• Content Management
• Document Management
• Records Management

By using this platform, users are able to integrate with existing Microsoft tools, like Windows and Office in order to provide a low barrier to entry that can engage users to participate in the ECM movement. During the event guests learned about the common business goals and challenges of ECM that your business may encounter. Guests were also made aware of the classification and leverage of the power of taxonomy. Additionally the event speakers demonstrated the powerful ECM capabilities when using SharePoint 2010. As an extra bonus guests were also able to examine the best-in-class capturing and index tools.

The event speakers included:

• Kelly Rusk: Content and Collaboration Consultant- Concurrency, Inc.
• Lori Ashley: Independent Records Management Consultant and Taxonomist
• Tom Mullen: Regional Channel Manager- KnowlegeLake

It was an extremely useful event for guests. One guest even stated, “[It was a] valuable event covering a broad topic. [It was] nice to have a taxonomy specialist present, a great team approach.”

For more information on SharePoint 2010, ECM, Taxonomy or any of Concurrency’s Services, feel free to contact Concurrency at 262-364-5800 or view the website at http://www.concurrency.com/services.

• Build and Launch Custom Sites Quickly and Easily
• Incorporate unique content to YOUR site
• Exceptional Search and Community Experiences

Guests were taught how to create and share content, publish sites and manage all of these processes with easy-to-use tools. Managing content from multiple sources was another hot topic touched on during the event. Businesses can use their own site, information services, community sites and their own users to manage from almost anywhere. Additionally, guests were engaged on how to keep their customers attention with interactive search and social applications in order to make your site stand out to the rest. With all this information and more there was no hesitation by guests that SharePoint 2010 is a must have platform for any business.

Speakers during the event were:

• Steven Fischer, SharePoint Development Team Lead- Concurrency, Inc.
• John Capuano, FAST Solution Specialists- Microsoft
• Mark Steel, SharePoint Solution Specialists- Microsoft

For more information on SharePoint 2010 or the services provided by Concurrency contact Concurrency at 262-364-5800 or visit our website at http://www.concurrency.com/sharepoint.

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An excited crowd gathered at the Microsoft Office in Waukesha on April 23rd to learn more about the enhanced features of Microsoft’s Unified Communications 2010. Milwaukee area technology leaders packed the room to see Concurrency’s Nate Lasnoski give a live demonstration of how companies can connect with people via IM, voice, e-mail, desktop sharing, or conferencing directly from Microsoft Office applications such as Outlook, SharePoint, Word, Excel, and OneNote. “This gave us the best “real-life” examples of how we can cut costs on operating expenses,” says CIO of a Waukesha Financial Institution.

Also onsite were local area vendors Polycom, leader in communication devices, Enterasys, industry leader in networking equipment, and tw telecom, Ethernet service providers. Attendees were able to preview Polycom’s phone systems and Enterasys networking equipment.  “We saw that there is a great interest in this product by the high turnout at the event,” says Polycom’s Channel Manager.

With a great response from everyone involved it is clear that Microsoft’s Unified Communications is the go to product for Milwaukee companies who are interested in cutting operating costs. http://www.concurrency.com/unified-communications

Live demonstrations of SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 where shown throughout the event. Guest were able to see the Business Productivity platform in action while applied to real-life business situations:

• SharePoint Server 2010 and Office 2010
• Social Networking and Expert Search
• Unified Communications
• Self-service Business Intelligence
• Content Creation and Management

Each of these demonstrations walked through the new capabilities of PerformancePoint Services, Excel Services and integration with ECM, Social, and Search with different scenarios. Guests were able to experience the new Microsoft Office 2010 along with the Business Intelligence capabilities that are apart of SharePoint 2010.

For more information on SharePoint 2010, Office 2010 and Concurrency’s Services, feel free to contact Concurrency at 262-364-5800 or view the website at http://www.concurrency.com/sharepoint.

• Enhanced Boolean query syntax
• Prefix matching for search keywords and document properties
• Suggestions while typing queries
• Suggestions after running queries
• Enhanced results display
• People search
• Relevance enhancements
• Enterprise connectors
• Enhanced Information Rights Management

The eDiscovery requirement platform powers email, content management and an enterprise search all in one. In conjunction with Microsoft 2010 those platform solutions can help an organization to create, categorize and manage content that is both structured and unstructured. This helps to minimize legal liability and maximize the value of the information and value is what businesses are most concerned with.

For more information on eDiscovery Enterprise Search, Microsoft 2010 or Concurrency’s Services, feel free to contact Concurrency at 262-364-5800 or view the website at http://www.concurrency.com/sharepoint.

• Rich Disposition Policy
• Flexible Record Center
• Managed Metadata Service
• Location-Based Metadata
• Enhanced Information Rights Management
• Centralized eDiscovery
• Automated Compliance Tagging
• Content Organizer

With these new features your business collaboration platform will be able to manage content throughout the information lifecycle while still connecting and empowering people through formal and informal business communities. You will be able to accomplish more with the exact resources you already have by simply consolidating the key business collaboration and content management solutions into SharePoint 2010. By using these resources you will be able to cut costs and maintenance expenses while still increasing IT productivity.

Concurrency can help you address eDiscovery requirements by leveraging the information management strengths of the Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010.

To learn more about Content Management, Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 and Concurrency’s Services, feel free to contact Concurrency at 262-364-5800 or view the website at http://www.concurrency.com/sharepoint.

• Make batch changes with document sets
• Easy to use Metadata tagging and tag clouds
• Content Ratings and “Recommended” docs based on immediate user feedback
• Tools for managing a centralized, corporate taxonomy
• User tagging in everyday language
• Improved workflow modeling with Visio Services
• Enterprise content types and site columns establish a truly platform-wide content architecture
• Unique document IDs eliminate troublesome copies of an original
• Connect SharePoint folders to Outlooks
• Email and IM conversations are now discoverable content types

By combining a powerful content management platform with communications and collaboration Microsoft takes it to a whole new level. SharePoint 2010 completes the equation of document and records management and guests learned how. By having your organization aware and with an understanding of IU and alignment with smart content management and search platform it can be extremely easy to customize and use. Protection includes:

• Rich Disposition Policy
• Flexible Record Center
• Managed Metadata Service
• Location-Based Metadata
• Enhanced Information Rights Management
• Centralized eDiscovery Management
• Automated Compliance Tagging
• Content Organizer

This is protection that you can count on yet still embrace new and powerful communications and collaboration tools.

To learn more about SharePoint 2010 and Concurrency’s Services, feel free to contact Concurrency at 262-364-5800 or view the website at http://www.concurrency.com/sharepoint.

• Message Classifications
• Messaging Records Management
• Information Rights Management
• Transport Rules
• Journaling
• Multi-Mailbox Search
• Personal Archive

Businesses need to preserve, organize and discover information via email has become more critical than ever. Guests learned how to integrate their e-mail as well as archiving, retention of information and the discovering capabilities that can help to simplify the process. This process doesn’t change the way your users works or process which came as a relief to many guests.

To learn more about Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, Email Integration and Concurrency’s Services, feel free to contact Concurrency at 262-364-5800 or view the website at http://www.concurrency.com/services.

• · Integrated Archiving and Discovery Capabilities
• · Unified Mailbox Resilience
• · Easily Delegate Administration
• · Comprehensive Information Protection

The integrating of both archiving and discovery capabilities are new to the Exchange Server. The Unified Mailbox Resilience is a model that provides high availability, disaster recovery and back up capabilities. The Easily Delegated Administration gives specialized abilities to users like a help desk. Additionally the Comprehensive Information Protection covers anything from email moderation to automatic email encryption.

Features on the Exchange Server 2010 that were new to users were also covered. These included:

• A consistent inbox, calendaring, and contacts experience across the PC, browser and phone.
• Integrated conversation view bringing together information across all folders, inbox and sent and deleted items.
• Ability to remove (or “mute”) themselves from irrelevant conversations with the click of a button.
• Text preview of voice mail messages in the inbox.
• New Call Answering Rules to easily create customized voice mail rules, such as call transfer options.
• Mail Tips to notify users about potential mistakes before they send e-mail.

With all the new deployment and storage options, enhanced inbox management capabilities and email archiving built right in Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 helps you to lower your businesses cost and enhance your outcomes.

For more information on Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 or Concurrency’s Services, feel free to contact Concurrency at 262-364-5800 or view the website at http://www.concurrency.com/services.

• Flexibility and Cost Savings
• Rich User Experience Available in Web Browser
• Superiority of a Microsoft Cloud Computing Solution

Exchange online was also introduced to guests and the aspects that come with that program. This program can help your business improve many of your day-to-day processes. Shared calendars, contacts and tasks are supported for Blackberry and iPhone so when you are on the go. The program has a 99.9% scheduled uptime and disaster recovery capabilities to keep things reliable. There is true virus and span filtering by Microsoft Forefront and enterprise-class managed security. Additionally Exchange provides quick, painless migration from POP mail, Lotus Notes and Groupwise.

For more information on Exchange or Concurrency’s Services, feel free to contact Concurrency at 262-364-5800 or view the website at http://www.concurrency.com/services.