Microsoft builds out Office components
InfoWorld | at | by Mike
Hoping to deepen Office's corporate roots, Microsoft on Monday will debut a set of offerings designed to help users exact more value from its suite of applications. The Microsoft Office Solution Accelerator program consists of a set of software components, templates, and architectural guidance from the company. The first seven Office Solution Accelerators will ship this fall with others to follow later this year and into next.
"These solutions are focused on very specific business problems common among a broad range of users. We looked at departments like human resources, finance, and sales groups and how they are using Office so we could integrate those products in a way to streamline problems in any one those departments," said Anders Brown, Group Product Manager with Microsoft's Information Worker Division in Redmond, Wash.