Microsoft® Office Groove® 2007

IW/GrooveMicrosoft Corporation

Agenda

1. Why Groove?2. What is Groove?3. Groove and SharePoint4. Groove Architecture Overview5. Customer Stories6. Groove Investments7. Groove Demo

Why Groove?

1. Global enterprise operations2. Increasingly meshed business

landscapeOut-sourcing, in-sourcing, home-sourcingTight integration and team work with customers, partners, vendors

3. Information worker mobilityOnline, offline, intermittently connected

4. Rapidly changing work environment

On an austere networkMulti-

organizational

What is Groove?

Groove is desktop software that allows teams of people to work together securely over the network as if they were in the same physical location…

Geographically dispersed

Mobile Field Operations

No VPNs, DMZ or security infrastructureFile/folder sharing, project execution, processes

What Is Groove 2007?

Groove 2007 is

Part of the Microsoft Office system

A full-fidelity collaboration application that integrates with other Office products

A rich client that uses services to bridge work boundaries

An extensible platform that supports a broad range of team requirements

WorkspacesGroove and SharePoint

Ad-hoc

Fluid

Narrow reach

Short termPersonal Productivity,Ad-hoc Communications

Team Projects,

Activities

Team/DepartmentApplications

Enterprise Processes

Workspaces

Structured Stable Broad reachLong term

Better Together: Groove and SharePoint provide the integrated collaboration environment to help teams and organizations work together and share information

Groove & SharePoint

Groove is the rich client for teamwork and SharePoint, supporting dynamic team work(Outlook is the client for personal work)

WSS for information sharing/publishing and applications

Groove

2007

SharePoint 2007

Groove

2007

Groove

2007

CA JRIES

Groove for cross-agency teams assessing, responding to terror threatsSharePoint for sharing, storing aggregated dataAutomatic bi-directional synchronization

HitachiGroove for general, ad-hoc collaborative team workSharePoint for sharing, storing key organizational assets and information

Fisher Price

Groove for product design and production projects across offices and with vendorsSharePoint for the departmental share and enterprise store, workflow and project management

HPSharePoint for centralized design/brand guidelinesGroove for new product design projects with partners, vendors

Groove & SharePointBetter Together: Integrated evidence

Mobile/Offline

Always-on Security

Firewall Traversal

Network Optimization

Key Differentiators

Mobile/Offline

Always-on Security

Firewall Traversal

Network Optimization

Key Differentiators

Manager

Relay

DisconnectedEmployee

Employee

Partner

Architectural Components

Firewall

Business Apps.(e.g. Siebel)

Databases(e.g. SQL Server)

Information Sharing(e.g. SharePoint Portal

Server)

Data Bridge

Presence/Real-Time Services

IntegrationGroove adopts Communicator iconographyAggregate presence and contact informationLaunch real-time collaboration services within Groove

Document Integration

with SharePointBi-directional synchronization between Groove and document librariesMulti-endpoint sync capabilitiesAbility to lock the file in SharePoint

Support for InfoPath

FormsBuild InfoPath solutions atop Groove Forms engineLeverage InfoPath front-end with Groove Forms back-end capabilities – collections, db lookups, topic/response, etc.Integrate data with enterprise systems

Ship with, Ship Like

Office

Groove and OneNote together in PremiumLocalization – 32 languages Installation, activationGlobal infrastructureWatsonImprove user success; quality, supportability

Groove 2007 integrates with and extends other Office system applications

Groove 2007 Summary

Groove 2007

NameTitleGroup

Add Office Enterprise 2007 with Groove to your competencies and offerings

Groove provides competitive differentiation and unique capabilitiesGroove provides value-adding capabilities to customer infrastructure and solution offerings

Mature Sharepoint deploymentsForms-based solutions

Start becoming familiar with Groove today (you’re customers as well!) – set the stage for the 2007 release and Office Enterprise 2007

Who to target

Characteristics of an ideal Groove customer…

MS Focus Areas: Professional Services, Public Sector, IT project management, Financial Services, Engineering/Manufacturing, Academic

Dynamic team workMobile/laptop usersOccasionally disconnected teams/offline workCross-organizational collaborationGeographically-dispersed teamsUsers who work on multiple projectsTeams dealing with adverse infrastructureHave mature Sharepoint deployment

Partner Opportunities

Improve customer collaboration OOBDevelop custom Forms solutionsProvides consulting & integration servicesSharepoint/Office solution provider

Solutions that are or lend themselves to being repeatableExtending Sharepoint solutions to include offline scenarios, or collaborative activities with needs to on-ramp and off-ramp to the server

Offers training and support

Call to Action

Most efficient approach for your customers to evaluate Groove with you…

Step 1: Download Preview at www.groove.net

Step 2: Set up a Workspace with the Customer

Step 3: Virtual demo and overview in Workspace

Step 4: Identify multiple “Use Cases”

Step 5: PoC to map the tools to the “Use Cases”

Step 6: IT Technical Briefings as required

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