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The term Office System refers to a collection of client
applications, servers, online services, and solution accelerators. Like .NET,
Office System is a broad term whose meaning has shifted over time; this chart shows
the lineup as of Nov. 2003.
With the exception of Office and Exchange Server, all offerings here
have official names with the prefix Microsoft Office. Client applications and
servers also have a version year—Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003,
for instance.
Solution accelerators are packages of additional software and
documentation designed to help enterprise customers, systems integrators, and solution
providers build solutions for doing a particular task with Office System products. Those
shown here are representative; many more are planned.
Finally, some important functionality of the Office System is enabled by
add-on components to Windows Server 2003. In particular, Windows SharePoint Services
provides important document and data sharing functions as well as infrastructure for the
SharePoint Portal Server product, and Windows Rights Management Services enables users to
protect content such as documents and e-mail messages and define what other users may do
with the content. However, these components are not technically part of the Office System
and do not share the Office System brand.
| Name |
Tasks
Supported |
| Client Applications |
| Office |
Suite for document editing, data access,
e-mail, and collaboration. Components include Access (database), Business Contact Manager
(storing and managing customer data), Excel (spreadsheet), InfoPath (for creating XML
schemas and exchanging XML data), Outlook (e-mail, calendar, and contacts), PowerPoint
(presentation), Publisher (document publishing), and Word (document creation). |
| FrontPage |
Web page and site design. |
| OneNote |
Digital note-taking. |
| Project |
Project planning, scheduling, and management. |
| Visio |
Business and technical diagramming. |
| Servers |
| Exchange Server |
E-mail and management of group calendars,
contacts, and tasks. Uses Outlook client. |
| SharePoint Portal Server |
Design, hosting, and maintenance of corporate
intranets and extranets. |
| Live Communications Server |
Enterprise instant messaging and other forms
of real-time communication, such as voice and video. |
| Project Server |
Collaborative project management and resource
planning. Uses Project client. |
| Online Services |
| Live Meeting |
Web-based conferencing service. |
| Solution Accelerators |
| Recruiting |
Planning interviews of job applicants by
groups of managers and collecting group feedback. |
| Six Sigma |
Managing Six Sigma business process
improvement projects. |
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