Product | Vendor | Position |
OneNote | MS | Microsoft Office OneNote 2007 is a digital notebook that provides a flexible way to gather and organize your notes and information, powerful search capabilities so you can find what you’re looking for quickly, and easy-to-use shared notebooks for teams to work together more effectively. |
Windows Mobile | Windows Mobile software allowed users to add hours of productive time to their work week, equating to a productivity benefit of U.S.$8,600 annually per user. |
Outlook 2003 | Outlook 2003 helps users keep track of their tasks and eliminate unnecessary distractions so they can complete tasks faster. |
Misc. | Personal Productivity Microsoft Office Outlook 2003, Microsoft Office OneNote? 2003 and Windows Mobile are each specifically designed to help people organize, access and share information quickly and easily. |
Sharepoint | Personal productivity: Microsoft® Office System improved their business processes and helped employees improve productivity. |
Companies ... have achieved higher productivity, improved business processes and reduced IT costs through adopting the latest Microsoft® Office System products and technologies. They have gained these benefits by enhancing the ways that workers around the world access and manage information and work in teams. |
Productivity Benefits: Microsoft Office System products and technologies make it easier for information workers — individuals who create, use, transform, consume or manage information in the course of their work — to capture, organize and locate such information. Since these activities take nearly half of most information workers’ time, the time savings can be significant and generate productivity gains that help a company grow with few resource additions. |
Business Process Improvements: Microsoft Office System speeds the flow of information within a company and supports faster, better-informed decision making. These benefits register not as productivity gains, but as improvements in the company’s key performance indicators. The companies studied were able to close sales faster, make better procurement decisions, speed up their product development cycles, improve customer service and more. |
IT Benefits: Microsoft Office System products reduce a company’s total cost of ownership by allowing the IT department to provide better support with fewer resources. |
Google Calendar | Google | Organize your schedule and share events with friends |
Wouldn't it be great to be able to keep track of all the events in your life, coordinate schedules with friends and family, and find new things to do -- all with one online calendar? We thought so, too |
Seeing the big picture With Google Calendar, you can see your friends' and family's schedules right next to your own; quickly add events mentioned in Gmail conversations or saved in other calendar applications; and add other interesting events that you find online. |
Sharing events and calendars You decide who can see your calendar and which details they can view. Planning an event? You can create invitations, send reminders and keep track of RSVPs right inside Google Calendar. Organizations can promote events, too. |
Staying on schedule You can set up automatic event reminders, including mobile phone notifications, and instantly bring up anything on your calendar with the built-in search tool. |
With Google Calendar, it's easy to keep track of all your life's important events in one place. You can add events and send invitations effortlessly, share your schedule with friends and family, and search for events you might enjoy. |
IBM® Workplace™ Collaboration Services | lotus | Why Lotus Software Security-rich software that enables businesses to communicate, collaborate and increase productivity. |
• Helps improve productivity by providing the right capabilities in the context of a user’s role and the business activity on which he or she is working. • Helps accelerate collaborative business processes by bringing the right information together with the people who can answer a question immediately—helping reduce tasks that previously took days or hours down to minutes. • Helps reduce travel costs with an online work environment that includes Web conferencing, learning, e-mail, calendaring, instant messaging, team spaces and more. • A truly unique and innovative product that provides more flexibility with a range of integrated collaboration tools that can be arranged and exposed as needed through the included portal user interface. |
Unifying people, tools and resources to simplify day-to-day business |
IBM delivers an open-standards-based integrated collaborative environment that provides unprecedented flexibility and choice—of platform, the ability to integrate as part of other vendors’x environments and the ability to give people the client experience that is best suited to their particular roles. This helps empower organizations to make business decisions based on the needs of their businesses and the needs of their customers, partners and suppliers—not on what the vendor wants them to do.” |