Stephen Elop, President of the Microsoft Business Division, delivers a keynote address at the Wharton Business Technology Conference in Philadelphia, Friday, Feb. 27, 2009. His "Glimpse Ahead" presentation demonstrated new uses of rapidly expanding technologies, software and devices that enable more diverse and immediate access to information. Elop stressed that such development expenditures even under the stress of current global economic forces will help forward-thinking companies advance beyond competitors. (Rick Maiman/Waggener Edstrom Worldwide)
Stephen Elop, President of the Microsoft Business Division, delivers a keynote address at the Wharton Business Technology Conference in Philadelphia, Friday, Feb. 27, 2009. His "Glimpse Ahead" presentation demonstrated new uses of rapidly expanding technologies, software and prototype Nano Touch devices that enable more diverse and immediate access to information. Elop stressed that such development expenditures even under the stress of current global economic forces will help forward-thinking company's advance beyond competitors. (Rick Maiman/Waggener Edstrom Worldwide)
Stephen Elop, president of the Microsoft Business Division, speaking about the new Microsoft Exchange Online and Microsoft SharePoint Online to business customers and industry partners. San Francisco, Nov 17, 2008.
The Sign In Tool allows end-users to access all of their Microsoft Online Services applications after signing in only once.
The User Portal allows Microsoft Online Services to be accessed securely from any location with Internet access.
IT administrators can access the Microsoft Online Services home page to add or delete users, update distribution lists in Exchange Online, create and configure portal sites in Microsoft SharePoint Online, and download software, among other tasks.
This tab allows IT administrators to configure Exchange Online and monitor its usage
This tab allows IT administrators to configure Microsoft SharePoint Online and monitor its usage.
Activity pane helps you keep track of what’s happening in your Workspace, and e-mail notifications ensure that you always know when the people you share your Workspace with make updates.
A new Share Workspace UI lets you easily invite others to your Workspace. You can quickly add people from your Windows Live address book, contacts from Windows Live Hotmail and Windows Live Messenger, and people you have shared with before. You can also include more details in your invitations with the larger message box.
The Add multiple documents button makes it is easier than ever to bring your documents into a Workspace by browsing and selecting files from your computer or dragging and dropping files on the document uploader.
The Office Live Workspace event list date and calendar view showcases the ability to create and manage schedules.
The Office Live Workspace file preview demonstrates the ability to preview Microsoft Office files — in this case a PowerPoint slide — within a browser.
The Workspace projects and programs view in Office Live Workspace shows a list of documents and files in your Workspace and the status of each.
Office Live Workspace lets you view program status reports and add or drop columns to a list within the Workspace.
Office Live Workspace lets you invite others to share your Workspace.
Office Live Workspace – Dutch Portal
Office Live Workspace – French Portal
Office Live Workspace – German Portal
Office Live Workspace – Italian Portal
Office Live Workspace – Japanese Portal
Office Live Workspace – Korean Portal
Office Live Workspace – Polish Portal
Office Live Workspace – Spanish Portal
Office Live Workspace – Traditional Chinese Portal
Home — the first page users see after signing into Office Live Small Business — is a complete dashboard for you to manage your online services. From Home, you can access all the primary services, including Web site design, e-mail, traffic reporting and additional services, and navigate easily among these services. A useful new feature is a Reports tool gadget that shows you at a glance the number of unique visitors and page views for the current week and the previous two weeks, and how traffic has been affected by the service’s sales and marketing features (including e-mail or search marketing campaigns).
In this release, Contact Manager is now included free to all customers and is the foundation of customer marketing. The improved user interface enables you to find and add contacts more efficiently and provides integration with E-mail Marketing beta, an improved Web site Contact Us module that automatically adds site visitors into the Contact Manager tool and automatically lists all e-mail marketing campaigns in the recent activities list for each contact.
With Team Workspace, you can use the Web to post documents and information you’d like to access remotely or share with customers, employees or business partners in a password-protected environment — without the hassle and version-control issues that arise when collaboration of this kind is managed over e-mail or with hard copies and handwritten edits. In this release, Team Workspace is included free to all customers.
Information is at the core of most businesses. Document Manager gives your company its own online repository for important company documents, pictures and information. By keeping documents easily accessible, you can help ensure your team has access to the most up-to-date information on the business.
The Page Editor tool allows you to customize any single page within your Office Live Small Business Web site. You can change the layout and navigation, as well as place customized modules that insert pre-designed blocks of content, such as maps and directions, stocks and weather.
Once you’ve finished updating your site with Page Editor or Site Designer, simply click Save and the finished page is ready to view. It’s as easy as using a word-processing program.
Putting products online opens a world of sales opportunities for small businesses. With the Store Manager e-commerce feature, you can easily create your own fully customized online store and sell on eBay — one of the most popular and trusted online shopping sites. The ability to do both and manage sales from a single centralized console is a distinguishing feature of Office Live Small Business.
After you have set up shipping and payment methods, you can create your product catalog. Store Manager lets you create up to 10,000 products with six images each. Store Manager even allows you to bulk upload and download products, bulk upload product images, and bulk list products to each marketplace. You can also configure sales tax settings and set up payment processing using the PayPal Express Checkout service.
E-mail Marketing Beta from Office Live Small Business allows you to send newsletters, promotional offers, announcements and company updates with just a few clicks. You can create the look and feel that’s right for your business by using the Page Editor feature to create customized e-mail. In addition, you can easily create and update mailing lists with Contact Manager, track the success of your campaigns with detailed reports, and monitor bounced e-mail and any requests to unsubscribe.
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