Empowering Personnel with Unified Communication
A unified and cost-effective communication platform is the foundation to productive employees. Integrating Microsoft’s desktop solutions, including SharePoint, transforms your employees’ desktops into information centers.

With many advancements and updates to SharePoint Portal, you need an experienced firm that not only understands the technology needs of these applications but also the business processes that make these applications so vital.

As part of our best practices, CDI helps you prepare to migrate your enterprise messaging system to the latest Microsoft Exchange technologies. With this service, expert CDI professionals work collaboratively with your IT staff to review your design, incorporating their knowledge of the industries best practices and the latest advancements for high performance messaging.

SharePoint 2007
Office SharePoint Server 2007 is a new server program that is part of the 2007 Microsoft Office system. Your organization can use Office SharePoint Server 2007 to facilitate collaboration, provide content management features, implement business processes, and supply access to information that is essential to organizational goals and processes.

Office SharePoint Server 2007 is designed to work effectively with other programs, servers, and technologies in the 2007 Office release. For example, in many 2007 Office release programs, you can initiate or participate in workflows, which are the automated movements of documents or items through specific sequences of actions or tasks that are related to a business process, such as the approval process for an expense report.

The following list offers examples of how specific 2007 Office release programs work with Office SharePoint Server 2007:

	Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 - Create a library of PowerPoint slides that can be shared with other users on an Office SharePoint Server 2007 site.
	Microsoft Office Access 2007 - Take a SharePoint list offline and use the reporting features in Office Access 2007 to view the data and create reports while traveling. Forms and reports that use the SharePoint list are fully interactive — and Office Access 2007 can later synchronize the local list with the online list when you bring your laptop back online.
	Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 - Take document libraries offline. SharePoint folders are displayed just as other Outlook folders are.
	Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007 - Design browser-compatible form templates, publish them to an Office SharePoint Server 2007 site, and enable them for use in a Web browser.
	Microsoft Office Excel 2007 - Save worksheets on a SharePoint site so that users can access them by using a browser. You can use these worksheets to maintain and efficiently share one central, up-to-date version, while helping to protect any proprietary information, such as financial models, that is embedded in the worksheet.
	Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 - Create and customize Office SharePoint Server 2007 sites and workflows. Create your own master pages and content pages, so that your site has a consistent look and feel. The CDI Advantage

Leveraging CDI experience with the Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint and other Desktop solutions allows you to confidently move forward in implementing an optimized communication and information-sharing infrastructure. Investment in these solutions can help significantly advance the planning and strategy development, while creating the framework for a more effective, efficient and profitable IT architecture.

CDI is an IT infrastructure services company that lends knowledge, experience and credibility to helping companies facilitate communications and collaboration between employees, partners and customers around the world.

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