Groove Workspace for the Microsoft Solution for Intranets

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Groove Workspace for the Microsoft Solution for
Intranets
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Information overload

• Technology has increased the abundance of
  unfiltered or low-quality information or data
  smog
  
• 1.5 billion gigabytes of information/year (and
  growing)
  
• 150 hours/year spent looking for lost information
  
  
• Average white collar worker receives 40
  emails/day
  
• 85 of corporate data is unstructured
• Need to easily locate information
• Need to organize existing information
• Need tools that are simple to deploy and manage

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Need for effective collaboration tools

• Email has been pushed beyond its design center
• Business organizations are increasingly
  interdependent
  
• Effective collaboration tools must work the way
  people do
  
• Dynamic and flexible
• Spans across enterprise boundaries
• Structured and ad-hoc
• Synchronous/asynchronous
• End-user controlled and managed
• Secure (without user burden)
• A shared experience not just shared documents

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Business solution

• Microsoft Solution for Intranets
• Empowers the knowledge workplace with Web-based
• collaborative team services and information
  management
  
• Groove Workspace for MSI
• Extends Microsoft Web-based team collaboration to
  include
  
• offline access and secure, firewall traversal
• Benefits of a combined solution
• Enterprise information sharing/management
• Ease of centralized ad-hoc team sites
• Offline access to web content with automatic
  synch
  
• Extend cross-firewall without IT assistance/DMZ
• Both managed and end-user driven

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Solution for all modes of collaboration
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What is the MSI?

• Microsoft Solution for Intranets (MSI) is a
  packaged offering that includes
  
• SQL Server
• Office XP
• Microsoft Producer
• SharePoint Team Services
• Windows 2000 Server
• SharePoint Portal Server
• Prescriptive architecture guide (PAG)
• Additional services and support
• Two optional components to MSI v1.5
• Groove Workspace for MSI
• Windows Media Server

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What is Groove Workspace for MSI?

• Groove Workspace for MSI is a packaged offering
  that includes
  
• Groove Workspace professional edition
• Groove Mobile Workspace for Microsoft SharePoint
• Prescriptive architecture guide (PAG)
• Additional services and support

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Product Integration
SharePoint Portal Server The intranet portal
solution SharePoint Team Services The team Web s
ite solution
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Product Integration
Groove robust, offline client for Microsoft
collaboration experience
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Product Integration
Groove unique alternative for secure,
cross-firewall collaboration
Firewall
Firewall
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Compaqs Knowledge Network
Deployment Architecture
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Customer Feedback

• Motivation for Groove and the MSI
• collaborate across teams and organizational
  boundaries with customers/partners
  
• alleviate company networks and personal inboxes
  that are clogged with multiple versions of the
  same content
  
• move outside the realm of IT and IT decision
  making
  
• find the correct information quickly and easily,
  work on it collaboratively, and publish it
  centrally online for use and re-use
  
• improve the taxonomy between corporate,
  division, team and ad-hoc collaboration
  
• ensure that everyone on a project team has
  up-to-date, reliable information and understands
  exactly what that information means to his or her
  job

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Summary/Next Steps

• Summary
• Integrated solution for creating and managing
  information
  
• Out-of-the-box solution for internal and external
  collaboration
  
• Next Steps
• Install Microsoft Solution for Intranets v1.5
• Install Groove Workspace for MSI
• Try combined solution for your next project or
  meeting
  
• To learn more about MSI www.microsoft.com/solutio
  ns/msi
  
• To learn more about Groove for MSI
  www.groove.net/microsoft/msi
  

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