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world is becoming more interconnected and
organizations that want to succeed in this
new environment need to become more connected
as well. This is not simply an information
technology (IT) architecture issue, but
a challenge to individuals, teams, businesses,
and the wider world
The critical factor for organizational
success is empowering people: specifically,
those people who create, analyze, distribute
or consume information as part of their
jobs – the information workers.
In a time of rapid change, agility depends
on the ability to adapt and align quickly.
Rigid, centrally-managed systems can’t
do that. Neither can organizations running
yesterday’s technology as if it
were “good enough” for today’s
challenges. But give information workers
powerful tools that put them in control
of their business environment, tools that
make working together as natural as working
alone, and as familiar as the basic applications
they already know – then you have
the kind of agility at the point of contact
to drive innovation, drive insight, and
drive success.
Our solutions address challenges in four
areas that are critical to effective collaboration:
- Integrated communications
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- Access to information and people
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To this end our collaboration solutions
extensive use Microsoft Technologies,
specifically Microsoft Sharepoint Server
2007 and Microsoft Groove
Microsoft Office
SharePoint Server 2007 improves
organizational effectiveness by providing
one unified suite of enterprise-scale
applications that satisfies diverse business-critical
needs, such as managing content and business
processes, simplifying how people work
together across boundaries, and enabling
better informed decision-making.
iLink’s expertise in SharePoint
Server 2007 enable you to:
- Manage Content and Processes
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- Control documents through detailed,
extensible policy management
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- Centrally store, manage, and
access documents across the enterprise
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- Simplify Web content management
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- Extend business processes across
the organization
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- Streamline everyday business
activities
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- Present business-critical information
in one central location.
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- Instantly connect people with
information
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- Share business data broadly
while helping to protect sensitive
information
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- Leverage your unstructured
business networks to drive better
decisions
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- Simplify Internal and External
Collaboration
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- Enhance customer and partner
relationships
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- Ubiquitous Enterprise Search
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- Work when and where you want
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- Connect and share knowledge
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- Empower IT to Make a Strategic
Impact
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- Get enhanced interoperability
support
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- Enable IT to focus on more
strategic tasks
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- Simplify deployment, management,
and system administration
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- Robust system monitoring, usage
tracking, and monitoring tools
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Groove 2007
Offline
Groove 2007 is a collaboration application
designed for peer-to-peer information
sharing, particularly for project teams
and those that work across enterprise
domains.
iLink works extensively with the 5 key
elements of Office Groove 2007:
- Workspaces. Containers created
by information workers to share
information and work together
on team projects.
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- Tools. Applications added to
workspaces by team members for
the purposes of sharing and working
together on information, both
structured (for example, forms)
and unstructured (for example,
files).
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- Presence and Communications.
Built-in presence awareness, chat
and messaging.
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- Alerts. Text and audible notifications
that inform workers of key events
and work activity.
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- Launchbar. A single starting
point for users to monitor all
Office Groove 2007 elements including
workspaces, contacts, presence,
and alerts, and to execute basic
functions such as creating new
workspaces and communicating with
or inviting users.
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Business Benefits
in Using Groove:
- Work together in context.
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- Customize each workspace for
the team's unique needs.
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- Collaborate with colleagues,
partners, and customers—with
one product.
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- Keep your team in sync, automatically
and efficiently.
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- See who's working on what,
when.
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- Synchronize SharePoint document
libraries with Office Groove 2007.
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- Create a form with Microsoft
Office InfoPath 2007; share it
with Groove 2007.
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- Make the most of impromptu encounters
with Microsoft Office Communicator
integration.
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- Work with international teams
in their own languages.
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iLink’s
Collaboration solutions produce Tangible
Business Value
Results of business value studies conducted
independently by Navigant Consulting during
2003 at some of the world’s largest
organizations demonstrate the tangible
business value achieved by implementing
collaborative solutions built with Microsoft
technologies. These studies demonstrate:
- Shorter project cycle times.
Cycle times reductions averaging
34 percent were projected for
document creation processes.
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- Fewer meetings. Enhanced visibility
into project status helped profiled
organizations reduce meeting times
by an estimated average of 35
percent.
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- Lower travel expenses. Improved
access to information is expected
to reduce travel expenses by an
average of 37 percent.
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Although these results are specific
to the organizations at which the analyses
were conducted, they demonstrate the value
that can be achieved by an integrated
approach to implementing collaboration
and communication services.
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