Announcing the Future of Productivity: Office 2010 + SharePoint 2010 - SharePoint Experts - Site Home

This morning, live from NBC Studios in New York City, we announced the availability of Microsoft Office 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint 2010 for business customers worldwide.

Microsoft SharePoint 2010 delivers a complete business collaboration platform for the enterprise and the web, enabling people to interact with each other, information and content helping drive productivity. We're excited about some of the positive press coverage we're already seeing for the product including this eWeek.com story on the benefits delivered to both IT and end users.

Stephen Elop, president of the Microsoft Business Division, started the event with a keynote that showcased how customers like General Electric, Del Monte Foods, KPN Getronics and the New South Wales Department of Education are benefiting from using the new versions.

The event was broadcast across 60 countries and in 26 languages through the virtual launch experience website at www.the2010event.com, built entirely on SharePoint 2010.

The productivity solutions delivered in the 2010 set of products released today will help businesses save, innovate and grow by:

Delivering better experiences across the PC, phone and browser when deploying Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 together with Office Web apps, the Outlook Social Connector, Office Mobile, SharePoint Intranet Sites and SharePoint Communities, which help people connect and collaborate regardless of location.
Offering powerful productivity experience in the cloud, in the customer's data center or a mix of both - today more than 40 million people have Microsoft Online Services, our cloud-based business applications and services, which are available in 39 countries around the world, and today, we announced major new Microsoft Online Services customers, including Kraft Foods, Novartis, and Codelco, the largest mining company in the world.
Providing developers a richer platform for building applications with APIs and support for Open XML, Silverlight, REST and LINQ as well as integrating with line of business systems thru Business Connectivity Services. More than 1,000 partners are already building SharePoint 2010 solutions today.

Businesses that deploy the 2010 set of products can expect to see significant productivity gains and greater return on their software investments. Today, Forrester also published a series of commissioned studies detailing how companies can expect:

More than 300% ROI in 3 years with the 2010 set of products, with a less than 8 month average breakeven point.
Savings from:

o increased productivity

o IT administration savings and a reduction in storage and training costs

o improved collaboration and new voice conferencing capabilities

o new business intelligence solutions

o reduced travel expenses

More than $13 million in savings over a three-year period
Average information worker to see a productivity improvement translating more than 2 work weeks per year

These reports can be found here:

The Total Economic Impact of Microsoft Office 2010

The Total Economic Impact of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010

The Total Economic Impact of Implementing Microsoft's Productivity Platform

I encourage you to go to the virtual launch experience at www.the2010event.com , where you'll find:

Stephen Elop's keynote
Product demos
Customer and partner testimonials
On-demand product sessions
Live chats with Microsoft product team members
Ways to engage with peers through tweeting and other online conversations

I also invite you to check out the video with Eric Swift, general manager of the SharePoint product team, talking about his favorite product features of SharePoint 2010, and thanking the customers and partners who played a role in our newest release.

Thanks for your time and I hope that as you explore our launch you find value in seeing the ways that other customers are already benefiting from their use of SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010.

Jen Davidson, Senior Product Manager