsoft offers a mix of products that let owners and operators put the focus on business, not technology. These small-business software and systems are created to work together—and to work with world’s most familiar office applications—so you and your employees can complete tasks efficiently and accurately.
Help employees across your organizations transform information into impact. New and familiar products, features, and functionality improve how people and organizations connect to coworkers, information, and business processes.
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Microsoft Office System for Business Executives The Microsoft Office system can help your organization successfully navigate today's difficult business landscape, enabling you to tackle tough issues and react quickly as opportunities emerge. Built on familiar tools, the Microsoft Office system can help you improve productivity and cut costs while maximizing the value of your investments in infrastructure and people.
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Windows Messenger Communicate instantly with co-workers and business partners using text-based chat, and even voice and video. Windows Messenger is part of Windows XP.
Products for infrastructure, networking, and desktop platforms
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Microsoft Servers Microsoft Server products are designed to support end-to-end solutions built on Microsoft Windows Server 2003. This approach is called integrated innovation. It helps you reduce the costs of ongoing operations, delivers a more secure and reliable information technology (IT) infrastructure, and adapts to the growth of your business.
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Windows Client Microsoft's most advanced desktop operating system, Windows XP, is at the center of ongoing personal computing innovation. With Windows XP, home users can experience the digital world like never before, while business users can work smarter and faster.
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Microsoft .NET Microsoft .NET is the Microsoft Web services strategy to connect information, people, systems, and devices through software. Integrated across the Microsoft platform, .NET technology provides the ability to quickly build, deploy, manage, and use connected, security-enhanced solutions with Web services. With .NET-connected solutions, businesses can integrate their systems faster, and sooner realize the promise of getting information anytime, anywhere, on any device.
Windows Mobile Windows Mobile software extends the familiar Windows experience to mobile devices, helping you to maximize your time, enjoy free moments, and stay in touch with both what and who matters to you.
Microsoft Office Live Microsoft Office Live is an easy, affordable solution to help small businesses build a professional Web site and use the Internet for storing, organizing, and managing their company information. With Microsoft Office Live, you can create a professional online presence without the expense of buying a server, setting up a complicated infrastructure, and hiring technical staff to maintain it. Microsoft Office Live is a hosted service – all you need is a computer and an Internet connection.
