What is a Business Productivity Infrastructure?

A unified infrastructure that simplifies the way your people communicate, share expertise, gain business insight and find information.

What does it mean to "Optimise Your Business Productivity Infrastructure?"

Amplify the impact of your people with a Business Productivity Infrastructure based on Microsoft solutions. Deploy a complete set of desktop and server software and services to help streamline the way you and your people do business while increasing IT effectiveness, all by using familiar 2007 Microsoft Office system applications that help you manage IT costs and complexity.

I would like to ensure that my IT investments are built on open and industry standard operability frameworks. Can BPI support this?

Yes. A core principle of Productivity Infrastructure is that each product is fully interoperable through industry standards. Microsoft technologies are optimised to work together, and also to work well with other technologies.

My organisation currently has a mixed desktop estate. Does Business Productivity Infrastructure support this?

While maximum ROI and lowest TCO are often driven by a consistent desktop software platform, this is not always achievable. Talk with your Microsoft representative or a partner about how you can balance the value of standardisation with what's realistic for your organisation.

What products do I need to optimise my Business Productivity Infrastructure?

Exchange Server, Office Communications Server, Office PerformancePoint Server, Office SharePoint Server, Search Server, and an Office 2007 client suite such as Office Enterprise. However, all of those products work well in existing environments.

Get more information on products here.

How do I get all this for my business?

Take a look at our How to Buy page.