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Microsoft Office is crucial to Microsoft's people-ready vision, which Microsoft will promote with the slogan Where do you want to go today? to assist users in making the most of Microsoft's vast arsenal of software products and, presumably, make us feel good about using them. For instance, at TechEd, Microsoft showed off its new LOBi (Line of Business Interoperability for Office SharePoint Server), which will give users data and processes from various back-end applications directly through SharePoint, which is the portal component of Microsoft Office. Developers will use LOBi and like services to build Office Business applications and to allow corporate users to view data and use processes from enterprise applications directly within the Office client software. Underlying services that will accompany LOBi include search, workflow, business data catalog, extensible user interface, Open XML format, and its Web site and other underlying services in Office 2007. Office Business Applications is one part of Microsoft's plan to turn Office 2007 into a complete software suite for work productivity, business intelligence (BI), content management, and worker collaboration. An analyst urges Microsoft to articulate clearly bolster business users how they can utilize all of these Office technologies together through a standard infrastructure that permits data and processes to interact in a user-friendly way.
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