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Microsoft productivity products

  • Microsoft Office 365

  • Microsoft Office Professional Plus

  • Microsoft Exchange Server 2010

  • Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010

  • Microsoft Lync Server 2010

How do you maintain multiple Office versions and license types?

First, you need to assess your situation with Microsoft Office with just a few questions:

  • How many versions of Office does your IT group support?

  • How easy is it for you to utilize the licenses you already own?

  • How difficult is it to know what licenses you should have and what to buy next?

  • How do you communicate with customers, suppliers, and coworkers that are on Office 2010?

It's about the bottom line.

Simplify your licensing and stay current.

You're being asked to support today's complex business challenges and an array of devices—all the while keeping an eye on your budget. By standardizing on the Microsoft platform through an Enterprise Agreement, you can reduce your licensing overhead and risks, have future version rights for all PCs, and support strategic business initiatives. Also, you can leverage your Software Assurance benefits to drive deployment and adoption.

Reduce third-party costs.

With the powerful combination of Office Professional Plus 2010 and related Microsoft business productivity servers (Exchange Server, SharePoint Server, and LyncServer), you can reduce spending on certain extra third-party software. All while making sure your people have the tools they need for things like video editing, advanced analytics, document management, and antivirus protection.

Case Study: Cape Australia

Publication Date:

  • 12/15/2010

Industries:

  • Metals and Mining Industry

Country/Region:

  • Australia

Software and Services:

  • Microsoft Forefront Security for Exchange Server

  • Microsoft Forefront Security for SharePoint

  • Microsoft Forefront Client Security

  • Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2

  • Microsoft Office 2010 Suites

  • Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2

  • Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway

  • Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Enterprise

  • Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2

  • Windows 7 Enterprise

  • Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2010

  • Microsoft Exchange Server 2010

  • Microsoft Lync Server 2010

Cape Australia

Industrial Services Company Revamps Its Infrastructure and Desktop After Acquisitions

Headquartered in Perth and Brisbane, Australia, Cape Australia provides industrial multi-disciplinary services to the energy and natural resources sectors. In 2007, the Australian operations grew but became more complex when the company acquired three additional companies. With a disjointed technical environment, IT leadership sought a new strategy to improve the reliability of its systems, improve communications, and reduce employee frustration. The company partnered with Microsoft to help revamp its core infrastructure and desktop solutions with a platform of Microsoft technologies that includes Microsoft Office 2010, Microsoft 2010 server applications, and Windows 7 Enterprise. With a standard operating environment, Cape Australia can reduce IT administration and costs, lower travel costs with new online communication options, and provide more capabilities that benefit its employees.

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Solutions: CONTROL COSTS

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Be enterprising.

When you choose the Enterprise Agreement, you have the flexibility between using on-premises software and cloud services, depending on what works best for your company. Also, you can continually get more out of your technology budget as business priorities change over time.

To put it simply, the Enterprise Agreement gives you the best overall pricing based on your organization's size.

Ensure success.

Boost productivity across your organization with Software Assurance benefits that help you get the most out of your Microsoft software including 24x7 support, deployment and business planning services, end-user and technical training, and the latest software releases and unique technologies, all in one cost-effective program.

Avoid extra costs.

You don't have to look to 3rd party applications when your people need to create presentations that are as brilliant to watch as they are easy to create. With the new photo and video editing tools in PowerPoint 2010, you can trim a video clip, turn color to black and white, add artistic effects, and more—with just a few clicks from right within an Office 2010 application. No expensive third-party tools required.

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Create within PowerPoint

  • Work with video right in PowerPoint

  • Trim video clips

  • Add artistic effects

  • Compress files

  • Control video UI

Breathe easy

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Breathe easy

  • View documents as "read-only", blocking malicious code

  • Strong malware protection

  • Saves by preventing costly data breaches

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