Enabling secure collaboration for professional services firms
Collaboration solutions at professional services firms allow people to leverage their intellectual capital and know-how more efficiently and securely. Employees can focus on providing clients with their knowledge, experience, and professional judgment that cannot be easily codified, and thus better realize value for clients and the firm.
This white paper describes how Microsoft technologies can improve collaboration, information management, and security at professional services firms, both within the organization and across organizational boundaries. Improving collaboration and management within a professional services firm can help:
| • | Increase employee productivity |
| • | Improve employee job satisfaction |
| • | Better realize the value of intellectual capital |
| • | Increase security of data and information |
| • | Improve compliance with laws, rules, contracts, ethical obligations, etc., |
| • | Enable a mobile workforce |
| • | Mitigate loss and leakage of information |
| • | Improve business relationships |
In this document:
| • | Introduction |
| • | Overview of secure collaboration challenges and business drivers |
| • | Defining a framework for best practices in secure collaborative environments |
| • | Optimization collaboration scenario |
