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At Australian Tech.Ed 2009 last week on the Gold Coast, I had the opportunity to have a discussion with Kristian Kalsing (@kalsing) from Extend Technologies to talk about Office Business Applications (OBAs). We recorded the 13 minute video, and
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I’ve been spending some time lately talking with customers around the use of SharePoint to support the Learning and Development activities for the organisation – including User Readiness for Office 2007 deployments. The 40,000 employee National Australia
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I’m in the middle of working with a customer who is planning their Office 2007 deployment to their 10’s of Thousands of end users. They felt there was a need for user training and readiness for most of their users. Because of the large number
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In Australia, the Commonwealth Bank (CBA) has been quite visible about their experience and benefits of deploying Office 2007 across the bank – including Mark Griffith from CBA presenting their approach at Australia Tech.Ed 2008. By deploying the 2007
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Gray Knowlton, Office Group Product Manager, just posted a nice blog entry Bits on Boxes about the cost savings of deploying Office 2007 versus doing nothing at all and staying on Office 2003. He has some interesting stats such as 73% of all security
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In economic times like these, organisations look everywhere in efforts to evaluate the value and possible cost savings around the business. One software suite that is examined is Microsoft Office System. Office is considered by some as expensive
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I was reading the content of an article published in April 1990 of Software Magazine. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0SMG/is_n5_v10/ai_8411962 . The article is a software review of the new Microsoft Word for Windows. In 1990
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A really good way to prove the value and usefulness of Office 2007 in your business is to run a pilot install with a small number of users. During the Pilot, you can find out in-depth information about the way Office is used, compatibility with
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If you are a trainer for an organisation and responsible for getting your employees ready for Office 2007, you will be happy to know that Microsoft has published over 70 PowerPoint training presentations on various topics for Office 2007 and SharePoint
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I see that Jakob Nielsen has released the awards for the 10 Best Application UIs for 2008 . I find it interesting to see the direct relationship between the UI award winners and the Microsoft Office 2007 ribbon. While the Ribbon definitely makes sense
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One of the aspects of my job is to help companies evaluate and manage the impact of deploying Office 2007. The biggest perceived barrier is that IT people will feel the Business users will not like the change to the User Interface and this will introduce
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I get asked a lot from customers about information to help them deploy Office 2007 to their organisation. Not about the technical bits to make it happen - but the interesting part is about how to get the organisation and the people ready for the new Ribbon
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