Microsoft SoftGrid® Application Virtualization is the only virtualization solution on the market to deliver applications that are never installed and are dynamically delivered, on demand. It dramatically improves IT efficiencies, enables much greater business agility and a rich end-user desktop experience.
Home Page : http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/softgrid/default.mspx
Case Study :
Siemens Information Processing Services
Leading BPO Targets Savings of $1400 Per Agent Per Year Through Application Virtualization
http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/casestudy.aspx?casestudyid=4000000627
Friday, October 05, 2007
Tuesday, October 02, 2007
XNA Game Studio Express
Microsoft XNA Game Studio Express is a set of tools based on Microsoft Visual C# 2005 Express Edition that allow students and hobbyists to build games for both Microsoft Windows and Xbox 360. XNA Game Studio Express also includes the XNA Framework, which is a set of managed libraries based on the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 that are designed for game development. This documentation collection contains technology overviews, tutorials, and reference material related to XNA Game Studio Express.
http://mtbeta.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb200104.aspx
http://mtbeta.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb200104.aspx
Saturday, September 29, 2007
Microsoft Office Business Scorecard Manager 2005
Fact Sheet - October 2005
What Is Microsoft Office Business Scorecard Manager 2005?
Microsoft® Office Business Scorecard Manager 2005 is the name of Microsoft Corp.’s new server-based business performance management scorecard application. The new application leverages the power of the Microsoft Office System to help organizations build, manage and use scorecards and key performance indicators (KPIs), and perform deep analysis — all within an intuitive, collaborative environment. Microsoft Office Business Scorecard Manager 2005 gives companies a broad view of business opportunities, through which employees can better understand business challenges, effectively shape solutions and quickly execute on their objectives. Decision-making happens across all levels of an organization, and empowering employees with powerful business intelligence (BI) solutions can help them have greater impact.
Microsoft Office Business Scorecard Manager 2005 Features and Benefits
Dramatically enhancing the BI technologies originally released in the Microsoft Office Business Scorecards Accelerator last summer, Microsoft Office Business Scorecard Manager 2005 is uniquely suited to business scorecarding projects in which ease of use and deployment as well as integration with Microsoft Office System solutions are important. Microsoft Office Business Scorecard Manager 2005 allows a company to do the following:
• Align actions with strategy. Many companies struggle to articulate business strategies and align employees’ daily activities with those goals. Scorecards built with Microsoft Office Business Scorecard Manager 2005 provide a reliable and pragmatic approach to how businesses define strategy, provide information and access to all employees, and show how projects align with KPIs and objectives. Microsoft Office Business Scorecard Manager 2005 allows scorecards, initiatives and action plans to be monitored, managed and measured throughout the organization.
A scorecard helps companies articulate their high-level objectives (things that matter most) such as “customer satisfaction.” These objectives are broken out into supporting objectives that people are responsible for, such as “product quality.” At the bottom of the list are the KPIs — a KPI could be “returns.” With the scorecard approach, individual employees can monitor a KPI that connects to a high-level objective. In this way, companies can ensure that their actions align with their strategy.
• Gain complete insight in context. Microsoft Office Business Scorecard Manager 2005 helps companies make sense of their business data by putting it in the context of KPIs. Users can gain deeper insight by combining Microsoft Office Business Scorecard Manager 2005’s rich scorecarding functionality with reports, charting, graphs and analysis tools as well as unstructured data such as documents, spreadsheets and Web sites.
In a scorecarding environment, companies need to be able to gain deeper insight into information on a KPI. For example, if a user clicks on a KPI titled “net revenue,” that user could view a chart showing net revenue over time. He or she could also view a report that shows revenue by region and could view a PivotTable® report that shows the underlying information that was aggregated into the KPI.
• Collaborate on business management and action. Microsoft Office Business Scorecard Manager 2005 provides a robust framework for interpreting and working with business information, allowing people to not only understand data in its appropriate context, but also more effectively collaborate on group analysis and take action to improve business performance.
By using annotations, users can work together to provide more insight on a specific set of metrics. In addition, users can assign tasks specifically related to a KPI and/or a scorecard to the appropriate people. Users can also share scorecard data via e-mail.
• Empower employees to monitor and deliver against key metrics. Integrating with easy-to-use tools such as the Microsoft Office 2003 Editions and Microsoft Office SharePoint® Portal Server 2003, Microsoft Office Business Scorecard Manager 2005 empowers end users to build, manage and use scorecards. At the same time, Microsoft Office Business Scorecard Manager 2005 leverages companies’ existing skills, technology and investments to help them get more value with less cost and time.
With Microsoft Office Business Scorecard Manager 2005, end users can build their own scorecard using an intuitive scorecard builder application. Users can create their own site, which allows them to choose the KPIs and scorecards they want to track, as well as update targets.
• Achieve extensible functionality. Microsoft Office Business Scorecard Manager 2005 offers a scalable platform that enables the customization that independent software vendors (ISVs) and systems integrators (SIs) need to extend its functionality or integrate scorecards into line-of-business applications or other custom applications.
ISVs and SIs can extend Microsoft Office Business Scorecard Manager 2005 by adding their SharePoint-based analysis tools as the insight tool for KPIs. ISVs have different types of data visualization and charts that can be put into the context of a scorecard.
Pricing and Availability
• Business Scorecard Manager 2005 is scheduled to be available Nov. 1, 2005.
• Estimated retail pricing is $5,000 (U.S.) for the server with a client access license of $175 (U.S.) per seat. Customers should contact their large account reseller or value added reseller for volume licensing information.
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/newsroom/office/BusinessScorecardManager_2FS.mspx
What Is Microsoft Office Business Scorecard Manager 2005?
Microsoft® Office Business Scorecard Manager 2005 is the name of Microsoft Corp.’s new server-based business performance management scorecard application. The new application leverages the power of the Microsoft Office System to help organizations build, manage and use scorecards and key performance indicators (KPIs), and perform deep analysis — all within an intuitive, collaborative environment. Microsoft Office Business Scorecard Manager 2005 gives companies a broad view of business opportunities, through which employees can better understand business challenges, effectively shape solutions and quickly execute on their objectives. Decision-making happens across all levels of an organization, and empowering employees with powerful business intelligence (BI) solutions can help them have greater impact.
Microsoft Office Business Scorecard Manager 2005 Features and Benefits
Dramatically enhancing the BI technologies originally released in the Microsoft Office Business Scorecards Accelerator last summer, Microsoft Office Business Scorecard Manager 2005 is uniquely suited to business scorecarding projects in which ease of use and deployment as well as integration with Microsoft Office System solutions are important. Microsoft Office Business Scorecard Manager 2005 allows a company to do the following:
• Align actions with strategy. Many companies struggle to articulate business strategies and align employees’ daily activities with those goals. Scorecards built with Microsoft Office Business Scorecard Manager 2005 provide a reliable and pragmatic approach to how businesses define strategy, provide information and access to all employees, and show how projects align with KPIs and objectives. Microsoft Office Business Scorecard Manager 2005 allows scorecards, initiatives and action plans to be monitored, managed and measured throughout the organization.
A scorecard helps companies articulate their high-level objectives (things that matter most) such as “customer satisfaction.” These objectives are broken out into supporting objectives that people are responsible for, such as “product quality.” At the bottom of the list are the KPIs — a KPI could be “returns.” With the scorecard approach, individual employees can monitor a KPI that connects to a high-level objective. In this way, companies can ensure that their actions align with their strategy.
• Gain complete insight in context. Microsoft Office Business Scorecard Manager 2005 helps companies make sense of their business data by putting it in the context of KPIs. Users can gain deeper insight by combining Microsoft Office Business Scorecard Manager 2005’s rich scorecarding functionality with reports, charting, graphs and analysis tools as well as unstructured data such as documents, spreadsheets and Web sites.
In a scorecarding environment, companies need to be able to gain deeper insight into information on a KPI. For example, if a user clicks on a KPI titled “net revenue,” that user could view a chart showing net revenue over time. He or she could also view a report that shows revenue by region and could view a PivotTable® report that shows the underlying information that was aggregated into the KPI.
• Collaborate on business management and action. Microsoft Office Business Scorecard Manager 2005 provides a robust framework for interpreting and working with business information, allowing people to not only understand data in its appropriate context, but also more effectively collaborate on group analysis and take action to improve business performance.
By using annotations, users can work together to provide more insight on a specific set of metrics. In addition, users can assign tasks specifically related to a KPI and/or a scorecard to the appropriate people. Users can also share scorecard data via e-mail.
• Empower employees to monitor and deliver against key metrics. Integrating with easy-to-use tools such as the Microsoft Office 2003 Editions and Microsoft Office SharePoint® Portal Server 2003, Microsoft Office Business Scorecard Manager 2005 empowers end users to build, manage and use scorecards. At the same time, Microsoft Office Business Scorecard Manager 2005 leverages companies’ existing skills, technology and investments to help them get more value with less cost and time.
With Microsoft Office Business Scorecard Manager 2005, end users can build their own scorecard using an intuitive scorecard builder application. Users can create their own site, which allows them to choose the KPIs and scorecards they want to track, as well as update targets.
• Achieve extensible functionality. Microsoft Office Business Scorecard Manager 2005 offers a scalable platform that enables the customization that independent software vendors (ISVs) and systems integrators (SIs) need to extend its functionality or integrate scorecards into line-of-business applications or other custom applications.
ISVs and SIs can extend Microsoft Office Business Scorecard Manager 2005 by adding their SharePoint-based analysis tools as the insight tool for KPIs. ISVs have different types of data visualization and charts that can be put into the context of a scorecard.
Pricing and Availability
• Business Scorecard Manager 2005 is scheduled to be available Nov. 1, 2005.
• Estimated retail pricing is $5,000 (U.S.) for the server with a client access license of $175 (U.S.) per seat. Customers should contact their large account reseller or value added reseller for volume licensing information.
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/newsroom/office/BusinessScorecardManager_2FS.mspx
Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/epmsolution/HA101656441033.asp
Manage and control all types of work
Improve visibility and insight to enhance decision-making
Effectively communicate and collaborate with all stakeholders
Evolve with a scalable and configurable platform
Manage and control all types of work
Improve visibility and insight to enhance decision-making
Effectively communicate and collaborate with all stakeholders
Evolve with a scalable and configurable platform
Microsoft Office Project Portfolio Server 2007
Microsoft Office Project Portfolio Server 2007 is a top-down portfolio management solution that helps your organization realize its potential by identifying, selecting, and delivering a set of investments that best align with your business strategy. The top 10 ways Office Project Portfolio Server 2007 can help you gain visibility, insight, and control across your project, program, and application portfolios are:
Automate and enforce governance processes.
Define multiple workflows to subject each project to the appropriate governance controls throughout its life cycle — from proposal to post-implementation.
Employ best practice methods.
Use out-of-the-box templates and embedded best practice methodologies to more effectively manage project, program, and application portfolios across the organization.
Capture all investments within a central repository.
Consolidate business and information technology (IT) investments within an enterprise repository to improve visibility, insight, and control. Flexible configuration forms help administrators quickly build and publish templates, standardizing and streamlining the collection of data for all portfolios.
Objectively prioritize business strategy.
Employ proven techniques to define and prioritize your organization’s business strategy for the upcoming planning period.
Effectively prioritize and evaluate competing investments.
Utilize best practice techniques to automatically derive prioritization scores — such as strategic value, financial value, and risk — and develop investment maps to effectively evaluate the competing investments from multiple dimensions.
Optimize budget and align selected investments with the business strategy.
Run optimization what-if scenarios to identify tradeoffs and select the optimal portfolio under varying budgetary and business constraints that best aligns with your organization’s business strategy.
Reach the Efficient Frontier.
Take advantage of advanced portfolio analytical techniques — for example, insight analysis — to identify and break the constraints prohibiting the portfolio from reaching the Efficient Frontier.
Measure and track portfolio performance.
Monitor the performance of each investment to help ensure you realize the forecasted benefits. Reoptimize the portfolio in accordance with your governance process to help maintain continuous alignment with your organization’s business strategy.
Benefit from tight integration with Microsoft Office Project Server 2007.
Quickly deploy world-class portfolio analytical techniques that are tightly integrated with Microsoft Office Project Server 2007, providing your organization an end-to-end project portfolio management solution.
Consolidate and analyze projects across federated Microsoft Office Project Servers.
Link federated Microsoft Office Project servers to Office Project Portfolio Server 2007 to consolidate all projects within an enterprise repository, helping you to quickly gain visibility, insight, and control across all project portfolios.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/portfolioserver/default.aspx
Automate and enforce governance processes.
Define multiple workflows to subject each project to the appropriate governance controls throughout its life cycle — from proposal to post-implementation.
Employ best practice methods.
Use out-of-the-box templates and embedded best practice methodologies to more effectively manage project, program, and application portfolios across the organization.
Capture all investments within a central repository.
Consolidate business and information technology (IT) investments within an enterprise repository to improve visibility, insight, and control. Flexible configuration forms help administrators quickly build and publish templates, standardizing and streamlining the collection of data for all portfolios.
Objectively prioritize business strategy.
Employ proven techniques to define and prioritize your organization’s business strategy for the upcoming planning period.
Effectively prioritize and evaluate competing investments.
Utilize best practice techniques to automatically derive prioritization scores — such as strategic value, financial value, and risk — and develop investment maps to effectively evaluate the competing investments from multiple dimensions.
Optimize budget and align selected investments with the business strategy.
Run optimization what-if scenarios to identify tradeoffs and select the optimal portfolio under varying budgetary and business constraints that best aligns with your organization’s business strategy.
Reach the Efficient Frontier.
Take advantage of advanced portfolio analytical techniques — for example, insight analysis — to identify and break the constraints prohibiting the portfolio from reaching the Efficient Frontier.
Measure and track portfolio performance.
Monitor the performance of each investment to help ensure you realize the forecasted benefits. Reoptimize the portfolio in accordance with your governance process to help maintain continuous alignment with your organization’s business strategy.
Benefit from tight integration with Microsoft Office Project Server 2007.
Quickly deploy world-class portfolio analytical techniques that are tightly integrated with Microsoft Office Project Server 2007, providing your organization an end-to-end project portfolio management solution.
Consolidate and analyze projects across federated Microsoft Office Project Servers.
Link federated Microsoft Office Project servers to Office Project Portfolio Server 2007 to consolidate all projects within an enterprise repository, helping you to quickly gain visibility, insight, and control across all project portfolios.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/portfolioserver/default.aspx
Saturday, February 10, 2007
Case Study - adidas
Adidas, Sportswear Company Saves U.S.$2 Million a Year with Calendar Management Solution
Case Study based on
Microsoft Office Outlook 2003
Microsoft Office Project 2003
Microsoft Office Project Server 2003
The calendar management system based on Project Server 2003 is a huge step forward for us compared with an offline solution.
Reinhard Denk
Senior Business Consultant
adidas
Link to MS.com
Download in doc format
Case Study based on
Microsoft Office Outlook 2003
Microsoft Office Project 2003
Microsoft Office Project Server 2003
The calendar management system based on Project Server 2003 is a huge step forward for us compared with an offline solution.
Reinhard Denk
Senior Business Consultant
adidas
Link to MS.com
Download in doc format
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