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Business and individual productivity topics with Microsoft Office System.

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Using OBAs to get More Value from Your ERP
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 Read More...
The Productivity Hub is now Available
The Productivity Hub is now live ! What is the Productivity Hub? The Productivity Hub is a SharePoint Server 2007 site collection. It comes packed with over 300* pieces of content, including videos, documents and PowerPoint slides. This gives you a great Read More...
SharePoint in Plain English
In my role as an Enterprise Productivity Specialist, I spend a lot of my time talking to customers about Office System, and how the Office Server (SharePoint) enables people and teams to work better together.  I usually talk to CIO’s and Senior IT Read More...
Research into SharePoint Content and Application Lifecycle Management
SharePoint consultant Jeremy Thake from Readify is conducting some research into SharePoint Content and Application Lifecycle Management.  His effort is to create a whitepaper on this topic, and use as much real life experience from SharePoint implementations Read More...
Building a Workplace for a Wide Spectrum of Generations
I’ve spent the last few working days briefing Government Agencies about how Microsoft approaches a new release of Office and decide on the investments in new features to give our customers new capabilities to support the emerging world of work. I highlight Read More...
Australian National Bank Boosts Staff Training with Online Collaboration Solution
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 Read More...
Free Screen-cast Video Demonstrations and Training for SharePoint
A colleague of mine, Ketan, mentioned these free Screen-cast videos for SharePoint – provided by the crew at SharePoint e-Learning.com .  Asif and Wendy have put together a great set of audio narrated videos showing how to leverage a bunch of capabilities Read More...
Microsoft Software Assurance E-Learning Courses Hosted in SharePoint
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 Read More...
Use SharePoint Tasks to Manage Meeting Actions
My manager Peter was asking my advice for how to help organise a weekly meeting that he organises.  It’s a number of managers that are the leadership of our team, and they discuss the operations and strategy for the team etc. One thing they struggled Read More...
SharePoint 2007 Enterprise versus Standard Edition
I was talking to a Technical Decision Maker at a customer of mine, and we were talking about the differences in SharePoint 2007 Enterprise versus Standard Edition.  The customer already owned and deployed SharePoint 2007 Standard for their Intranet, Read More...
10 Ways Microsoft Office 2007 Can Save Companies Money
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 Read More...
Training Presentations for Office 2007
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 Read More...
SharePoint End User Training
If you are looking for the End User Training for SharePoint 2007, the End User training is free to all, and is provided by the SharePoint Product team. There is a standalone version that you can run on a users PC desktop, and also a version of the same Read More...
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