Microsoft Partner Solutions Showcase
The Partner Solutions Showcase demonstrates how Partners are able to quickly deliver value to customers through the Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite. Partners can utilize their business expertise, technical expertise, and technology innovations to deliver value quickly to their customers in different functional areas like human resources, sales, legal, and operations. Partners can integrate SharePoint Online and Exchange Online with other SaaS applications, on-premises systems, Microsoft Office, and Internet technologies to deliver custom solutions that address specific business needs of their customers.
Microsoft is launching a Partner Solutions Showcase to recognize partners who develop compelling solutions for their customers. Two Partners will be recognized annually for their innovative solutions. Partners can submit their solutions for review at the program's Web site. Here are some of the innovative solutions that have been developed by partners.
Business Productivity Solutions
Enterprise level document management solution to help manage library of 10,000+ documents
HRC (Hiawatha Rubber Co) needed an enterprise level document management solution to help them manage their library of more than 10,000 documents. Additionally, they wanted to enable their office team by increasing collaboration and information sharing. However, HRC did not want to maintain full time IT staff or put forth a substantial up-front investment in their IT infrastructure.
The Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) enabled HRC to quickly implement SharePoint Online and Exchange Online in an integrated fashion for all their office staff while simultaneously reducing infrastructure and support costs.
Benefits
- Immediate availability of enterprise level solutions
- Easily scalable as company’s needs grow
- Reduction in on-premises infrastructure costs
- Monthly subscription fee makes forecasting costs simple
- Integrated solution
- Rapid Implementation (10 days)
proNestor Booking Saves Both Time and Money
The proNestor Booking solution integrates with Exchange Online giving Outlook users a great tool for booking rooms, equipment and food services to their Outlook appointment.
proNestor Booking ensures optimum efficiency and overview for all the parties involved in ordering, preparing, servicing and executing the actual meetings.
Benefits
- Organizers will get a complete and enhanced booking option in Outlook.
- Management achieves a unique overview and information about the utilization of resources.
- Reception Desk can see the daily meeting activities.
- Internal Services receives up to date information about bookings and a complete overview of the day's tasks.
- The Kitchen receives information about food orders, and can extract reports for purchasing, production, delivery and sales.
- Accounting departments gain easy access to expense data for use in invoicing and accounting. Expense data can be automatically imported into the accounting system.
Infonic Geo-Replicator Provides Secure, Automated Access to SharePoint Online
SharePoint Online creates a compelling option for providing scalable access to SharePoint. How do you guarantee that all users, including those on limited or intermittent bandwidth, can share the collaborative experience?
Infonic Geo-Replicator software uniquely provides two modes of replication within the same product:
- Replication of the SharePoint server for distributed access to a group of users.
- Replication of SharePoint server content to end users’ laptops for access when offline.
Benefits
- Ensure that all users, irrespective of the availability of network connection, have guaranteed access to key data
- Enhance decision making by making up-to-date information always available
- Allow offline and remote SharePoint user access to access central data at LAN speeds
- Reduce WAN and server costs through server content replication
- Guaranteed service even when there is no network
- Where SharePoint is being accessed via satellite cut communication costs by up to 90%
GeoAnalyzer Enables Embedded Location Intelligence in SharePoint Online Web Parts
Clearway Technology Partners Inc., is a technology services firm that provides clients with innovative Microsoft-based business solutions that generate sustainable competitive advantages. Monitor Analytics, a subsidiary of Clearway, is a leading developer of powerful business intelligence visualization solutions, including GeoAnalyzer, to help companies plan, understand, predict, and manage financial and operational performance.
Benefits
- Easily see patterns in dealings with customers, partners or suppliers on a map
- Quickly see clusters of customer behavior across geographies
- Identify new locations to target for business opportunity
- Highlight exceptions to see best and worst performers
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Expanding Your CRM Investment with the Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite
Statera designed a custom solution that integrates CRM and SharePoint Online to automate the process of creating customized Account and Opportunity sites for their customers. The solution enables sales personnel to upload documents and feed client contact information into SharePoint Online via CRM.
Benefits
- Offers the best features of Microsoft Dynamics CRM and SharePoint Online in a unified environment
- Works with both CRM Online and on-premises CRM deployments
- Increases collaboration between sales and delivery
- Enables co-workers to easily share business data
- Provides automated account site provisioning
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Integrated Invoicing Solution Transforms the Small Business-Accountant Relationship
Diamante integrated their existing accounting product for small businesses with Microsoft Online Services Business Productivity Online Suite in order to streamline the process by which small businesses issue invoices and share them with their accountants. The new integrated solution uses SharePoint Online to eliminate most manual tasks and enhance security and archiving, and Office Live Meeting and Office Communications Online to create a dynamic and efficient live communication channel.
Benefits
- Better business relationships
- Dynamic communications
- Common view of invoices and invoice status
- Automatic document transfer workflow
- Secure archival
- Remote and mobile access
- Improved productivity
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Moving Contract Approval Workflow from Paper to Electronic Format
PointBridge was hired to build a custom multi-step, multi-role contract approval workflow on top of the Business Productivity Online Standard Suite using SharePoint Online and Exchange Online. They integrated Microsoft Word with SharePoint Online to transfer metadata from Word documents into SharePoint Online to manage complex workflows.
Benefits
- Efficiencies gained by conversion from paper based to electronic format
- Detailed tracking of each approval
- Elimination of lost contracts
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Global Manufacturer of Commercial Transportation Industry Reduces Costs and Improves Business Efficiencies
As a leading, global manufacturer and supplier to the commercial transportation industry, the company prides itself on its technical innovation when it comes to product development for the heavy-truck and trailer industry—and understands that its technical infrastructure should be no different. The current economy also played a factor into the organization's move to Microsoft's Business Productivity Online Suite with Microsoft Exchange Online.
The company is looking to both reduce operational costs and improve business efficiencies across its core businesses. Its messaging platform is a key area where It felt it could realize significant improvements—in terms of administrative support and anywhere access.
Solution
The global manufacturer and supplier worked with PointBridge to migrate its existing Lotus Notes messaging environment to Exchange Online.
Benefits
- Reduction in operational expenditures—a savings of 40% per seat per month
- ROI realization within 6 months
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PointBridge Delivers Engaging Virtual Meeting to World Leader for Employment Services Industry
As a world leader in the employment services industry, the company creates and delivers services that enable its clients to win in the changing world of work. The company is continually looking to reduce costs, and its annual Global Leadership Team meeting was identified as an area where efficiencies could be realized. It was challenged to maintain the collaborative nature of the meeting sessions while reducing the high cost of travel.
Solution
The employment services organization turned to Microsoft and PointBridge who worked together to establish a custom SharePoint Online environment to exactly fit the company's virtual meeting requirements.
Benefits
- Saved time and money while maintaining the highest levels of communication, collaboration and information sharing
- Fast ROI
- A greener alternative to onsite meetings
- Showcased the capabilities of SharePoint Online for future use, including the 2010 Global Leadership Team meeting.
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Transforming Local Government Through More Effective Data-Sharing
Xantura is an innovative and energetic United Kingdom-based technology and consulting company. Working with Sonata developers, Sonata and Xantura created a custom data-sharing solution that is built on top of the Microsoft Online Services Business Productivity Online Suite, integrates SharePoint Online and Exchange Online, and incorporates customized features to meet customers' unique business requirements. The application is an integrated solution built over the Business Productivity Online Suite for secure data sharing between Local Strategic Partnerships (LSPs). LSPs are non-statutory, multi-agency partnerships working for local government agencies. Delivering services across the LSP comes with the intrinsic issue of holding multiple instances of citizen based data.
The application needed to be multi-faceted in its attempt to identify a single citizen instance across all partners and to help ensure that citizen-based life events are reflected across all affected service areas within all of the LSP partner organizations. A critical success factor for this application is the way in which the application enables effective and secure data-sharing procedures to ensure that only authorized system users are able to view data across the multi-service areas within multi-partner data sets.
Benefits
- Provides effective and secure data-sharing
- Includes integrated federated search engine
- Is a secure hosted Web application
- Offers automated business event notification
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WorXpace Offers Custom Project Management Workflow and Improves Remote Team Collaboration
Sonata Software collaborated with Aquent to design WorXpace, a customized solution that enhances the Business Productivity Online Suite to provide Aquent end-to-end visibility of all aspects of their projects. Solution features included collaboration tools such as blogs, wikis, a document store, project health dashboards, exception alerts, approval workflows, and audit reports to automate the company's entire project management process.
Benefits
- Improved visibility in project status enhanced decision making
- Improved productivity from remote team members
- Better integration with the customers
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Enhancing Collaboration and Increasing Innovation with Social Computing
Many enterprises are challenged to increase innovation while containing or lowering costs. Social computing, with its ability to improve collaboration, increase knowledge capture, and simplify expertise discovery, offers enterprises a viable way to meet such challenges.
The integration of NewsGator Social Sites with Microsoft SharePoint Online provides enterprises with business-focused, social computing capabilities including social networking, online communities, enriched user profiles, and enterprise RSS. By integrating social sites with SharePoint Online, NewsGator provides enterprises with a social computing solution that takes advantage of existing IT investments and helps control IT support costs.
Benefits
- Offers enterprises the benefit of social computing features without the need to install and maintain hardware and software
- Works with both SharePoint Online and on-premise Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 deployments
- Provides social networking capabilities that enhance collaboration, increase innovation, and help improve productivity
- Helps lower IT investment and support costs
- Speeds deployment times
An Effective Solution for Sales Managers to Coordinate Distributed Teams and Help Drive More Sales
Thinkscape has developed a site template for Microsoft SharePoint Online to help distributed sales teams run coordinated telemarketing campaigns. Through a role-based approach, the telemarketing site template helps each salesperson to track the contacts they are working on, and the sales manager can measure the overall effectiveness of the campaign.
Benefits
- Allows you to rapidly set up a new telemarketing site in SharePoint Online to support your sales team
- Is easy for the sales team to learn—they can begin using the site immediately
- Helps your sales team to distribute and plan their workload efficiently, while helping you to monitor the pipeline
- Can be easily customized to your exact needs
- Helps you to prioritize the leads with most potential
Building a World-Class Employee Portal on a Dedicated, Hosted System
Slalom Consulting partnered with Microsoft to design an intranet for CCE employees that was reflective of the company's world-renowned brand. Slalom used Microsoft Online Services Business Productivity Online Suite, in conjunction with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and third-party components to create a powerful yet intuitive portal that supports multiple languages in order to engage the company's global staff.
This solution runs on the dedicated version of the suite, so it is hosted on dedicated servers within Microsoft data centers. Users now have a popular tool that improves communication, employee engagement, efficiency, and effectiveness, and frees the company's IT department from system maintenance tasks.
Benefits
- Supports 70,000 users worldwide
- Acts as a strategic internal communication platform containing thousands of publishing items
- Provides team collaboration sites to share files, calendar items, and more
Innovative Business Improvement and Application Consulting Firm Offers Automated Job Application Process
ThoughtBridge developed a "HR-in-a-box" solution for OHC that uses SharePoint Online Web services, workflows, and Exchange Online and integrates through a proprietary framework with their hosted and on-premises line-of-business applications to provide information publicly on the Web.
Benefits
- Business Productivity Online Suite turnkey solution
- Advanced functionality usually found in more expensive HRE systems
- Limitless levels of enhancements to accommodate complex business processes while maintaining the advantages of Microsoft Online Services
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Neudesic's Document Canvas Enables Sales Documents Assembly for Remote Offices
Neudesic designed Document Canvas, a custom add-in for Microsoft Office Word, that integrates with Business Productivity Online Suite. SharePoint Online is used to host an online library of approved and versioned document fragments, and geographically distributed sales team in remote offices can work in Microsoft Word and access these online pieces of documents to quickly stitch together complete, pre-approved corporate documents.
Benefits
- Reduced legal fees
- Time savings
- Standardized documentation
- Business agility
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Microsoft Online Services Master Pages for SharePoint
Expert SharePoint Consulting, a service line of Miles Consulting Corp (MCC), offers downloadable templates, known as Master Pages, for Microsoft Online Services. To provide additional affordable SharePoint branding solutions, MCC has developed Master Pages that are entirely free. The company has also created a library of premium SharePoint Master Pages for download at an extremely attractive price.
Benefits
- Configure SharePoint so it doesn't look like SharePoint
- Configure SharePoint to match corporate branding
Vivid Office's SharePoint "Skins" transform out of the box SharePoint into a colorful bright designs
Vivid Office, a brand of PixelMill Inc., has developed SharePoint Skins for BPOS to provide SharePoint users the ability to transform the "out-of-the-box" SharePoint site into a variety of different color schemes and designs. SharePoint Skins are easy to apply and can take less than 60 seconds to make an attractive change to your SharePoint site.
Using the same skin you can take your customization one step further using SharePoint Designer. For SharePoint users who would like to brand more of their SharePoint site, you now have the ability to customize the _layouts pages, and add your branding to the background in the Site Actions dropdown menu etc. Even the newest SharePoint Designer user will find this transformation a piece of cake.
Vivid Office SharePoint Skins have been tested and proven with Business Productivity Online Suite, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, and Windows SharePoint Server.
Migration Solutions
Simplify Migration to Exchange Online and SharePoint Online with Quest Software
Quest Notes Migrator for Exchange provides efficient, cost-effective migration to Microsoft Exchange Online, including a direct migration of Notes e-mail, calendars, tasks, and personal address books.
Benefits
- Reduced project timelines—ability to migrate multiple users across multiple migration machines simultaneously.
- Reduced help desk and administrator work time—Notes Migrator automates manual administrative migration tasks and offers intuitive project management.
- Preserving network bandwidth—ability to schedule migration jobs when they're of least impact to organization.
- Maintain business productivity—migration is totally transparent from end users and there is zero data loss and downtime of e-mail services.
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Quest GroupWise Migrator for Exchange provides efficient, cost-effective migration to Microsoft Exchange Online, including a direct migration of GroupWise e-mail, calendars, tasks, personal address books, and frequent contacts.
Benefits
- Reduced project timeline—ability to migrate multiple users across multiple migration machines simultaneously.
- Reduced help desk and administrator work time—GroupWise Migrator automates manual administrative migration tasks and offers intuitive project management.
- Maintain business productivity—migration is totally transparent from end users and there is zero data loss and downtime of e-mail services.
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Quest Notes Migrator for SharePoint provides analysis and migration of Notes, QuickPlace/QuickR and Domino.Doc application content, including all images, file attachments, OLE objects, DocLinks, and rich text to SharePoint Online.
Benefits
- Efficiently migrates large amounts of Notes, Domino.Doc and QuickPlace data without data loss
- Includes free discovery and analysis tool to help customers evaluate the complexity of their migration to SharePoint Online
- Comprehensive discovery/analysis reduces migration costs by identifying unused applications that do not need to be migrated to SharePoint Online
- Link Tracking Service ensures that DocLinks continue working before, during, and after the migration
- Supports mixed environments, where applications may reside in Lotus Notes, SharePoint on-premises or SharePoint Online
- Preserve all of your valuable business data including images, file attachments, OLE objects, rich text, DocLinks, etc.
- Dramatically reduces the cost of migration with easy-to-use tool, automated tasks, and customizable, reusable data definitions
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Simplify Your Migration with Metalogix SharePoint Site Migration Manager
Metalogix SharePoint Site Migration Manager allows organizations to rapidly migrate sites, lists and libraries from on-premises SharePoint implementations to SharePoint Online with a powerful, intuitive Windows Explorer-style user interface.
Benefits
- Easy installation and configuration. Start migrating in minutes!
- Remove the need for manual "copy and paste" migrations
- Move sites, document libraries, and lists with just a few clicks
- Retain custom metadata and views
- Migrate all out-of-the-box Webparts
- Powerful filtering options to exclude unnecessary content
- Supports coexistence with SharePoint Online
- Migrate from SPS 2003, WSSv2, MOSS 2007, WSSv3 to SharePoint Online
Innovative Solution Makes Migration Easy and Transparent
MailShadow® for Exchange Online, a software solution from Cemaphore Systems, continuously and bi-directionally synchronizes on-premises Exchange mailboxes with Microsoft Exchange Online, providing easier pilots, smoother mailbox migrations, and robust e-mail continuity. Sync includes free/busy calendar and conference room booking between on-premises and on-line Exchange mailboxes.
Benefits
- Easy migration with bidirectional sync
- Mailbox coexistence for pilots
- Easy rollback with no user downtime
- Smooth implementation for IT
- Affordable e-mail continuity
- Lower capital and operating costs
- Sync back to BES, GoodLink servers
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Migrate from Lotus Notes to Microsoft Online in As Little As One Weekend with Binary Tree's Weekend Express
Migrating from the Lotus Notes messaging platform to Microsoft Exchange Online can be a costly, resource-intensive, and time-consuming endeavor. The traditional approach includes buying, installing, and configuring special migration hardware and software and bringing in outside consultants that specialize in managing and performing messaging migrations between diverse environments.
Weekend Express Migration makes the migration process much faster and easier with a managed service that can enable organizations with up to 5,000 users to be migrated in one weekend.
Benefits
- Includes the migration of email, calendar, contacts and to-do's
- Requires no migration software or hardware to buy, install or configure
- Needs no on-site consultants needed
- Needs no expertise on migration needed
- Includes online user training on Microsoft Office Outlook free of charge
MigrationWiz is Secure, Quick, Low-cost, Self-service Mailbox Migration Solution
E-mail is such an integral part of every business today that any downtime or loss of information has a negative impact on an organization's bottom line. Migration of data to any new service has always been a problem for every business.
Solution
MigrationWiz helps to move companies to Microsoft Exchange Online seamlessly while lowering upfront costs and improving the total cost of ownership (TCO) by eliminating the need to purchase and manage on-premises software or hiring specialized consultants.Benefits
- Low cost
- No software to install
- Easy to use—little or no technical experience required
- Seamless migration of mailbox
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Managed Services
Microsoft Channel Partner and End Customer Opportunity
Managed Workplace provides a central Web-based dashboard from which managed service providers monitor and manage IT assets. Managed Workplace is now prepared to offer a field-tested, integrated view of the Microsoft Business Productivity Online Standard Suite, along with that of the other IT Assets being managed.
Managed Workplace provides comprehensive integrated management for customers migrating from on-premises applications to online software and services, as well as smaller organizations with existing servers implementing strategic applications with Business Productivity Online Suite.
Benefits
- Develop managed services offerings around hosted solutions
- Create new, recurring service revenue streams around online solutions
- Increase portfolio of customer solutions through the addition of hosted applications
- Expand role as trusted advisor—both on-premises and in the cloud
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ZervicePoint Provides Automated, End-to-End Provisioning of Accounts, Services, and Material
Zipper by Enfo is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner in Sweden. They decided to extend their existing Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services-based ZervicePoint portal by integrating it with the Microsoft Online Services Business Productivity Online Suite. By integrating with the suite, ZervicePoint automates a company's provisioning process for accounts, services, and equipment for both on-premises systems as well as from the suite. In essence, ZervicePoint portal acts as a company's IT management foundation, seamlessly working between local and cloud-based systems.
Benefits
- Significantly faster implementation
- Increased flexibility for customers
- Reduced IT costs
- Better control and security
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