The document discusses how collaboration tools like Microsoft SharePoint and Office can help organizations in tough economic times. It provides case studies of companies that realized benefits such as reduced costs, increased content reuse and employee productivity by using SharePoint for tasks like knowledge management, workflow automation and search across content. The document demonstrates some integration features and calls for organizations to assess their needs and Microsoft licensing options to maximize value.

1. Collaboration Breakthroughs: The Power of SharePoint and the Microsoft Office System March 11, 2009

5. Context: Hard Times Analyst Forecast (US IT Growth, 2008-2009 change) IDC +0.1% Gartner +0.1% Forrester +1.6%

7. IT: Categorizing and (Re-)Prioritizing “ First, the utility, keep the lights on, keep the computers working. Two is compliance. There will be more regulation. Do the benchmarking, be more efficient, try to standardize. Third is the discretionary projects. The thing I want to caution every CIO about: What criteria you were using in the fall of 2008 to call something transformational may have become irrelevant.” -- Ram Charan, “On the CIO’s Role,” InformationWeek, 1/19/2009 issue

8. A Word About That Middle Layer…

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