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Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer outlined the company's
vision for how people, armed with the right software, are the key to driving
business success. Called "People-Ready," this vision for business is
the backdrop for a series of innovative solutions in new and existing categories
that Microsoft will bring to market over the next year. Addressing more than 500
business customers, Ballmer showcased new business solutions and explained how
they are enabled by the integration across the company's forthcoming versions
of the Windows Vista operating system, the 2007 Microsoft Office system, Windows
Mobile software and the next version of Microsoft Exchange Server, as well as
infrastructure offerings such as Windows Server 2003 and SQL Server 2005.
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| Microsoft CEO
Steve Ballmer (R) listens to fashion designer Tommy Hilfiger (L) discuss
empowering his employees with the tools to drive business success as
Microsoft launches it's "People-Ready" Business vision. New
York, March 16, 2006. |
"Twenty years ago this week, Microsoft - armed with
our belief in the power of software to change the world - was listed as a
publicly traded company. People-Ready is a natural extension of our founding
vision of empowering people through software. Today we take this to the next
level by showing how these tools now work together in new ways to enhance
innovation and drive greater value for business," Ballmer said.
"Fueling our vision is a series of software solutions resulting from a $20
billion R&D investment over the past three years that is producing new
innovation in a range of categories. From business intelligence to the mobile
work force, from collaboration to communications, and from CRM to enterprise
search, the opportunity for software to deliver even greater customer value is
limitless."
The company's People-Ready vision is based on the belief
that people are the ultimate drivers of a business' success. A business that
is People-Ready gives its people software tools that enable them to collaborate
and work together globally, to contact and serve customers instantly, and to
streamline and reinvent processes intuitively. Along these lines, Microsoft
previewed new software solutions that will deliver even greater customer value.
Ballmer said that in the coming year Microsoft will apply its product portfolio
and provide differentiated offerings to a much broader set of customer needs in
the following categories:
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Unified communications and collaboration. Microsoft is
extending the rich capabilities of software to improve and advance business
communications.
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The next release of the Microsoft Office system will
extend desktop capabilities though new server technologies.
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Enterprise search. Microsoft's enterprise search
technologies are moving beyond empowering people to create documents by
enabling them to better manage the information they need to be successful.
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The mobile work force. The world of work is increasingly
mobile. Microsoft's comprehensive approach to mobility that spans devices,
software and networks addresses the needs of business in a way that no point
solution provider can.
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Business intelligence. One way to increase the impact
that people can have in an organization is to give them access to the
information and insight they need.
- Customer relationship management (CRM). With the Microsoft Dynamics line
of business management solutions, Microsoft is unifying the previously
separate worlds of business process automation (such as CRM and ERP) with
the world of productivity.
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