August 25, 2005
Information Worker/User Productivity
A special thanks to Mr. Richard Losciale, President, Premier Knowledge Solutions, for introducing us to our guest speaker, Sean Abbott from Microsoft.
Sean Abbott will discuss Communication and Collaboration solutions using Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server and Office 2003 System.
Employee productivity is considered to be one of today's greatest challenges among organizations of all sizes. The growing, connected, collaborative, mobile workforce has embraced a variety of hardware, software, and services technologies to enable them to work more efficiently in a wide variety of locations. Thus, there is a growing need for solutions that meet information workers' needs in the areas of:
- Messaging and collaboration technologies to address customer needs and improve workforce productivity.
- Portals and content management that offer Web-based business solutions for increasing employee productivity and connecting with business partners and customers.
- Project management capabilities to enable business customers to easily manage their work and their people to understand the past, control the present, and change the future.
- Business productivity tools for the latest Microsoft Office System that offer improved methods for realizing faster organizational, team, or individual productivity.
Our Speaker
Sean Abbott
Business Productivity Advisor, Microsoft
Sean Abbott moved to the US in 1998 from New Zealand with a multinational business systems company. Sean worked for Cisco Systems as a Global Account Manager based out of San Francisco handling global accounts such as Levi's Strauss and The Gap group of companies. Relocating to St. Louis in March 2003 Sean joined Microsoft's Business Productivity Solutions Group - a group of consultative advisor's who focus on providing high level business solution overview presentations demonstrating how Microsoft's knowledge worker products can transform information in to business impact.