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Why Should I Invest in the 2007 Microsoft Office System?
The new technical capabilities in the 2007 Office system—including Open XML formats, a user interface extensibility model, and new servers and services—offer an array of new opportunities for you to deepen and extend your customer relationships. With such a broad collection of new technologies, the value of solutions built using the 2007 Office system can be more easily understood by your customers' business decision makers and advance your role as a trusted advisor, which could result in new revenue streams for your organization. Now is the time to develop solutions!
How Is Microsoft Bringing the 2007 Office System to Market?Over the past few years, Microsoft has adopted a communication framework for marketing its enterprise technology based on the concept of Infrastructure Optimization (IO). Infrastructure optimization—centered on using an organization's IT assets to support and advance the business—helps businesses measure their level of infrastructure optimization and drive for a truly people-ready infrastructure. Microsoft has developed three models—focusing on core infrastructure, business productivity infrastructure, and application platform—that outline a progression through four stages of infrastructure optimization and that can lead to a roadmap for infrastructure maturity. The Business Productivity Infrastructure Optimization (BPIO) model consists of a complete set of technologies that helps streamline the management and control of content, data, and processes across all areas of a customer's business. It helps simplify how people work together, make processes and content management more efficient, and improve the quality of business insight while enabling IT to increase responsiveness and have a strategic impact on the business. Learn more about the BPIO Model and how to align your business. Learn more about the in-depth online BPIO training.
Which Business Capabilities of the 2007 Office System Should I Focus On?With the 2007 Office system, Microsoft has designed a system of integrated programs, servers, and services that partners can leverage to transform everyday business processes and drive organizational benefits for their customers. BPIO reflects the new and improved capabilities of the 2007 Office system. Each capability represents a unique opportunity to develop successful solutions that address key customer needs. Now is the time to start building expertise in these growth areas. Enterprise Content Management and Forms: Design, develop, and deploy portals that connect users and teams to information and resources, across business processes. Understand how to help customers improve efficiency and effectiveness using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Office Enterprise 2007, Windows SharePoint Services, SQL Server 2005, and Exchange Server 2007. Enterprise Project Management: Work with your customers to implement the Microsoft Office EPM Solution and help them align their work and people with business priorities to effectively manage work from ad-hoc projects to complex programs. Business Intelligence: Help your customers gain a competitive advantage by making better decisions and an improving their bottom lines. Business Intelligence will help them reduce the complexity of organizing and distributing information within their companies. Collaboration: Develop and deploy Internet, extranet, intranet sites, and other integrated solutions. Use Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 to help your customers get more done by providing a platform for sharing information and working together in teams, communities, and people-driven processes.
Search: Improve the search experience for your customers across the desktop, network, and Web, helping them drive substantial increases in productivity. Use Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 to help your customers find and act on information and expertise, grow and extend their search solutions, and help secure and manage their search deployments
Unified Communications: Help your customers unite their existing communication systems and tools, such as desktop telephone systems, internet, voice mail, faxes, and legacy PBX and IP-PBX systems. Specialize in the planning, deployment, and management of unified communications solutions with Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and Office Communications Server 2007. Partners can benefit by aligning their solutions with one or more of these capabilities. Furthermore, offering a broad set of solutions that span multiple capabilities is a great way to gain additional visibility for your overall business.
How Can I Learn More About Building A Deployment Solution For The 2007 Office System?Helping your customers deploy the 2007 Office system in their environments is often the first step towards widening your revenue stream with your additional solution offerings. Office Deployment represents a US $33 billion partner services opportunity, so if you have not learned about the new tools and guidance, now is the time to start.
Learn more about a broad collection of Office Deployment resources including information on the Specialization within the Information Worker Solutions Competency Through Desktop and SharePoint Deployment Planning Services, Microsoft provides you with the tools, training, and support needed to help eligible companies plan their 2007 Office system deployments, while helping to increase revenue and grow your business in the process. Learn more about becoming a Desktop Deployment Planning Services partner. Learn more about becoming a SharePoint Deployment Planning Services partner.
How Can I Learn More About Building An Office Business Application (OBA) for the 2007 Office System?Microsoft Office System Smart Client Solutions represent one of the most-exciting trends for building services revenues. These solutions target customers' key informational needs by offering the customers access to corporate services and information through the Microsoft Office System. If you are interested in using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, XML, Web services, and Visual Studio 2005 tools to build applications for the 2007 Microsoft Office system, Microsoft offers a number of resources that can help you win more business and boost your credentials as a developer of (OBAs). Learn more about a broad collection of these Office Development resources, including information on the Specialization within the Information Worker Solutions Competency. OBA Central is an active community of Microsoft Partners that can help you get the word out about your solutions and services. Learn more about OBA Central.
Why Should I Partner with Microsoft to Bring My Information Worker Solutions to Market? When Microsoft account teams identify new prospects in the marketplace, they turn to key partners to help execute on those opportunities. Partners who demonstrate proficiency in those technologies which align with a particular scenario are best positioned to take advantage of these types of co-engagements. To accomplish this: - Attain one of the following Microsoft Partner Program Competencies with a Specialization:
- Increase your visibility by creating solution profiles in the Partner Solution Profiler and extending them in the Office System Solutions Directory.
What Programs Are Included in the 2007 Office System?The 2007 Office system is comprised of several programs that enable today's information workers to perform with greater efficiency. To find out more about the new technologies, features, and capabilities, and to better understand the opportunities they can provide for your business, please explore these individual program pages:
Additional ResourcesLearn about the 2007 Office system productivity platform with MSPP partner resources. These resources can help you capitalize on the partner opportunities for this new technology. Build your skills! Find training materials to learn more about the 2007 Office system in the Partner Learning Center Explore the 2007 Office system development resources and architectural guidance available on MSDN and OBA Central. Explore the 2007 Office system IT resources available on TechNet. Learn more about the core technologies that make up the 2007 Office system release by visiting Microsoft Office Online. Visit the Solution Showcase for the Microsoft Office system and find sales and marketing tools to help in the design, delivery, and implementation of Microsoft Office system solution scenarios. Profile your 2007 Office system solution now! | 
