ECM within the Microsoft platform has just been progressed into the Market Leader quadrant in Gartners latest review.

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This is FANTASTIC news for all ECM lovers out there. Hip hip hurray to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007!!!!

Life Science companies are exploring more practical approaches to better manage enterprise information, enable collaboration, improve customer service, drive innovation, and reduce costs. Please join CSC, Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, on this webcast for a demo of our Office based application (OBA), FirstPoint™.  Learn how FirstPoint’s rules based, configurable workflow engine can facilitate collaborative processes across teams and various functions of your organization.   Discover the value of automating what were once time consuming and counterproductive business processes while leveraging your existing investments in Microsoft Office and SharePoint. FirstPoint delivers a superior user friendly product to manage all documents — from non-regulated to highly regulated content.

In this webcast, we’ll provide a demonstration of how FirstPoint works in the Office applications you use every day; examples of successful document collaboration  (author, review and approval); and an understanding of how FirstPoint can help drive efficiency and meet 21 CFR Part 11 guidelines, ensuring proper security, approvals and audit trails.  Don't miss this informative webcast.. Register today:

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Microsoft with AvePoint invites you to a one day workshop to explore the benefits of the DocAve software platform for Microsoft^® Office SharePoint^® Server 2007.

From a single browser-based interface and with customizable reporting and e-mail notifications, SharePoint administrators can now monitor multiple SharePoint 2007 farms, perform item to entire platform level data backup, full-fidelity restore, manage, administer, and migrate content within the same or different SharePoint farms. It also performs seamless data archiving, full granular auditing, and site-specific “one-switch” disaster recovery.

This one day workshop will include hands on labs, real world examples and the opportunity to talk directly with AvePoint technical consultants.  Every attendee will receive a copy of the book “Beginning SharePoint 2007 Administration: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007” authored by Microsoft MVP Göran Husman.

This session is aimed to equip sales people with the knowledge and skills that will enable them to talk to new and existing customers about the business benefits of Microsoft technologies, and associated areas such as licensing.

The day will be packed with Microsoft technologies. The agenda is as follows –

•  Introduction to the day and the course
•  Microsoft Office
•  Windows Vista
•  The Microsoft Unified Communications solution
•  Microsoft Office SharePoint Server
•  Other key Microsoft server applications
•  Tour of Microsoft Campus (optional)
•  Windows Server
•  Virtualisation
•  The System Center Family
•  ForeFront Security
•  The fundamentals of Microsoft licensing

If Partners would like to book themselves onto this course on the 30^th September at TVP all they need to do is sign in to the Partner Learning Centre and click HERE!

HOPKINTON, Mass., ARMONK, N.Y., and REDMOND, Wash. — Sept. 10, 2008 — EMC Corp., IBM Corp. and Microsoft Corp. today announced a jointly developed specification that uses Web Services and Web 2.0 interfaces to enable applications to interoperate with multiple Enterprise Content Management (ECM) repositories by different vendors. The companies intend to submit the Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) specification to the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) for advancement through its rigorous standards development process.

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