Microsoft ® Office Groove ® 2007 IW/Groove Microsoft Corporation

Agenda  Why Groove?  What is Groove?  Groove and SharePoint  Groove Architecture Overview  Customer Stories  Groove Investments  Groove Demo

Why Groove? 1. Global enterprise operations 2. Increasingly meshed business landscape Out-sourcing, in-sourcing, home-sourcing Tight integration and team work with customers, partners, vendors 3. Information worker mobility Online, offline, intermittently connected 4. Rapidly changing work environment

On an austere network Multi- organizational What is Groove? Groove is desktop software that allows teams of people to work together securely over the network as if they were in the same physical location … Geographically dispersed Mobile Field Operations No VPNs, DMZ or security infrastructure File/folder sharing, project execution, processes

What Is Groove 2007? Groove 2007 is Part of the Microsoft Office system A full-fidelity collaboration application that integrates with other Office products A rich client that uses services to bridge work boundaries An extensible platform that supports a broad range of team requirements

Workspaces Groove and SharePoint Ad-hoc Fluid Narrow reach Short term Personal Productivity, Ad-hoc Communications Team Projects, Activities Team/Department Applications Enterprise Processes Workspaces Structured Stable Broad reach Long term

Better Together: Groove and SharePoint provide the integrated collaboration environment to help teams and organizations work together and share information Groove & SharePoint Groove is the rich client for teamwork and SharePoint, supporting dynamic team work (Outlook is the client for personal work) WSS for information sharing/publishing and applications Groove 2007 SharePoint 2007 Groove 2007

CA JRIES Groove for cross-agency teams assessing, responding to terror threats SharePoint for sharing, storing aggregated data Automatic bi-directional synchronization Hitachi Groove for general, ad-hoc collaborative team work SharePoint for sharing, storing key organizational assets and information Fisher Price Groove for product design and production projects across offices and with vendors SharePoint for the departmental share and enterprise store, workflow and project management HP SharePoint for centralized design/brand guidelines Groove for new product design projects with partners, vendors Groove & SharePoint Better Together: Integrated evidence

Mobile/Offline Always-on Security Firewall Traversal Network Optimization Key Differentiators

Mobile/Offline Always-on Security Firewall Traversal Network Optimization Key Differentiators

Manager Relay Disconnected Employee Partner Architectural Components Firewall Business Apps. (e.g. Siebel) Databases (e.g. SQL Server) Information Sharing (e.g. SharePoint Portal Server) Data Bridge

Presence/Real- Time Services Integration Groove adopts Communicator iconography Aggregate presence and contact information Launch real-time collaboration services within Groove Document Integration with SharePoint Bi-directional synchronization between Groove and document libraries Multi-endpoint sync capabilities Ability to lock the file in SharePoint Support for InfoPath Forms Build InfoPath solutions atop Groove Forms engine Leverage InfoPath front-end with Groove Forms back-end capabilities – collections, db lookups, topic/response, etc. Integrate data with enterprise systems Ship with, Ship Like Office Groove and OneNote together in Premium Localization – 32 languages Installation, activation Global infrastructure Watson Improve user success; quality, supportability Groove 2007 integrates with and extends other Office system applications Groove 2007 Summary

Groove 2007 Name Title Group

Add Office Enterprise 2007 with Groove to your competencies and offerings Groove provides competitive differentiation and unique capabilities Groove provides value-adding capabilities to customer infrastructure and solution offerings Mature Sharepoint deployments Forms-based solutions Start becoming familiar with Groove today (you’re customers as well!) – set the stage for the 2007 release and Office Enterprise 2007

Who to target Characteristics of an ideal Groove customer… MS Focus Areas: Professional Services, Public Sector, IT project management, Financial Services, Engineering/Manufacturing, Academic Dynamic team work Mobile/laptop users Occasionally disconnected teams/offline work Cross-organizational collaboration Geographically-dispersed teams Users who work on multiple projects Teams dealing with adverse infrastructure Have mature Sharepoint deployment

Partner Opportunities Improve customer collaboration OOB Develop custom Forms solutions Provides consulting & integration services Sharepoint/Office solution provider Solutions that are or lend themselves to being repeatable Extending Sharepoint solutions to include offline scenarios, or collaborative activities with needs to on-ramp and off-ramp to the server Offers training and support

Call to Action Most efficient approach for your customers to evaluate Groove with you… Step 1: Download Preview at Step 2: Set up a Workspace with the Customer Step 3: Virtual demo and overview in Workspace Step 4: Identify multiple “Use Cases” Step 5: PoC to map the tools to the “Use Cases” Step 6: IT Technical Briefings as required

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