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Why Choose the Microsoft Office System?
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ChallengesToday, there are a number of technical challenges associated with document management and retention for professional services organizations: | • | A growing volume of engagement data, in a wide variety of formats, is stored in different repositories | | • | Multiple systems and applications involved in document management processes and storage | | • | Increasing security risks and challenges related to protecting valuable corporate knowledge and intellectual property | | • | Stringent legal and regulatory requirements regarding document retention and records management |
Why Choose the Microsoft Office System?To address the challenges of document management and retention, it is critical to choose a platform that is familiar to information workers, has deep development tools support, and a broad partner network. The Microsoft Office System is an ideal platform choice for a document management and retention solution because it provides the following benefits: | • | Provides a secure, high-performance, and scalable solution that interoperates with other systems using XML and Web services. | | • | Minimizes development costs and implementation time by building on existing infrastructure and connecting with multiple back-end systems. | | • | Reduces cost of training because of the familiar Office experience that is well-understood by information workers. | | • | Deploys quickly with minimal IT impact. | | • | Adapts easily to business needs with a highly flexible system (compared to older, existing back-end systems). | | • | Lowers costs of by taking advantage of existing investments in Microsoft software products. | | • | Offers reliable and proven Microsoft technologies and partner implemented solutions for a successful deployment. |
Microsoft Office System ProductsThe Microsoft Office System is an integrated set of products, technologies, services, and solutions that enable customers to increase their organizational, team, and personal productivity. For a document management and retention solution, these are the common technologies that could be used: Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003 Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003 Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies
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