Accelerators to Push Office

New packages of code and documentation are available to help partners and enterprise customers build Office-based custom solutions. The Office Solution Accelerators will help partners and enterprise customers use Office 2003 client applications and servers to automate business processes such as recruiting and preparing sales proposals. However, partners will have to keep track of Microsoft’s planned lineup of solution accelerators to avoid investing too much of their own effort in similar solutions.

Solution Selling Extended to Office

Similar to the Microsoft Solution Offerings introduced in 2002 to support sales of Microsoft server products, the Microsoft Office Solution Accelerators are designed to guide systems integrators, solution providers, and in-house developers in creating IT solutions that use Office applications as clients. Many accelerators aim at business processes that currently employ Office applications, such as preparing sales proposals in Word or scheduling meetings with job applicants in Outlook. (See the chart “Planned Office Solution Accelerators“.)