MS-Office: Why MS-Office: Why Standardize?Standardize?

What is MS-What is MS-Office?Office?

Benefits of a Benefits of a software suitesoftware suite

Benefits of MS-Benefits of MS-Office, specificallyOffice, specifically

Why Standardize?Why Standardize?

What is MS-Office?What is MS-Office?

Integrated Integrated Software suite:Software suite:• Word ProcessingWord Processing• SpreadsheetSpreadsheet• Database Database

ManagementManagement• Presentation Presentation

ManagerManager

Integrated Software suite:Integrated Software suite:Word ProcessingWord Processing

MS-Word:MS-Word:• document sharingdocument sharing• spell checkingspell checking• document templatesdocument templates• desktop publishingdesktop publishing• handles large documentshandles large documents• virtually universal file formatvirtually universal file format• well established and well established and

supportedsupported

Integrated Software suite:Integrated Software suite:SpreadsheetSpreadsheet

Ability to automate Ability to automate calculationscalculations

Document sharingDocument sharing Multi-sheet workbooksMulti-sheet workbooks

Integrated Software suite:Integrated Software suite:Database ManagementDatabase Management

Create shared Create shared databasesdatabases

Write custom Write custom applicationsapplications

Create ad hoc queries Create ad hoc queries and reportsand reports

Integrated Software suite:Integrated Software suite:Presentation ManagementPresentation Management

Visually exciting displaysVisually exciting displays Get your point across Get your point across

easilyeasily Perfect training toolPerfect training tool

Benefits of a software Benefits of a software suitesuite

Uniform user interfaceUniform user interface Decreased training Decreased training

costscosts Better supportBetter support Well-documentedWell-documented Canned classes Canned classes

availableavailable

Benefits of MS-Office, Benefits of MS-Office, specificallyspecifically

Tightly integrated with Tightly integrated with MS-IEMS-IE

Common scripting Common scripting language across language across productsproducts

Easy to useEasy to use Upgrade cycle = 3 Upgrade cycle = 3

yearsyears

Why standardize?Why standardize?

Less problems with Less problems with conflicting versionsconflicting versions

Easier to support a Easier to support a single vendor, single single vendor, single versionversion

Favorable pricing for Favorable pricing for large installationslarge installations

Possible automation Possible automation benefitsbenefits