Overview

Take your business to new heights by gaining powerful insights on your end-users' needs and requirements. By accurately understanding market dynamics and the role that your business plays in empowering customers, you'll add new value to your business.

Highlights

Understanding the End-user Understanding the End-User From the headquarters to the local office, from the admin center to the shop floor, from the desk to cars, trains and aircraft, workplace computing is on the move! The growth in mobility and wireless connectivity now means that information can be accessed, used and uploaded anywhere.

Integrated Communications and Collaboration: Power to the People One of the world's fastest growing workforces is information workers - and that is creating one of the world's fastest growing markets for software: integrated communication and collaboration solutions. Microsoft's new Office System is designed specifically to meet these new market demands and offer developers a wide supply of built-in tools that go far beyond integration to enable unparalleled collaboration.

Integrated Communications and Collaboration: Enormous Market Opportunities The markets for integrated communications, mobile and wireless computing, as well as team collaboration technology, are all expected to grow exponentially over the next few years. Be a part of this exciting growth potential!

Integrated Communications and Collaboration: Power Tools The Microsoft® Office System offers an easy-to-use, familiar desktop environment to end-users, and a complete set of tools for developers to build connections to back-end infrastructure and applications. With the Office System, Microsoft engineers have comprehensively met the wide-ranging collaboration needs of today's information workers and solution developers.

Enterprise Project Management In today's uncertain economic environment where costs are escalating, budgets are shrinking and successes are scarce, businesses are continuously faced with the challenge of prioritizing projects and eliminating unnecessary spending. Augmenting these economic challenges is an increase in corporate regulatory mandates that require greater corporate accountability and transparency throughout the enterprise. Additionally, teams and employees are becoming more geographically dispersed, causing companies to search for solutions that enable them to work seamlessly across an organization.

Enterprise Project Management : Market Opportunities The IDC 2000-2004 Project Management Applications Market Forecast and Analysis Bulletin predicts the market for EPM technology solutions will increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 12.9 percent from 2000 to 2004, reaching US$2.1 billion in license and related services revenue in 2004. These solutions are being adopted because companies are facing significant challenges as a result of competitive and economic pressures.

Enterprise Project Management: Conclusion Organizations are increasingly looking to technology solutions to define and integrate processes for information workers in the mid-office segment. EPM offers a solution that can integrate the business processes throughout an enterprise, creating central repositories for business data and intelligence, highly collaborative workspaces and visibility and control over project portfolios.

Enterprise Reporting Business intelligence (BI) is a steadily growing market. BI Solutions aim to help organizations by providing strategic insights to all employees - leading to better, faster, more relevant decisions.

Business Intelligence and Microsoft Microsoft's business intelligence framework enables developers to add intelligence to their applications. The result is that customers can be served better and empowered to make smarter business decisions while also managing costs and maximizing value for end-users.