Microsoft Office and SharePoint 2010: Business Productivity at Its Best

Wednesday, April 14, 2010 by Jenny Lowry

Recently, Microsoft released a white paper, “Business Productivity at Its Best: Microsoft Office and Microsoft SharePoint”. This paper describes how the 2010, 2007, and 2003 versions of Office work together with the 2010, 2007, and 2003 versions of SharePoint technologies, but it primarily focuses on the integration features of the Microsoft Office 2010 experience with Microsoft SharePoint 2010.

In this paper, scenarios are outlined to show examples of how the power of SharePoint 2010 can be combined with the capabilities of Microsoft Office 2010 applications to deliver rich, intuitive, and easy-to-use capabilities directly to users.

The scenarios cover the following value areas:

• Collaboration Without Compromise: Enable people to respond faster so they’re better equipped to meet deadlines by offering document collaboration with IT control.
• Bring Ideas to Life: Provide self-service access to information to help people make more informed business decisions and to reduce the burden of report requests.
• Anywhere Access: Enable people to access and respond to information securely from virtually anywhere with confidence that content changes and fidelity are maintained across locations and devices. Help people stay productive anywhere—online or offline—whether they’re working at the office, at a customer site, on the road, or from home, with the tools that seamlessly synchronize online and offline changes.
• The Practical IT Platform: Unlock more value from LOB systems while helping people across the organization increase productivity. Streamline content creation and publishing and automate business processes to empower users to quickly respond to competitive market pressure.

Bring Ideas to Life Scenario
Below is one of the examples in the white paper that shows how Microsoft Office and SharePoint can provide people with self-service access to sales information to analyze massive data sets.

 

 To conclude, Microsoft Office 2010, when used with Microsoft SharePoint 2010, maximizes existing investments by extending server and services capabilities to people’s desktops, mobile devices, and browsers through familiar and intuitive applications. It is reiterated that while Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 provide much new and improved functionality compared to previous versions, the combined deployment of the latest client programs and server technologies is necessary to achieve the best integration of Microsoft Office and SharePoint features.

Read the complete “Business Productivity at Its Best: Microsoft Office and Microsoft SharePoint” white paper.