Microsoft's BI strategy also extends to combining Office 2007 with SharePoint which will form the basis of a federated portal providing wide-ranging data access. Perhaps the most significant activity around driving BI to a wider audience is the...
Part of the innovation in Vista, Office 2007 and SharePoint is really making sure businesses are able get access not just to their Microsoft information but to their corporate information - connecting up to their SAP system, their CRM system, but...
And OpenOffice.org will be endowed with a Google search box - assuming the open source community that develops it can be persuaded - Schwartz said in an interview. Office productivity software such as Microsoft Office is very different from the...
After all, the company's simple home page is one of the first ports of call for users all around the world, while its range of search-related products and portals offer specialised services for discrete markets and audiences.
To ease development of workflow-oriented applications, Microsoft is upgrading its InfoPath form-based application builder, and it will outline search improvements to its SharePoint portal server, according to the PDC session descriptions.
While Oracle has to be worried about IBM, Pelz-Sharpe said, Tsunami may be better seen as a reaction to Microsoft's SharePoint. SharePoint is document-sharing and collaboration technology that Microsoft has woven into recent server versions of the...