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In today's uncertain economic climate, business decision makers are under more pressure than ever before to deliver value. Organizations everywhere are tightening their belts and aiming for slower spends in all areas of the business. At the same time, these organizations cannot afford to compromise productivity and efficiency. History has shown that organizations that continue to invest smartly in challenging times often emerge as the dominant player coming out of recessions.

How do you deliver productivity and efficiency? When your work involves managing information, you probably rely on a number of key enterprise solutions to enable productive and effective working practices. These enterprise solutions might include portal solutions, search tools, collaboration platforms, and business intelligence features.

The paper focuses on five specific ways in which SharePoint Products and Technologies can save you money. When you adopt SharePoint Products and Technologies in your organization, you can:

·         Reduce IT costs and complexity, by consolidating multiple product investments into a single infrastructure, by reducing infrastructure and support costs, and by getting all your enterprise solutions under a single product license.

·         Reduce development costs, by using comprehensive out-of-the-box components, by using built-in integration with the Microsoft Office 2007 suite, and by using the .NET Framework object models to reduce learning curves and development time.

·         Simplify management and training, by providing a single, easy-to-use interface for end users and for IT administration and governance.

·         Improve employee productivity, by implementing collaboration workspaces, self-service Web publishing, social computing features, and business process workflow and forms.

·         Enhance the effectiveness of customer service and sales teams, by aggregating critical information from across the enterprise and by providing rapid, easy access to information.

This paper provides information on how you can use SharePoint Products and Technologies to reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO) and maximize the return on investment (ROI) from your expenditure on enterprise solution platforms. These platforms can include portal solutions, collaboration tools, document management platforms, and search tools. This information is relevant to business and technical decision makers who are considering or planning how to consolidate infrastructure, reduce support costs, or streamline business processes.

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