It is critical that health plan information technology (IT) staffs have the ability to quickly set up and cost-effectively manage highly secure workspaces that do not compromise their Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) security requirements or their ability to safeguard protected health information. The collaborative workspaces enable health plans to provide a trusted information sharing area for their internal teams to work with one another as well as with external partners. Microsoft Office Groove Server 2007 provides enterprise-class server software and tools for deploying, managing, and integrating the software across the health plan organization. On This PageEmpower teams without sacrificing controlWith Office Groove Server 2007, health plans can work dynamically and effectively with their partners without compromising IT standards or security. And Office Groove Server 2007 Manager, a component of Office Groove Server 2007, provides a one easy-to-use Web-based interface for managing all aspects of your Office Groove 2007 deployment, including domain creation and certification, policy setting and enforcement, reporting and auditing, and more. | • | Integrate with Active Directory for fast and easy identity provisioning: Office Groove Server 2007 Manager enables you to synchronize your Office Groove 2007 user identities with your existing Active Directory or directory service for easy user identity creation, provisioning, and revocation. | | • | Help enforce IT policies for specific departments and teams: You can use Office Groove Server 2007 Manager to create multiple Office Groove 2007 domains across your enterprise, to help you enforce unique device, tool, and component policies for specific divisions, departments, or teams within your organization. | | • | Monitor Office Groove 2007 usage: Office Groove Server Manager includes easy-to-use reporting tools so you can monitor all user, workspace, and tool activity in your domain. For compliance purposes, you can also use the integrated audit service to capture all the information shared within your organization's Office Groove workspaces and export the data to a SQL Server database for analysis. |
Enable effective team collaboration with minimal infrastructureYou'll be able to extend collaborative workspaces across organizational and network boundaries without making a major upgrade to your IT infrastructure. | • | Keep users productive and storage costs down with efficient data relay service: You can depend on Office Groove Server 2007 Relay, a component of Office Groove Server 2007, to keep the data in your users' Office Groove workspaces synchronized even when they periodically work while disconnected from the network. Office Groove Server 2007 Relay stores data changes temporarily when Office Groove clients are offline, and then sends those changes automatically when clients come back online, all without compromising data security. And thanks to the efficiency of Office Groove Server 2007 Relay, you don't need to maintain a central copy of your Office Groove workspaces, which helps keep your storage costs to a minimum. | | • | Help ensure more secure collaboration across firewalls: Office Groove Server 2007 Relay automatically facilitates data transmission between Office Groove clients separated by firewalls, so you don't need to set up a virtual private network (VPN) or extranet to enable cross-organizational collaboration. Office Groove Server 2007 Relay automatically routes encrypted data changes from one Office Groove client to another by crossing firewall ports using common protocols. | | • | Optimize network bandwidth and help reduce e-mail storage: Office Groove Server 2007 Relay uses intelligent "fan out" technology that enables users to share large files within Office Groove workspaces easily and efficiently, even when they work from a slow connection. You may even reduce e-mail server storage requirements as users come to rely on Office Groove and cut back on their use of e-mail for sharing and working together on team files. |
Connect teams with the right data at the right timeWith Office Groove Server 2007, you can extend the data in your line-of-business applications to reach the places where your project teams work and the people they work with. | • | Build custom solutions that connect project teams to data in line-of-business applications: Office Groove Server 2007 Data Bridge provides a server-based integration platform and development framework for connecting project teams working in Office Groove workspaces with "live" data from existing business applications, portals, and other enterprise data sources. | | • | Help ensure that your project teams always have the most up-to-date data: Solutions built using Office Groove Server 2007 Data Bridge help ensure that teams are always working with the most current data and that their changes are automatically synchronized with the data center. | | • | Extend business processes to Office Groove workspaces: You can develop an Office Groove Server 2007 Data Bridge solution that marries unstructured team collaboration with workflows and a structured business process life cycle. Build business rules directly into Office Groove workspaces to enable automatic workspace creation, invitations, and data population and synchronization. | | • | Centrally back up and restore Office Groove workspaces: With its integrated backup service, Office Groove Server 2007 Data Bridge enables you to automate backup of Office Groove workspaces on the desktop. Give users the flexibility and freedom to work virtually anywhere, without having to worry about lost or corrupted data. |
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