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- Will Egerton,
Wecon Services |
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Microsoft Office 2007
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Microsoft's new version of its immensely popular productivity software suite, Office, has arrived.
While Microsoft raves about the new productivity, collaboration and content management features in Office 2007, in a world of increasing bloated software, do users actually care?
But, given Microsoft's utter domination of productivity software sales, does Microsoft care what we think?
For more information on Office 2007 or to download a trial version, click here to visit the Microsoft Office web site.
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At Datapro Technology Solutions, our mission is to help our clients maximize the return on their investments in technology.
We have developed and refined our technology implementation methodology to help us achieve this goal.
For technology initiatives that affect an organization’s day-to-day operations, the ANALYSIS phase of our methodology is crucial.
When implementing new technologies that affect internal company operations, an opportunity exists to re-evaluate and improve business processes.
The successful definition of requirements for any new technology requires the identification of those business processes that will be affected.
Once these processes have been identified, they must be deconstructed in order to determine how they will fit with the proposed new technologies.
This process will often yield many surprises, uncovering operational deficiencies in entrenched businesses practices and procedures.
Inefficient processes can be re-engineered to both address and eliminate these deficiencies while, at the same time, work in harmony with the new technologies.
Therefore, a new technology initiative can provide both the impetus and methodology to improve operational processes that have been taken for granted for years.
The benefits from improved operations are numerous and vary from company to company. Some of the more obvious ones are:
- Lower operational costs
- Better staff communications
- Improved fulfillment and customer service
- Better defined allocation of responsibilities
- Less duplication of tasks
- Better allocation of company resources
- Better supplier and partner communications
During the REQUIREMENTS phase of our methodology, we encourage involvement and feedback from all affected company employees.
Frontline employees can be a valuable asset in uncovering existing deficiencies and identifying opportunities for improvement. Employee participation in a technology project also encourages company-wide buy-in of the new ways of doing things and smoother adoption of the new technologies.
Defining new technologies to meet business requirements, but at the same time re-evaluating and reworking business processes in the context of new technology, is one way to help guarantee the maximum return on technology investments.
To visit our web site and find out more about our successful technology implementation methodology, click here.
Datapro Technology Solutions is an IT consulting firm that helps small and medium-sized businesses get the most from their investments in technology.
To find out more about the services we provide and how we might be able to help your business, visit our web site at dataproforbusiness.com or give us a call at 416-977-1991.
In Next Month's Issue...
In April, we will present a case study on how we helped a client that was drowning in paper and inefficiences take back control of their operations.
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