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Non-monetary switching costs can be high when adopting alternative office productivity suites, but deployment may also greatly decrease MS licensing costs. Assess your environment to determine if and where deploying an alternative suite makes sense.

Solution Set

Justifying continued investment in MS Office, with prices remaining steady, is becoming more difficult when there are cheaper SaaS or even free alternatives.

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IT leaders looking to adopt an alternative office productivity suite and reduce their MS Office licensing costs need to understand their organizational requirements or risk either overspending or incurring preventable switching costs. Leverage...

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Money-saving opportunities exist for many organizations by implementing a limited deployment of an alternative to Microsoft Office.

Office 2010 is Microsoft's next major iteration of its popular Office suite, and includes an online, browser based version. While Office 2010 does include a number of significant improvements and enhancements, it is considered an evolutionary,...

Use of Microsoft Office Open XML (OOXML) file format, introduced with Office 2007, has lagged mostly due to file compatibility issues with Office 2003 and slow Office 2007 adoption rates. However, as Office 2007/2010 adoption increases over the...

Info-Tech surveys reveal that 33% of clients intend to upgrade to Office 2010 in the next 18 months. Use this research note to understand who should upgrade, who should wait and why, and then review best practices for upgrading to Office 2010.

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Office 2010 is Microsoft's next major iteration of its popular Office suite, and includes an online, browser based version. While Office 2010 does include a number of significant improvements and enhancements, it is considered an evolutionary,...

Note

Office 2003 is an aging suite quickly losing support from Microsoft and third-party software developers. A new upgrade cycle is bringing the majority of the marketplace to either Office 2007 or Office 2010. Be aware of Office 2007/2010 adoption...

Solution Set

This solution set will allow organizations to determine the most appropriate course of action for upgrading their office productivity suite.

OpenOffice.org released Version 3 of its free, open-source office productivity suite. Functional parity with Microsoft Office is at its highest, especially for the handful of Microsoft (MS) Office features most frequently used. However, when...

In-Depth Report

Compatibility issues with older versions of Office may have serious repercussions on the integrity of Excel spreadsheets that are shared between Office 2007 and previous versions. Where there is no choice but to work across multiple releases of...

Compatibility issues between Office 2007 and previous versions of Office may have serious repercussions on the integrity of Excel spreadsheets that are shared amongst multiple releases of Microsoft Office. Small enterprises relying heavily on...

Companies must protect confidential documents, when they are distributed beyond enterprise boundaries, to reduce risk and comply with regulatory requirements. Microsoft Office includes strong encryption for securing documents, but client-level...

This technology-driven myth still haunts headlines and marketing brochures. Paper isn't going anywhere. It's a fundamental part of all modern enterprises, and no new application or appliance will replace it ? despite promises from companies such...