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Create and Manage Content

AT A GLANCE

Microsoft productivity products

  • Microsoft Office 365

  • Microsoft Office Professional Plus

  • Microsoft Exchange Server 2010

  • Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010

  • Microsoft Lync Server 2010

How do your people deal with critical content?

First, you need to assess where your company is right now with just a few questions:

  • What kind of content does your company create?

  • Are your people demanding higher quality content?

  • How do multiple authors create content?

  • How much time and money is spent managing documents and content?

Corral that content.

With Microsoft Office Professional Plus, as part of Office 365 or with related Microsoft business productivity servers (Exchange Server, SharePoint Server, and Lync Server), your people can work together to easily create, find, and manage quality content.

Get more done, faster.

  • Multiple people can edit the same document at once, while maintaining version control.

Focus in the right direction.

  • Teams can focus more on the message than the formatting with tools like SmartArt graphics, table templates, and video and image editing.

Be dynamic.

  • People can easily add live data-feeds to documents.

Work from almost anywhere.

  • Anyone can preview documents and even do light editing from a browser or a mobile phone.

Cut unnecessary costs.

  • You can reduce third-party application costs for things like document management, video editing, rich media management, and antivirus protection.

Get what's needed when it's needed.

  • People can find and use the right content quickly.

Case Study: Constellation Energy

Publication Date:

  • 5/12/2010

Industries:

  • Power and Utilities Industry

  • Electricity and Gas Services

Country/Region:

  • United States

Software and Services:

  • Microsoft Sharepoint Server 2010

Constellation Energy

Constellation Energy to Cut Costs by Over $1 Million, Enhance Services, with New Software

To better weather the economic downturn that began in 2007, Constellation Energy set out to trim costs. It decided to consolidate its Web software vendors and standardize on Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 as the software foundation for all its Web properties: 30 public sites, 5,000 internal sites, the employee portal, and a records management system. The move will reduce software licensing costs by more than U.S.$1 million over the next five years. Constellation will also be able to more easily link its Web sites to business applications, to offer new services, and incorporate new social-computing features such as blogs and wikis. Business users will publish and locate information more easily using enhanced content publishing and search capabilities, which will improve agility. Improved auditing and reporting features also will ease regulatory compliance.

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Case Study: Inetium

Publication Date:

  • 5/12/2010

Industries:

  • Professional Services

  • IT Services

Country/Region:

  • United States

Software and Services:

  • Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0

  • Microsoft Infopath 2010

  • Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010

  • Microsoft Word 2010

  • Microsoft Sharepoint Server 2010

  • Microsoft Silverlight 3

  • Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0

Inetium

Technology Consultant to Reduce Customer Response Times by Half with Software

Attracting new customers always requires making a good impression. But in a highly competitive climate, it's more vital than ever for professional services firms to quickly deliver the information required to win new business. Inetium, an award-winning Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, is constantly working to expand its customer base. After deploying a test version of Microsoft Office 2010, the technology consulting firm has started to partially automate the development of new business proposals, reducing by half the time it takes to deliver these documents to customers. Using Microsoft InfoPath 2010, the firm also built a solution that searches for relevant information stored in disparate systems to help salespeople quickly showcase examples of past projects. With these two solutions, Inetium can improve customer response times and win a larger volume of work.

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Solutions: CREATE AND MANAGE CONTENT

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Collaborate with control and confidence.

Now it's easier for teams to work together in real time on shared documents in favorite Microsoft Office 2010 applications—updating spreadsheets and data with Microsoft Excel Web App, responding to a customer RFP with Microsoft Word 2010, or conducting brainstorming sessions with a Microsoft OneNote notebook—without needing to be together. And the owner of each document retains full control over who can make edits, as well as which sections of the document can be edited.

Take it on the road.

Microsoft Office Mobile gives your people the ability to share, edit, and comment on documents with smartphones, using a familiar Microsoft Office experience. And with Office Web Apps, documents can be viewed and edited on a supported browser or smartphone without losing formatting or content.

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Coordinate changes

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Coordinate changes

  • Author controls what sections of a document can be edited and who is permitted to make edits.

  • Host on-premises or in the cloud.

  • See who is currently working on a document.

Share the canvas

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Share the canvas

  • One Canvas allows for real-time brainstorming.

  • View all authors' names.

  • Follow with improved version tracking.

Work from almost anywhere

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Work from almost anywhere

  • Use a browser or mobile device.

  • Make lightweight edits.

  • Keep same formatting and content.

  • Host on-site or in the cloud.

  • Work safely and securely.

Use new commands

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Use new commands

  • Be more productive with the customizable ribbon user interface and the new Microsoft Office Backstage view in Office 2010.

  • Work with a seamless look from applications to browser.

  • Print, share, and save documents faster and easier.

  • Connect to services more easily.

Edit photos and videos

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Edit photos and videos

  • Work with video right in PowerPoint.

  • Trim video clips.

  • Add artistic effects.

  • Compress files.

  • Control video UI.

  • Save without third-party applications.

Create fast comparisons

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Create fast comparisons

  • Use new tools like PowerPivot for Excel 2010 and sparklines.

  • Query and sort at lightning-fast speeds.

  • Query and sort lists at lightning-fast speeds.

  • Access and utilize SharePoint data.

Streamline processes

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Streamline processes

  • Get the job done with Next Generation Forms Designer in InfoPath 2010.

  • Work easier with Workspace integration, a fluent UI and a new designer experience.

  • Complete forms even when not connected to the network.

  • Use familiar features like the spelling checker and font formatting.

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Fire-Safety Consultants Expect 10 Percent Revenue Gain with Office 2010

With 100 employees working globally, hhpberlin needed to improve its project execution solution, called Project Center, so that employees could share expertise, work together efficiently regardless of location, and reduce the amount of administrative time spent documenting projects.

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Executives Reduce Time Managing Documents by 75 Percent with Integrated Solution

Canada-based Creation Technologies is a leading electronics manufacturing services provider with 2,100 employees. Executives at Creation are frequently away from the office, traveling to customer sites and to the company's thirteen locations around the world. Executives frequently spent valuable time trying to manage document revisions and consolidate individual edits. To resolve these issues, Creation deployed the Microsoft Office 2010 suites and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 to take advantage of co-authoring, offline access to documents, and other collaboration capabilities.

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Telecommunications Firm Creates Reports 30 Percent Faster with Co-Authoring Solutions

Global Crossing provides IP-based telecommunications services to customers in more than 70 countries. With 5,000 employees around the globe, communication and collaboration are critical components of the company's ability to serve its customers. Global Crossing had already implemented a unified communications and office productivity solution from Microsoft, and in early 2010, it upgraded to Microsoft Office 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 to take advantage of co-authoring, offline access to server documents, and e-mail management capabilities. The company expects to improve productivity while shortening the cycle time of assembling request for proposals, contracts, and executive reports by up to 30 percent. Now employees can devote more time to their customers.

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Associated Press - Editorial Collaboration

Associated Press Case Study - Editorial Collaboration using Microsoft Office and Microsoft SharePoint Server

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