Microsoft Business Productivity Infrastructure – Take your business productivity to the next level.

In the February newsletter (link below), Comcity talked about Office 2010 and the coming impact on productivity it will have on your business. Over the coming issues Comcity will provide you with technology details and reviews of the solutions and explain through scenario examples how they can benefit your business.

Turn your IT Infrastructure Expenditure from a black hole expense into an IT Investment with true ROI and VOI.

Microsoft is now releasing it’s full weight behind a new suite of server and desktop products, integrated like never before, to make you business more productive than ever.

The platform will be called the Microsoft Business Productivity Infrastructure (MBPI) and consists of four core product lines:

•  Microsoft Office 2010
• Microsoft SharePoint 2010
• Microsoft Exchange 2010
• Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2

In this newsletter Comcity will outline some of the top new features for Microsoft Office 2010.

Give your mobile workforce the tools they need to succeed. In today’s world, practically everyone is mobile. With Microsoft Office Mobile, the work wheels keep moving, with the ability to share, edit, and comment on documents with Smartphone’s, using a familiar Microsoft Office experience. And use Web Apps through the browser of a Smartphone to make edits and view documents without losing any formatting or content.

Turn raw data into smart decisions. PowerPivot for Excel, a data analysis add-in, allows you to quickly calculate data sets of hundreds of millions of rows, and Sparklines, a brilliant visual graphic, show trends in a single cell right next to the corresponding data. Excel, the definitive data tool, is updated to help you make even better decisions—without the need for costly Business Intelligence solutions.

Master your inbox with advanced e-mail management. Conversation View, Clean Up, and Ignore in Outlook 2010 remove duplicate information and act like a “mute button” for your inbox. In addition, MailTips can be configured by IT to provide notices before messages are sent to avoid information leaks outside the company domain or embarrassing mistakes to large distribution lists.

Help maintain compliance in a rising tide of information. The Accessibility Checker inspects documents for content that may be difficult for people with disabilities to consume and provides an explanation of issues with step-by-step help for correcting them. Retention Policy is an archiving tool that is more flexible to users’ workflow, with capabilities such as item-level retention, user-created file application, and exception handling. Office 2010 offers a variety of tools and features that improve an organization’s ability to maintain compliance—from accessible document creation to e-mail retention and improved Enterprise Content Management (ECM).

Instantly share slideshows across town or around the world. Spend less money on third-party conferencing tools with Broadcast Slide Show. You can present a slideshow directly from PowerPoint 2010 to anyone with access to a Web browser by hosting the content locally with SharePoint 2010, or through a free service provided over the Internet.

More information on the new features in Office 2010 can be found at the Microsoft Beta site here

http://www.microsoft.com/office/2010/en/whats-new/default.aspx

In the coming Comcity Newsletter Issues, we will provide further details on the other Microsoft Business Productivity Infrastructure technologies and provide relevant examples on how you can achieve the best productivity experience through your PC, Phone or browser for your business.

Make sure you read our related specials below for Microsoft Office 2010.

If you would like further information regarding potentially utilising these solutions for your business in future please feel free to contact your Account Manager.