Today’s research requirements are significant. Parsing large amounts of data, publishing and dissemination of information, sharing and collaboration with multiple teams and partners around the globe, tracking and accounting for grants… the technology needs for research units are unique, considerable, time consuming and costly. Microsoft’s Research Management solutions can help you create an attractive and affordable research environment powered by cutting-edge technologies that effectively meet all these needs, and more. Working directly with our partners and several university research units, we’ve designed solutions to enable better collaboration and deliver smarter tools for analysis, development and professional authoring, plus scalable and powerful on-demand computing power at a lower cost of ownership.

FOCUS ON RESEARCH… NOT COMPUTING Microsoft Research Management solutions provide access to key algorithms to help researchers analyze and experiment without worrying about computing. This cost-effective platform lessens experimentation time, reduces costs and helps researchers stay focused on getting results: • Potentially shrink computational

analysis from years to weeks with scalable computing, servers and storage access.

• Simplify data analysis by using pre-existing Microsoft Windows® Azure™ data management applications validated by the research community.

EMPLOY POWERFUL COMPUTING FOR FASTER ANALYSISPrefer to keep computations inside the four walls? Speed up your data analy-sis with a Windows® HPC Server. It networks together a number of servers within your institution (clusters) and allows you to distribute multiple paral-lel workflows to better handle large, diverse datasets. Plus, each server is allocated specific tasks, significantly reducing your data analysis time. EMPOWER YOUR RESEARCH IN THE CLOUD Conduct bandwidth-hungry data analysis without investing in extra servers or infrastructure management. Using Microsoft Windows® Azure™ to host standard sequence data, you can run

complex, high level algorithms in a much shorter computational time... all without putting strain on your own resources. BOOST YOUR SEARCH CAPABILITIES Extend SharePoint Server’s search access to numerous scientific literature databases with easy bookmarking and sharing. Other capabilities: • Narrow results to scientific publica-

tions, authors, conferences, journals and organizations with Microsoft® Academic Search.

• Locate other publications related to your search with the Citation Context tool.

• Import high quality data straight into Microsoft® Excel® with Windows® Data Market.

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MANAGE AND MULTIPLY YOUR RESEARCH POWER AND PRODUCTIVITY

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COLLABORATE, COMMUNICATE AND ADMINISTER, EASILY AND FLUIDLY Research collaboration can be complicated with teams often spread across the globe. Created with key partners and higher education customers, complimentary Microsoft SharePoint® packages for research are designed to make discovery, collaboration, analysis, dissemination and administration more efficient and easy. • Collaborate with off-site researchers

with ease. o Request and begin new projects, share a

list of projects with other users and easily add users to your existing projects.

o Identify fellow researchers with matching interests and expertise within their “My site.”

• Discover and organize content with newfound efficiency.

o Search for information sources via an Open Search API.

o Save results as bookmarks and save queries.

o Aggregate multiple RSS feeds into a single web part.

• Author and disseminate your research in constructive ways.

o Share articles, proposals and reports with colleagues around the world.

o Allow users to amend and comment on documents in a structured way before submission.

• Allow documents to be automatically sent to colleagues upon submission and approvals via SharePoint’s document workflow technology.

GET RESEARCH DONE AND PUBLISHED IN LESS TIME AND AT A LOWER COST With Microsoft Research Management solutions, your research unit can experiment, innovate, collaborate, store data and publish more effectively, efficiently and at a lower cost. Your research unit will have secure access to smart tools for analysis, development and professional authoring, along with the high-performance computing capacity, servers and storage they need on demand. To learn more about how solutions from Microsoft can support your research efforts, please visit: http://microsoft.com/eduresearch

CASE STUDIES

Managing big data in new ways to help fight HIV http://bit.ly/xDlvihInstitute uses parallel development to help solve genetic mysteries. http://bit.ly/ww3kP9UC Berkeley brings massive computational power to researcher desktops. http://bit.ly/xMmizc

CONTACTTo find out more, contact your local Microsoft partner.

OFFERS

Windows Azure. 90-DAY FREE TRIAL for students and faculty. No Obligation. http://bit.ly/x7PUJa

Unlock our SharePoint Virtual Research Environment for FREE. http://bit.ly/yoSBZO

DISCOVER YOUR PERFECT SOLUTION

OPTIMIZE TECHNOLOGY FOR SCALE: Gain access to scientific applications and computing power on demand.

Experiments & Simulations

Collaboration

Archiving/Storage

Dissemination

Administration

Analytics

ULTIMATE COMPUTING AND ANALYTICAL POWER: Run massive data parsing and analytical computations.

MAXIMIZE COMMUNICATION AND COLLABORATION: Facilitate local and global access to multidisciplinary scientists and their work in a secure environment.

SECURE RESEARCH DATA: Simplify compliance by centralizing research data and controlling user access.

ACCESS & PUBLISH: Streamline work by ensuring uninterrupted access to scientific applications and data.

EXTRACTING KNOWLEDGE FROM VARIED INPUTS/DATA SETS: Perform data mining, machine learning for pattern recognition and complex data reduction and visualization.

ACCELERATE DEPLOYMENT: Perform grant management, document preparation, and management of post publication data.

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SCENARIOS CAPABILITIES TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS

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