In these last months I had the chance to increase my knowledge around the Office System 2007 platform and I've started to propose solutions to big customers (Sharepoint and MOSS are consuming lots of my daily hours :P ).
I see every day that there's a wrong concept around the Office System family: customers thinks that Office is only a productivity suite. A terrible error!!
Today with Office System 2007 we have a great collabouration and cooperation platform that can be adaptable to every business needs and that covers also the "last mile" of an IT business: making the business data available and usable with the standard productivity client-side tools.
This is the vision we have (and that we'll show during the first months of this 2008 together with Microsoft):
A second question that comes really often is: if I've to develop a custom collabourative application, should I start to build a new application from zero or can I use the building blocks provided by the Office System family?
There's not always the same response to this question, but starting a new application by using the Office System family (Sharepoint as the base platform) permits you to have a solid platform that you can customize by building only the business components you need.
You gain in time and your customer will gain in productivity!
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