Monday, February 05, 2007

* Microsoft Office System 2007 : The composition

The new Microsoft Office is no more a suite of client applications meant for office use. It has transformed into a complete system meant for enterprise and even its partners. The main theme of new Microsoft Office System is to facilitate collaboration within the enterprise and even between enterprise and its partners.

It is composed of Programs/Applications, Tools, Services, Servers, Technology. Lets get into more details about each of them :

Client Applications

    • Word 2007                : Document authoring program
    • Excel 2007                : Spreadsheet Program
    • PowerPoint 2007      : Presentation Program
    • Outlook 2007            : Email & Time management client
    • InfoPath 2007           : Forms based information management
    • Access 2007              : Desktop database program
    • Visio 2007                 : Assist in creating diagrams
    • Project 2007             : People and Work management application for project managers
    • Groove 2007              : Collaborative workspaces for teams
    • Communicator 2007  : Enterprise real time messaging system

Application Servers

    • Office SharePoint Server 2007 : Enterprise content management, Search, Business Process Integration, Business Intelligence, Personalization, etc.
    • Project Server 2007 : Enterprise Project Management Solution with web access and Project 2007 as client
    • Exchange Server 2007 : Enterprise Mail server with web access and Outlook 2007 as client.
    • Groove Server 2007 : Managing Groove 2007 workspaces
    • Communications Server 2007 : Facilitates real time messaging and web conferencing

Developer Tools

    • Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 : SharePoint web sites development and management program
    • Visual Studio 2005 : Complete development environment targeting .NET technologies
    • Visual Studio Tools for Office : Add-on to Visual Studio for developing apps targeting Office

Services

    • Office Live : Centrally hosted Web based Microsoft Office for small businesses.
    • Live Meeting : Internet hosted collaboration infrastructure

Technology

    • Windows SharePoint Services Version 3 : Base framework on which SharePoint Server is built upon. It is also exposed to web sites hosted on SharePoint. The services it provide are : Provisioning, Administration, Content Management, workflow, emails & alerts, search, web parts etc.

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