Report Package - What's New in Microsoft Office 2010 and Three Variations on a Theme: An In-Depth Analysis of Office Suites from Google, Microsoft, and OpenOffice.org

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The office suite is the corner stone of the knowledge workers’ tool set: what was once a simple set of stand-alone word processing, spread sheet, and presentation tools now must support collaborative work, communication, and integrated applications.

To bring clarity to the office suite market, Basex has prepared two reports which include a detailed review of new features and functionality in Microsoft Office 2010, as well as an exhaustive competitive analysis of Microsoft Office 2010, and its two closest competitors, namely the Google and OpenOffice.org offerings.

This comprehensive set of reports includes:

- What’s New in Microsoft Office 2010, the first comprehensive look at Microsoft Office 2010, the newest release of Microsoft’s market defining desktop productivity and office suite.

Based on exclusive access to Microsoft researchers and developers, this 26-page report exhaustively analyzes and examines new and updated features and functionality that have been introduced with this release. In addition, the report provides a detailed timeline of how the offerings evolved since their introduction.

- Three Variations on a Theme: An In-Depth Analysis of Office Suites from Google, Microsoft, and OpenOffice.org takes an exhaustive look at these offerings and judges them based on their ability to form the foundations of a Collaborative Business Environment.

This 38-page report is the first side-by-side comparison of the latest office suite offerings from Google, Microsoft, and OpenOffice.org. While such suites all include word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation software, there are many differences in how individual features and functionality are implemented, such as collaboration tools, application integration, and even basic feature sets.

These two reports provide:
- An in-depth look at the evolution of the office suite.
- Insight into the processes that led Microsoft to make the changes and improvements it did in Office 2010.
- Analysis of significant new and improved features and functionality in Office 2010.
- An in-depth analysis of the individual components that comprise Google Apps Premier Edition, Office 2010, and OpenOffice.org.
- A side-by-side comparison of the offerings.
Here are some highlights of what you'll learn in this report package:
• How the Microsoft Office 2010 suite represents a substantive change for Microsoft.
• What's really new in Microsoft Office 2010?
• Microsoft's four key design goals.
• What parts of Microsoft Office 2010 are critical for your organization?
• How do these tools enhance organization-wide productivity?
• What is different about today’s tools for the knowledge economy?
• What are the potential productivity gains with office suite offerings?
• How will the different suites lower costs, speed time to market, and increase your productivity?
• Exactly how well do Google Apps Premier Edition, Microsoft Office 2010, and OpenOffice.org hit the mark?
• What are the strengths and weakness of the three office suite offerings?
• Fundamentally, which office suite offering is right for your company?

Microsoft has seen significant change in user requirements for Office, which with a user base of over 600 million is arguably the most popular set of software applications in the world. Office 2010 is the next step in the company’s quest to offer an integrated vision for desktop productivity, collaboration, and communications tools for knowledge workers.

The report analyzes Office 2010 as a platform that organizations can leverage to accelerate knowledge sharing and collaboration between knowledge workers and provides managers with the information they need to to be successful in the knowledge economy.