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Accounting Express

An essential tool for managing your business finances. All of your customer and financial information is stored in one place so that you have a complete view of your business. You also have the tools you need to sell online through eBay.

Easy to learn and use

• Follow the easy, step-by-step instructions in the Startup Wizard to get up and running quickly.
• Import your existing financial data from other programs, such as Microsoft Office Excel, Microsoft Money, and Intuit QuickBooks.

Save time and work more efficiently

• Create quotes, invoices, and receipts.
• Write checks, track expenses, and reconcile online bank accounts.
• Enter data only once. You can convert a quote into an invoice in just one click, without having to transfer information from one program to another. It’s a simple way to reduce errors and make sure you get it right the first time.
• Track employee time.
• Manage payroll and taxes with the integrated payroll services of Automatic Data Processing (ADP).

Get organized

• Store all of your business information in one location — from customer, contact, vendor, and employee data to financial information.
• Choose from 20 predefined reports to gain greater insight into your business, or customize the reports to meet specific business needs. You can also export these reports to Office Excel 2007 for further analysis.
• Create a copy of your books for your accountant with a cutoff date so that you can continue to run your business.
• Share data securely with your accountant or with others by using Microsoft Office Live.

Do business online

• Easily sell your products on eBay. You can list items, upload and manage pictures, and track activity in real time.
• Download and process sales orders, and track eBay sales and fees.
• Get paid faster with PayPal. Send invoices in an e-mail message with an integrated PayPal link. Customers can simply click the link to make a payment.
• Process credit card transactions with ease.
• Use Equifax services to help you do business with confidence.1 Monitor your customer’s credit in real-time, or order a credit report for your business.

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Contact Manager

Business Contact Manager offers powerful customer and contact management to help you save time, improve sales and marketing, and deliver better customer service. Organize and manage all your contact, prospect, and customer information in one place. Track leads and opportunities throughout the sales cycle. Easily create, personalize, and track direct marketing campaigns in-house. And centralize your project-related information so you can stay organized and monitor tasks with automated reminders.

Organize prospect and customer information in one place

• Centralize customer and prospect information, including contact information, e-mail, phone calls, appointments, notes, and documents.
• Customize the type of contact information you track to suit your unique business needs.
• While out of the office, you can work offline on your laptop or Pocket PC and synchronize your data when you return.
• Easily share customer and prospect data across the company with secure multi-user access.
• Integrate customer contact information and financial history when you use Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager along with Microsoft Office Accounting 2007.
• Track billable time on your Outlook calendar and automatically send it to Office Accounting for invoicing and payroll.

Manage sales leads and opportunities

• Track prospects and leads, including contact information, communications history, documents, sources, and probability of closing.
• Track opportunities from the initial contact to closing the sale. View a summary of all opportunities by type, sales stage, and probability of closing.
• Get a consolidated view of the sales pipeline across your company to help you forecast sales and prioritize tasks.
• Use a central information dashboard to get an up-to-date view of customer and prospect information to help you organize activities.
• Choose from a wide selection of customer and prospect reports and sort and filter information, drill down for more details, and export to Microsoft Office Excel for further analysis.
• When used with Office Accounting 2007, you can automatically turn sales opportunities into quotes, orders, and invoices.

Create, personalize, and track direct marketing campaigns

• A wizard leads you step-by-step through the process of producing effective marketing campaigns.
• Filter customer and prospect data to compile targeted mailing lists.
• Use mail merge capabilities to personalize marketing publications created in Microsoft Office Publisher, Microsoft Office Word, or ListBuilder.
• Track response to your campaigns to determine their effectiveness.
• The marketing materials you send to prospects and customers are automatically included in their communications history.

Centralize project information and task management

• Organize and track all your project-related information including e-mail, tasks, meetings, notes, and attachments.
• Share project-related information with others in the company.
• Easily assign project tasks to others and automatically transfer task information to their To-Do Bar.
• Automatically monitor progress and send out reminders.

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InfoPath

An information-gathering program. You can create and deploy electronic forms solutions to gather information efficiently and reliably. You can also use the InfoPath Forms Services capabilities in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 to extend your business processes beyond your corporate firewall, delivering forms as Microsoft Office Outlook e-mail messages, Web browser forms, or forms for mobile devices.

Gather information efficiently and reliably

• Forms solutions help you reach more users by providing an easy form fill-in experience across Web browsers, e-mail messages, or mobile devices.
• Helps you get the right information — the first time — by providing real-time validation, pre-populated fields, and connections to important sources of information.
• Solutions are fully integrated with the Microsoft Office system to deliver powerful electronic forms capabilities in a familiar package.

Centralize forms management and control

• Help you get control over your forms solutions by providing centralized management of electronic forms for the entire organization.
• Office SharePoint Server 2007 provides a unified portal and a forms and content management solution for your enterprise to help you manage electronic forms in the same context as other critical business functions.
• Helps minimize solution downtime by providing easy upgrades, version management, and monitoring tools

Streamline forms-driven business processes

• Form solutions provide an easy way for your organization to gather and present information from your existing line-of-business systems using the familiar Office interface.
• Office InfoPath 2007, Office SharePoint Server 2007, and Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 combine to deliver a comprehensive solution for optimizing business processes.
• Advanced form design and development tools enable Office InfoPath 2007 to streamline complex processes using dynamic, interactive forms that connect users to the right data.

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Groove

A collaboration software program that helps teams work together dynamically and effectively, even if team members work for different organizations, work remotely, or work offline. Saves time, increases productivity, and strengthens the quality of team deliverables.

Work together dynamically

• Create a Groove workspace right on your computer with two clicks
• Invite your colleagues, partners, and customers without worrying about networks or servers.
• Add tools to support your team’s evolving needs: file-sharing, discussions, meetings, business forms, and more.

Stay productive anywhere, online or offline

• All Groove workspaces, tools, and information are stored right on your computer.
• Work productively anywhere you’ve got your laptop, whether you’re connected to a network or not.
• Automatic synchronization keeps you and your team members up to date.

Streamline content creation

• Exchange document changes with your team members easily and efficiently.
• Use integrated alerts and contextual communication tools to shorten review cycles.
• Publish completed documents to SharePoint document libraries with one click for workflow, storage, and retrieval.

Out-of-the-box integration with other Microsoft Programs

• Synchronize an Office SharePoint Server 2007 or Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 document library with Office Groove 2007.
• Collaborate on files in Office Groove 2007 and publish to Office SharePoint Server 2007 or Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 when you're done.Import your InfoPath forms into Office Groove 2007.
• Collect and track structured data in your team workspace, and export or synchronize results with enterprise systems.
• Make a phone call or start an instant messaging session from a Groove workspace using the 2005 or 2007 versions of Office Communicator.

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OneNote

A digital notebook that provides people one place to gather their notes and information, powerful search to find what they are looking for quickly, and easy-to-use shared notebooks so that they can manage information overload and work together more effectively.

Delivers the flexibility to gather and organize text, pictures, digital handwriting, audio and video recordings, and more — all in one digital notebook on your computer. Helps you become more productive by keeping the information you need at your fingertips and reducing time spent searching for information across e-mail messages, paper notebooks, file folders, and printouts.

Powerful search capabilities can help you locate information from text within pictures or from spoken words in audio and video recordings. And easy-to-use collaborative tools help teams work together with all of this information in shared notebooks, whether online or offline.

Gather everything in one place

With so much information coming your way — and in so many different forms — you need one place to keep it all and a tool that’s flexible enough to capture it. Otherwise, information that could have been used to help make better decisions or make you more efficient is lost or difficult to find.

Taking notes on paper and transcribing them later can be time-consuming and difficult. Paper notebooks get lost, you can’t easily share them with others, and they are really only good for capturing one type of information: handwritten notes. Because most don’t have a way of digitally capturing unstructured information, people often print out Web research, and store information in file folders or on desks, which is difficult to find later and inaccessible when you’re away. And sharing information with others can be difficult — people default to e-mail for file sharing and information exchange — and it’s often hard to figure out what the plan is without reading through long e-mail threads.

Gives you a solution with a flexible software program that enables you to gather virtually any type of information in one place. With your information readily available, you can be more prepared and make better decisions.

Keep all your information all in one place — including freeform notes, images, documents, files from other Microsoft Office system programs, and rich media — and organize it in the way that works best for you.

Help protect intellectual property and don’t worry about frequently saving or creating backups of your information — Office OneNote 2007 does this for you.

Take meeting notes in Office OneNote 2007 to create a living repository of group decisions and brainstorming sessions that adds continuity and context to subsequent meetings.

Catch all the details of customer calls and meetings by synchronizing typed or handwritten notes with Office OneNote 2007 audio and video recordings.

Gather information on your Microsoft Windows Mobile powered devices (including notes, audio recordings, and pictures) and transfer it to Office OneNote 2007.

Take advantage of the Office OneNote 2007 export application programming interface to easily transfer information gathered in OneNote 2007 to your company’s business systems, and in so doing reduce errors and wasted time spent rekeying the same information in different systems.

Copy, paste, or print information from and into other 2007 Microsoft Office system programs including Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint.

Use Office OneNote 2007 drawing tools and tables to annotate and easily organize and manage information.

Find what you're looking for quickly

• Search and find keywords quickly within text, in images, and in audio recordings made in Office OneNote 2007.
• View hyperlinked search results in a summary task pane—a single click takes you to relevant results.
• View all open notebooks at once, use drag-and-drop functionality to easily arrange and rearrange your notes, and add hyperlinks to other pages in your notebook to quickly find relevant content.
• Manage tasks easily with two-way synchronization between Office OneNote 2007 and the 2003 and 2007 versions of Microsoft Office Outlook.
• Link notes and other information to specific Office Outlook 2007 or Outlook 2003 contacts to help you better prepare for meetings and recall information easily.
• Mark notes with note tags, visually rich icons that make it easier to return to reminders, to-dos, and other action items

Work together more effectively.

Work together from the same notebook — whether online or offline — using shared notebooks. Manages changes made to the same notebook, eliminating the need to track versions or upload changes.

Create a team knowledge base so that everyone has access to the same information, helping to get new team members up to speed quickly, and minimizing duplicate efforts.

Share notes even with non-Office OneNote 2007 users—by sending your notes as HTML so that anyone with an e-mail client or Web browser can view them,

Stay in control of your information by choosing which notebooks to share with your teammates and which to keep private, and help ensure privacy with password protection.

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Communicator

A unified communications client that helps people be more productive by enabling them to communicate easily with others in different locations or time zones using a range of different communication options, including instant messaging (IM), voice, and video. Integration with programs across the 2007 Microsoft Office system—including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Groove, and SharePoint Server—gives information workers many different ways to communicate with each other via a consistent and simple user experience.

Connect with others

• Integration with existing address books and corporate directories means that it's not necessary to maintain separate and disconnected contact lists just for real-time communications. You can find anyone in your contact lists, see information about their availability, and communicate with them right away.
• Rich presence capabilities enable you to share information about your availability with other contacts, and to view their availability. Integrates presence information from multiple sources—including your calendar and out of office message—to provide better information so people know if you're available to communicate, and if so, which method would be best.

Consistent experience

• A communication might start with a simple IM. With Office Communicator 2007 you can add other modes of communication. If voice or video would be more effective, you can add those modes without opening new windows or starting another program.
• Focuses on the people in a conversation and provides a consistent experience regardless of whether the conversation is using IM, voice, video, or other modes.

Communicate contextually

• From an e-mail message received in Office Outlook 2007, users can view presence information about other users and initiate real-time communication from within the message, avoiding the need to switch applications and search for users.
• When working on a document in Office Word 2007, users can see a list of the people associated with the document along with availability information for those users. From this contextual list and based on this availability information, users can initiate a conversation directly with the appropriate people.

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