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Accounting Firm Saves Millions of Dollars, Draws Significant New Business | 2009-10-05 | Microsoft |
| Grant Thornton LLP needed a new document management solution that would reduce legal risk and operational costs, yet also drive business growth through secure team and client collaboration. That's what it has achieved with Microsoft and NextPage technologies. Its C3 solution is expected to save the company millions of dollars per year, to eliminate unneeded documents, and to streamline regulatory compliance.
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Law Firm Practice Sees Revenues Climb Up to 20 Percent Because of Information Platform | 2009-10-05 | Microsoft |
| The law firm of Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP wanted new ways to compete in the hyper-competitive environment for legal services, ways that would demonstrate its expertise as well as its ability to use that expertise to provide superior client service. It found what it was looking for in a custom information platform called Parkway, built using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and the services of Microsoft Gold Certified Partner XMLAW. The firm uses Parkway to show potential clients how they have information relevant to client matters, and how they can access the information immediately, giving them more time to apply critical thought to those matters.
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GlaxoSmithKline Leads the Way With Microsoft Online Services | 2009-10-01 | Microsoft |
| GlaxoSmithKline (NYE: GSK) is a pharmaceutical industry leader: supplying a quarter of the world's vaccines, spending over $13 million each day to research new medicines, and providing many of the world's leading prescription medicines and consumer healthcare products. It is estimated that GlaxoSmithKline makes up seven percent of the world's pharmaceutical market, and it is one of the few companies committed to researching vaccines for the World Health Organization's three priority diseases - HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. Yet, an internal strategic review of their IT systems outlined a need to take a new approach to collaboration, support growing markets, and address costs. Illustrating its industry leadership, GlaxoSmithKline found its solution in pioneering Microsoft Online Services solutions.
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Top Australasian ICT Company Leverages Microsoft Business Intelligence Tool for Performance | 2009-10-01 | Microsoft |
| Gen-i New Zealand needed to implement a solution that enabled its Professional Services group to effectively monitor and measure performance, and to allow the early identification of any business performance issues requiring resolution. The solution had to be usable across all organisational levels of the business, and management needed to able to identify current and predicted trends for proactive business planning. Gen-i leveraged Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007, Microsoft PerformancePoint Server and Microsoft SQL Server 2005 to implement a business intelligence platform that increased efficiency and reduced cost through improved flexibility, visualisation, automation and secure distribution.
Tags: Data Tools, Office Suites |
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Japanese School Gives Teachers Flexibility, Enhanced Security With New Framework | 2009-10-01 | Microsoft |
| The Makuhari International School, located in Chiba Prefecture, Japan, is a school designed to give children a flexible and creative learning environment. Because the school views technology as being critical to its overall mission, it sought to find a new solution that would give instructors more flexibility and improve administrative efficiency. In April 2009, the school implemented technological elements of the Microsoft Learning Gateway framework, including Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Microsoft SQL Server 2008. Makuhari International School can now give its instructors more flexible teaching capabilities and enhanced security. The school also has technology that it can build on to further enhance its learning capabilities.
Tags: Security Administration, Office Suites |
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Consortium Develops New Accessible Multimedia Tool for the Print Disabled | 2009-10-01 | Microsoft |
| The DAISY Consortium develops and promotes DAISY (the Digital Accessible Information System), the world's most widely used assistive reading technology for the print disabled. The consortium wanted a solution that could recreate and hopefully exceed the experience of a sighted reader for readers with print disabilities, while enabling content providers to create documents without having to be specialists in the publishing standards for the print disabled. In 2008, the DAISY Consortium released the Save as DAISY add-in for Microsoft Office Word 2007. Using Open XML Formats, Save as DAISY enables users to easily convert Word documents into multimedia publications for the print disabled that are compatible with existing tools and standards.
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Selling Smarter in 2009 and Beyond with Remote Selling | 2009-10-01 | Citrix Online |
| Discover how to increase sales efficiency and productivity with fewer resources.
This new IDC executive brief explores the use of Web conferencing to facilitate the sales process. From customer prospecting to retention, online meetings can enable instant product demos, ad hoc contract collaboration, product training and much more. Tags: Enterprise Planning, Customer Management, Business Functions, Office Suites |
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Web Conferencing for Better Collaboration and Reduced Travel | 2009-10-01 | Citrix Online |
| "Tell me and I'll forget. Show me and I might remember. Involve me and I'll understand." Hear Robert P. Mahowald, IDC research
Tags: Components, Components, IT Budgeting, Office Suites |
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Real-Time Visualization Enables Stronger All-Star Game Security for City of St. Louis | 2009-09-30 | Microsoft |
| When St. Louis, Missouri, was chosen to host the 2009 Major League All-Star baseball game - where President Obama would throw out the first pitch - the City Emergency Management Agency (CEMA) needed an efficient way to coordinate public safety among 40 organizations for the five-day celebration. The Microsoft Citizen Service Platform (CSP) had the answer with E.SPONDER, a Microsoft partner that used Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Microsoft Surface, Microsoft Virtual Earth, and other technologies to provide a comprehensive command-and-control platform with online collaboration, in-depth reporting, and real-time visualization.
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Microsoft Office System Webcast: Extend the 2007 Microsoft Office System (Level 300) | 2009-09-29 | Microsoft |
| The advanced users of the 2007 Microsoft Office system programs, must have already record their own macros and they might wonder what they can do under the hood of the Open XML Format documents. The presenter of this webcast will show examples of how to save time, troubleshoot more effectively, and extend the capabilities of the 2007 Office system programs more easily than one might imagine. The attendee will learn how to create more professional, customized content in less time.
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