Microsoft's 2007 Office System: Should My Organization Upgrade?

Basex' report "Microsoft's Office Strategy and the 2007 Office System: Should My Organization Upgrade?" is the first in-depth look at the new 2007 Microsoft Office system and it evaluates all 2007 Office system products, including:

• Microsoft Office 2007 suite  (including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, among others)
• Microsoft Office Communicator 2007
• Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007
• Microsoft Office Groove 2007
• Microsoft Office OneNote 2007
• Microsoft Office Project 2007
• Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
• Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007

Is the 2007 Microsoft Office System just a casual collection of legacy Microsoft products sharing a common brand – or is there more to it? As it turns out, the 2007 Microsoft Office system is a coordinated set of tools that can be used to create comprehensive Collaborative Business Environments.

This In-depth Insight Report presents 60 pages, 18 charts and tables, and exhaustive analysis. It is provided to you electronically in Adobe Acrobat format.

Here are some highlights of what you'll learn in this report:

• How the 2007 Microsoft Office system represents a substantive change for Microsoft;
• What's really new in Microsoft Office and the Office system;
• What parts of the 2007 Microsoft Office system are critical for your organization;
• How do these tools enhance organization-wide productivity?
• What is different about today’s tools for the knowledge economy;
• The key issues facing Microsoft in this area;
• Has Microsoft gone far enough in breaking down the distinct task-based orientation that is pervasive in the products themselves?
• How XML is greatly enhancing Office system's capacity for knowledge sharing;
• What is the new XML-based document format?
• What are the various Office 2007 editions, and which components are included in each?
• Understanding Collaborative Business Knowledge and what it means to your organization;
• Why is it sometimes inefficient to connect people and share knowledge?
• How will the Knowledge Worker Impact Quotient rating help you make choices for your organization
• What’s the new interface like and how hard is it to learn?
• What you need to know to avoid over investing in redundant technologies;
• What are the potential productivity gains with the 2007 Office System;
• The future of group-oriented environments;
• Will this lower costs, speed time to market, and increase your  productivity;
• Exactly how well does the Office System 2007 hit the mark?
• Microsoft's vision to create productivity software that quickly and easily evolves in order to keep pace with today's constantly changing collaborative business environment;
• Microsoft's four key design goals;
• A blueprint for moving ahead;
• An analysis of the 2007 Microsoft Office system's strengths and weaknesses;
• How the 2007 Microsoft Office system fares in comparison to other collaborative business environments;
• 2007 Office System and return on investment;
• 2007 Office System and knowledge workers' increase in productivity;
• Challenges facing 2007 Office System users;
• How collaborative business environments such as Microsoft Office System do, in fact, change the rules;
• Benefits of the real-time Collaborative Business Environment;
• Whether companies that deploy the 2007 Microsoft Office system will see significant decreases in training and support, faster turnaround due to increases in productivity and an all-around improved user experience -- or not;
• The future for Microsoft and collaboration;
• Fundamentally, is the 2007 Office System right for your company?