Simon Thorneycroft and Jonathan Hodgson

Microsoft Office / SharePoint 2007 resources

Part of my role involves me communicating to business units how new technology can improve their processes.

As part of the global SharePoint team the impact of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 and rollout of the new Office 2007 client suite is getting alot of traction.



Microsoft released a high-level whitepaper talking about on using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) for collaboration for the Banking industry.

The self-service nature of SharePoint (example of emplyee reviews) and the evolution of it as a platform is now a driving force.



From 2-way sync-ing of metadata between Word and SharePoint lists to dashboard views.

Other resources/whitepapers from Microsoft (quite a few are really for ISVs/partners but are good internal marketing too) you might want to look at include:

Tips and Tricks
Office 2007 partner sales tools
Goverence
Web 2.0 in the Enterprise.

One particular good document is the Microsoft Sales Toolkit 'Gear Up', which gives a marketing overview of most Microsoft products.



External vendors are beginning to plug gaps in functionality like taxonomy.

Even the Web Content Management (WCM) features have been deployed by a number of companies with Microsoft planning more improvements on http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/ soon.

Also connected to information workers, these papers comes some interesting statistics:

Knowledge workers spend 15 percent of 30 percent of their work days looking for information, and at least 50 percent of online search are not successful.

Work-life balance will be eclipsed by work-life blending - Microsoft and FutureLab report which states nearly half o fall works (46.8%) have jobs that invole them working away from the office.

Finally some teasers on Office "14"...