Rajiv Kumar
General Manager, Office Business -MSIDC

Rajiv Kumar is the General Manager for the Business and Office Team at MSIDC. He joined Microsoft Redmond office in the year 1992 as a SDE in Visual Basic Complier team. He has worked on several business and high profile products including Visual Basic, Ole Automation, Biztalk Server, Content Management Server and Commerce server in the Redmond office before relocating to MSIDC Hyderabad in the year 2004.

In the year 2001 Rajiv was appointed to drive the execution of acquisition and integration of nCompass Labs. This acquisition resulted in Microsoft getting into the Content Mangement Server space (CMS) and is believed to be very successful acquisition by Microsoft. Rajiv played a critical role in making the nCompass acquisition successful. These product releases were highly successful as it consistently beat the revenue goals.

Rajiv is credited with six patent awards and has filed four more patents recently.

On a personal facet, Rajiv received Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee and a Master’s Degree in Computer Science from University of Texas, Austin. In spare time, Rajiv enjoys traveling and loves to spend time with his 2 young daughters Eshita and Sneha and his wife Rekha.

Interested to know more about Rajiv? Here is link to the article published about Rajiv in Seattle Times, a USA publication.

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Deliver the SharePoint experience for reach customers.

The charter of the SharePoint Express (SPX) team at MSIDC is to deliver the SharePoint experience for reach customers. The team will enable the next generation of hosted web collaboration by building easy-to-use SharePoint experience for small organizations, information workers and consumers. It will be part of delivering this hosted SharePoint functionality to users who are outside an enterprise through the software plus services offerings in Microsoft Online.

The team’s mission is to make Microsoft SharePoint® 2010 as essential to knowledge workers as Office Suite applications are to everyone. The vision is to make SharePoint the first choice of web based collaboration for everyone.

Team

Prior to being part of SharePoint, the team was an integral part of Office Live Small Business since 2005. It owned key areas of investment in delivering software plus services where SharePoint was a critical part of the small business offering. During the last four years, this team has worked on three major releases of Office Live Small Business.

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Product Architecture

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is an integrated suite of server capabilities. These are Collaboration and Social Computing, Portals, Enterprise and Content Management, Business Process and Forms, Enterprise Search and Business Intelligence.

Technical Resources

Learn more about Office SharePoint Server 2007 and related technologies to take advantage of the full set of enterprise-level capabilities. Find out how these resources can help end users, technical decision makers, developers and IT teams get the most from their investments in Office SharePoint 2007.

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Showcase

Product Architecture

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is an integrated suite of server capabilities. These are Collaboration and Social Computing, Portals, Enterprise and Content Management, Business Process and Forms, Enterprise Search and Business Intelligence.

Technical Resources

Learn more about Office SharePoint Server 2007 and related technologies to take advantage of the full set of enterprise-level capabilities. Find out how these resources can help end users, technical decision makers, developers and IT teams get the most from their investments in Office SharePoint 2007.

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