Tag: Collaboration

CRN : Microsoft Office365–Best Cloud Application of 2011 #msonline #office365

CRN has published an overview of their ‘15 Best Product for 2011’. Office365 is their pick for best Cloud Application :

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Cloud Application: Office 365

Microsoft launched its cloud-based service for Exchange, SharePoint and Lync — with support for online versions of its Office franchise — with ultra-competitive pricing starting at $6 per month per user. Enterprises can be up and running with full functionality within minutes, it can be managed in-house or remotely by resellers, and we found it to be uber-flexible and compelling. It’s the real deal, and it blows away Google Apps.

Remarkable also that other then the highlighted text no mention of Google product / service anywhere in the whole overview.

Source : CRN.com

Get Started With Office 365!

 

The wait is over! Office 365 brings together Microsoft cloud productivity services in a secure, reliable, and flexible package. Better yet, it has been tested by over 200,000 organizations and Office 365 is available today to businesses of all sizes in 40 markets around the world. You’ll find that whether you want to connect via a mobile device, PC or browser to work with others and take action quickly, Office 365 will help you.

“Great collaboration is critical to business growth, and because it’s so important, we believe the best collaboration technology should be available to everyone. With a few clicks, Office 365 levels the playing field, giving small and midsize businesses powerful collaboration tools that have given big businesses an edge for years.”

—Steve Ballmer, CEO, Microsoft

Office Web Apps nu ook in het Nederlands beschikbaar

Vers van de pers … Office Web Apps (word, Excel, PowerPoint en Onenote in de browser) zijn beschikbaar via www.skydrive.nl ; nu ook in het Nederlands :

Today the Office Web Apps (on Windows Live SkyDrive and Hotmail) became available in 15 new countries including China, Denmark, Finland, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, and Turkey.

These additions bring the total number of countries to 26 – making the Web Apps available to more than 1/3 of all earthlings.

  1. Australia
  2. Austria
  3. Belgium
  4. Canada
  5. China (new)
  6. Denmark (new)
  7. Finland (new)
  8. France
  9. Germany
  10. Hong Kong (new)
  11. Ireland
  12. Italy (new)
  13. Japan (new)
  14. Netherlands (new)
  15. New Zealand (new)
  16. Norway (new)
  17. Portugal (new)
  18. Russia
  19. South Korea (new)
  20. Spain (new)
  21. Sweden (new)
  22. Switzerland
  23. Taiwan (new)
  24. Turkey (new)
  25. United Kingdom
  26. United States

So what does this mean for the 15 new countries? It means that, starting today, people in these countries can use the Web Apps to view, edit, and share Office documents from anywhere with a browser and an internet connection. This includes viewing, editing, and sharing Office document attachments in Hotmail.

Bron : Office Web Apps Blog

Microsoft Cloud Services is goed vertegenwoordigt op het CIO in the Cloud event op 30/11/2010 #msonline #bpos

OP 30 november a.s. vindt het CIO in the Cloud event plaats in het Media Plaza in Utrecht. Microsoft is een van de sponsoren en zal daar een CIO Roundtable invullen.

Om de Microsoft CIO Roundtable waardevol te maken voor de deelnemers, zal niet Microsoft zelf aan het woord zijn, maar een aantal Microsoft klant CIOs zullen hun ervaringen delen in een dialoog met de aanwezigen :

Deelnemende klant CIOs zijn :

Ben Gorter : Reinier de Graaf Gasthuis

Rufus Plantz : TMF Group

ROUND TABLE Welke vragen spelen bij de implementatie van cloud diensten en hoe hiermee om te gaan
Cloud Computing biedt uw organisatie veel nieuwe mogelijkheden en roept ook veel vragen op, ondermeer op het gebied van beveiliging, continuiteit, privacy en koppelingen met uw bestaande ICT omgeving. Microsoft heeft een aantal CIOs en ICT verantwoordelijken van bestaande klanten uitgenodigd voor deze rountdtable. Zij hebben de stap naar de cloud gemaakt en delen graag hun ervaringen met u.

Peter de Haas, Online Strategy Manager, Microsoft

Naast de Microsoft CIO Roundtable vinden er gelijktijdig nog een aantal andere roundtables plaats van andere sponsoren van het event. Dit zijn de ‘usual suspects’ met hun eigen verhaal en een aantal roundtables met klantcases.

Er zijn ook 2 Microsoft partners met echte klantcases (Royal Mail Group en Telegraaf Media Groep) op basis van Microsoft Online services :

ROUND TABLE Telegraaf Media Groep in the Cloud
Telegraaf Media Groep neemt bij Atos Origin Cloud-dienstverlening af. Aan de hand hiervan wordt tijdens de Round Table onder andere besproken of Cloud voor TMG gebracht heeft wat zij ervan verwachtte en hoe TMG de veranderingen in de rol van Atos Origin als system integrator ziet.
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Dick Pouw, Concern IT Directeur, Telegraaf Media Groep – Telegraaf Media ICT

ROUND TABLE ‘Pay-as-you-go’ oplossing ter ondersteuning van de lancering van nieuwe initiatieven, het transformeren van diensten en het terugdringen van kosten
In deze ronde tafel geeft Rudolf Laane u inzicht in de Royal Mail Group casus. De Cloud oplossing is erop gericht om online diensten aan bedrijven en burgers te transformeren, om de jaarlijkse IT-kosten voor de website te verminderen en om de uitbreiding en diversificatie te ondersteunen van nieuwe webgerelateerde diensten, zonder gehinderd te worden door vertragingen en kosten die traditionele IT met zich meebrengt. Voor het eerst brengt Royal Mail Group hiermee de kosten van IT in overeenstemming met de opbrengsten.
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Rudolf Laane, Vice President Cloud Services, Capgemini

Keuze genoeg dus deze dag om ervaringen te horen met Microsoft’s Cloud Services. Niet wat mogelijk allemaal kan met Cloud, maar wat er daadwerkelijk al mee gedaan wordt …

Microsoft Office 365 – The best productivity solutions all in one Cloud Service

Yesterday Microsoft introduced Microsoft Office 365. Microsoft Office 365 brings together cloud versions of our most trusted communications and collaboration products with the latest version of our desktop suite for businesses of all sizes.

You can check out the new webpage for more information :

 

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Meanwhile the information flow has started. So I will be doing some posts later today / tomorrow on that.

Also I will give ‘Microsoft Online Services – The Ultimate List’ document an overhaul over the weekend with all the new stuff included.

Office Web Apps embedded in your weblog

Thought it would be a nice start of my presentation tomorrow to start it off from my own weblog. I’ve uploaded my presentation to my Skydrive and used the new embedding feature to put it on my blog. From there I can either present from the browser or load it into PowerPoint if and where avaialble …

Google Wave .. gone

Yes, Google pulled the plug on Google Wave according to a blogpost yesterday :

… We have always pursued innovative projects because we want to drive breakthroughs in computer science that dramatically improve our users’ lives. Last year at Google I/O, when we launched our developer preview of Google Wave, a web app for real time communication and collaboration, it set a high bar for what was possible in a web browser. …

… Wave has taught us a lot, and we are proud of the team for the ways in which they have pushed the boundaries of computer science. We are excited about what they will develop next as we continue to create innovations with the potential to advance technology and the wider web. …

Continue at source : Google blog

Little over a year ago Gartner Group’s Tom Austin asked (himself) this question :

Will the Google Wave inspire a Revolution?

by Tom Austin  |  May 29, 2009  |  6 Comments

Google inspires and frustrates, leads and lags, marches to the beat of a different (non-enterprise) drummer and wants everyone (including enterprises) to love and adore it.

What a mix! I have been looking at Google Wave and I am really, really impressed. At the same time, I have serious misgivings about whether Google understands what it needs to do to succeed with enterprises (I have  research note that’s about to pop out – probably will appear around 3 June).

Wave is potentially a major disruptive discontinuity, a clean sheet design. It will be darned near impossible for vendors of existing or earlier-generation products  to morph their products to effectively emulate this. Wave will force others to do new clean sheet projects.

Unfortunately, the first on the block with an entirely new, disruptive discontinuity, isn’t always the long term winner.

Continue at source : Gartner.com

At that time there wasn’t really much to say about it. It was an innovative thought which  was overhyped to say the least. Overhyped because the intentions, or at least people’s perceptions, where that Google Wave would replace email, Unified Messaging, Unified Communications all together.

Robert Scoble analysis at that time “hinting” in the direction that Google Wave was really a hype. Not solving any communication challenges we might have, but creating new ones :

OK, I took a few hours off from playing with Google Wave yesterday. I read all my comments on the post I wrote Thursday about Google Wave, many of which were very ascerbic toward me.

I took the day off and said “what if they are right?” and “is Google Wave a really great way to collaborate with other people?”

On coming back to Google Wave with fresh eyes tonight and even after collaborating with people on a few things my answer is “no, they are not right” and “no, Google Wave is even less productive than email.”

Continue at source : scobleizer.com

Some day many of the ideas introduced in Google Wave may surface in other solutions. But this endavour also showed us that challenging email is one tough cookie …