Office 2007 As A Business Application Platform

2007 Office System Document: AMR Research Article - The 2007 Microsoft® Office system as a Business Application Platform

A short AMR Research Alert Article about the 2007 Office system as a Business Application Platform.

AMR Research reports that the 2007 Microsoft® Office system is evolving into a platform for building and extending business applications, making vital business processes more relevant and accessible to more people. Most directly acknowledging this trend is Microsoft’s Office Business Application (OBA) Services, denoting platform-level enhancements, such as workflow, enterprise search, XML file formats, security, and the new extensible UI. This allows Office Client and Server products—as well as products from other independent software providers—to serve and support business intelligence (BI), communications and collaboration, and enterprise content management (ECM) needs for enterprises.