Organizational Experience
Organizations of all shapes and sizes must be assured that the overall investment they make in their software is one that offers significant value and return to the organization and its users. With Office XP, this value is realized not only by significant deployment and management gains, but also by the software’s improvements as an enterprise development platform. Office XP offers organizations a variety of tools to help lower costs; improve deployment, administration, and management; and build customized, integrated business solutions that meet their business needs.
Office XP offers a set of tools that can be used by individuals, teams, and organizations to increase overall organizational productivity. Below are some of the capabilities that enable organizations to experience greater productivity and a lower total cost of ownership (TCO). More specifically, Office XP offers organizations the tools to help build and edit powerful Web-based and collaborative solutions, and to lower costs associated with deploying, managing, and administering Office applications.
Integrated Office and Web-Based Solutions
As organizations continue to move their business solutions to the Web, they have a greater need to make their Office applications part of their overall Web solution. Organizations must be able to make the solutions they created in Office be an integral part of the Web so that their users (and third parties) can access and share information. Office XP provides a variety of tools that allow organizations to create and extend their solutions to the Web.
Deployment, Management, and Administration
With every release of Office, a key consideration for organizations is how easy the product is to install, maintain, and support. With the new tools introduced in Office 2000, administrators could easily customize their Office applications at a very granular level and easily deploy them to the groups that needed them. Office XP makes some key improvements on those tools and offers a number of new tools that help administrators more easily deploy, manage, and administer Office.
Integration with Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server
Organizations can take advantage of a variety of benefits associated with using Office XP and Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server (Microsoft’s new document management server) together. These benefits allow users within the organization to share information with others more easily as well as search and manage documents more effectively.