1. Microsoft Office Groove Jim Moffat, elastictime Clive Davies, D2i

2. The Collaboration Spectrum Ad hoc Fluid Narrow reach Short term Structured Stable Broad reach Long term Personal productivity,ad hoc communications Team projects and activities Team and departmentapplications Enterpriseprocesses

3. Collaboration Business Challenges • Assemble teams quickly across geographic and organizational boundaries and network environments • Work together dynamically and effectively with team members in a single, secure environment • Access and work on team and organizational information and applications while offline or intermittently connected • Increase business productivity by streamlining the process of sharing, revising and publishing content • Retain key outcomes and records of informalteam work

4. Collaborate With Your Real Teams Collaborate With Your Teams CEO • Workspaces let you collect a virtual team and all relevant information and contacts in one place for a project • More secure data storage, on computers and in transit • Work online or offline – have your information with you • Share documents, discussions, chats, SharePoint files, and more • All users are automatically updated with the very latest information when connected to the Internet Engineering Design In Advertising Agency Lawyer Out Board Member

5. Broad Information Sharing and Workflow Dynamic Teamwork Collaborative WorkspacesUsing Groove 2007 + Windows SharePoint together

6. Typical Groove Scenarios • Small, geographically-dispersed, high performance teams • Project-centric, unstructured work • Cross-org and mobile collaboration • Challenging, heterogeneous network environments • Need to capture, share, and retain data from informal processes

7. Example Groove Deployments • Public Sector • Cross-organisation/agency collaboration • Disaster management/recovery • Healthcare • Professional Services • Engagement team, and client-team workspaces • Proposals • Financial Services • Insurance claims • M&A and deal rooms • Manufacturing • New product innovation • Supply chain integration • Field service

8. Lets start with the basics… Always-on encryption Automatic data synchronization Member presence awareness Cross-firewall capability… Alice F I R E W A L L F I R E W A L L Inside the Firewall Bob

9. Alice Invites Carol… Groove ServerRelay Alice F I R E W A L L F I R E W A L L Workspace Carol Bob

10. Carol picks up the invitation… Groove ServerRelay Alice F I R E W A L L F I R E W A L L Workspace Carol Northwind Traders Bob

11. The workspace is sync’d across the firewall Groove ServerRelay Alice F I R E W A L L F I R E W A L L Workspace Carol Bob

12. Perhaps Carol then goes Off-Line… Groove ServerRelay Alice F I R E W A L L F I R E W A L L Workspace Carol OFF-LINE Bob

13. Alice makes changes in the workspace… Groove ServerRelay Alice F I R E W A L L F I R E W A L L Workspace Carol Northwind OFF-LINE Bob

14. Carol gets the changes automatically when she reconnects to a network… Groove ServerRelay Alice F I R E W A L L F I R E W A L L Workspace Carol ON-LINE Bob

15. Groove Hybrid ArchitectureConceptual Model Groove Clients Decentralization Centralization Locally stored application, tools, and data for productivity Centralized policy management; Relay services to support offline, x-firewall + Groove Relay Groove Manager Groove Server components 15

16. F I R E W A L L F I R E W A L L bn Groove 2007 Architecture Required and optional components Directory Server PKI Groove Server 2007 Manager (Audit) Groove Server 2007 Manager Groove Server 2007 Relay Groove Server 2007 Data Bridge Existing Server Required DMZ Optional

17. Microsoft Office Groove Enterprise Services… Deploy Microsoft Office Groove Server 2007… • Onsite Infrastructure • Required for large enterprise deployment (>1000 seats) • For organizations with in-house IT expertise • Provides additional features: • AD Integration • Auto-Configuration • Auto-Migration • PKI Integration • Auditing • Hosted Infrastructure • Intended for small deployments (50-1000 seats) • For organizations with limited IT resources • Can be a precursor to onsite Office Groove Server 2007 deployment

18. “This offers other opportunities to create more secure external collaboration with many partners.” StatOil Leading Oil and Gas Producer Improves Collaboration with Offline Working

19. “Due to the ease of use, no formal training whatsoever is needed for working within the currently running agency online collaboration space because it is so simple to find your way into the system.” European Railway Agency Rail Agency Boosts Productivity by 100 Per Cent

20. “With email, you don’t know if someone got the message, and you can’t be sure everyone’s accessing the same information. Groove is secure, it’s available to everyone and early feedback is that people find it very easy to use” NHS Primary Care Trust Improves Patient Care