I haven’t had any posts in the last week, cause I was gearing up for the first Innovation Centre Breakfast. What is the Innovation Centre breakfast you ask? As the Microsoft Innovation Centre Queensland Manager I am hosting a monthly solutions session addressing business problems in the Queensland market place. The first session was on improving people productivity by enabling people with tools and the processes to carry on with the tasks at hand. The Next Generation Workplace (NGWP) is a solution developed by Avanade in the Microsoft Innovation Centre Queensland built on 4 key pillars
- Unified Communications
- Enterprise Content Management
- Real Time Collaboration
– Enterprise Search
The NGWP solution incorporates existing and soon to be released Microsoft products (less than 6 months) to deliver a collaborative workspace environment for the new aged worker who expects a high level of collaboration and communication as standard.
4 Pillars
The unified communications pillar highlights the convergence of communications to a single message store enabling workers to access their information anywhere using any device.
The enterprise content management pillar shows off the ability to manage enterprise wide content through rights management policy, enabling information sharing between an increasing connected community of partners, suppliers and customers without compromising security. Another skew on enterprise content management sees people driven processes where documents are shared and worked on by multiple people who are guided by automated workflows.
Thirdly Enterprise search is used to combat the information age (where works and becoming bogged down with more and more information) by enabling workers to search multiple and distinct databases for information through a single, effective and easy to use user interface.
Last but not least the solution tackles the problem of real-time collaboration with broad, standards based real time communications tools such as Live Meeting 2007, Round Table Camera and Office Communicator 2007. This real time collaboration scenario enables workers to see presence and calendaring information of other colleagues, ad-hoc conferencing using webcams and 360 degree panoramic cameras.
