Organizations can transform the way employees, partners, suppliers, and customers work together by implementing a collaboration solution that delivers familiar, pervasive, best-of-breed capabilities and that easily integrates with desktop productivity tools as part of a broader business productivity infrastructure.  Using collaborative workspaces you can connect people with robust portals, provide social computing tools, all while helping reduce cost and complexity for IT by taking advantage of an integrated infrastructure, existing investments, and an extensible architectural platform.

Empower Teams through Collaborative Workspaces

• Microsoft delivers a best-of-breed collaborative infrastructure that enables end users to easily create their own workspaces and share assets across teams, departments, and organizations while maintaining IT control.

Connect People, Processes, and Information through Portals

• Microsoft will help bring the full insight and data of the organization to the right people at the right time by making it easy to connect people with line-of-business data, experts, and business processes across the organization.

Harness Collective Intelligence with Social Computing Tools

• Microsoft enables organizations to deliver a broad set of social computing capabilities within their existing workspace and portal infrastructure, allowing end users to more easily harness the collective intelligence of the organization.

Simplify the Cost and Complexity of Offering Collaboration Capabilities

• The Microsoft Collaboration infrastructure uses existing investments, is extensible, and interoperates with other systems, allowing organizations to maintain a lower cost of ownership and enabling them to more easily meet business demands by building a single infrastructure.