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OBA Composition Reference Toolkit
The OBA Composition Reference Toolkit brings to surface the underlying composition capabilities of the 2007 Microsoft Office system.
2007 Office System Document: User Interface Evaluation Design Guidelines
This information is provided to assist sofware developers in evaluating the scope of the UI Design Guidelines for the 2007 Microsoft Office suites.
Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office Second Edition Runtime
The Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office Second Edition (VSTO 2005 SE) redistributable package installs the Visual Studio Tools for Office runtime, which is required to run solutions built using VSTO 2005 or VSTO 2005 SE.
Creating a Custom User Site Provisioning Solution with Office SharePoint Server 2007
This code sample shows how accessing and manipulating various SharePoint Server components programmatically with the built-in SharePoint Server APIs enable this type of business process automation. The automation was developed primarily by using Visual Studio Tools for Office 2007 Second Edition and the Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows Workflow Foundation.
Office Business Applications Momentum Book
Read the success stories in this book to see how companies have created Office Business Applications (OBAs) to develop and strengthen customer relationships, create innovative products and services, improve operations, reduce costs, and build higher value connections with partners and suppliers.
SharePoint Server 2007 SDK: Software Development Kit and Enterprise Content Management Starter Kit
The SharePoint Server 2007 SDK is designed for solution providers and other developers to learn about the new SharePoint Server 2007 enterprise application and platform. It features conceptual and "How to" articles, sample code, and programming references. Also included in the SDK, the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Starter Kit is designed to learn about how to extend the new ECM features and platform in Office SharePoint Server 2007.
OBA RAP E-forms Processing in Manufacturing Plant Floor Analytics. Business Enablement
To learn more about how this OBA RAP addresses business requirements and delivers value, view this presentation of the manufacturing applications landscape, the requirements and value of analytics in manufacturing operations, and the solution layers of an end-to-end Analytics Framework.
OBA RAP for Forms Processing in the Public Sector. Solution Architecture Deep Dive
This presentation provides a technical overview of an OBA Solution Architecture for the E-Forms processing solution framework.
OBA RAP for Manufacturing Plant Floor Analytics. Solution Architecture Deep Dive
This presentation provides a technical overview of the Microsoft OBA Solutions Architecture required for analytics in manufacturing operations.
OBA Reference Architecture Pack E-forms Processing in the Public Sector. Business Enablement
This overview of the current processes related to forms processing in the Public Sector covers optimization opportunities, related enterprise concerns, and utilization of an automated solution framework to materialize process optimizations.
Excel Services and Excel 2007 Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 Job Submission Developer Guide
The General Reference section of the Excel Services and Excel 2007 Windows Compute Cluster Server (CCS) 2003 Job Submission Sample Developer Guide provides topics that demonstrate how you can increase the computational power and reliability of Microsoft Office Excel 2007 workbooks by using a high-performance computing (HPC) solution composed of Excel Services, Excel 2007, and Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003. This developer guide is accompanied by a sample download.
2007 Office Sample: Using the Business Data Catalog and Smart Tags with the 2007 Office System
Learn how to build custom applications that use the business data catalog and smart tags. This code sample and white paper walks through a custom solution that integrates LOB data with Office. The solution uses product information to support the creation of a quote sheet.
Consumer Engagement Reference Architecture (CERA) for Health Plans. A Technical View
This presentation walks through the process of building a reference architecture. It demonstrates the steps involved in using Windows Live ID for authentication, collaborating between the health and wellness coach and the member, and building an OBA (Office Business Application) for health plans. It also outlines the technical challenges, solutions architecture, and the associated technologies.
Consumer Engagement Reference Architecture (CERA) for Health Plans. The Business User Experience
This presentation provides the business challenges and benefits of CERA for Health Plans. It provides an overview of the business challenges in health plan industry and an explanation of how the Office application platform addresses these challenges. This presentation will also explain how other personal technologies such as Windows Live platform, Mobile platform, media center, etc can help in engaging members in improving their health and reducing health costs.
2007 Office System: Microsoft SDK for Open XML Formats
The new Open XML file formats in the 2007 Microsoft Office system are an open standard and are based on well-known technologies: ZIP and XML. Open XML files are accessible as part of the WinFX technologies in the System.IO.Packaging namespace. This SDK is built on top of the System.IO.Packaging API and provides strongly typed part classes to manipulate Open XML documents.
Credit Suisse Develops and Deploys SOX 404 Compliance Solution using SQL Server 2005
Credit Suisse, based in Zurich, Switzerland, provides investment banking, private banking, and asset management services to clients in more than 50 countries. Because its shares are traded on the New York Stock Exchange, the company had to comply with regulations specifying internal controls introduced by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) Section 404. Credit Suisse needed a solution scalable and integrable with its line of business operations.
SharePoint Server 2007 Templates: All Role-Based My Site Templates
Role-Based Templates for SharePoint My Sites are custom templates designed for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and the My Site functionality and tailored to address the unique needs and requirements of specific roles within an organization. The templates extend the standard My Site functionality, providing a personal portal and dashboard with data relevant to your job role and displaying information in a way that is familiar, easy, and built around the way people in the company work.
Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats
Open, edit, and save documents, workbooks, and presentations in the file formats new to Microsoft Office Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007.
South Holland District Council uses the 2007 Office to improve collaboration and measure performance
South Holland District Council uses the 2007 Microsoft Office system to improve collaboration and measure performance. The South Holland District Council (SHDC) needs to upgrade and automate its current information and records management technology. SHDC would also like to calculate progress against key performance indicators more accurately.
SharePoint Server 2007 Presentations: Enterprise Search Deep Dives
This download presents packaged presentations and videos of the following conference sessions: Enterprise Search Strategy and Opportunities; SharePoint Search Extensibility; Protocol Handlers and IFilters; Customizing and Extending Search in Office SharePoint Server 2007; Business Data Search and; SharePoint Search Deployment Scenarios
Reference Application Pack for Loan Origination Systems
Developing and modifying products in an agile manner enables banks to be highly competitive and adaptable in key markets. To achieve these objectives the Office Business Application (OBA) Reference Application Pack for Loan Origination Systems (OR-LOS) will provide: Architectural Guidance and Application Building Blocks.
2007 Office System Document: 2007 Office System Logical Architecture Diagram
This diagram illustrates the relationship between the different client and server applications within the 2007 Office system as well as the related technology and development tools.
Building Custom Search WebParts with SAP NetWeaver Portal for SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS)
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) introduces an enterprise-level server for Compositon of Applicatons, Aggregation of Information, Collaboration and Document Management including Search as a significant evolution of the SharePoint Server platform. It supports strongly the unification of enterprise data across unstructured documents, structured business data, and people to enable federated search across them.
Office Business Applications: Building Composite Applications Using the Microsoft Platform
This book is about composite applications and how they can be developed as OBAs using the 2007 Microsoft Office System. It provides an overview of the technologies available in the 2007 Microsoft Office System, and gives several examples from various industries to build OBAs using composition at the presentation, business-logic, and data layers.
Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the 2007 Microsoft Office System
Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the 2007 Microsoft Office System (also known as �Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office Second Edition� or �VSTO 2005 SE�) is an add-on to Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 that enables you to build application-level add-ins for applications in the 2007 Microsoft Office system and the Microsoft Office 2003 System.
2007 Microsoft Office Suites Managed Object Model Poster
Download this poster to view a developer roadmap for the 2007 Microsoft Office system programs, tools, services, and servers.
OBA Reference Architecture for Supply Change Management: Exploring the User Experience
This presentation gives a feel for what the user experience will be like for end users, as they use an Office Business Application.
OBA Reference Architecture for Supply Change Management: Understanding the Development Model
This presentation provides very detailed information on how the OBA Reference Application Pack for SCM was actually built. There is guidance around roles and responsibilities as well, to get a feel for the development model required to build these kinds of applications.
Office Business Applications: Reference Application Pack for Supply Chain Management
An example of building OBAs in your own organization, or even use this as a starter kit to jump start building your own OBAs.
Seven Development Projects with the 2007 Microsoft Office System and Windows SharePoint Services
This guide highlights architectural underpinnings, the latest enhancements for developers, and code samples for building custom applications and solutions.
2007 Microsoft Office system Beta 2
Preview the 2007 Microsoft Office system and gain first-hand experience with the new look and feel, features, and functionality of the 2007 Microsoft Office release.
Forrester: "Developers, Get Ready: 2007 Microsoft Office Is A Serious Application Platform"
The prospect of business applications that employ Outlook, Excel, and/or Word as their user interfaces is very exciting to developers who want to focus on business processes, transaction processing, content management, and other back-office value rather than building user interfaces.
Spreadsheet compliance in 2007 for Microsoft Office System
Research indicates that over half of financial management reporting is performed with spreadsheets. Despite this, a disparity exists between the importance of spreadsheets to business processes and the level of corporate resources devoted to spreadsheet development. Organizations today are under considerable regulatory pressure (such as SOX and Basel II). An organization must take into account all applicable policies and requirements when developing a regulatory compliance framework.
Extending Enterprise Applications with Microsoft Outlook: Architectural Design Guide
This paper discusses how Web services can be used to provide a connected infrastructure that can integrate fragmented data islands contained in enterprise applications and databases. By combining this approach with development tools such as Visual Studio Tools for Office, organizations can develop more intuitive interfaces to enterprise systems by integrating them with desktop productivity applications such as Outlook.
Microsoft Enterprise Content Management White Paper
Businesses are seeing a huge explosion of structured and unstructured information that includes documents, e-mail messages, voice mail, and video.This white paper examines the state of content chaos and provides a view of the major factors that drive the development of ECM solutions.It also provides a view of how Microsoft is driving innovation in ECM with the upcoming release of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 that provides a broad set of ECM functionality on a unified platform.

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