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Private Girls' School Enhances Student Educational Experience With Hosted Service
The Marymount School MedellÃn, a private girls school in Colombia, needed a secure e-mail platform to link students, teachers, and administrators, but funds were tight. The school found its answer by deploying Microsoft Live@edu, a free hosted service for K - 12 and higher education institutions that provides students, staff, faculty, and alumni long-term, primary e-mail addresses and other applications they can use.
35 days ago by MicrosoftHosted Messaging and Collaboration Helps Microsoft Partner to Differentiate Services
Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Cbeyond's 1500 employees provide communications and IT solutions over a private IP network to approximately 48,000 small-business customers in 13 U.S. markets. To succeed in the highly competitive IT and communications market, Cbeyond needed to add new services without increasing price or decreasing profitability. Cbeyond is winning new customers with a unique sales and service model that integrates Hosted Microsoft Exchange with its core broadband and wireless services.
46 days ago by MicrosoftMomentum Webcast: Enhance Organizational Collaboration Using Microsoft Technologies (Level 100)
Driving innovation requires capitalizing on the best and brightest ideas in the organization, whether the ideas come from workers in the home office or a remote branch. With Microsoft Unified Communications and collaboration technologies like SharePoint, Exchange Online, and Microsoft Office, the organization can identify professional expertise, create saleable knowledge, and unlock productive business ideas by using self-service workspaces. The attendee of this webcast learns about the technologies that foster internal social networking, including advanced presence, that enable to capture the knowledge assets the organization already owns. The presenter explains how Microsoft is uniquely positioned to offer these solutions on premises, in the cloud, or in some combination of the two.
58 days ago by MicrosoftInstalling Application Templates for Windows SharePoint
Microsoft has developed forty Application Templates to provide out-of-the-box solutions to address the needs of specific business processes such as coordinating a Help Desk or tracking marketing campaigns. If one is reading this paper, then the author assumes that one has downloaded all of the 40 Application Templates for SharePoint or at least one of them. This Application Templates for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 are separated into two groups, "Site Admin Templates" and "Server Admin Templates". Site Admin Templates are custom templates that have an .stp extension and are easy for site administrators to install in a template gallery without requiring server administration access.
62 days ago by Vishal Vasu's Tech TalkHigh School Students Adopt Online Collaboration Tools, Improve Performance
Marion County Public Schools in Florida wanted a collaborative solution to support innovative teaching methods and offer twenty-first century communication skills to students. It chose Microsoft Live@edu for a managed, safer e-mail service and other collaboration tools such as online storage. Teachers and students are using the services to drive excitement in the classroom, inspire better study habits, and improve student performance.
70 days ago by MicrosoftThe Interoperability Executive Customer Council: A Collaboration With Microsoft
Microsoft established the Interoperability Executive Customer (IEC) Council in June 2006 as a means of regularly interacting with customers to obtain valuable feedback regarding their specific interoperability requirements. The company meets twice a year with the IEC Council to discuss interoperability issues, and then meets throughout the year with technical and business working groups comprising representatives from the member organizations to drill down on interoperability details. Since the launch of the council less than four years ago, IEC Council members have identified approximately 50 key areas for improved interoperability across Microsoft products and those of the software industry at large.
77 days ago by MicrosoftItalian Manufacturer Abandons OpenOffice.org for Improved Productivity and Workflows
Italian furniture designer and manufacturer Euromobil Group started in 1972 as Euromobil, a firm that specialized in home furnishings. The addition of Zalf and Désirée to the company allowed the new and bigger Euromobil Group to extend its product offerings and enter new markets. The growing multi-million dollar company suffered integration woes on the OpenOffice.org platform, which was also difficult to manage and update. Euromobil Group turned to Microsoft Office and SharePoint to provide an infrastructure that improved automation and collaboration.
77 days ago by MicrosoftFICO Credits Software With Critical Business Value: With HP Software, Audits Required for Compliance, Competitiveness, Take Minutes Instead of Hours; Efficiency, Visibility Dramatically Improved
It's no surprise that a company like FICO would strive to manage its business technology intelligently. Known to consumers for its leading credit scoring service, FICO is also a world-class provider of business software, including predictive analytics, fraud protection and other decision management solutions. With a portfolio that is sophisticated and technology driven, it's a given that FICO places a high priority on keeping its technology house in order. That's why the company has implemented HP Business Technology Optimization (BTO) software to create an integrated technology management framework.
77 days ago by Hewlett-Packard (HP)TechNet Webcast: Microsoft Office Project 2010 Overview (Level 200)
The presenter of this webcast will provide an overview of the capabilities of Microsoft Office Project 2010 and Microsoft Office Project Server 2010. The presenter will also discuss the key investment areas of unified project and portfolio management: simple and intuitive user experience, enhanced collaboration and reporting, and a scalable and connected platform.
93 days ago by MicrosoftMicrosoft Office System Webcast: Using Microsoft Office Project 2007 to Manage Your Project's Issues (Level 200)
Every project has its share of issues that need to be documented and monitored, and these issues may require that adjustments be made to the project schedule. The attendee of this webcast will learn how to use features and functionality in Microsoft Office Project 2007 that help to make sure that project issues are being captured and that let one track project issues to resolution in a proactive rather than reactive manner.
94 days ago by Microsoft
